Dont Trust Florio. Period.

He would fire Meeks unless someone like Marinelli or Edwards were available, which they aren’t.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/01/19/meeks-is-out/

We are at a crossroads now. We could do anything with our defense. Will we keep the Tampa-2 or will we go with a normal 4-3 or even a 3-4? The speculation begins…now! Go!

This is a bunch of bull. The only person reporting this is PFT and everyone is citing PFT as their one and only source. I’ll believe it when I see it.

and I’m glad. Caldwell needs to shake things up and make the staff his own. We’ll be losing Moore and Mudd eventually, so if we want to make changes to the defensive side of the ball, now is a good time.

First, it’s Florio. This is the same douchebag that had Marvin Harrison doing gang hits in Philly last summer. Second, if the story is true (and it likely is because Meeks was always protected by Dungy), it means that either Alvin Williams will ascend to DC, or the Colts will bring in another experienced Tampa 2 guy, like Herm Edwards or Ron Rivera.

Any talk of switching to a 3-4 is stupid. The 3-4 is not “better” than the Tampa-2. And Caldwell has stated the systems already implemented here will not change. Caldwell is getting rid of people who he thinks Dungy protected. Dungy did not like to fire coaches. Like bad players, you pretty much had to F up royally to get fired. While guts like Purnell were incompetent, they never Fed up royally.

So, if there is a change, look for Williams, Edwards, Donnie Henderson, Ron Rivera, or Joe Woods (the db coach in Minnesota). All are Tampa-2 guys.

You can’t speculate until the replacement is announced, what/if any free agents before the draft, and who they target in the draft. But there’s already too many conflicting reports to take anything at face value unless it’s announced officially by the Colts. Three days ago Caldwell and co. were proud to announce retaining the coordinators. So we’ll see.

Expect Alan Williams to get a promotion.

“We can officially report the team has fired Meeks. Except they haven’t really. They just most likely probably definitely will at some point. But that’s official.” (posted by reptar)

My sense is that we’ve been “this” close with our defense. Our pass defense rocks. Our rush defense needs shoring up, but in large part because we lost a couple of key guys. Of course I’m not on the field and in practice, so I don’t know if his system just doesn’t work, but this seems like too much change, too fast.

I hope that if this is true, there is someone FANTASTIC waiting in the wings.

A few days ago I was ok with this.

Now, after having an open mind and reading what most of you have been posting, I am not ok with it. Dungy and Meeks leaving would be too much change, I think, for our D. You guys are absolutely right. Rational. Makes sense. Plus, I don’t know who they would get to replace him and after reading more about Herm, I’m not comfortable with his becoming the DC. DB coach, yes. DC, no.

This year our defense was the better of the two units. Last year our defense was fine. The year before our defense is what won us the Super Bowl. #1 defense in 2007, #2 in 2005, played like the #1 in 2006. In 2008, we had to recover from Pitcock and Johnson. And we did. The end of the year numbers don’t quantify the overall effort and where we ended the season. Starting at the Titans game we were giving up 91 ypg on the ground. And that’s including the 178 yards from Slaton. The numbers were so far out of whack because of the huge games we gave up at the beginning of the season. Put that in perspective, that’d be 3rd best in the league.

Take into account all the 3 and outs our offense was having, forcing our defense to play quite a bit more, it doesn’t help. So what’re we gaining? Our defense hasn’t gone backwards because of coaching, it was due to the loss of players. Our pass defense just broke a pretty decent record, giving up 6 total TDs for the year. How much was it Dungy? I don’t know, but I do know that our defense is one DT and one LB from become dominant. I have less questions about defense than I do about offense. At least I know where the focal point is on making it better on that side.