All that said, I’m not sure any of it really applies to these Colts, a team that’s 89-23 (.795) over the course of the past seven regular seasons, winning between 12 and 14 games every year. In Indy, they’ve heard the noise before about the Super Bowl window of opportunity closing, and it hasn’t really budged. Change seemed to be in the air last year during training camp, too, with Caldwell taking over for the departed Tony Dungy, but the train just kept rolling.
“Before 2006, before we won that Super Bowl (against Chicago), that was kind of a common theme, the window had closed,” Caldwell said. “We lost the year before in the playoffs to Pittsburgh (in the divisional round) and everybody’s talking about the window had closed on us. That kind of thing. But we’re hoping none of that applies to us. We don’t worry about the pronouncements, all we do is try and focus in on trying to win football games.”
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