The next several weeks will be replete with speculation about the next destination for now former Colts QB Peyton Manning.

But one of the four-time MVP's former teammates says you can cross 16 teams off the list right now as future employers.

"If you're in the NFC, you're out. The Mannings (won't) play a regular-season game," said NFL Network analyst and Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk, referring to Peyton and Giants QB Eli Manning.

"They're not gonna stop each other from going to the Super Bowl. Meeting in the Super Bowl? How great would that be for the family?"

Discount Faulk at your own risk.

He and Manning were Colts teammates in 1998 and have maintained a personal relationship amid the enormous mutual respect they developed in the Indianapolis locker room. Faulk is also a native of New Orleans and knows Archie Manning, Peyton's father and the once-beloved Saints quarterback.

"How great would it be for Archie to have his two boys playing against each other in the greatest game that there is?" said Faulk.

If you'd forgotten, Super Bowl XLVII is in New Orleans.

Pressed on his statement ruling out NFC suitors for Manning -- the Cardinals and Seahawks are viewed as logical destinations -- Faulk emphatically said: "There's no way -- there's no way, there's no way, there's no way."

He said Manning's camp might talk to NFC teams but "only as a bargaining tool."

As for who might reel in the quarterback, Faulk first mentioned the Dolphins.

"Matt Flynn just doesn't do it," he said of the largely unproven free agent quarterback often linked to new Miami HC Joe Philbin from their time together in Green Bay. "(He's) not Aaron Rodgers, let's be honest."

Faulk also mentioned all of Manning's former AFC South foes, saying the Texans, Jaguars and Titans would "love to have him" before also throwing the Jets into the mix.