Much of the Redskins-Peyton Manning chatter that I’ve so dutifully been chronicling has concerned this question: Would the Redskins be interested in Peyton Manning. A great many reporters and pundits and random cockroaches to which I’ve attached microphones have agreed: yes, they would.

I guess the less-often posed question is whether Peyton Manning would want to play for the Redskins. Steve Young argued yes, saying Manning would be drawn to Shanahan’s offensive mind.

Sally Jenkins argued yes, too, and went into greater detail:

Shanahan is the only head coach in the market for Manning’s services who can say he’s won two Super Bowls, and knows how to work with a fully formed Hall of Famer. He can also say he has made real strides in rebuilding, despite the Redskins’ record. Their defense has shown vast improvement, a young roster exhibits real promise in some areas, they’ve made good additions on the offensive line with more on the way, have a record of smart drafts the last couple of years, and made some solid discoveries among undrafted free agents. Their only real personnel failure has been in finding a quarterback.

Not everyone is convinced. In fact, two people Sally and I have both worked with — John Feinstein and Jason LaCanfora — agreed on Friday that there is only one reason Manning would consider D.C.: cash. Lots of cash. Great big piles of it.

Cool news everyone: today’s Express was guest-edited by Susan O’Malley! Never thought I’d see the day!

I guess even though Ted Leonsis has been steadfast that he won’t attempt to profit by marketing visiting stars, the local media is under no such obligation. Still, boo.

Which reminds me, I might spend 75 percent of my work day poking mild fun at the local teams, but golly, nothing makes me more filled with sort-of-genuine if-a-bit-uncomfortable sports-fan rage than reports of visiting fans taking over D.C. sports venues. Just because we don’t vomit on you doesn’t mean we want you to spread like pestilence. Among the Tweets from during Wednesday night’s Wizards-Knicks game:

Little did I know, when I pledged long ago to transcribe every radio interview I could find on the possibility of Peyton Manning winding up in D.C., that my work would create more work. It has become a self-fulfilling obsession, in which one radio interview transcription actually forces another.

See, it was last week that Joe Theismann called Manning-to-the-Skins a “horrific idea,” but that quote really got some traction after I transcribed it this week. So then on Thursday, Chris Mortensen was on ESPN Radio, and he was talking about Peyton Manning, if you can believe it, and the Redskins came up.

“I still think the Dolphins and the Redskins will be the top two teams,” Mort said.

And so he was then of course asked about Theismann’s “horrific idea” argument.

When Mark Turgeon started “Zaching” on Wednesday, I wrote about that flexing pose that pays homage to Terps student manager Zach Lederer, who is battling brain cancer.

In the next 24 hours, long profiles of Lederer came out in The Diamondback and on NBC 4, and the thing kept growing.

“Zaching is spreading like crazy through Russia and Greece. I’m getting so many foreign friend requests,” Lederer wrote on his Twitter page.

“I scroll down my newsfeed quickly and all I see is biceps,” he later joked.

And meanwhile, the Maryland athletics department started “Zaching” like crazy. Like, above is the men’s lacrosse team, but they were hardly the only ones.

(Nick Wass - AP) Wizards fans have spent the past few weeks arguing which of the team’s pieces are potential building blocks for the future, besides the piece that got drafted No. 1 overall and was labeled the Game Changer before he had changed a single game.

Thursday evening, the question was put to Randy Wittman.

When the coach called into ESPN 980’s The Sports Reporters, Steve Czaban pointed out that it was hard for fans to identify the key pieces of the future other than Wall.

“It is,” Wittman agreed. “That’s what we’re trying to figure out ourselves.”

So then Czaban asked about any potential Big Three on this particular roster.