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MtD on Colts Day 1

skywalker — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:28:11 -0000

From Mockingthedraft.com
• A team that had a great draft was Indianapolis. While a receiver wasn't added, Donald Brown is now the team's best running back. Fili Moala gives them a difference maker in the middle.

My take.

Really? Donald Brown now the teams best running back? I know that alot of people here at stampedeblue argue endlessly about Addai and I'm here to start another one.

Addai is proven in this league already! He has been to a pro bowl and won a superbowl.

People look towards last season and say well "he sucked". The entire run game sucked! An o-line filled with rookies and depleted by injuries notably Jeff Saturday will surely make running the ball a chore no one could handle. While Addai did indeed have an off year last year, I fully expect him to be back to his regular self this year.

Donald Brown may prove to be the best running back EVER, but he may also prove to be a BUST (hope not). Joe Addai > Donald Brown until proven otherwise.

Mock me (Not literally plz) :)

skywalker — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:58:38 -0000

The Vikings are by far my second favorite team after the Colts. (I secretly love the color purple)

I volunteered to draft for the Vikings in the Stampedeblue.com mock draft.

Obviously you must draft a runningback??? Ok, I have no idea what you need/think you need. I believe you're all set at QB?? Maybe you need to draft a pair of star DT's?

So a list of needs/players you think the vikings will go after would be much appreciated.

please help meh

Mock me (Not literally plz) :)

skywalker — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:51:36 -0000

So I volunteered to present the Jaguars pick in the Stampedeblue.com mockdraft. If anyone would like to present a list of needs/players that jax will/might draft then please help.

I know the Jacksonville just release Matt Jones and I've seen alot of mocks where you take an offensive linemen. Do you see a wide receiver dropping to you or could you reach for one?

I hope you draft better than last year IRL :)

Please help

Question

skywalker — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:13:04 -0000

I do love this site and love reading about the draft. I am a diehard Colts fan and love to hear about the AFC South and the AFC East (patriots obviously). All of the divisions have had pieces written about them except for these two. Is there a plan anytime soon to write something on these divisions? Maybe add an additional writer perhaps. I know its early but it is the offseason already and i am HUNGRY for some FOOTBALL!

Plz Mocking Dan. Pretty Plz

Why Peyton Manning is better than (insert name here).

skywalker — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:36:42 -0000

Jim Brown, The Great Johnny Unitas, Brett Favre and our very own Peyton Manning all have 1 thing in common. 3 time league MVP.

Drafted number 1 overall by the Indianapolis Colts in 1998, Peyton Manning has more than lived up to his draft status causing media everywhere to denounce his greatness.

In his rookie season he set 5 NFL rookie records including most TDs in a season by a rookie QB. In his second year he threw for 4,135 yards. In 11 seasons with the colts he has thrown for over 4000 yards 9 times missing the mark only in his rookie season and again in 2005 where he was sat to rest after the Colts had clinched.

Since drafting Peyton in 98, the Colts have had the highest conversion rate on 3rd down (44.6%) and 4th down (61.1%) plays out of every team in the league. When leading the Colts to their Super Bowl victory in 06, Manning set a NFL record by converting 56.1% of his 3rd downs in the regular season. Peyton Mannings passing is anything but ordinary. He currently leads the league in most "Perfect Passer Rating games" with 4. He career passer rating of 94.7 is ranked first among active quarterbacks and only 2nd all time (Steve Young).

In 2004, Peyton Manning broke the NFL single season passing TD record with 49 TDs which had stood since 1983. He broke the record while Edge rushed for 1500 yards and also did not play the following game where he could have indeed extended the record some more. IF he had extented his record then a certain QB would not have been able to break it on the last play in the last game of the season.

