Fractured Relationships

On the eve of Free Agency I thought this would be an interesting topic to looking into and some of the scenarios that may or are playing out right now. This of course has to do with Manning Madness and Tebow Time.

I don't know why I have too or why anyone should but I need to state my 'position of fandom' for this team for people to not get the right biased from what I am saying. I am neither a Tebow Fan or a Manning Fan but a Broncos fan. This site is the very proof of this. It was here before them and will be here long after they are gone. But as a Broncos fan I am allowed to criticize and be annoyed by the moves my followed organization choose to make.

I know I am not the only one that is annoyed or irritated by what is progressing at the moment. I haven't seen Princess in a while and it wouldn't surprise me if this is eating away at her soul a little bit.

But lets look at the scenarios and see how and what may play out in the long run.

Get Manning, Keep Tebow

The first one and the only scenario I would be happy with if the signing of Manning is done. We get Manning and keep Tebow to back him up and learn as much as possible from Manning. This happens to be surprisingly doable. Tebow's contract is relatively small this year and if he rides the bench his incentives don't kick in. Plus Manning who probably only has 1 or 2 years left in him before he retires could show Tebow the ropes and Tebow can take over from him afterwards. There are a number of problems with this scenario. First Manning has never really been the 'Mentoring' type and I don't see that changing. Two, Tebow probably won't be too happy about riding the bench for another few years. He believes he has proven himself that he deserves the chance to start and I can't disagree with that. I don't see this playing out to nicely in much the same why as Orton and Tebow did. Plus if Manning starts losing games all hell will break loose.

Get Manning, Trade Tebow

Scenario number two, happens to be the 'short sighted' approach. Sign Manning and trade away Tebow for extra picks. This is close to the worst possible outcome we can have from this situation. We have Manning for 1 or 2 years and maybe, and a huge maybe, win a SuperBowl. Then we are back to square one in trying to replace Manning with a 'Franchise' quarterback which of course are harder to find then a ladies' G spot. We may end up with a hollow Superbowl victory in all this but we would have traded away a potential long term starting Quarterback.

No Manning, Keep Tebow

This one I like a lot but doesn't seem likely. I believe Manning came to Denver because Elway is a huge draw card plus he probably likes some of what he sees here. But he doesn't like the stadium or the weather and if he was a smart man he would hate to have to contain/live with the Tebowmania. Manning for the love of all things Orange and Blue should go somewhere else and I believe he will. But then the problem becomes Tebow. This is where some of that 'Fractured Relationship' stuff comes into play. What does Tebow think about all this? All the backwards comments and the lies? EFX have been caught flirting with the long necked super model. The question is how does Tebow react? Knowing him he will probably come out saying something like 'Manning is one of the greats, I understand the situation, I want to do the best for the Broncos blah blahied blah.' We all know though he will be pissed on the inside. Can EFX and Tebow ever build bridges from this, can they ever get over this? I don't know. Maybe Tebow got a heads up from EFX about what they were planning on doing and he is ok with it? Again I don't know.

No Manning and Trade Tebow

Finally number four and it is the worst case scenario. We don't sign Manning and Tebow wants out understandably. Leaving us with Brady Quinn or maybe Chad Henne.