Mike Florio continues his crusade to rule all of Douchebaggery

by Brad Wells on Jan 3, 2008 4:51 PM EST in Colts Analysis

Once again, Mike Florio, famous for pimping Sprint phones, making up stories about piped in crowd noise, and constantly bringing up Peyton Manning's "wild" college days, seems to think Tony Dungy is a cheater. Apparently, with 20 seconds left in a meaningless game against the Titans last Sunday, Tony Dungy didn't call a timeout after his team turned the ball over on downs. This, apparently, is cheating to the Sprimp Master, who thinks Dungy and Titans coach Jeff Fisher had a wink-wink-nudge-nudge conspiracy to keep Cleveland out of the playoffs. From PFT, the only "blog" site that doesn't allow you to link to specific entries:

According to MSNBC.com, the Browns can file a grievance regarding the apparent collusion between the two teams, since the Browns would have qualified for the postseason if the Colts had defeated Tennessee.

Frankly, the whole thing stinks to us. Down by only six points, the Colts should have done everything in their power to try to get the ball back. Their failure to do so undermines the credibility and integrity of the game.

And it also screwed the Browns out of a chance at the playoffs, since a reverse Music City Miracle would have knocked the Titans out of the postseason.

Besides, why wouldn't the Colts do whatever that had to do to knock a division rival out of the AFC playoffs? Maybe Indy thinks that the Titans have a better chance at winning in San Diego than the Browns, and maybe the Colts prefer an eventual rubber game with Tennessee (if the Titans would win at New England, too) to a match up with a Chargers team that matched up very well with the Colts in Week Fifteen of the 2005 season -- and that beat the Colts again during the 2007 regular season.

Despite the motivation, it was wrong. And, amazingly, even Saint Tony isn't above breaking a rule from time to time.

Lost from Florio's evaluation is the fact that Indy was nursing multiple injuries. Only 43 players dressed for the game, and players like starting CB Marlin Jackson left the hard hit, hard fought game because of injuries incurred during the game. When the game means nothing, the team is not "obligated" to do anything except show up. If they were "obligated" to win, then the league should have forced them to start their starters for the entire game. Since the league is never going to do that (because that's friggin' stupid) why would Dungy be obliged to risk injury to key players so he can have a chance to win a meaningless football game? Such questions based on logic and not blind hatred for the Colts elude Mr. Florio.

BTW, when Mike isn't making up stupid conspiracies or looking like an idiot on TV, he's writing "blog entires" like this:

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Man, what a schmuck! I still can't believe Sporting News hired this yutz.

Update [2008-1-3 18:8:52 by BigBlueShoe]: In the beta version of the new PFT, Mike finally allows permalinks. Welcome to the 21st century, Mike! You're still a schmuck.

Update [2008-1-4 9:27:49 by BigBlueShoe]: Tip to shonuff for this: The Titans were on the Colts 29 yard line after the turnover-on-downs. If Dungy had taken a timeout, the Titans would have just kicked a FG and extended the score. It's now fairly clear to me that idiots like Florio do not watch the games they are making up conspiracies about.

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Why wouldn't Dungy let the Colts keep playing it's not like someone is going to lacerate a liver or anything?

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by shake n bake on Jan 3, 2008 4:59 PM EST reply actions

Cleveland Media Caught Wind As Well....

They go on to use a quote from Dungy stating how it is a "feather in the cap" of the Division to have three teams in the playoffs...

Of course, I remind all Browns fans around me that all they had to do was take care of business against a bad Bengals team....

http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/01/titans_colts_guilty_of_collusi.html

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by John Bena on Jan 3, 2008 6:04 PM EST reply actions

Pot meet kettle

The biggest douchenozzle runs the Colts blog.

Enjoy getting your front office and coaching staff plundered.

by Tom @ Stampede Blue on Jan 4, 2008 1:06 AM EST reply actions

Troll

Enjoy continuing to get outsmarted and outwitted by a tiny little mouse, Tom.

The Shogun of Harlem

by shonuff on Jan 4, 2008 9:18 AM EST up reply actions

So Dumb

What an idiotic stance to take. Does he forget that the Titans were on the Colts' 24 yard line? If Dungy would have called a timeout, Bironas would have kicked a field goal to put the Titans up by 9, and the game would have been out of reach.

The Shogun of Harlem

by shonuff on Jan 4, 2008 9:16 AM EST reply actions

Love it

I figured some morons would go on about this. Man, some people seriously have useless lives to go on about something so trivial. As stated:

A- the browns shouldn't have lost to the bungles the week before

B- Dungy should risk more injuries for something that doesn't concern him?

C- Anyone who watched the bloody game saw that Sorgi was useless so why would he suddenly turn into Manning with 20 secs left, assuming they got the ball back? Oh wait...Dungy should have thrown Manning and the 1st string O back into the game for these douchebags.

D- as stated, the Titans were pretty much in FG range. Either they kick the FG or some pooch punt. I guess the Colts in 20 seconds should try and go 95+ yards with their 2nd and 3rd string offense.

This Mike guy sounds like a huge idiot. Why would anyone put value in what he says? Just ignore the guy

by Rob L on Jan 4, 2008 9:41 AM EST reply actions