Johnny O gives the recap
This is simply bad luck,” Polian said Monday on his radio show, which typically airs on 97.1 Hank FM in Indianapolis. “He is no different a player – and I think everybody saw that in the couple of games he played this year – than when he was Defensive Player of the Year in the NFL [in 2007]. He’s just had a lot of tough luck with injury. We have invested a lot of money in him and I see no reason why we would – assuming this next procedure goes as expected and there are no complications and the knee continues to improve as it has – I wouldn’t see why we would not bring him back. That, to me, just seems to be foolish.”
In other words, as long as he’s able to play next year. If he’s out for the year before the season starts, they’ll cut him. No way that happens.
* A second-half pass by WR Reggie Wayne late that was intercepted by Houston Sunday: “Gadget plays are always risky, by nature. The reason you put them in is because they keep people off-balance. I once coached against a guy named Howdy Myers at Hofstra University, who had a different gadget play each week. If you played him in the last third of the season, you had about eight gadget plays that you had to prepare for. And believe you me, you spent time preparing for them both in the film room and on the practice field. It causes people difficulty. You have to execute them. Reggie would be the first to tell you that he should have thrown that ball away and I think that’s what he was trying to do and he just didn’t quite get it done. He had three choices – throw it if the receiver was uncovered, but he was not; run it, which he chose not to do; or throw it away. It should be a safe play, as was the pass with Joseph Addai [a week before]. If it doesn’t connect, then it’s an incomplete pass, so there’s no issue there. In this case, Reg should have thrown it away. It was a question of execution, not play call.
* The Colts’ efficiency recently in the red zone: “One of the disappointing things Sunday, and one of the things we need to improve upon, is our execution in the red zone. We have to do a much better job of protecting. We have to do a much better job of run-blocking. We have to do a much better job in the red zone. Had we been able to take advantage of the strategic advantage that we created for ourselves by going up-tempo and by a turnover created by the defense and field position created by the special teams, we would have perhaps made it a little bit different game. That didn’t happen and we got into a grinder and came out on top. There are plenty of things we can improve upon.”
* RB Joseph Addai: “[He] did a phenomenal job running the football – just a great job. He ran downhill. He ran hard. He finished every run. He almost created a miracle by gaining nine yards in the four-minute situation when we were looking at 3rd-and-13. We would have converted it on that run alone had it not been for the penalty. He was terrific and he blocked tremendously all day as well.
but I can’t say enough about our defense and our special teams and what a great job they did. And Joseph Addai and [quarterback] Peyton (Manning) and the receivers and what a great job they did. We did a heck of a job against a team that was determined to come in and beat us and prove they were the kings of the AFC South. We hung in and got the job done in great fashion, and I’m very proud of all of our guys
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