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Originally Posted by Hootie
I just can't give that much credit to the Colts...
If the Chiefs had landed Peyton Manning in that draft, Carl Peterson would still be GM, everyone would love the guy, and the Chiefs would have been the most winning team of the decade, and we'd probably have a Super Bowl...
If you watched the Colts game this past week...
They benched their starting LT (interchangeable parts), let Addai play a series, Freeney only played on 3rd downs, and a lot of their defense sat that easily could have played...
and there was no freaking difference...Manning slightly overthrew Wayne and Clark in the 1st half (where Wayne was wide open for a TD, and Clark wide open for a 40 yard gain on 3rd down) otherwise they would have led 21-3 instead of 9-3.
There was no difference between Tony Ugoh and Charlie Johnson...no one on the Jets even laid a finger on Peyton Manning...
It's like the 99% rule around that guy...Harrison retires, 1st round pick Anthony Gonzalez lands on IR...all of the sudden Austin Collie and Pierre Garcon step in and they lose nothing...
Now we can keep chalking this up to Bill Polian...
or we can just acknowledge they landed a once in a lifetime player that just makes everything around him better...
INCLUDING the defense...
that defense is built around Peyton Manning...which is the crazy thing...
They are built to play with the lead...
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Every time you post you continue to illustrate the fallacy of your idea that no one on here knows more than other people.
No bend but don't break defense is built to play with the lead.
Freeney and Mathis being good pass rushers simply means that they are good at their jobs, and a Tampa 2 defense needs undersized ends that get after the QB. They built that defense b/c their previous coach was Tampa 2 through and through.
And if you want to bash Polian, you might want to look at some of the other places he's been, like say Buffalo, where he built a team that went to 4 straight SBs, or Carolina, where in two years he built a team that went to the NFC title game, or perhaps Indianapolis.
And let's not forget who drafted Peyton Manning over Ryan Leaf, who drafted Edge over Ricky Williams, who drafted Dwight Freeney, Reggie Wayne, Robert Mathis in the fifth, Cato June in the 6th, who signed Jeff Saturday, Raheem Brock, Gary Brackett, Nick Harper, and Ryan Lilja.
But yes, I'm sure that the success of Dwight Freeney playing end, Mike Peterson playing linebacker (once upon a time), or Bob Sanders playing safety has to due with Peyton Manning playing quarterback.
That's a criminally stupid analysis.
There are 53 players on the Colts roster and all 53 were brought in by Polian.