Yes, injuries have really messd up the colts the last two years. Good luck to you Tony what ever you are going to do.
I was discussing this with a coworker. Basically, what I mentioned to him is that the defense has been exposed during the last few years as a run-friendly opponent. If it is in decline due to what Dungy has done, it is the perfect time for him to step down or "resign" or "retire", but I bet he will come back to coach somewhere else, as he is definitely young. For the Colts, their offense is awesome, but their defense is not. It WAS time for him to step down way before. At least he won a Super Bowl, which is what has eluded most of the better coaches nowadays. I hate to say a coach was GREAT only because he has GREAT players. See: Phil Jackson with Bulls and Lakers.
Great guy! I'm glad he's leaving on his own terms. More coaches should do that. Instead, they hang on until forced out. But Tony Dungy has other things in life that are more important to him than football. I'm proud he coached my hometown team for so long and lead them to a Super Bowl win.
His defense in Indy is built on speed, the offense getting a lead and putting presure on an opposing qb when they had to pass. the problem with the phil jackson critique is the same in the case of phil jackson we know, any coach couldn't get them to the superbowl because there was another coach who had the same team and didn't. secondly, you need to look up what manning did in those playoffs in 06/07, not pretty and it was the defense that carried them lastly, he turned the bucs around, and was a few plays away from beating one of the best offenses in league history in 99/00 from getting them there. so its not like he only had success with peyton. I hate to say it, but you're wrong. well I didn't hate to
Getting within a blown call of the Super Bowl with Shaun King as your QB is pretty damn impressive to say the least.
It concerns the AFC south, which affects our texans (and you titans fans). This shifts the power around BIG time in our super tough division, so yeah, I'd say alot of us DO care.
Well, if it sounded like that, I didn't mean to. Notice that my first post has a " " for Indianapolis. I thought I wouldn't have to make it clear that I said he's a good coach and person for that city. Just to clarify, I was making the comparison between him and other coaches who boast of having great records and championships due to their coaching, when it's really the players. One can't argue that he's a good coach or a bad coach. We all know that. And, yes, I need to look up what Manning did in those seasons when they were close to the Super Bowl or in it. I meant to say that I hate it when others don't take a team from the ground up, build it, and have success by just joining a team with a great player. Such is the case with Jackson. When has he taken a bad team like, oh, say the Clippers or Timberwolves and made them better? I never said Dungy wasn't a good coach or meant to insinuate that. Dungy knows how to coach.
