With the NFL free agency nearing, one question stands out above the rest: where will former NFL MVP Peyton Manning end up?

Manning’s current team, the Indianapolis Colts, finished last season tied for the worst record in the NFL at 2-14, and is heading towards a rebuilding year, so any future with him in the cards seems highly doubtful.

One possible landing spot for Manning is the New York Jets.

The Jets will want to make waves this offseason because the team they share a stadium with, the New York Giants, just won the Super Bowl. The easiest way to do that is to sign Manning, the older brother of this year’s Super Bowl MVP, Eli Manning, to their team.

Having Peyton and Eli in the same city sounds like the New York media’s dream scenario.

And Rex Ryan is never afraid of putting his foot in his mouth by making outlandish statements. After the Super Bowl two seasons ago, Ryan wrote in his book “Play Like you Mean it,” that the Jets would’ve won that Super Bowl had they not lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship game.

In October of last year, he told the media that if he had been hired as the Chargers coach in 2007, he would’ve already won a couple of Super Bowls.

Yes, they have Mark Sanchez at quarterback, but honestly the “Sanchize” let his true colors show last season when he ranked 23rd in the league in quarterback rating and his team lost its final three games to finish the season .500.

After the season, reports from some anonymous Jets players surfaced saying Sanchez had lost his teammates’ confidence.

The move would also spark the rekindling of the Tom Brady-Manning rivalry. The two men played on a yearly basis as their teams competed for conference title after conference title throughout the last decade. If Manning played for the Jets, the two quarterbacks would get to play twice a year and compete for the same division crown.

The Jets have a history of acquiring aging quarterbacks. They traded for Brett Favre after his relationship with the Packers soured in the summer of 2008. The Jets finished that season 9-7 and missed the playoffs, but the Jets have a much better defense and more talent now than they did in 2008.

But if Manning doesn’t want to upstage his little brother in a season where Eli will be defending his Super Bowl title, there are many other potential suitors.

Recently, Seattle has emerged as a possible landing spot. And another team out west, the Arizona Cardinals, is intriguing because it would match Manning with one of the top receivers in the league in Larry Fitzgerald.

Arizona did revitalize Kurt Warner’s career. And if that doesn’t work, there are an abundance of retirement communities in the area.

— Edited by Max Lush