Comments on: The Debacle

By: The Real Slim Peytie

The Real Slim Peytie — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 23:00:07 +0000

The Colts suck, as all “dome teams” do once they’re removed from the protected confines of their cozy little wombs. I can’t tell you how many times I could read Manning’s lips on the sidelines during last week’s game, frantically begging stadium personnel to “Turn up the fucking heat! What are you people??? Penguins???”
By the way, even the Skins beat up on the Colts back in late October. Which reminds me, I need to collect on something…

By: Mark Adams

Mark Adams — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 21:42:08 +0000

Boy, you couldn’t be more correct. I went to see the Pacers lose on Saturday to the Gizzards (01/04). What a disgrace. There were no rebounds on offense and they couldn’t have been more lackadaisical. Where’s Reggie?

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:03:58 +0000

While I agree with your points, I have to throw a little “Blame Payton” into the mix. He is now 0-3 in the playoffs, and as a college player he could never with the Big Game. He could never beat Florida, and Tennessee won the national championship the year after he left. He did win an SEC Championship his senior year (97) – but didn’t have to beat Florida to get there. Here’s a big “you’re welcome” from LSU.

Payton may have been let down by horrible playcalling this year, but there was no such excuse at Tennessee.

And about his little brother, if he had gone to a decent school instead of following his daddy to Ole Miss, he may have had a shot at…well…anything except big wins at the Shreveport bowl. That’s his fault and nobody else’s.

By: scanner

scanner — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 15:05:49 +0000

I said it once and i’ll say it again, Dungy is not head coach material. We had him here in Tampa for four years and a long four years it was. He can get you up the mountain, but not to the summit. We actually laughed at the Colts when we found out they hired Dungy.

But I hate to say it, because Dungy is one hell of a nice guy. Maybe too nice…?

By: tb

tb — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 21:00:13 +0000

You haven’t mentioned the Pacers performance this weekend

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:00:31 +0000

If you can get some good draft picks, I might consider trading Edge. His value is down, however, and I think there is a good chance he should be much better next year. It seems like it normally takes a full year for players to regain their old form after an injury like his. I don’t know if he or the rest of the team knew what his body could do, and I think it showed.

I am not a fan of Mungro. The guy puts the ball on the ground way too often.

I would really like to see more short yardage passes to James. That is what they did his first two years, and it worked great. Now Manning almost never calls his number. Hopefully we’ll see more of those next year.

By: Chris Lawrence

Chris Lawrence — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 18:04:48 +0000

Of course, the sick thing about all this is that the commentators will blame Peyton Manning for the loss (he’s 0-3 in the playoffs!); never mind that an effective passing game requires an effective running game.

Both Peyton and his brother Eli have basically been let down this year by horrible playcalling and the lack of a credible run threat.

I agree 100% with everything you wrote; the D sucks ass, Edge is overrated, and the offensive playcalling is, well, offensive.

By: Luca Brasi

Luca Brasi — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 17:54:17 +0000

I saw the Jets giving the Colts a serious whuppin’ from a mile away. Pennington looks to be unstoppable. I just need the Browns to cover so I can collect on a three teamer. By the way, is anyone else completely amazed by Mike Vick? My God is he good.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 16:29:37 +0000

Radley, I’m right there with you. I have never been a Dungy fan and do not have the slightest clue what he has done to merit the tag of great coach/defensive genius. What he did in Tampa was nothing special considering the personel that he had on the defensive side of the ball. Plus, the Colts’ offense now looks like Tampa’s old offense. How strange that Tampa’s offense got so much better this year once Dungy left.

I think that in the playoffs you can make a mint on Dungy, just follow the age old addage: Dungy on the sideline means money in the bank. He’s a lot like Marty Schottenheimer. I like to think of them as guys who always put their team in a position to lose a game.

The worst thing about this is the idiocy of the Colts’ ownership. Dungy gets fired by TB because he sucked it up for years and the Colts can’t wait two minutes to go out and hire him. It’s not like they did not have four years of game footage to see his incompetence at TB.

Well, at least my Giants are still in it. GO BLUE!