Good luck, Garcon. Mixed emotions here - very inconsistent as a player....always one WOW catch a game, but seemingly lots of drops.....but I'll always remember that AFC Title game vs. the Jets in 2009. He was tremendous that game.

Some good stuff in here. Walt's a pretty funny guy, and his handicapping columns are also generally fairly interesting/entertaining to read over the course of the season. Enjoy.

9. I think the one thing the change of the umpire from behind the defensive line to 14 yards (14 yards!) behind the line of scrimmage will do that's getting lost in the shuffle is this: If an offense goes to the no-huddle, the umpire is going to be a major impediment to the hurry-up offense. It hasn't been a problem in the preseason because most teams aren't going to show many offensive wrinkles in August. But when the season starts, one member of the Competition Committee tells me he's worried the ump won't be able to place the ball down, spot it, and then run back to his spot without delaying the game. Watch for that in Week 1 or 2.

Pocket Hercules wrote a nice piece on the virtues of absolute committment to the game, i.e., what separates good from great.

The Patriots quarterback also told WEEI he felt bad for Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning after the Colts' Super Bowl loss; Manning threw a late-game interception that was returned by the Saints for a score, sealing their victory.

"I like Peyton a lot. He's a guy I've watched over the years and just always admired the way that he plays. His style of play is very much my style of play, so I can understand what he's looking at and why he's doing the things he's doing. ... I don't know what happened between he and Reggie [Wayne] there at the end, but I couldn't imagine that Peyton thought he would stop running the route either. Reggie is a great player and obviously there was just as miscommunication between the two of them which happens when you have little option routes like it looks like they had there. ... I felt bad because I never like seeing that happen to a quarterback, because I know how that feels. It feels pretty [expletive], especially to have it happen in a Super Bowl."

"Peyton played true to form," Ryan said Thursday night after selecting Wilson. "He picked everybody apart, including New Orleans and they still lost the Super Bowl. Clearly, that was an issue. Certainly our goal is to win a Super Bowl, so we’re trying to put the best collection of players that we can together…. We felt good about it going into the draft. We feel better about it right now."

I"ndianapolis Colts safety Bob Sanders is out for the season with a torn biceps tendon, Adam Schefter of ESPN is reporting."

Could be the end for ole Edge..

"His game preparation is well known, but afterward, he told me that he went back and watched Super Bowl XLII between the Giants and the Patriots to learn more finite details about the Steve Spagnuolo defense."

I still think Colts should have kept him around for situational pass rushing.

I think Shake posted this link last season, but I wanted to share it again for all those Colts fans (like me) that live outside of Indiana. I like this site also because you can see who the announcers are going to be - - we get Kevin Harlan and the less than insightful Solomon Wilcotts against JAX. Enjoy.

Now Peter King can go all Adam Sandburg on us....sweet

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