King Richard
Hello there
Listen man, I'm not taking anything away from the Chargers. They won, and if you recall what Nec and I argued about a while ago about "the best team," the Chargers were indeed the better team yesterday. The win says it all. I hope the Chargers go and beat the Pats, so good luck to them is what I say.
Personally...I love Tony D. I mean, he brought a Lombardi trophy to Indy. This towns first championship in...well ever. He'll always be respected here for what he's done. But ultimately, I want a new coach. We saw the limits of Tony's football philosophies and mentality he brings to the Colts. He got them to the mountain top last year, but being 0-3 with a first round bye in the playoffs just isn't going to cut it. Especially when the Colts have been arguably the most dominant regular season team in the last 5 years. I don't like how he rests starters at the end of the season. I think back in 05, if they had actually tried, they could have been undefeated, and all this talk the Pats are getting this year would merely be looked at as copy cat play. He took the Colts and made them a really solid, mentally strong team. However, some of the stuff he does just gets to me. Take for instance the Marvin Harrison situation. It was pretty clear that he wasn't ready to play, and that his knee was more hurt than they let us believe. Harrison should have been IRed when he got hurt so that they wouldn't even have had to worry about it. Missing 11 straight games, then coming back andyour first game is a playoff? That is just asking for disaster. So that one is on Tony and Bill Polian. The offense would have been fine without him. Anthony Gonzalez was playing like there is no tomorrow, so I think the receivers would have been fine. The thing that pissed me off most was the fact that Harrison didn't even finish the game, when they needed him the most.
Another thing I think Tony is guilty of is not sticking with the run game, and using it effectively. I love Addai, but he is not an every down back. And for the love of god, cut Kenton Keith. He can't catch for shit. They need to go back to what they did last year. Back splitting time 50-50 or 60-40. My last beef with what Tony and Bill have been doing is this. I think they are putting way too much responsibility on Manning. I mean, Tom Moore is the offensive coordinator, but everyone knows Manning runs the offense. So why have him? They need to either fire him and use the money they were paying him to find some good players, fire him and hire another coordinator to actually do the job (dont like that idea). If he does retire, I'd like to see the Colts hire someone outside the organization to bring a little change.
