Collin, it is unfair to call the front office a joke. In the real world, a decision-maker uses available information to make the best possible decision. When the information is very imperfect, some you get right and some wrong. Perhaps IR-ing Gonzo was a mistake…..but they had to decide something. How could they know he would or would not come back? They held out hope that Bobzilla would make it back. If we made the playoffs, he would be invaluable. Odds are Bob got bad news from Dr. Andrews—and the decision is now is clear…to IR him and get somebody else rolling.

This is a bad-luck season. Deal with it. Doesn’t make them dumb because their medical crystal ball wasn’t working.

But this individual case certainly has been mismanaged.

Why not put those objective reporting skills to good use and tell us about our new DB…or would that take too much time from your knee-jerk editorializing?

Sounds like we are conceding this season. A lot of chatter about Manning wanting out of Indy too, although I don’t buy that.

I guess I am not seeing what the big deal is…If anything they mishandled the Addai and Collie situation. It is a crap shoot… they took a chance with Sanders and Gonzo and it did not work out. I knew in training camp Gonzo would not make it (got ripped for saying it) He did not look sharp at all or all that healthy. Sanders looked good and was hitting hard but I said to a friend “Watch he wont make it 5 mins in the first game”.

Everyone knew when he was injured there was no chance in hell he would come back or if he did he would be worth a crap. Face it this season has been an avalanche of bad news. I said in preseason training camp this team would be lucky to be a 8-8 of 9-7 (got ripped for saying it). It is noticeable how less sharp practice is now compared to even the Dungy years. The decline in discipline I suppose starts there and translates to the next 16 games. That is on Caldwell and the coaching staff.

In terms of recent bad moves and bad luck for this team I do not think this is major. He is gone anyhow and the team is in no way a Super Bowl team this year. But as a poster above said “The Powers move forced this move”.

Who knew Donald Brown would go from looking pretty good in his first four games and having some explosion to looking like one of the worst running backs I have ever seen -post injury. I hope Rhodes at least plays with some hunger now and has at least some explosion left

Who knew Moala would look one of the best defensive players at times and Brackett would be terrible.

I thought the Collie injury hurt the Colts the most. He obviously was not ready in the NE game. That was a desperation move. I was there.. he came off the field after his first reception. For as slow as he is he has the most uncanny ability to get open and usually open by a lot.

What concerns me is how soft the team is… We get pushed around by San Diego on both sides of the ball and Oakland pushed around the Chargers badly last week. That Raider game concerns me more than the other 3. I can see McFadden being a big problem for this defense. He is smallish and quick and pretty powerful. The other would be Jacoby Ford (speed 4.26 40) in the return game and being able to get behind our defense in the passing game.

People say “well if x, y or z did not happen the Colts would be 10-2 or 9-3” but the thing is x, y and z did happen and 6-6 is where we are at. Keeping that roster spot hoping for him to return is not as serious an error as many others have been lately.

is that we just promoted a player who’s last name rhymes with “tender”….