Big NFL Moves

Now that teams know that Peyton Manning is up for grabs it looks like teams are starting to make their moves to give themselves the best opportunity to compete for a championship now and down the road.  As of tonight the Redskins look to be picking up the second overall pick in the upcoming draft from the Rams with will likely be used to pick QB Robert Griffin III or Andrew Luck.  Many teams have been in contact with Peyton Manning looking to instantly put themselves into championship contention.  One of the teams that was in the talks of picking up Peyton Manning has now looked to drop out of contention having extended their quarterbacks contract.  This team being the New York Jets they have extended Mark Sanchez's contract to now be five years and around the area of 50 million dollars with about 20 million guaranteed.  How will the two big moves that just happened effect other teams in this conversation for Peyton Manning and how does it effect the chances of these two teams winning a championship.  With the Jets having extended Mark Sanchez's contract it is apparent they are staying with him for the long run and while having gone to the playoffs and the AFC Championship game two of the three years he has been their quarterback their still seem to be a lot of questions.  Their have been growing pains and while Mark has consistently improved is the team around him good enough to get to the Super Bowl?  While his leadership skills have obviously improved he isn't a Peyton Manning who can almost single handedly put the team on his back when needed.  With the Redskins looking to rebuild in some ways and looking to pick up a young quarterback in the draft is seems to almost take them completely out of the talks for Peyton Manning as well.  With the likely hood of then=m having a young quarterback it may not be expected they have a great year coming up.  With the number of serious contenders for Peyton Manning dwindling it looks like it could be between teams like the Broncos and the the Dolphins.  Going back to the Jets and their option to extend Mark Sanchez's contract if Peyton Manning were to go to Miami this would make the chances of the Jets going to the playoffs and winning a championship smaller.  Not to say that it cant be done as Sanchez has shown he can beat both Manning and Brady at times.  But having to play in an already tough division in the AFC East and then adding you have to play Peyton Manning twice a year as well as Tom Brady twice a year it makes it that much more important to win the other games as the Dolphins record would surely get better.  There is a lot of different situations of how these things can work out still and it will be interesting to see what happens this offseason and in the season to come.  http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:7668403