Today's edition of Luke Links is named after Mr. Peyton Manning, our own wizard who just celebrated his 34th birthday.

FROM THE SADDLE

Official Team News

• Coach Caldwell is ready to embrace more changes going into the 2010 season
• Bill Polian describes an interesting take on the new overtime rule

GREEN APPLES AND ROAD APPLES

Positive and Negative Analysis

• Mike Chappell (Indy Star) The Colts were awarded 2 compensatory draft picks for Darrell Reid and Hunter Smith
  
• Paul Kuharsky (ESPN) has Cheerios with Jim Caldwell
• Andy Benoit (NY Times) thinks Peyton is a wizard
• Paul Kuharsky (ESPN) hearts Session, but not Addai
• Pete Prisco (CBS) thinks the recent coaching changes are a bigger deal than anyone has made of it

OUTSIDE THE STABLE

Around the League

• Drew Dougherty (Houston Texans) Owen Daniels got to play dress-up with his uniform, and looks forward to returning to the field after an unusual third ACL tear.  Good luck, Owen!
• Vic Ketchman (Jacksonville Jaguars) The Jags are struggling to sell season tickets.  Don't laugh, Colts fans... this could happen to our team in LAP (Life After Peyton).  A rising tide raises all ships.
• Jeff Fischer (Tennessee Titans) foresees improvement from Young and Johnson next year, and thinks the younger players will step into leadership roles
• NFL: Unless you live under a rock, you know that the overtime rules have changed for post-season games only (for now)
• Don Banks (SI) explores the increased use of marijuana amongst NFL prospects