Anyways where was I? Peyton Manning of course. So I tell you Peyton Manning did this and did that and you say "He chokes in the playoffs etc etc". Well sir or madam, has your quarterback threw for 400+ yards in multiple playoff games and won them both? Does your quarterback have the highest quarterback rating in postseason 400 yard games? No he does not because only Peyton Manning does. Most Quarterbacks will never see a Lombardi trophy, so I say be grateful with 1.

Passers pass. Peyton passing is purely picturesque. Enough alliteration. Peyton has had 9 career 400 yard games passing. 2nd all time behind Dan Marino. 2 in the postseason tied for 1st.

So enough of all the fancy smancy stat crap. Peyton is the best not just because of what he does on the field but also off the field. Sometime after Peytons football career started at Indy, he created his own charity, The Peyback Foundation. This taken from Wiki "The Peyback Foundation's mission is to help disadvantaged kids, and focuses its efforts in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Indiana.[160] On September 6, 2007, St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis renamed its children's hospital to "Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent." Manning and his wife made a donation of an undisclosed amount to St. Vincent's and have had a relationship with the hospital since his arrival in Indianapolis."

Peytons passing is purely picturesque pretty much putting Peytons philathropy out the picture. Pity.

People don't see this side of Peyton when hes using his laser rocket arm to throw to Dallas and Reggie. Its rare to find someone who has alot of talent on AND off the field.

It could take me forever to name all of Peytons awards so Wiki will help here too.

NFL awards

NFL MVP (2003 (shared with Steve McNair), 2004, 2008)[85]
Best NFL Player ESPY Award(2004,[44] 2005[165])
9-Time Pro Bowl Selection (1999–2000, 2002–2008)[51]
4-Time First Team All-Pro(2003, 2004, 2005, 2008)[86][101][108]
3-Time Second Team All-Pro(1999, 2000, 2006)[62][70][121]
Bert Bell Award (2003, 2004)[166]
1998 NFL All-Rookie First Team[51]
2004 AFC Offensive Player of the Year[85]
2004 Fedex Express Player of the Year[167]
2005 Best Record-Breaking Performance ESPY Award[165]
2005 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award[166]
2005 Byron "Whizzer" White Humanitarian Award[51]
2005 Pro Bowl MVP[85]
2007 Super Bowl MVP[118]
2007 Best Championship Performance ESPY Award[120]

Additionally, Manning has been named the AFC Offensive Player of the Month three times (9/2003, 11/2004, 10/2006) and Offensive Player of the Week on 19 occasions (18 AFC, 1 NFL/playoff).[50]

Its safe to say he has enough awards to cover his forehead.

Ya know what? Instead of reading my post just wiki the man.

Peyton Manning is awesome

Records, records, records from Wikipedia

NFL records

Career (individual)

Manning holds a number of individual career records:

Most seasons with at least 4,000 passing yards: 9 (1999–2004, 2006–2008)[169]
Most consecutive seasons with at least 4,000 passing yards: 6 (1999–2004)[4]
Most consecutive seasons with at least 25 touchdown passes: 11 (1998–2008; current)[169]
Most games with a perfect passer rating, career: 4 (includes 1 playoff game)[98]
Most consecutive games started to open a career by a quarterback (current): 176[170]
Highest passer rating, season: 121.1 (2004)[171]
Most consecutive games with at least 2 touchdown passes: 13 (games 1–13, 2004)[172]
Most consecutive games with at least 4 touchdown passes: 5 (games 7–11, 2004)[171]
Most games with at least 4 touchdown passes (season, 2004): 6 (tied with 1984 Marino)[171]
Most games with at least 5 touchdown passes, career: 7 (includes 1 playoff game)[citation needed]
Highest career TDs/game average for any QB with at least 150 TDs: 1.90 TDs/game[51]
Highest career passing yards/game average: 260.2[173]
Highest career completions/game average (min. 100 games played): 21.7[174]
Most consecutive games with a passer rating over 100: 9 (games 5–13 of 2004 season; record tied by Carson Palmer, 2004–05 and Tom Brady, 2006–07)[175]
Most seasons with 12+ wins as a starter (regular season only): 7 (1999, 2003–2008)
Only QB with at least 12 wins as a starter in 6 consecutive seasons (2003–2008)[176]
First QB to defeat the other 31 teams in the regular season (Tom Brady did this later the same day, and Brett Favre did it the following week)[177]

