Caldwell: Sanders could play against Rams

I'm sure we all were thinking that he "could" play, but hearing Caldwell actually explicitly state that Sanders could make his debut is very assuring.

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This FanShot makes me happy :-)

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by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 2:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

+21

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I heard about it on sportscenter

they previewed it as “Colts injury news”, and I thought to myself “oh god, who got mysteriously-injured NOW?”

…thankfully, the news was good. :D

by hahasound on Oct 21, 2009 2:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

'bout time...

St. Louis prepared to be ERASED!

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by thefrozz on Oct 21, 2009 2:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What's left to erase?

Playing Bob against St. Louis just doesn’t seem fair.

by invisibulman on Oct 21, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll believe it when I see it.

Hit em with your groin!

by KingRichard on Oct 21, 2009 2:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Heck...

I’m with you KR…at this point I don’t think I even care!!

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by TRDean on Oct 21, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't care either

I have no emotions anymore about Bob. I hope he plays, plays well, and plays often. BUT he is nearly out of sight, out of mind now.

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by AceOfSpades on Oct 21, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed 100%

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by MrNFL on Oct 21, 2009 6:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

2nd half?

If the Colts have a huge lead, I bet he plays several plays in 2nd half to get his feet back under him. What do you all think?

by cwill111 on Oct 21, 2009 2:55 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

get him a few plays, then get him out

if we need him against the rams, we are in trouble. any word on how badly marlin “tweaked” his knee? any update on gonzo?

by Matic on Oct 21, 2009 3:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

so by this logic

we should play hayden a few plays, and then pull him.

also, addai, 2 plays and out.

Manning, don’t want to risk him against the Rams. One series and a cloud of Sorgi.

You need to ease him into action, obviously, he didnt have training camp or preseason, but its a logical fallacy to say we shouldn’t play a heathy player because of the opponent. The sooner you get him in the game and going, the sooner he’s back to 100% – which seems to be what the majority of Colts fans want.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

has ...

addai, hayden, or manning missed 50% of their games since they have been on the Colts? did addai, hayden, or manning miss all of training camp and preseason?

i wasn’t saying that because of the opponent, more because of the player. just saying they should be cautious. that’s all. and with the way BOB plays, i doubt he can get to 100% while playing at the same time. i did like your big boy words “logical fallacy”.

GO HORSE!

by Matic on Oct 21, 2009 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Manning missed all of training camp and preseason

last year. He didnt get babied, or sat out against ‘easy’ opponents.

Wasn’t using big boy words, btw. Were I trying to sound smart, I would have used dictionary.com. Sanders is a top-3 salaried safety in the history of the NFL, he can either stay healthy and earn his pay or he can’t. I understand he needs to ease himself into playing (he’s not in game shape), but this, ‘we don’t need him vs opponent x’ is incorrect. He’s either a part of the team or he’s not. Freeney risked further injury against the Seahawks and the Titans, he’s part of the team. We’re reaching a crossroads with Bob. If/When he comes back, he’ll need to play at a high level for the rest of the year, injury free, because the team needs to know what to do with Bethea.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

completely agree...

we can’t keep bob around at the risk of losing other players. again, i was saying he should be eased in because of his injury history, not because we are playing the rams. we are on the same page here.

by Matic on Oct 21, 2009 6:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why

Why does it seem like the coaches and management are babying Sanders so much, when he is just as likely to be injured again whether he is 100% or 85%??

I just don’t understand why it takes so much longer for him to “heal” than everyone else.

Someone please explain.

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by AceOfSpades on Oct 21, 2009 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Marlin

I thought I read that he expected to not play for the next 2 games – ugh!

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i bet he doesn't play

until Patriots then.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

To Be Honest

I wouldn’t play him in this game because it should be such an easy game. Save him for the Niners.

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by Colts Homer on Oct 21, 2009 3:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think it's good timing.

The rams aren’t much of a threat (to say the least), so this sunday’s game could be a perfect opportunity to work Sanders in to our defense.

That way, he’ll be much more prepared and comfortable against San Francisco.

by hahasound on Oct 21, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That was a nicely indeterminate statement...

… which could go either way. I, too, am in the “believe it when I see it” boat.

