derFunkenstein wrote:Yeah, they're such losers. They never make the playoffs. Manning is a huge failure, never reaching the Super Bowl, much less win it. Dungy is a perennial loser that can never even get them above .500.
OK, really, just WTF are you thinking? "not bring much change" is the absolute best thing that could happen to that team in this situation.
I think he's just come to the conclusion that he's ridden the football train as far as he feels he needs to and he wants to do something else with his life. I congratulate him on being in a position that he can just do that.
Making the playoffs means nothing if you lose in the first round or your first game every year. When you consistently win 12 games each year you should have a better post season record than 7-5 with that team. Subtract the Super Bowl season and you're talking about 3-5 in the post season. Additionally, Tony Dungy did not bring Peyton Manning to the Colts, instead he was already there when Dungry arrived. This team does need the change because losing in the first playoff game is simply not much of an accomplishment no matter how well you do in the regular season each year. Legends are decided in the post season.
Tony Dungy is a great man, a tremendous man, maybe one of the best men to ever grace the NFL. He deserves to go in the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. I actually do think he is a great coach and I think the Colts need a change in attitude and not exactly on field coaching. I'm simply stating though that your list really ignores some of the cold hard facts about the Dungy Colts.
With that said if Bill Belichick coached Manning they'd have five Super Bowl rings.
PRIME1 wrote:I'm thinking it's all downhill from here for the Colts. Losing a good coach and I think Manning has peaked.
That guy who just won MVP? That guy who has had six years in a row with a 95 or better passer rating? That guy who relies more on his intelligence than his arm? No, you don't peak if you're Peyton Manning. You play, play, play, play and prove that you are the greatest quarterback, on intelligence alone, to ever play the game.