Playoff records

Most 300+ yard passing games: 6 (tied with Joe Montana)[178]
Most 400+ yard passing games: 2 (tied with Dan Marino)[179]
Most yards passing, 1st half of game: 360 vs. Denver Broncos, 1/9/05[180]
Led the biggest comeback in conference championship game history (18 pts), 1/21/07 vs. New England[181]
One of only four QB's to post a perfect 158.3 rating in a game (Don Meredith, Terry Bradshaw, Dave Krieg)[182]
One of only three QB's to complete 30 or more passes in 2 playoff games (Warren Moon, Tom Brady)
Most consecutive games with 20+ completions: 7 (tied w/Tom Brady)

Rookie records

Most passing attempts: 575[183]
Most completions: 326[171]
Most passing yards: 3,739[171]
Most touchdown passes: 26[171]
Most consecutive games with a touchdown pass (games 4–16): 13[183]

With Marvin Harrison

Manning and Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison hold a number of QB-WR tandem records:

Most completions (career): 971[184]
Most passing/receiving yards (career): 13,090[184]
Most passing/receiving touchdowns (career): 110[51][184]

Pro Bowl records

Most passing attempts (career): 150[109]
Most passing attempts (game): 41 (2004)[185]
Most completions (career): 92[109]
Most completions (game): 22 (2004)[186]
Most passing yards (career): 1,278[109]
Most passing yards (game): 342 (2004)[187]
Most passing touchdowns (career): 13[109]

Colts franchise records

Most passing attempts (career): 5,960[50]
Most passing attempts (season): 591 (2002)[50]
Most passing attempts (rookie season): 575 (1998)[50]
Most 40+ passing attempt games (career): 41[50]
Most completions (career): 3,839[50]
Most completions (season): 392 (2002)[50]
Most completions (rookie season): 326 (1998)[50]
Most completions (game): 37 (11/03/02 vs. Tennessee; tied with Jeff George)[50]
Most completions (rookie game): 30 (11/01/98 vs. New England)[50]
Most consecutive completions: 17 (09/25/05–10/02/05 vs. Cleveland/Tennessee; tied w/Bert Jones)[50]
Most games with 20+ completions (career): 120[50]
Most consecutive games with 20+ completions: 12 (games 3–14, 2003)[50]
Highest completion percentage (career): 64.0%[50]
Highest completion percentage (season): 67.6% (2004)[50]
Highest completion percentage (rookie season): 56.7%[50]
Highest completion percentage (game): 87.5% (14/16 for 95 yards, 12/30/07 vs. Tennessee)[citation needed]
Most passing yards (career): 45,628[188]
Most passing yards (season): 4,557 (2004)[50]
Most passing yards (rookie season): 3,739[50]
Most passing yards (game): 472 (10/31/04 vs. Kansas City)[50]
Most 300+ passing yard games (career): 44[50]
Most 300+ passing yard games (season): 6 (2004 and 2006)[50]
Most 300+ passing yard games (rookie season): 4[50]
Most consecutive passing 300+ yard games: 3 (games 6–8, 2006; tied w/Johnny Unitas)[50]
Most seasons with at least 4,000 passing yards (1999–2004, 2006–2008): 9[169]
Most consecutive seasons with at least 4,000 passing yards (1999–2004): 6[4]
Most touchdown passes (career): 333[7]
Most touchdown passes (season): 49 (2004)[50]
Most touchdown passes (rookie season): 26[50]

Damn I love this man.