As an aside: I wonder what exactly the holdup has been over. The news on his recovery is so vague. I’m curious as to whether the doctors were the ones saying “He’s only demonstrating X percent of strength in that muscle, it’s not yet time”, or if the trainers are saying something similar. Or if the coaches are saying “he’s not cutting/ running/whatever as sharp, it’s not yet time”. In short, I’m wondering what exactly it is about Bob that until lately hasn’t been 100%. Yes, I understand it’s supposed “weakness” in his quadriceps (i.e. “front thigh muscle”), but if you think about it, that’s a pretty vague description. Weakness? As in, he’s only lifting ‘X’ number of lbs from a squat, instead of ‘Y’? Or as in he’s needing an extra tenth of a second to push off laterally?

Meh… I don’t think this answer will come out for a long time, if ever. Took us long enough to find out about Peyton’s injury last year, and he’s a far higher profile player in the news. We may never find this out. Admittedly, if he comes back and doesn’t show any loss in play, everyone’s going to forget all this, and I for one won’t complain. But that doesn’t change the fact that right now, I’m curious, yet cynical about the chances of this ever being answered.

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by E.M.H. on Oct 21, 2009 3:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I don’t even understand why it takes so long for him to work out his quad muscle anyways. Isn’t the quad what Freeney injured against Miami and he was back at it the next week?? Why does Bob take so long to heal when it seems that his issue was solved at the end of last season or at least in training camp?

Is this a Polian/Caldwell/doctors issue or just a Bob issue?

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by AceOfSpades on Oct 21, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Completely unrelated, if I remember correctly. Freeney injured his quad; Bob had knee problems that caused his quad to weaken. If I understand correctly, his knee has been fine for awhile, but then his quad wasn’t ready. If the quad is now strong enough to perform, he should be ready to get some playing time.

by nmbrthry on Oct 21, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My uninformed read on this

is that the docs and trainers are worried that this is Bob’s last chance to return from injury, so they’re doing it right, to the point of being extra conservative. If that means easing him in but that he’ll be available for late games (say, like, in January and beyond), I’m all for it.

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

when you say

“Last chance to return from injury” are you saying, "no more of this 8 off, 8 on’ stuff in the future? If so, I agree, especially, as I said, because they have to decide to pay Bethea or not.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bethea will be a RFA if the cap comes off

so they probably don’t need to decide on an extension yet.

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by shake n bake on Oct 21, 2009 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I feel kind of diry

banking on the end of football as we know it to keep Bethea (and wouldnt it affect Jackson, as well?). I’d rather they got a CBA done (one that works, this time, though) and worry about keeping our players under that system.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn't think it would, but in the Don Banks(?) article someone linked for me

he said that 2005 draft picks on 5 years deal would be RFAs, I had thought 5 year vets got free agency even without the cap, but maybe not.

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by shake n bake on Oct 21, 2009 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

have to have 6 years to get RFA

if the cap goes away…

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and yea

Ive had the same thoughts you have about the Colts in an uncapped system – new stadium, waiting list on tickets, an owner that spends to the cap every year, so he clearly isnt pinching pennies, a GM that is smart, and a almost 53 guys that they’d want to keep (obviously they need to get younger/better on OL, but other than that, not many wasted roster spots on this years team), I think a non-capped system would really help the colts.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yet I shudder to think what

Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder would do in an uncapped league. Heck, you already see what Snyder does in a CAPPED league.

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by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

there are a lot of things in place

to prevent them from going hog wild. Uncapped is really a misnomer given the kinds of restrictions in place.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

well not if they still suck

but a Yankee-esque approach to free agency would be stifled as soon as it started to work.

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by shake n bake on Oct 21, 2009 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

well, right

as you said, they can spend a lot, but as soon as they are good, which is their goal, they are kind of strapped with their options.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

you could buy a contender, but not a title

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by shake n bake on Oct 21, 2009 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No freakin' joke, dude

Snyder makes the Yankees look parsiminous.

Now, this has been said so many times already that it’s become a frikkin’ cliché, but: Synder basically treats his team like a fantasy one. And there’s no bigger demonstration of the difference between playing fantasy football as fantasy and playing it in reality than this.

I bitched in the past about letting players go, but given the success of the Colts in doing this – from Dickerson to Harbaugh, passing Faulk and Edge through till today – and the utter failure of “fantasy” organizations like Snyder’s Redskins, I now can’t help but agree that it’s good to make an organization move on. It’s good for the organization, and if there are cushy landing spots with great paychecks, it can be financially (if not professionally or competetively) all right for players as well.

