Well this is a big issue, I guess I'll throw my opinion in.  My only points are, is if his knee was still  badly hurt and causing him to be lacking mobility, then why would they have risked it?  Risk him getting hurt, because he can't even get out of harms way.  Especially with injured linemen, we're gonna put our franchise on the line, for one game against the Bears.  Do you guys have no faith in the competency of an organization that has gone 5 straight years with 12 wins or more, and a super bowl win as well during that span?  We didn't just accomplish everything we have with talent, it's been alot of brains as well.  Maybe just maybe the knee was affecting his throwing, but if that was the case would we really want Sorgi in instead?  Idk if the knee was bothering him in anyway, but lets say it was, we're talking about the fact we were still rated 7th in passing prior to the Ravens game.  I think no his knee wasn't affecting his mobility, bc you'd be an idiot to have him in there if it was, and if it was affecting his passing he was still having more success than 25 other teams in the league.

Manning and everyone involved made the decision to have surgery after minicamp, bc they apparently felt it was more important.  Now of course maybe if they knew they were gonna lose OL, they'd go a different route, but they didn't, and maybe they would have done the same, who knows get over it.  Decisions are made and you deal with the consequences no matter how bad or how good, you learn from them either way, and move on.  The Colts have, and we should!

Lombardi, was right about the second surgery, and wrong about everything else.  His report included alot of other stuff besides the second surgery, and when a bunch of your stuff is wrong, and you got a few right things, you've failed, the whole thing is a wash.  That's how things are graded in real life.  I believe all anyone was saying that objected to his report initially was, hold on the season aint here you can't predict the future.  We wanted to see it before we made our conclusion.  Conclusion now being Manning is Manning, and he just kicked the Raven's butts again.

The Colts should never have to do anything that is not a rule they have to follow.  There is alot of grey area with injury reports, that teams in all sports use to there advantage.  If somethings there and you can use it to make your team better then use it.  This crap about lying, is taking it all too serious.  It's not like the Colts are sitting there saying we're not telling you what's going on because the fans don't deserve to know.  They are saying we expect Manning to do this and to do this.  So that the Bears forever prepare for Manning.  Maybe what would of been good strategy is to say we don't expect him to play then suddenly have him start?  Idk? I'm not a coach, Idk how far they go into that sort of thing.  I do know that the people making these decisions are a much more qualified than any of us.  Since they get paid to make them that is, and we're just a bunch of punks that come off as whiny brats, when our team makes a decision that may have worked out better another way. 

It's just like a couple of weeks ago when everyone was screaming run the ball, and burn clock.  Everyone thinks that when a decision was made and it may of cost us something that it should of automatically been done a different way to guarantee success.  Like run and maybe not score at all, but atleast you took time of the clock, or work on Peytons knee whenever, and don't allow him to get the preperation he feels is most important, or even worse, throw Sorgi in and lose all 4 opening games.