Peyton is purely the epitomy of passing. Period

p.s Wiki is wicked help when worshipping wubbed wones

Most touchdown passes (game): 6 (09/28/03 vs. New Orleans and 11/25/04 vs. Detroit)[50]
Most touchdown passes (rookie game): 3 (4 times; tied with Johnny Unitas and Jeff George)[50]
Most games with at least 4 touchdown passes (career): 17[189]
Most games with at least 4 touchdown passes (season, 2004): 6[171]
Most games with at least 3 touchdown passes (career): 50[50]
Most games with at least 1 touchdown pass (season): 15 (5 times)[50]
Most games with at least 1 touchdown pass (rookie season): 15 (1998)[50]
Most consecutive games with at least 4 touchdown passes (games 7–11, 2004): 5 (2004)[171]
Most consecutive games with at least 3 touchdown passes: 8 (games 5–12, 2004)[190]
Most consecutive games with at least 2 touchdown passes: 13 (games 1–13, 2004)[50]
Most consecutive games with at least 1 touchdown pass (rookie season): 13 (games 4–16)[50]
Most consecutive seasons with at least 25 touchdown passes (1998–2007, current): 10[169]
Highest touchdown percentage (career): 5.66%[50]
Highest touchdown percentage (season): 9.86% (2004)[50]
Highest touchdown percentage (game): 24.00% (09/28/03 vs. New Orleans)[50]
Most interceptions thrown (game): 6 (11/11/07 vs. San Diego)[125]
Most interceptions thrown (season): 28 (1998)[50]
Highest passer rating (career): 94.7[50]
Highest passer rating (season): 121.1 (2004)[50]
Most games with a perfect passer rating (career): 4 (includes 1 playoff game)[98]
Most consecutive games started to open a career by a quarterback (current): 169[170]
Most consecutive games started, franchise history: 176 (current)[170]
Most game-winning drives in the 4th quarter/overtime (career): 34 (tied w/Johnny Unitas)[50]
Most game-winning drives in the 4th quarter/overtime (season): 7 (1999)

QB Coaching spot filled

skywalker — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:54:25 -0000

From NFL.com

Link

"Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Frank Reich, who spent last season as an offensive team assistant, will be elevated to quarterbacks coach. Caldwell is still meeting with other staff members before debating whether to make additional moves."

Anyone know anything about Frank Reich? Also does Peyton really need a position coach. Yes Jim Sorgi needs one but isn't that Peytons job haha.

Lets hope he does the best job he can do with #18 and lil Jim.

This is for shake (unrelated to colts)

skywalker — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:15:37 -0000

I'm having internet problems so forgive me if i don't reply.

The SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS WILL BEAT IOWA!!!

There I said it. I wish I could see the game. When I saw the matchup I immediately thought of Shake. This fanpost is not even close to max words so I shall explain why we will beat them.

The Gamecocks defense is good, real good with the exception of the Florida game. Florida demolished everyone. We will not be starting Chris Smelley at quarterback. I swear to god if we do we will lose. He lost the Clemson game single handedly. We need to start Stephen Garcia. Garcia is good. He was one of the top 3 QB's coming out of highschool. He is a redshirt freshman and should start against Iowa. He tends to run too early but that can be fixed.

Shake, if the Gamecocks lose I will admit defeat. But I hope this turns out to be a good game.

Peytons Top 25 Non Football Moments

skywalker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:09:03 -0000

Peyton has had many, many great football moments. He is also the most used NFL player in commercials (I made that up but it sounds right). When I googled Peyton Manning Commercials I saw just what I was getting into with this post. I decided to follow through because the world needs to see all these commercials again. These commercials (mostly commercials) are not in any particular order because you can't rank Peytons awesomeness. Here they are in no particular order:

This one is one of my faves, if you like 6 foot laser rocket arms.

Sprint

Can I get some one up here with enough chilli to fill up my bathtub? lol

Bush vs Manning

Shake it off Johnny, rub some dirt on it

Mastercard 1

You know I'm gonna do that. Weather here is sweet!

