Posted on 11/10/2015 1:08:12 PM PST by ETL
The Indianapolis Colts, already reeling with injury and performing below expectations, received even more terrible injury news on Tuesday: quarterback Andrew Luck suffered abdominal injury in the team's victory over Denver. Luck is expected to miss two to six weeks.
Colts head coach Chuck Pagano announced the injury on Tuesday afternoon, saying Luck suffered a lacerated kidney and a partially torn abdominal muscle on a fourth-quarter scramble. This is in addition to the report from earlier this season that Luck had been playing with multiple fractured ribs.
The Colts are in a bye week this week, then face the Falcons, Buccaneers, and Steelers before closing out the year with three of four games against AFC South rivals. The Colts, at 4-5, sit only a half-game ahead of the Texans and, amazingly enough, only two games ahead of the Jaguars and Titans. A prolonged absence of Luck could open the door for another team to win what has long been the most slam-dunk division championship in the NFL.
Hey, RG3 is probably available. He hasn’t been too busy recently.
“I think he was joking.”
I KNOW he was joking. It was HYSTERICAL and also meant to make a point. I wish people weren’t so wound up.
Today’s football players cannot HOLD A CANDLE to you guys from the past. Amazing what people would do.
(and yes, I know you’re kidding...but you’re also making a point)
Can’t find anything yet on their current QB backup plan. Fortunately, they’re off next week and so have some time to work on that.
“but times was tough back then and we was even tougher.”
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And you were a chain smoker and drank a lot.
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Lol! Reminds me of this Monty Python sketch...
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
I suspect Matt will start to throw interceptions. That’s his history.
He hasn’t seemed right all season.
Well, he apparently had been playing with cracked ribs for some time. I remember seeing a video where one of his teammates on the sidelines had slapped him on the shoulder in support and he reacted as if in great pain. Sort of a "Hello Ralph" Uncle Leo/Honeymooners moment.
Sorry - didn't mean to insult Colts fans - I was talking more in terms of the organization - the owner, GM, and let's face it - Pagano, although kudos for taking the fight to cancer, is tactically deficient - and his players deserve better.
His players and many others around the league really love and respect the guy. He just needs a few better players to work with in their various weak spot positions. I definitely would not want to see him replaced, and I've been a Colts fan since 1971.
What you're seeing here is why you shouldn't bust your ribs and lacerate your kidney. If you're a quarterback.
For example: Did Tom Brady go out and bust up his ribs and lacerate his kidney? No! He didn't even do one of those things.
And now look at where the Patriots are. 8 - 0. Just by following one simple piece of advice.
So it's really just simple advice, and if you can't follow it, then that's fine, but you're gonna miss games I guarantee it and I've been saying this for a long time.
Maybe they can bring in Brian Williams as the backup QB. He’s not busy at NBC right now.
Hah hah hah! Reminds of all the Tourist Guy pics after 9/11.
Actually, seeing that beating the NY Giants gave him in the Super Bowl I'm shocked he didn't break or rupture something - even Boomer Esiason said it was hard to watch another QB take a beating like that.
Good healing to Andrew....Hasselbeck will pull them thru....
“The Indianapolis Colts made some practice squad moves on Tuesday, including bringing back quarterback Alex Tanney.”
By Josh Wilson
Nov 11, 2015
After announcing yesterday afternoon that starting quarterback Andrew Luck has a lacerated kidney and a partially torn abdominal muscle, the Colts made a move to sign a quarterback - just not to the active roster. The team brought back Alex Tanney to the practice squad, who was on the practice squad earlier in the year when Luck was injured. In addition, they also signed safety Dezmen Southward to the practice squad and waived quarterback Matt Blanchard and guard Kitt O'Brien.
Tanney spent three weeks on the Colts' practice squad earlier this year while Andrew Luck recovered from a shoulder injury, providing the team with another arm in practice (though not for games). He also spent very brief time on the Bills practice squad earlier this season and was in training camp and preseason with the Titans, and in 2014 he spent some time on the Titans practice squad.
In 2013, he was a member of the Cowboys practice squad for 12 weeks before being signed by the Browns to their active roster. In 2012, he was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Monmouth by the Kansas City Chiefs, though he spent his rookie season on injured reserve. Tanney holds the NCAA Division III career records in both passing yards (14,249) and passing touchdowns (157) and was named the Midwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year three times.
The Colts absolutely needed to add a quarterback and Tanney provides someone that they are familiar with from earlier this year, but they still will need to add someone to the active roster. With Andrew Luck injured, only Matt Hasselbeck is healthy among the active quarterbacks, so look for the Colts to add someone to the 53-man roster at that position. Josh Johnson, who was their backup earlier in the year when Luck was injured, is currently on the Bills roster, making him unavailable. The Colts currently have two open spots on their 53-man roster, and it would be a big surprise if one of them wasn't filled with a quarterback.
As for Dezmen Southward, he was waived by the Atlanta Falcons last week after being drafted by Atlanta in the third round of last year's NFL Draft. He has played in 18 career games and has recorded 21 tackles, a sack, two passes defensed, and an interception. An Indianapolis native, Southward played collegiately at Wisconsin, where he set a school record by playing in 54 consecutive games. He started 30 games in his career and racked up 152 tackles (11.5 for loss), two forced fumbles, two picks, and 11 passes defensed.
