THE DAILY DIGEST | Indy Football Report Editor John Oehser takes a look at what they’re saying about and what’s going on around the AFC Champion Indianapolis Colts . . .
An NFL offseason with a new feel could feel strikingly similar to the Indianapolis Colts.
The NFL’s free-agency period is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and with the league likely facing its first offseason sans salary cap since 1993, the feeling at the NFL Scouting Combine this past week was teams might approach the period with caution and restraint.
Restraint . . .
Caution . . .
In other words, the way the Colts approach free agency every year.
That’s why the early hours of February and the days immediately following likely will feel very familiar to those who follow the Colts, because whether other teams indeed are prudent and calm on those days, the Colts almost certainly will be.
What national non-sense. The rules are you list players who fail to practice fully. Peyton always practiced fully. The rules are you list as probable anyone with a 25% chance of not playing. Peyton always had a 0% chance of not playing. It would have been an absolute violation of the rules to ever list Peyton as injured. Even though the league would never admit it out loud, the purpose of the rules are to alert the gamblers to injuries that should affect the point spread. Peyton never, ever had an injury that would have required the line to be adjusted.
Which is not to say that the Colts do the injury list correctly, but the err in the other direction. If one were to track the names on their list over the course of a season, I am sure you would find that far more than three of every four persons listed as probable, and far more than two of every four persons listed as questionable, and far more than one of every four persons listed as doubtful played that week. The Colts seem to list everyone who received medical treatment somewhere on their list even when the chances of that player being unable to play are negligible – and that tells me that Peyton never had medical treatment on his neck. End of story.