Indianapolis Colts DE Dwight Freeney has a dream, and he figures his new head coach may be the one to help him fulfill it.
Freeney, a four-time Pro Bowl selection, recalled a story about new Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell recruiting him when Caldwell was the head coach at Wake Forest and Freeney was a standout for Bloomfield (Conn.) High School:
He came in to the house and came downstairs and sat down there with my mom and my pops and promised me that if I went to Wake Forest I could play offense and defense I always give him a hard time. Obviously I went to Syracuse and didn’t go to Wake Forest, but since he’s been here, even as quarterbacks coach and what have you, now he’s the head coach so now he has a little bit more say-so. I’m trying to get at least one offensive play. And I’m going to talk to Peyton. One red zone play, that’s all I need. Just one. One fade route. I want to catch the ball.
Freeney joked that he was interested only in playing tight end or slot receiver, but not fullback.
Colts President Bill Polian, smiling but hardly joking, said Freeney needn’t worry about playing fullback and said he had a two-word reason:
Lisfranc.
Freeney sustained a lisfranc foot injury in 2007 that kept him out the second half of the season.