Titans Fans Excited About the Prospect of Manning in Charge

Titans Fans Excited About the Prospect of Manning in Charge

Peyton Manning is able to sift through a multitude of career options amid his retirement from football — TV analyst, advertising pitchman, business entrepreneur, speaker, camp operator, coach, team owner, general manager. They’re all on the table.

Manning’s choices could include a John Elway-type role as head of football operations for the NFL team of the state in which he played college football. And that sounds good to Tennessee Titans fans, who have seen the team quickly fall from a playoff regular to a bottom feeder.

It may indeed happen … but only if Manning is able to come in with a hand-picked ownership group.

During his Hall of Fame career, Manning was the proverbial student of the game and coach on the field who thrived by outworking everyone. He also has been deliberate with his career decision-making — when he signed with Denver in 2012, for example, or when he decided to retire after winning a second Super Bowl.

After a leisurely period filled with golf, family time and some work at his passing academy, Manning will have to scratch his ultra-competitive itch. He’ll sit down with advisors, including his father Archie and his agent Tom Condon, and consult with NFL people like Elway and Browns owner Jimmy Haslam (a University of Tennessee comrade) to determine what’s next.

“I think the one thing I want to do is kind of take my time,” Manning said last week at his honorary media conference in Indianapolis. “I think the biggest mistake would be to rush into something.”

Included in Manning’s student-of-the-game reputation was the player personnel side of football, coaching and game-planning. That said, he would be a tremendous offensive coordinator and/or a fine head coach.

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