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War Room: Draft Day Suit Takes on the First Round of the 2012 NFL Draft

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NFL Football fans! Are you awake? Craving input? Trying to decide if you should proudly wear your favorite team’s jersey to the mall or buy out all of the head-sized paper bags at the local grocery store? Well, the writers at Draft Day Suit have done our part to help you make these important, football-related decisions for next season. Our painstaking research and in-depth analysis of each team’s first round pick will surely arm you with the bragging rights and information that you crave.

Actually, we just chose our favorite team’s picks and, for the most part, lambasted them. I mean, that’s why you come here, right? Right.

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A Tale of Two QBs: Peyton Manning vs. Tim Couch

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Football Fans in Cleveland and Indianapolis. (And Charles Dickens)

With the Denver Broncos’ recent signing of Peyton Manning, it’s made this Browns fan wonder about what might have been if Cleveland had been granted our replacement / expansion team one year earlier. In 1998, the Indianapolis Colts used the #1 overall pick in the NFL Draft on Manning, the QB from Tennessee. In 1999, the expansion Browns used the #1 pick on Tim Couch, the QB from Kentucky. Those two horizontal neighbors provided very different types of QBs to Ohio and Indiana, two vertically neighboring states.

Let’s compare and contrast the last decade-plus for these two gunslingers to see who has done better overall since getting drafted:

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Will Manning Favre This Up?

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This whole Peyton Manning thing is making me nervous. A nice guy. An All-American quarterback. A Super Bowl winner. A franchise player. When I think of the Indianapolis Colts I think of Peyton Manning.

The same way I used to think about Brett Favre whenever I thought about the Green Bay Packers.

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Tim Tebow Rides the Pine – Looks Like Manning to Broncos

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The Lord himself coudln’t save Tebow from getting pushed aside as the favorite son of the Manning Empire seems to have decided he’ll ski this winter, and has started negotiating with Denver officially. According to sources at ESPN he has already thanked San Francisco and Tennessee for the lovely offers but no thanks.

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It’s a Sad Day in Indy

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Peyton Manning became a free agent after being released by the Colts today. It really wasn’t a surprise, as the Colts had all but officially released the information, but it’s the “official” part that has Colts fans reeling. After a dismal 2-14 season without Manning talk has the Colts drafting Andrew Luck and going in a completely different direction for the upcoming NFL season.

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