File this under the 'I'll believe it when I see it category', but NFL Insider Mike Freeman from CBS Sports says that a league source has speculated the most anticipated meeting in modern Indianapolis Colts sports history could be this week.
One league source said the two might finally have a sit-down this week to talk. That's not definite but it seems likely. One thing that's become clear is the two men don't want another circus. Both sides don't want to meet, I'm told, the week of the combine and thus have Manning news dominate the way it did Super Bowl week.
It remains possible the two men wait until after the combine but the feeling seems to be they want to get the meeting over with sooner than later. It's highly likely they meet in secret and no one finds out until afterwards.
I agree with that last part. No one is going to break this story. Which is why whatever insider told Freeman that the meeting was going down this week was likely just guessing, and if he's right he'll have been lucky guessing.
We'll hear something when something gets done. The closer it gets to March 8th, the more chance I would think that Manning remains a Colt. If he weren't going to work something out with Indianapolis, I would think that he would push for a resolve to be as quick as possible.
The other interesting note is that neither side wants a media circus, so they're keeping it away from the NFL Combine. Are you kidding me? Whenever this goes down it's going to be like Defcon One. The media will flock, and it will be all that is talked about and reported about for a week. It's silly to think otherwise.
The last statement made by Freeman is one that I don't know to be necessarily true.
My guess -- everyone in football's guess -- is that the two men will basically say their goodbyes. No one, and I mean no one, expects Manning back. Stranger things have happened but it appears almost certain the meeting is the first step in the departure of Manning from the Colts.
We shall see.
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