Hey it was on the air! (really, how hard is it to send out a simple email to confirm a story before posting it)( /passive agressive frustrated rant)
Polian, who helped build the Buffalo Bills into a four-time Super Bowl participant as general manager in the early 1990s, said former Bills RB Thurman Thomas twice opted to sit out late-season games to ensure he would be at full strength for the postseason. Each time, Polian said the decision cost Thomas a league rushing title.
“We subsequently made the Super Bowl in each of those years,” Polian said. “I worried terribly it would be held against him (in Hall of Fame voting). Fortunately, it was not. That’s why those things are important. (Colts Head Coach) Jim Caldwell told the team that if in the regular flow of the game you could reach a couple of those milestones – in this case it happened to be (TE) Dallas (Clark) getting 100 catches, which has only been done once by a tight end in history. So, it’s a very rare achievement.
“And (WR) Reggie (Wayne) getting 100 catches, which of course is a milestone for any receiver and would be a tremendous milestone for Reg, who in the early part of his career was the companion to (former Colts wide receiver) Marvin (Harrison), who is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Those would be important milestones to reach – if we could reach them in the normal flow of the game. The first series was unsatisfactory because we threw an interception. We weren’t going to close it out on that series, because you want to be sharp.
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