He did look shaky at times, but USC plays a pro-style offense and it makes the transition from college to pro much easier (as long as you aren’t too busy hitting the beer bong…) which will help make up for some of his weaknesses.

I have the feeling he’s gonna drop like a stone, maybe they’d pick him up 4th or 5th round.

I’m not as sure as the rest of you guys about looking at a QB at this stage of Manning football career. Payton will be 33 yrs young this year although I hate to see his career come to end and be the one betting against him when that time is, but I see him playing at least 2 – 3 more years at the level we all love to watch during his tenure as a Colt. None of us would like to see him play or look like a shell of himself like good old number 4 has done over the past few years. Payton demands a lot from himself and from his teammates. You can tell, just look at the start of last season, he knew in his heart playing on half a wheel was better than risking starting out 1 – 3 had we started our backup QB. He just suck it up and played no excuesses….I really don’t believe it’s the D-line or the Rec’ing core we should be fearing but who’s going to take over for #18 when the time comes. I remember when # 19 was hurt, the best Def in the land, Off to match and we sent out our back-up QB to the Superbowl and the Jets made quick history of us….. that should scare us the most, take a look at NE when Tom went down, they knew that their season was all but over week one…. as good as they were and as hard as they played it wasn’t enough in the end….We can learn something from that. We need a good quality Backup QB that Manning would have the chance to groom prior to going out in the sunset… doing something that he seen his closest friend and Coach done when he left the game of football, Tony D. Not all of us get to write our own scripts when it comes time to hang it up, but again not all football teams are built like the Indy Colts… From Head office down the staff has taken a few shots from outside football authorities. It’s been a great run, like many others I will outright break down and cry like a baby when that day come when Payton decide to hang it up ….but, be not fool the Colts head office as never left you down; they must know something that we don’t. And I’m sure the first thing they did before they decided to bring in a quality Backup QB they talked it over with good old number 18 way before they even dream of bringing in some rookie QB. The head office has come to grip regarding the QB pos it just going to take us the fans a little bit longer to realize that Payton is getting older… Not saying he doesn’t have it still but you don’t want to see him hanging around trying to help the team because we don’t have a quality QB ready in time when he wants or need to retire… We are one of the most sucessful Football team in the NFL over the past 10 years…. We done things the right way, a model franchise for other teams to copy, Our front office never put the fans last and they care about past and present football members of the Colts just check out the article regarding how the Colts presented the Edge his own Superbowl ring from a few years ago…..Let’s support our team, its hard enough on everyone as it is. After all we are the Colts Nation!