Denver Broncos QB Peyton Manning won’t be happy this story leaked.
Not because he did anything wrong, but because he’ll now have to answer questions about it.
Was Manning being paranoid? Or had the Patriots found yet another way to cheat?
Peyton Manning feared Patriots bugging visitors' locker room http://t.co/zuMdaMxfNr
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) August 20, 2015
Woah.
That’d be a bombshell.
To be clear this was back when Manning was on the Colts, not the Broncos.
Pro Football Talk has some details about where this all came from:
…former Colts coach Tony Dungy (was) on the Dan Patrick Show (Thursday and said) that when the Colts were playing in New England, Manning would leave the visitors’ locker room and go into an adjacent hallway when he wanted to discuss specific plays the Colts were going to run because Manning feared the locker room was bugged. Dungy said he doesn’t know if the Patriots’ locker room really was bugged, but he did confirm that a 2010 Peter King report about Manning’s concerns was accurate.
“I know that that is very true, and, you know, as Peyton talked to guys who played for the Patriots, some of the guys who came over — whether it’s true or not he treated it as true. We didn’t have a lot of strategy discussions inside the locker room there,” Dungy said.
Dungy stressed that he doesn’t know that the Patriots were cheating, but that Manning didn’t want to take any chances.
“Peyton takes everything to the nth degree,” Dungy said.
When in doubt, I trust the sheriff – and his instincts.
If Manning sensed the Patriots were up to no good, they probably were.
Then again, that wouldn’t be anything new.
This story originally appeared on Cover32.com