As mentioned in another thread, I got to meet Archie Manning through a work function this past week. He said he had talked to Jon Gruden on Monday who had reminded him that after week 10, Peyton was arguably the MVP of the league. Archie feels like Peyton wants to play 1 more year and said he knows he "still has the fire". He also said that the arm woes were "99% related to the torn quad" that happened in the Charger game after he was dehydrated from being sick. He did mention that Peyton was aware of all of the change in Denver, and that he wasn't a huge fan of Elway. They both loved "Foxie" and felt like he got a raw deal and that Elway wants his buddy Kubiak. There wasn't much new there, but I thought I would post it.
On another aside, a funny story he told was how Cooper was the "free spirit" in the family and that when Peyton was at UT, he had placed a bet on UT against Kentucky. Well, UT was like a 20 point favorite and played terribly. He said that Cooper, who had a sideline pass, made his way down to the UT bench in the 3rd quarter and got in Peyton's grill about the score and the fact that they needed to pick things up a bit. Peyton apparently went over to a security guard, claimed that he didn't know him and that the sideline pass was a fake and had him removed.
He was a really nice guy, but I couldn't get past the familiar facial expressions and mannerisms. It was uncanny.