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By CurBeatElite · Posted
I'd say (at least since they moved to Indy) it'd be the 2005, 2006 or 2009 team. The 2005 and 2009 teams had the best records (14-2) in regular season. Unfortunately, the 2005 team was one and done in playoffs so hard to argue they were the best as they didn't even win a playoff game let alone make it to the SB. I agree that Polian/Caldwell stopped the momentum by resting players in 2009. I'll never forget Peyton standing on the sideline with his helmet on the rest of that game after they pulled starters, he looked absolutely furious. Jeff Saturday said years later that his biggest regret as a player was not going for a perfect season in 2009.... the SB loss that year was a tough pill to swallow, the only thing I was happy about was New Orleans brought a title to their city so soon after Hurricane Katrina. All that aside, the Colts failed to win the SB that year. I think Dungy was a far superior coach to Caldwell. We were without Marvin that year, Bob Sanders was on IR, etc. With a pretty similar team the following year we went 10-6 and then without Peyton the next year we went 2-14 and it was exposed that our roster was actually pretty weak without stud QB play. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if 2009 was more Peyton being a hero than the Colts having a very great team from top to bottom. I go back and forth on this, but thinking the 2006 group may be a bit better of an overall team. They were unbeaten at home and sealed the deal with a SB win. While Bob Sanders only played 4 regular season games, he was back for the playoffs and the defense only gave up 73.3 yards rushing per game in that run against some pretty darn good teams. We had a better OL (Tarik Glenn at LT instead of Charlie Johnson in 2009). And we had a better WR corps with both Marv and Reggie than we did in 2009 with Reggie and Garcon. I think you could argue the RB duo of Addai (1081 yards) and Rhodes (641 yards) was as good or better in 2006 than Addai (828 yards) and D. Brown (281 yards) in 2009. I think our defense was better overall in 2006 than it was in 2009 (especially come playoff time when Sanders was back) and that we had a better head coach in Dungy than we did with Caldwell. Going position by position (or positional group by group), I think the only position where the 2009 team was clearly better than 2006 is punter (McAfee > Hunter Smith). I know the 2009 team had more pro-bowlers and all-pros, but I'm not sure if they were overall better than 2006. The 2009 team had 3 first-team all-pros (Clark, Freeney, Manning) and 1 2nd team (Wayne) along with 7 probowlers (Wayne, Freeney, Manning, Saturday, Clark, Mathis, Bethea). The 2006 team had 1 first-team all pro (Marv) and two 2nd team all pros (Manning, Saturday) along with 5 pro bowlers (Saturday, Manning, Marv, Reggie, T. Glenn). So there is some argument there, but we had all the players who made pro-bowl in 2009 on the 2006 team (and 2006 we had Marv, Glenn, and at least at play off time we had a healthy Bob Sanders). -
By EastStreet · Posted
IMO, to find that, realistically we'll have to draft it, and early. I don't see us paying for young elite DE given Buckner's contract already, and some of the other areas of need. We'll either go with solid vets or drafts. -
What is driving you to write all these disparaging comments? It almost seems personal. He does not play for your team. He has not committed a crime. What is it? -
I don't think he would lie about it. My hope is that, even he wouldn't. That's what I am hoping to hear. Whatever he says will be the truth though, I don't doubt that. -
If he says no he would be lying... I'll get my popcorn
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