Alex Smith looked like the odd man in San Francisco. The Miami Dolphins and was one of the odd teams in the derby of Peyton Manning.
It sounded like a match made in heaven ... or at least one game on the Island of Misfit Toys.
While free-agent quarterback Smith was considering an offer of three years in San Francisco, the team that led the NFC championship game last season, the 49 members boarded a plane to North Carolina to see Manning work.
Meanwhile, Manning, told the Dolphins last week that they were no longer in the running of their services. Miami then made a run in the first backup Matt Flynn of Green Bay, who ended up signing with the Seattle Seahawks this past weekend.
All of which led to a 5 1/2-hour meeting between Smith and the Dolphins in the team's complex on Sunday.
Therefore, it had reached by both parties. After a great season with the 49ers, Smith is left with a team interview Manning rejected only if the former quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts had their work in San Francisco. And after achieving the best free-agent quarterbacks on the market, the Dolphins were looking at a player who can be bypassed by another team for Manning.
As it turns out, they may have interviewed the wrong guy, seeing that Manning has apparently chosen the Denver Broncos on the 49ers and Tennessee Titans. ESPN, which broke the news about Manning and the Broncos on Monday morning, also reports that the Broncos are likely to exchange their old starter, Tim Tebow.
But would not Tebow be an improvement over the starter in place of Miami, Matt Moore? Tebow had a 7-4 record as starter Denver Broncos and led to a victory in the first round of the playoffs, but his statistics were quite fragile, he completed only 46.5% of his passes for 1,729 yards with 12 touchdowns and six interceptions.
Meanwhile, Moore actually had a very good year for the Dolphins last season, going 6-6 as input and completing 60.5% of his passes for 2,497 yards with 16 touchdowns and nine interceptions.
But Moore is apparently not considered fourth franchise - and Tebow has a huge legion of fans who believe it is.
Thus, while Peyton Manning saga may be over, things will not get boring in the NFL for now.
Sourc: Latimes
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