By Josh Wilson
Nov 11, 2015
To say that the job status of Colts head coach Chuck Pagano is on shaky ground doesn't begin to highlight how uncertain Pagano's future in Indianapolis is. At this point, it's looking likely that he will need to win a Super Bowl to stick around as the team's head coach next year.
His relationship with general manager Ryan Grigson isn't good, according to a ton of reports. And the fact that owner Jim Irsay only offered Pagano a one-year extension at a minimal raise last offseason shows that Irsay isn't sold on Pagano as his team's coach, either. This year, the Colts have struggled and are just 4-5, even after a huge win over the Broncos last week. The Colts even fired offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton last week in an effort to get a spark, and there was talk that if the Colts had lost on Sunday, Pagano may have been fired during the bye week. That seemed unlikely after the firing of Hamilton, but either way: at this point, it would be a surprise if Pagano was coaching the Colts in 2016.
Because of that, there has been a lot of talk about who might possibly replace Pagano as the Colts' head coach, and a report from NFL Media's Albert Breer a few months ago suggested that Irsay would be looking to go "big-game hunting" with the next coaching search. One of the names that automatically came up among fans, then, is Nick Saban - who might be growing tired of Alabama and looking for a jump back to the NFL.
WTHR's Bob Kravitz recently joined Adam Schein on a podcast, and the two discussed the shaky relationship between Irsay, Grigson, and Pagano - and Kravitz said that, barring a Super Bowl, he expects Pagano to be gone. But then he was asked about whether Ryan Grigson would be fired too, and his comments were interesting.
"I think it's a 50/50 proposition," Kravitz said. "Early in the year, I was told that Grigson was Irsay's guy. But if you're Jim Irsay, you've got to look at all the money you've invested in free agents and how few of them have really panned out. Now the guys that have really panned out are the guys you didn't spend a lot of money on like Mike Adams and Dwight Lowery, people like that.
"But I think it comes down to this: Jim Irsay is going to make the next coaching hire. If he brings in a guy who demands full power - like, say, a Nick Saban, who I think he's going to go after - if he brings in a Nick Saban, he's going to have full power and that means that Ryan Grigson will either be kicked to the curb or he'll have a different role in the organization. If he brings in a Pagano-lite, another offensive or defensive coordinator, I think that Grigson stays. So I think it's really a 50/50 proposition at this point."
It doesn't sound like Kravitz is reporting this definitively as something he's heard, but keep this in mind: no matter whether you agree with his opinions or not, Kravitz knows Irsay and knows the Colts better than most people, so if he's speculating that Jim Irsay will make the next head coach hire and could go after Nick Saban, it's noteworthy. Kravitz then continued after being asked a follow-up question regarding Saban.
"Well I think that, you know, look: Jim Irsay is willing to pay the money," Kravitz said. "He's been willing to pay the money on players. I have no question in my mind that he's willing to spend mega-millions on a head coach. Look, if they could give Nick Saban full power - and I fully believe that they are willing to do that - I see no reason why Nick Saban wouldn't, because when you more or less fail at a job, you want so badly to get back in the game. He failed in Miami for various reasons, the biggest one being that he didn't have full power. He wanted Drew Brees and he was told he had to take Dante Culpepper. If he had taken Drew Brees, he might still be in the league. So I think if they could offer him full power, and I think that they would be willing to do that, I could see him coming back in a heartbeat."
Does this mean definitively that the Colts are going after Nick Saban? No, it doesn't, but it's worth noting and paying attention to. It sounds like Saban could be looking to leave Alabama, and he feels that his first entry into the NFL failed because he didn't have a franchise quarterback. The Colts have Andrew Luck, and that could be enough to draw Saban back to the NFL - as long as the Colts would be willing to pay and give him control. The Colts reportedly wanted Saban as their coach back in 1998 but were unwilling to give him control over personnel after having just hired Bill Polian.
As the Dolphins' head coach for two seasons (2005-2006), Saban compiled a 15-17 record before bolting to Alabama after only two years. As a college head coach (at Toledo, Michigan State, LSU, and now Alabama), Saban has had incredible success, going 185-60-1 (.752) and has won four BCS National Championships, along with numerous coach of the year awards. This year, Alabama is once again right in the mix for a championship run, being ranked number two in the country in the latest playoff poll after an impressive victory over LSU last week.
Saban to the Colts makes a lot of sense when considering it from both sides. Jim Irsay could be looking to make a splash for his next coaching hire, and if Nick Saban really would listen to offers, he would definitely seem like a guy that Jim Irsay would go after. On the other side, there's not much more Saban can achieve at Alabama, and the pressure of having a one or two-loss season be considered a failure by fans could be weighing on him. He has expressed that he failed at the NFL level because of a lack of a franchise quarterback, and the Colts would give him one. So if he's looking to get back in the NFL, the Colts would seem like an ideal place to do so. The pairing makes a lot of sense when considering things from both sides.
Of course, we've got a long way to go this year, and this doesn't sound like Bob Kravitz reporting anything as much as it's him speculating based on what he knows of both Jim Irsay and the Colts - which is still enough to make this a noteworthy interview and add some fuel to the fire that is the talk of Nick Saban possibly being the next head coach of the Indianapolis Colts.
http://www.stampedeblue.com/2015/11/11/9716376/nick-saban-to-the-colts-speculation-continues-to-grow
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