Shoe, you blew it man. Lombardi was wrong then, and he was wrong now.

Lombardi got a detail right (which we always said he might have), but he missed the big picture with his story. He said Manning’s knee was a bigger issue than the Colts were letting on. Was it? NO.

He implied it might be an issue all season. Is it? NO.

He said there “much more here than meets the eye”. Is there? NO.

He blew the story. He reported a detail correctly and 100% missed the point. Peyton played week 1. He played well. Other than one moronic throw against Jacksonville (which was not knee related), he’s played pretty freaking well.

Don’t gloat about this dude. You were wrong to believe Lombardi’s crap. He wanted to scare people, and it was a waste of time to listen to him.

When have the Colts “flat out lied about an injury”? I still have yet to see that proven with a quote in print.

The Colts never said Manning didn’t have two proceedures. We still don’t know what that even means.

Read my original post. I stand by every word.

Lombardi’s story was exactly as I described it.

Wrong.

“Peyton did play week one, but had no business being out there. He did not play well. He was immobile in the pocket and could not execute the most basic hand off in the Colts offensive playbook. The injury affected him so badly he was unable to warmup probably before the game.”

That’s just ignorant man. I was there. He looked great. His WRs dropped 4 passes. He was moving around in the pocket just fine. You make it sound like he was limping around. He had no visible limp, and evaded the rush just fine. Don’t revise history. That’s just lame.

They had no comment on the Manning story because it was by a blog. Dungy’s response was “I’d like to talk to his source” or something to that effect.

That’s not lying. Lombardi was saying Manning would be hampered all season and might not be ready week one. Maybe that’s why they painted him as uncredible. He was. He claimed there was a big problem, when there wasn’t. How much more uncredible could he be?

As for not being able to run the stretch, are you saying that means he shouldn’t have been out there? He couldn’t run the stretch week 2 and brought the team back. Your statement that he shouldn’t have been out there is just not accurate. We broke down every incomplete pass he threw week one, and it was pretty clear that the WRs and pressure caused most of them…the exact two factors that have caused problems in every subsequent week.

I don’t dispute the timing issues with Peyton and the WRs. Those are the result of Peyton missing camp. Lombardi’s post came the day Peyton reappeared and started practicing. He thought he had a big scoop, and blew it. He got the facts right and the analysis 100% wrong. He over played the significance of the second ‘proceedure’ to promote his new blog. The mere fact that Peyton is now ok, shows that Lombardi blew it.

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80a9e9b0

that’s video of Manning in week 1. Notice the first play. He has no problem stepping up in the pocket and converting the first. Looks like he had some business being out there. Also, Lombardi’s quote was:

“It’s clear that this is a HUGE concern short- and long-term for the Colts.”

Unless by long term, he meant 5 games, I’d say he blew it.

His WRs were what killed the game, drop after drop after drop. I guess that has a lot to do with going from Sorgi’s anemic throws to Peyton’s laser arm, but you can’t really put that on Peyton. He WAS ready to go Week 1.

You gotta look out for the players and we all know the pressure that is on them to play injured.

That being said, if you believe Chris Mortensen on Sportscenter it was Peyton’s desire not to get the surgery earlier because he didn’t want to miss the usual offseason meetings and activities. He claims Peyton puts a great deal of emphasis on the preparation that takes place therein. Take that for what it is, but it does sound like Peyton to push himself too far. It’s not like anyone can really say “no” to Peyton.

I already blew my brains out this afternoon listening to Kravitz bitch and moan about this for an hour straight, because he wants the Colts organization to tell him everything. What Kravitz has forgotten is good solid work like Lombardi did is called investigative journalism, which Kravitz is way too lazy to care about. We should care about winning not some BS injury that happened months ago.

Lots of guys ‘had the story’ that Manning had two knee surgeries. They couldn’t print the story because they couldn’t confirm it. Lombardi didn’t print the story in a respected source (like his regular gig for SI); he published it on a blog with no standards for journalistic ethics. Phil B and Peter King both mentioned that they had heard the rumors, but couldn’t confirm them. Lombardi went with the story and got it wrong (in terms of severity), but there’s no consequences for that when you run a start up blog.

I agree that the story is boring and not really news, but don’t blame Kravitz for not investigating. He is held to a different burden of proof than Lombardi becuase he actually has editors. Blame Kravitz for something else…like being irrelevant.

That even if Peyton had two procedures, it didn’t matter. He’s playing, he’s fine, and if we win against Chicago and Jacksonville, this post and his report look even more ridiculous.

Hark, is the sky falling again? Also, I would advise medical treatment for your obsession about the Colts “lying”, because you seem like you have trust issues that don’t deal with footbal.