I guess we have a new truism about modern professional sports: You can equalize the salaries, you can equalize the distribution of talent through draft orders, but you can’t equalize franchises performances. The only way to do that would be to somehow equalize talent of ownership, and I have no idea how that could be accomplished.

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by E.M.H. on Oct 21, 2009 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and yeah, I hope a CBA gets done this offseason

even though the Colts won’t be in bad shape for an uncapped league. Decent sized market, owner that doesn’t pinch pennies and builds through the draft so the new free agency rules will help rather than hurt.

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by shake n bake on Oct 21, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was thinking more

from the perspective of his own body’s ability to recover. In other words, I’m wondering that if he gets hurt one more time, he simply won’t be able to come back.

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Different models

Freeney is a fast healing “liquid metal” cyborg developed after Skynet had become fully self-aware. Sanders is an older model, living tissue over a metal skeleton. His wounds take a while to patch.

Both were sent back to our time to crush offenses and devour souls, but due to a quirk of time travel the Freeney model arrived a few years earlier.

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by szquirrel on Oct 21, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Holy shit...

I got a good laugh out of that!! Thanks!!!

by TRDean on Oct 22, 2009 8:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

remember

if I remember correctly…didn’t Bob’s injury require surgery? whereas Dwight’s didn’t. A good point though, why keep this injury information so far under wraps that the fans don’t even know anything. It’s like a kid’s mother withholding a cookie from him and not telling him why…

by harbaughmyhero on Oct 21, 2009 4:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I believe

that Bob had a scope, but even if it wasnt a scope, it was a surgery that took place back in january or february, i believe.

by SpazMo on Oct 21, 2009 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

mmmmm

cookie….

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey,

I’ve still got some cookies left that I made Saturday. Come on over and get one. Oh wait, you live in sunny California while I’m getting swarmed by ladybugs in Indiana.

No cookie for you………..

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by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

could you mail one down to sunny FLA?

by harbaughmyhero on Oct 21, 2009 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

…………………

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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Wonder how long it would take to sing that before a game.

by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey.

What kind of cookies?

Ladybug cookies, by chance?

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by peytonsthebest on Oct 21, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Chocolate chip cookies with M&M's.

Although I could whip up some ladybug cookies really quickly and send those down to you.

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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Wonder how long it would take to sing that before a game.

by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm putting my order in now

for another fresh batch of those cookies for the Titans and Broncos games in December

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You want a fresh batch of ladybug cookies?

Sure, I can have those ready for you.

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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Wonder how long it would take to sing that before a game.

by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

haha - cute

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thank you,

thank you very much.

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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Wonder how long it would take to sing that before a game.

by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah - what's up with that?

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No clue.

I’ve never seen something like it before.

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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Wonder how long it would take to sing that before a game.

by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 6:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

the craziest thing about the ladybugs

is in how large of numbers they seem to be dying at once.

Yesterday, I came back from class to find my porch covered with what must have been 300-400 dead ladybugs. There’s probably at least 30-40 dead ones in my apartment alone— and my windows have been shut, for the most part.

by hahasound on Oct 21, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What's (not) wrong with this picture?!?!

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Oct 21, 2009 8:12 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Hey!

Sanders isn’t on there! Whoohoo!

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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Wonder how long it would take to sing that before a game.

by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey!

Jennings IS on there! Woohoo! ;P

by hahasound on Oct 21, 2009 8:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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by E.M.H. on Oct 21, 2009 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

oops

I’ve been slacking on my injury report duties.

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by shake n bake on Oct 21, 2009 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Shame on you.

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by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know

studying for a chem test and writing a paper for a journalism history class when there’s a injury report to post. What’s wrong with me. ;)

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by shake n bake on Oct 21, 2009 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know.

You’re gonna get kicked out of the procrastination club if you keep that up. Of course, we probably wouldn’t get around to revoking your membership until next year, but still…….

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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Wonder how long it would take to sing that before a game.

by Cassieper on Oct 21, 2009 9:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Shake...

where do you go to school?

by TRDean on Oct 22, 2009 8:46 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, that's an easy one.

He obviously goes to Azusa Pacific University…….or is it Iowa St. University………..

Sorry for the sarcasm, but it’s a very well known fact around here that Shake goes to Iowa. He broadcasts it often.

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by Cassieper on Oct 22, 2009 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs