What if manning wont play

The final pick of Day 2 for the Washington Football Team was North Carolina wide receiver Dyami Brown, who becomes another asset to an already stacked offense. Davis talks about how he fits the culture that head coach Ron Rivera is building in Washington, his love for his family and the game of football and why he chose to play defense.

Washington's first round draft pick, linebacker Jamin Davis addresses the media for the first time as a member of the Washington Football Team at the Inova Sports Performance Center.

Latest Videos. A breather before the second half of the season Kickoff Preview. The elder Manning spent 11 years in New Orleans and never had a winning record with the team. Going into , the Chargers were on an ugly run and had only put together a total of four winning seasons since Although Archie has long been viewed as one of the main instigators in Eli's decision, he recently disputed that notion. In an interview with the Rich Eisen Show , Archie said he had nothing to do with Eli's threat to sit out the season if the Chargers drafted him.

Most people thought I orchestrated it, but I didn't. I don't tell my kids what to do or make their decisions. In Archie's version of the story, Eli came to him for advice, but never asked him directly what he should do. It's hard. That was the only thing I told Eli when he told me he was going to do that," Archie said. If that's your conviction and what you want to do, then that's fine, and that's what he did. In the end, the Chargers would end up drafting Eli with the No.

On Wednesday, San Diego general manager A. Smith told the media that Archie Manning didn't want the Chargers to draft Eli and preferred that the team make a trade with the New York Giants , who have the fourth pick in the first round and have coveted the quarterback for weeks.

The Chargers, who have had the top pick in the draft in two of the last four years, are arguably the worst franchise in the NFL. Having waged a war with city government and the media for years, they can't get a new stadium and have threatened to move to Los Angeles. The problem between the Mannings and Chargers began a couple weeks ago.

In hopes of avoiding another Elway situation that could get ugly and cause a lot of negative publicity -- which is exactly what has happened -- commissioner Paul Tagliabue asked Archie Manning to visit with Dean Spanos , son of Chargers owner Alex Spanos. Dean Spanos runs the organization.