Tip to Kuharsky, this is all smoke and no fire. Lazy piece.
Why would they want that? Moore, who ran the offense the past 12 seasons, would be moving to senior offensive assistant, whatever the heck that is. Christensen, whose one season running the Tampa Bay offense in 2001 can be summed up as being not very good, will now call the plays from the sidelines.
It doesn’t add up.
“Tom was getting to a point where he wanted to transition for a reduced amount of work that he had to do,” Colts coach Jim Caldwell said. “Our system has been one that has been pretty effective. The guy who knows it, and knows it well, is Clyde Christensen. He’s next in line to become the coordinator. He’s a very capable guy. He’s smart. He’s been doing a lot of things — the passing game, the Red Zone stuff — the past couple of years. For us, it’s been a transition heading in that direction. Tom wanted to transition down.”
Those who know Moore find that hard to believe. The word making its way around the league is he wasn’t thrilled about the move. Moore is getting up in years at age 70, and he actually retired last year because of issues over his pension only to get talked back out of retirement as highly paid consultant. It was really just semantics. Moore ran the offense.
Now the plan is for Moore to move to the press box, with Christensen on the sidelines in Peyton Manning’s ears.
The word is he’s been in Manning’s ear since he arrived. They have formed a close relationship, and there is some thinking that might have helped to influence this decision. So I asked Caldwell if politicking helped Christensen get the job.
“That’s unfair, that’s untrue,” Caldwell said. “You just brought that to light. That’s absolutely not true.”
Move along, Pete. You are just making stuff up at this point. Last year Peyton freaked out because Moore was gone, now he wants him out?
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