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- Being a Good Teammate March 10, 2010
Kuharsky/AFC South
- Smith increases Texans' interior options March 10, 2010
Colts PFT
- Marlin Jackson will visit Eagles next March 9, 2010
Jaguars.com
- Promotion: Pro Bowl with Mojo October 29, 2010
Tennessean/Titans
- So much for Titans chasing Jackson March 10, 2010
Titans.com
- LB Will Witherspoon: 3-10-10 March 10, 2010
Texans.com
- Casey feels "just like a regular student" at Rice March 10, 2010
Saturday No. 1
This from the pages -- er, html files -- of Pro Football Weekly . . . A column by Matt Sohn ranks the Colts' re-signing of center Jeff Saturday as the NFL's best signing of an over-30 player in the current free-agency period. And if that sounds like a backhanded compliment, it's not. The column makes the point that a ton of teams have made good moves signing older free agents. I don't disagree with Sohn. Looking at the list, Saturday's the safest bet, is likely to play out the three-year contract at a high level and is one of the cores of the team both spiritually and physically -- or, [...]
Sunday Driver
From the blogosphere . . . Paul Kuharsky of ESPN.com got mail recently. A lot of it involved the Colts. A lot of involved how people hate him. A lot of the stuff on the Colts was interesting. A lot of the stuff about people hating him . . . well, Paul knows better than anyone, you write about people's teams, people ain't gonna like you. . . . Paul also provided a link to an Indianapolis Star story by Phil B. Wilson on Dwight Freeney's appearance as a limousine driver on the Dr. Phil Show. Missed it. Wish I'd seen it. . . .
Terp to Retire
The Colts announced today Executive Vice President Bob Terpening will retire June 1. Terpening -- Terp, as he is known by friends and colleagues -- has been a long-serving executive for the Colts, and knew the organization inside and out both historically and currently. He also represents one of the team's links to the days in Baltimore. Terpening first joined the Colts in 1970, and was the lone executive remaining whose connection with the team predated the Irsay family's relationship with the franchise. He started grading films for the Colts while serving as head coach at [...]
Mike Pete to Atlanta
Catching up with former Colts . . . Good to see Mike Peterson sign with Atlanta. A 1999 second-round NFL Draft selection by the Colts, he spent the last six season with the Jaguars. He had some issues with Jaguars Head Coach Jack Del Rio, but still led the team in tackles in his 10th season. Good guy, Peterson. One of the better quotes and more accomodating guys on the team in my seven and a half years there. He also was a good player who always seemed to get the most out of his ability.
Waking Up: A Big Offseason Need
Good morning . . . A question from the folks at mycolts.net last night started me thinking . . . And an item in a question-answer session by John Clayton of ESPN got me to thinking more . . . The subject: the Colts' defensive tackle position. It strikes me as interesting that few people aside from Clayton have focused on defensive tackle as an offseason need. It thas been mentioned, but while you see a ton of mock drafts with the Colts taking linebacker at No. 27 in the first round, you see a few mention tackle as a possibility, but not an overwhelming number. And the Colts [...]
Manning Day in Mississippi
The Mannings are a very newsworthy family, and are very popular in Mississipi. And Colts quarterback Peyton Manning has very famous friends. Ed.'s note: You can read more of IFR Editor John Oehser's Colts coverage at Examiner.com.
Market still slow, slow, slow for Colts players
Nearly two weeks into free agency, the news on the former Colts players on the free-agent market has been slower than many expected. Don't take that a knock on the players' ability. And don't take their current absence from the Colts' roster as meaning they definitely won't be back. I spoke this afternoon with my former colleague, Pete Prisco, of CBS Sports. Pete knows the NFL nationally as well as anyone, and has a keen idea for talent. He thinks the biggest surprise of free agency is former Jaguars quarterback Byron Leftwich not receiving any play at all on the free-agent market. I [...]
Rumour of the Day . . .
The latest from the blogosphere . . . The buzz continues to simmer about the report that the Colts will work out Southern California quarterback Mark Sanchez. I'll be honest: when I was employed by the Colts, I didn't pore over the internet every day -- at least not to the netherregions I've been trying to reach into for Indy Football Report. The legs that the casual rumor gets on a daily basis has changed drastically since I left the newspaper game. One report by a Los Angeles Daily News writer -- one sentence -- has spawned a litany of "stories," as everyone with a laptop and a blog [...]
Waking up: Catching up
Good morning . . . In the interest of keeping you informed, wanted to pass along this link to a story by ESPN The Magazine writer Seth Wickersham on the re-signing of center Jeff Saturday. A lot of you probably already have seen it, since it ran this past Thursday. I missed it, but caught through a link by ESPN AFC South blogger Paul Kuharsky, so I thought I'd pass it along. The gist is what we already knew -- that the salary-cap increase a few days before the start of the NFL's league year played a huge role in Saturday returning. But Seth got a lot of detail I hadn't seen before and [...]
Jaguars add offensive tackle
AFC South writer Chris Parchman provided this link to a story on the Jaguars acquiring offensive tackle Tra Thomas. Read this as a necessary move for a team otherwise in a rebuilding mode. Thomas is 34 and has been in the NFL 11 seasons, but he has been a solid left tackle throughout his career and the Jaguars needed to secure that spot with Khalif Barnes moving on as a free agent. Even though they're getting younger, they evidently see Thomas as a short-term solution. By the way, the Jaguars' situation is exactly why Colts fan need never complain during this current run. Remember a [...]