re: Manning and his cap hit

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I gave support to show the shotgun progression.

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In the article you posted, I can argue that the shift was already happening.

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During 1998, Manning's rookie season with the Indianapolis Colts, the average team threw the ball on 55.1 percent of its offensive snaps. With Manning struggling on a bad Indianapolis team, the Colts threw the ball in part to try to survive, passing on 60.9 percent of their offensive snaps. That was the third-highest rate in the league.

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Perhaps a better measure of how the Colts wanted to throw the ball was what they did on first-and-10. The average team threw the ball 46.7 percent of the time on first down in 1998, despite the fact that teams were averaging 4.1 yards on the ground and 7.2 yards in the air. Manning's Colts were far more pass-friendly -- they threw the ball 49.5 percent of the time on first-and-10, the ninth-highest rate in the league.

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Teams were already doing it, and doing more of it.

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I also do not believe you really need to be liked to the fact that Peyton was one of the first QBs to call entire drives from the field.

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I believe that he was, as well. I just don't have any support for it.

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I have linked reasons, as well as support.

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I missed those. Can you link them again?