Q: Can you comment on the status of Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy. Will he be back next season? A:...

Q: Can you comment on the status of Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy. Will he be back next season?

A: Tony will make his decision very soon after the end of the season whether or not he wants to come back. That’s something he has done every year for the past three years. He’ll talk it over with his family and decide whether he wants to give it one more year. If he does, we’ll just move ahead as we always have. If he does not, then (Associate Head Coach) Jim Caldwell will step in as the head coach immediately and we’ll move forward with a seamless transition.

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Shake.

Where’s the injury report? It isn’t up yet on Colts.com.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Nov 19, 2008 6:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

NFL.com doesn't have it either

I guess it hasn’t been released yet. Someone over there is slacking. The best I have now is from Dungy’s pre-practice talk with the press

It seems likely that Wayne will play. He tweaked a lingering ankle injury on Sunday, but has said he would be ok and Dungy said much the same on Monday and that Wayne would likely have to deal with it the rest of the season. Dungy said Sanders will practice some this week. They will continue to monitor his practice time and look for the right balance between enough rest and getting him ready for games. He said on Monday that Hayden should be close to returning from a hamstring injury.

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Shonn Greene for Heisman
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Nov 19, 2008 6:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I hope Coach Dungy is here next year, but I will understand if he decides to step down. If Mr. Polian and the rest of the organization are confident enough to name Caldwell the head coach this far in advance, then I’m more than willing to trust them and give Caldwell the benefit of the doubt on this one.

by burc on Nov 19, 2008 8:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

yeah it's been expected, but if it was confirmed that message didn't get out well

Shonn Greene for Heisman
144 yards per game
6.2 yards per carry
08 TDs per game > 06 GPA

by shake n bake on Nov 19, 2008 8:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed

by burc on Nov 19, 2008 8:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I've listened to Caldwell in interviews

and I really like his style and demeanor. He seems to be a really good guy with a good grasp of things. I’d have no problem with him taking over.

by Ayrshire on Nov 21, 2008 1:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I hope Dungy sticks around longer.

by coltsfanawalt on Nov 20, 2008 12:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm ready for Dungy to go.

I believe his philosophy of resting players in the season’s later games has kept them from winning more superbowls, and I believe his philosophy of smaller, faster defensive players has kept their defense incredibly porous for years, and I think he’s not agressive enough in general.

by Ayrshire on Nov 20, 2008 7:40 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Most of the fans

don’t want to face reality about Dungy. You’re absolutely right, defense is his specialty supposedly, and yet all we ever hear about the Colts is ‘they can’t stop the run’, ‘worst in the league at it’ etc.,……and it’s getting old. And, as far as resting players go, lessons are absolutely never learned. It obviously doens’t work because they always come out FLAT! Look at what the Giants did in their meaningless game with the cheaters last year, they played to win!! And, they eventually won the superbowl because they still had that killer edge! The years the Colts would rest players and immediately lose in the playoffs, they had lost their edge!

by Ayrshire on Nov 20, 2008 8:11 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Amazing

So all the great things that the teams HAVE accomplished under Dungy, both here and in Tampa, are despite him. No credit to him for the good. Now, the failure to win it all more? The blame is his. Amazing.

Tampa stunk when he took that team. He brought them to relevance quickly. Most of the players acknowledged it was his team that won that super bowl the next year. Since winning with that first year group, Gruden has only seen the team go down. They haven’t been back to the super bowl or been as good as the Colts since. Why don’t you call for his head?

So the Colts and Bucs under Dungy have put an amazing resume together, but all despite Dungy. Yet the reason they haven’t won more super bowls (something only NE has done more of all 32 NFL teams), is all Dungy’s fault? You two aren’t even rational.

Interestingly, the NFL recognizes Tony’s accomplishments and actual NFL players call him the best coach to play for. But what do they all know? They probably don’t like to win either, unlike you critics who have so much more invested into it all. Let’s let the couch potatoes trump the players and the experts here. Dungy is sorry. Ignore his accomplishments. They are despite him, and they are not greater because of him.

by coltsfanawalt on Nov 20, 2008 10:01 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

A part of me

actually respects and admires your unconditional loyalty to Dungy. From things you have written, you seem to be a truly good guy. However, I just call things the way I see them. You make a good point about pulling Tampa out of the basement. He definitely did that. And, to me that’s his accompliment. He turned them into a playoff team, not a superbowl team. It was obvious to most including the Bucs ownership that he was never going to do that. After a while, getting to the playoffs just isn’t good enough. Therefore he was fired, and rightfully so in my judgement. You’re never going to win the big one when all you can manage offensively season after season is two Martin Grammatica field goals. He hasn’t really accomplished anything in Indy from my perspective. Peyton has accomplished a lot though.
     I’m not sure what he’s really accomplished here in Indy. The Colts were already great offensively and playoff caliber when Dungy arrived due primarily to Moore and Manning, and Dungy never put together a defense in Indy like he did in Tampa., which incidentally, which was what I suspect he was hired to do. And, in my opinion, there’s no excuse for not winning it all in 2005. I believe he didn’t have them ready to play. And the amazing resume you speak of between the Bucs and Colts is not that amazing in my eyes. One superbowl victory is a joke with all that talent.
     I’m not going to say you’re not rational, like you did to us, but I obviously see things completely different when it comes to Dungy. And, I probably wouldn’t have even made a comment on this post until I saw you saying that you want him back for another year. I just want others to know that not all of us are on the Dungy bandwagon.
     I view like two political parties, they both want what’s best for America, just have different ideology on how to get there. It’s the same with the Colts. We all want there success, but just sometimes have a different view on what takes us there….including coaching.

by Ayrshire on Nov 20, 2008 10:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Resting Players

The ‘07 Pats didn’t rest their players late into the season, and look what it got them…

by burc on Nov 20, 2008 10:33 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Holy shit, jay and Ayrshire, why don’t you two hold off on the “let’s get rid of Dungy” bullshit and wait to see how this season ends up will ya?

