Freeman: Would you?

[Joshua]

Originally Posted by popanot

As I recall the Texans hands were tied due to the salary cap and they couldn't afford Manning. It sure would've been interesting had they brought him in, tho. Considering Kubiak's stubbornness with not allowing his QB to audible, I'm curious how that would've worked out with Manning. You know darn well Manning would have a huge problem with that and part of me thinks he ultimately would've decided not to come here once he had a true sit down discussion with Kubiak. Manning really went to the ideal situation with Fox.

You raise good points about how well Manning would have meshed with Kubiak. However, I think the salary cap thing was overblown. Teams always find a way when they really want a guy. Schaub was close to 15 mill as best I can recall those last couple years of his first deal, and since he only had a couple years left, the dead money from cutting him wouldn't have been awful. With some creative accounting, cutting Schaub and probably another big money contract (OD, Antonio), I suspect they could have made it work.