If they are going to bring other players with their heads up their asses into camp, I guess bringing in one who actually proved he can be a starting-caliber player makes sense.

Talk about a shot out of left field…I’m getting excited about our D Line!

Wonder if Johnson can turn it around. Its going to out a big spotlight on the DT position

Ed/Antonio/Taylor at NT
Foster/Moala/Dawson at UT

Beastly

Alot.

As a matter of fact, I wonder what all he has been doing for the past 8 or 9 months. I doubt he’ll be doing any interviews, but it sure would be interesting to hear from him.

In all likelihood, the Colts will just sweep his little incident under the rug and act like it never happened. After going almost a year without a paycheck, Big Ed has probably learned his lesson anyway.

the truth is, we still have to wait to see Ed’s game after missing one year. We also have to wait and see how guys like Foster and our rookies develop for next season.
Sounds promising, but we cant take anything for granted, specially with DT’s…

but now it’s looking like they’ll have size AND depth.

He better get unretired

wow!

we go from halloween to thanksgiving in a matter of days with our defense

unless they all die in a plane crash. Then we know the Colts truly have a DT curse.

here.

Wait, this is true? Holy shit!

that everyone else hasnt already said. im pretty excited about what Coyer has to work with in the front 7. football season cant get here fast enough!

I think that spells it out for the little guys – sorry but your services are no longer needed.

Not sure we can carry that many DTs—if we do have so many, some will have to play ST like Reid did last few years, no? CAN they? That’s why extra DBs can always fill in on ST and return duties, etc… but DTs? I guess they can plug in as blockers.

Okay, so back to my “reasons for optimism” mantra all of our weaknesses from last year just keep getting better. QB health, still holding steady. RB health, same. DL quality and depth, improved.

Where is our next line of weaknesses? OL, particularly RG/RT. Maybe depth? Maybe LT. I’ll call Gonzo’s maturity a given, meaning that we’d still need a viable #3WR. So I’ll call OL uncertainty and WR depth our current weaknesses. LB depth? No, that’s pretty good. Not exactly all-stars, but they’re deep. Punter/holder is an unknown.

Man, if the Colts stay healthy this year, watch the F#@! out, NFL.

This is exactly what I thought should happen with Johnson. If he’s in shape and can put it together… we’re loaded at DT.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the colts have been watching and monitoring him this whole time, subjecting him to random drug tests and counseling, with the promise that if he stays clean they would re-sign him

Why did they resign him? Because Caldwell has a different position than Dungy on this type of thing? I mean, I don’t know how much I care one way or the other, but, if they were going to resign him this year, why the hell did they cut him last year?! He certainly would have been useful last season. It kinda pisses me off. I mean, when the Colts cut him last year, I got it. I didn’t really put too much thought into whether it was too harsh a punishment or not, because they were taking a legitimate position. Now, they just resign him the next year? I just don’t get it, unless this is all about a difference in Caldwell and Dungy.

I like Ed Johnson and I also feel that his marijuana violation was not any real violation. I don’t smoke Marijuana bought I also believe it should be legalized and so do a majority of Americans. Now if Ed had been caught getting in a fight and had to be “tazzed” then yeah he should not have been resigned, but this was the right thing to do in terms of football management and it was morally correct as well.

Welcome back Ed!

We are also faster especially at LB. Overall we are just more atheltic defensively. The big question mark is the O-Linel and whether it will come together.

I believe that the lack of interest from other teams means that this is Ed’s last chance and i think the guy is gonna play with a HUGE chip on his shoulder.

This move is also going to send a msg to the rookies and Mookie that they are going to have to earn their spot on the team and nothing is guaranteed.

The only thing that scares me is all these moves after rookie camp… Did they not like what they saw?

This year might just be the reverse of last year—

at the end of the season, we were worried about strength at DT, but thanks to events occurring in the offseason, we have good reason to be optimistic about the position.

I think the Colts handle the situation perfectly, they stayed true to their word, punished him and now they have given him a second chance because they believe he has learnt his lesson.

It so hard to pick who will make the squad out of all the DTs we now have and this is going to make camp all the more exciting. Can you imagine the intense competition that will be going on between all the DTs? Each of them should be highly motivated to working harder to beat out the competition because all of them should realise that the Colts will play the best performing DT regardless of where he was drafted/picked up and therefore their position on the team is not secure. This just excellent for team. I’m so excited!!!