Re: Peyton Manning?
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I'm really rethinking the coaching choice to sit all those guys for so long.
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That didn't seem to help any. However, as a professional, it is your responsibility to get yourself psyched up for the game and to stay in playing shape.
This has got to be a terrible blow to the whole Indy team psychologically. They finally beat the Pats (in the regular season at least), they go 13-0 with serious talk of an undefeated season, and then they get knocked out in their first playoff game. This failure will definitely be in the back of Manning's mind when, or if, he ever makes the playoffs again. Such a great failure for what everyone thought was a great team.
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Well I'm not sure if they're the best team in the NFL or not, but such ratings are largely misapplied. Any Given Sundy...and that's what's great about the NFL. If you line up the Colts and Steelers 100 times, the colts might win 95, but not today, and the Steelers advance.
I think the blow isn't bad emotionally, they'll get over it, it's finanically. With a Super Bowl win, contracts can be renegotiated, players will take a pay cut to win another one (look at NE, probably the best front office in all of football). Now however, if the cap doesn't change, it's either Edge or Freeny or Wayne, or any combo thereof are most likely gone.
Cody
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