Mastercard 2

Cut that meat! Cut that meat!

Mastercard 3

DeCaf! DeCaf!

Mastercard 4

*whispers* Clark

Mannings Mind

I love the audible to pancakes

Manning makes Breakfast

Never saw this one until I googled. Pretty funny

Manning family PSA

LOL, I always wanted a lefty.

NFL Sunday Ticket

Just like me and my brother.

Peyton beats up Eli

Didn't see this until recently. These brothers are awesome.

Peyton Interviews Eli

The DSRL 1st commercial. I lol'd

DSRL

It's on like Donkey Kong!

DSRL 2

I love the celebration of the jigsaw puzzle.

Manning summer fun

They really are the first family of football

Anything you can do, I can do better.

I love the priceless peptalks, especially this one. You feeling me, you love it.

Minivan Peptalk

I've been working this do since I was like 5

Bad haircut Peptalk

You think all i care about is football? I like foreign films! :)

DirectTV

This one is mostly Derek Jeter but in my mind I only see Peyton

This one is awesome. No chicken! No!

Sony Bravia

Do you also mean soccer?

Sony Bravia 2

This next one is not funny but gives you an insight into who Peyton is and how he became that person

RBK The Peyton Manning Policy

I had the next one on youtube but it was taken. So I googled it because it had to be included.

SNL Skit

ok, ok. So I saved my favorite for last. This is the funniest I have seen Peyton. You may disagree but when I first saw this I almost wet myself laughing.

NFL Fever 2003

So there ya go. Those are the 25 I picked. I love them all. Peyton is by far the best guy to use to sell anything! If I left any out that you want to add in the comments then feel free. I hope you enjoy this trip down Peyton Memory Lane. If any of the links are wrong then let me know.

GO PEYTON!!! AND GO COLTS!!!!!!!

I can dream can't I???

skywalker — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:54:54 -0000

Titans Schedule

@Jacksonville Jaguars--Jacksonville are getting back on track and last weeks close win against the Bears show that the Titans are beatable. Add in the fact that the Jaguars are at home and this could be Tennessee's first loss

New York Jets--Jets are not to be fooled with. Could go either way.

@Detroit Lions--Titans win obviously.

Cleveland Browns--They beat the giants. I hope the Titans sleep on them and lose.

@Houston Texans--Division matchup where the Titans will be looking ahead to the Steelers game but Houston will be focused on Tennessee. Titans win but it will be close.

Pittsburgh Steelers--Steelers are a great matchup for Titans. Steelers will cut out Kerry Collins and stop Lendale and Johnson. Steelers win.

@Indianapolis Colts--I predict Colts get revenge here, that is all.

11-5/10-6 (I can dream cant I?)

Colts Schedule

Houston Texans--We are coming off a big win and the Colts will be pumped.They win handily. i.e rosenfail is playing

@San Diego Chargers--This could go either way but the Chargers are playing worse than the Colts and almost lost to the Chiefs.Colts need every win they can get.

@Cleveland Browns--The Browns are so unpredictable. This could go either way and the Colts will be back in form. Colts win.

Cincinnati Bengals-- Lol Bungles. Colts win

Detroit Lions--Lol Lions. Colts win

@Jacksonville Jaguars--Colts get revenge and win.

Tennessee Titans--Same as above

12-4 / 11-5 (I can dream cant I?)

Looking ahead

skywalker — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:44:12 -0000

I wish to put in a request to our game watchers here (shake,bbs, mgrex) to keep an eye on Pittsburgh on MNF tonite (i know, i know....just put him on mute). We play Pittsburgh next weekend and it's a game we can win in my opinion. Big Ben has been sacked 23 times not counting tonight of course. I'm hoping Mathis and Freeney put alot of pressure on him. I want to know just how good they are. Lets start looking ahead, one game at a time.