I think that people are mixing up the words rivalry and hate. You can hate a team but not be a rival of them. For example, I hate the Cowboys, but nobody in their right minds would consider them rivals of the Colts. The Jags haven’t been competitive enough in the division for me to consider them rivals, but I hate their guts.

Now, I hate the Patriots and consider them our greatest rivals, but that’s another story.

with Colts as the older child, Texans as the younger brother and titans as a half-brother/Step-brother. just a thought.

That they’re our arch rivals as we’re their arch rivals.

Example:
Cars are the arch rivals of squirrels.
Squirrels are not the arch rivals of cars.

And just like with squirrels, when we’re done running over the Jags we just hose the blood off our fender and go on about our business, with nary a thought about it.
But the Squirrels…oh, the Squirrels, they remember what we did to them and their hatred grows…

I had never thought of that, but I would have to agree — at this point he probably knows all of Peyton’s audibles and slang.

maybe if they practice him at the position it’d work, but he could not handle the MLB spot last year. I think that’s a big reason everyone has such terrible memories of him from last season. It’s not like he was good at WLB, but he finished the year playing terribly at MLB.

It’s fashionable in some circles to blast him as being so vastly inferior to Manning (the Visigoths got the same badmouthing after the Roman legions faded into history, but they were a kick-ass bunch). Clearly the Colts are paying him a bunch of money and just as clearly, it’s not all for his on-field prowess (he gets paid nearly as much per completion as Manning!). He’s probably fine on-field, but 90% of what he does on Sundays is support Manning—he’s the guy with the clip board and headset—he’s working with Moore and Manning to pick apart the other team’s D and tune our offense right. Now while some might say that Manning’s QB coach or OC or Assistant QB is the easiest job in the world next to Tony Siragusa’s pastry chef, I suspect it involves a lot of work and requires a lot of football smarts. Smarts that would be well applied in a future job as a QB coach, OC, etc.

But Sundays are just one day a week. Jim’s second job is week-long prep, breaking down film, as a sounding board, etc for 18. And finally mimicking the opponent’s QB during practices. We know how valuable that was to the Pats when they played us in the 2003 playoffs (ex-Colt Huard?) and the Bucs in the 2002 SB with Gruden standing in for Gannon at practices. Jim must be pretty good at that as well. it provides a valuable service to the team that is not so obvious on Sundays. And those services may not requre a lightning release or cannon arm, or even top-tier instantaneous decision making skills, but they do require football smarts, some physical skills, and the ability to communicate. If he can go one step further and teach, then he probably has a decent coaching career in front of him. Kubiak did it in Denver. Why not #12?