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by KingRichard on Nov 20, 2008 11:41 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

It's not bullshit Dick

The post is about Dungy’s status for next year. I didn’t put up the post or start this discussion. Other’s were chiming in about what they want to happen to the coaching situation for the Colts. So I did too. My opinion is based on everything I’ve written above and what has happened in the past, not about how THIS season turns out…..which by the way, I hope turns out good, obviously….as I always do. It’s a discussion, nothing more. And, by the way, thanks for your comment.

by Ayrshire on Nov 20, 2008 12:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ok here’s a question for you:

What you be saying this same stupid shit if the Colts win the Super Bowl this year?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say no. Because you don’t get rid of coaches who have won a Super Bowl 2 out of 3 years, and 3 total if you count the Bucs Super Bowl (which was all his doing and you can’t dispute that).

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by KingRichard on Nov 20, 2008 12:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hypothetical bullshit

Dick, since you’re the one saying all the stupid shit, let me explain it further. I always reserve the right to reevaluate based on new information. I can’t say what I’ll think at the end of the season. I can only comment on what I’ve seen so far both in Tampa and Indy with Dungy. And, believe me, I don’t count the Gruden-won superbowl in Tampa as a Dungy win. Dungy clearly was partly responsible, as I mentioned above, for creating a great defense (maybe the best of all time) which could only go so far with no offense. Gruden came in and finished the job by actually adding an offense which was more than run, run pass, punt. If Dungy had stayed there another, it would probably have been one and out as all the other years. And, as I’ve mentioned, Peyton, in my opinion, is clearly the reason for the Colts success, not Tony.
Now, since you like hypotheticals so much, what do you think the Colts record would be if Belichick (who I don’t like) was coaching the Peyton Manning led Colts for the last 6 years? Do you think we would have only one superbowl title?

by Ayrshire on Nov 20, 2008 12:23 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Added an offense? Gruden was responsible for the Bucs moving up a whopping TWO spots in the overall standings? That’s your argument? wowowowowowo

Normally I’d go through and nitpick every little thing you said, but I decided not to waste my time. Your whole argument is just laughable.

The King of Anti-Fail and Unofficial Moderator of Stupid People

by KingRichard on Nov 20, 2008 12:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's only laughable to you

because you clearly don’t have a grasp of reality and don’t want to hear the truth. You could nitpick every point, and I’d thrash you in the reply. So, it’s probably a good decision in your normally ridiculous judgement not to even attempt a reply. But, I will say this for anyone else who has the capacity to think, I’m not saying Gruden was an offensive genuis, it just didn’t take much to improve on the absolutely ‘zero’ offense of Tony Dungy’s run, run, pass, punt theory of offense. There wasn’t a shred of originally to it. Gruden came in and gave it just enough to get it over the hump and enable them to win. Yes, Tony did create a great defense. I give him major credit there. But, 6 or 9 offensive points per game year after year don’t win championships. You ought to take the blinders off. It might make it easier for you to get through life.

by Ayrshire on Nov 20, 2008 12:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The reason Dungy gets a chunk of the credit

from so many, including his former players, for the Tampa thing, is because it disinigrated so quickly after that one super bowl year. Since you site Gruden’s success at adding an offense, where was that offense in all these Gruden-led years? Even the super bowl was #1 offense (Oakland) versus #1 defense (Tampa), and I distinctly remember that defense pulverizing Gannon and even putting a heap of points on the board.

Of course the ownership blamed Dungy. That’s why they fired him. And they probably seemed justified that following year. But ever since, look at how Gruden has kept it going. He hasn’t. They have occasionally been a playoff team, but they aren’t as good as they were in Dungy’s days by a long stretch.

Responding here to this comment and to your earlier reply to me, I still see the pattern of giving Dungy none of the credit and all of the blame. Here in Indy, the CREDIT for being such a great team with such high expectations goes to Manning and Moore, and none to Dungy? The BLAME for not doing what only one other team has done this past decade and for winning ONLY one super bowl goes to Dungy and not to Manning and Moore? Come to think of it, there are many who have argued that MANNING has choked away many playoff games (I do not agree with that assertion, by the way), so maybe he has marred his coaches amazing legacy. Would Dungy have more rings with Brady? (Again, I think not, but following your angle here.)

You and I have been on this ride before. We just have to agree to diagree. I enjoy your views and contributions on many levels, but we are on opposite sides of this issue. You said earlier that you only posted this so that others would know that not everyone here is on the Dungy bandwagon. Trust me, I well know that. I could quickly name you five posters on this site who have no use for Tony Dungy. Truthfully, you are one of the more decent ones to talk to. But he is a true hall of fame coach, and I am grateful that the Colts have had and continue to have him as our head coach.

by coltsfanawalt on Nov 20, 2008 12:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm the first one to admit

I could be wrong about Dungy. I don’t know for sure if I am, but as I mentioned, I just express my opinion. I always enjoy what you have to say and respect your comments.

by Ayrshire on Nov 20, 2008 12:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

One thing is certain. We have Coach Dungy this year. I hope we can overcome the rough start and win it all this year. And if Dungy hangs ’em up after the season, I hope that whoever takes over (looks like Caldwell) will win it all in his first year, like Gruden did in Tampa.

by coltsfanawalt on Nov 20, 2008 1:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs