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Irsay Puts Onus Back on Manning

Associated Press

The ball is in Peyton Manning’s court now.

It’s a great public-relations move by Jim Irsay, even if I’m not convinced it was done for public-relations purposes. But it’s a questionable football move.

Very questionable.

Because if Manning says he wants to come back under Irsay’s terms of a diminished, incentive-laden contract, if he calls his bluff, we are looking at an inordinately uncomfortable situation where a...

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