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Age 36
Production on the way down
Cap 13.4 million next year
Result? Marvin Harrison had to be let go.

The 36-year-old receiver would have counted $13.4 million against the cap in 2009, the highest of any NFL receiver. Although Indy wanted to restructure Harrison’s contract, Polian said there was no feasible way to do it.

Releasing Harrison saves the Colts about $6 million, with about $7.4 million in prorated bonuses still on the books. With three-time Pro Bowler Reggie Wayne and Anthony Gonzalez ready to make up for Harrison’s absence, they couldn’t afford the luxury of keeping three former first-round picks.

Over the past two seasons, Harrison hasn’t played up to his usual standards.

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Peyton said it would be unusual without Harrison at wide receiver, but Fantasy Football owners can look no farther than Anthony Gonzalez to fill your rosters.

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Let the record show that your humble author, the Squibster, predicted the final playoff victory games for the Cardinals and Steelers and the Super Bowl victory for the Steelers.

Let the record show that those predictions were in hard print before the games were played.

Why is the Squibster making such a big deal out of all this?

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The Squibster was 3 - 20 in predictions his first year of blogging and so pathetic in his second year until the playoffs where he shined, except for the final Giants victory.

This past year the Squibster shied away from predictions until the playoffs.

Let the record show that it would have been easy for the Squibster to predict 15 out of 16 Lions losses this year, but none of my predictions have involved bad teams. That would be too easy to build a track record not representing my true abilities.

What was the one game of the Lions that would have been wrong? Well, in the opener against Atlanta with a new quarterback from Boston College and a losing atmosphere for several years, who knew that they would be good?

Let the record show that the Squibster did incorrectly call the Super Bowl last summer having picked the New England Patriots prior to Tom Brady’s knee injury.

The previous year my pick was New England and they lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl. The year before that my pick was the Colts and they won it all.

Never at any time before the playoffs did the Squibster feel that the Pittsburgh Steelers would win it all.

Let the record show it still amazes me.

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Peyton Manning win NFL MVP

Yawn, Peyton Manning won the MVP.

The sun shined in Michigan today. Wow! Now that is news.

But Peyton wins MVP? Were you even talking Colts this year? No, they went on a run at the end of the season and now they look really good, but were you even talking about Peyton?

NFL Peyton Manning factoid - In 11 seasons of NFL football, Peyton Manning has thrown for over 3,700 yards every single year. Unreal.

Drew Brees threw for 5,069 yards, second only to Dan Marino on the all time list, but his team faltered. Jay Cutler had a monster season for Denver, but they had no defense.

Michael Turner, DeAngelo Williams, Adrian Peterson, Clinton Portis all had great years, but not great great years.

So what do you do? Well, we could just give the MVP to Peyton Manning. They did have that incredible run.

This has been a most unusual season for the Colts, who normally have the AFC South just about clinched by Thanksgiving. Manning had two operations on his left knee in the preseason, cutting into practice time, blunting his usual precision as a passer and, eventually, leading to a 3-4 start.

Peyton Manning recovered from his early struggles to lead the Colts to nine straight victories and a wild-card berth.

From there, with Manning getting sharper by the week, the Colts won nine straight games to secure a wild-card berth and a meeting Saturday night with San Diego.

In that streak, Manning is 209-of-290 for 2,248 yards and 17 touchdowns, with only three interceptions. He extended his NFL record with his ninth 4,000-yard season and finished with 27 touchdown passes, 12 interceptions and a 95.0 passer rating.

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There it is. The defeat is in. The Titans have finally lost an NFL game this year and it comes at the hands of the New York Jets.

Final Score Jets 34 Titans 13

Just when you thought Brett Favre was only a pale imitator of the real Brett Favre he destroys the vaunted Titan defense.

Brett Favre is alive and passing

The AFC East-leading Jets had the edge in almost every statistical category collecting 409 yards of total offense with 28 first downs. Future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre was 25-of-32 for 224 yards passing, and New York doubled the Titans time of possession.

Behind the play of quarterback Kerry Collins the Titans had 16 first downs with 281 yards of offense. Collins was 21-of-39 for 243 yards.
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Fear not for your Titans, they have a healing session coming up with an encounter with my Detroit Lions on the Turkey Day special. The Lions being the Turkey.

Also fear not, Titan fans, because your team is 10 - 1 and still 3 games up on the Colts.

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The Colts have come up with 3 straight victories to get back in the race.

Peyton has put together 3 straight great games for a combined 7 touchdown passes.

Yeah, the Titans will win the division, but don’t write the Colts out of the playoffs yet.

The schedule looks reasonable — at the fading (4-6) San Diego Chargers on Sunday, at the faded (3-6 going into Monday night) Cleveland Browns, home against the nearly invisible (1-8-1) Cincinnati Bengals, home against the winless (that would be 0-10) Detroit Lions, who warrant no other adjectives, at the Jacksonville Jaguars (4-6), then at home against the Titans. Not a winning record in sight but the Titans.

“November and December, that’s the time when the good football teams step up,” says running back Dominic Rhodes.

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Peyton Manning YouTube of his new MasterCard commercial. See it here first!

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Uhh, the NFL season is officially off to an exhibition type season before the real season.

The Washington Redskins defeated the Indianapolis Colts by the score of 30 to 16.

No matter how hard the Squibster tried there could be no significance found in this game. Could not even bring myself to watch it.

Maybe some of you are so fired up to see any football that you tuned it in and watched every moment.

Was it the beginning of the Colt Brennan era in Washington? Who knows.

The important part of this game was the Hall of Fame.

Rookie Colt Brennan threw two touchdown passes in the second half, leading new Washington coach Jim Zorn and the Redskins to a 30-16 victory against Indianapolis in Sunday night’s Hall of Fame Game.

Winning seemed like an appropriate tribute to two of the Redskins’ most revered players, Art Monk and Darrell Green, who were inducted into the Hall of Fame along with former Kansas City cornerback and Redskins assistant coach Emmitt Thomas on Saturday. The other inductees were linebacker Andre Tippett, tackle Gary Zimmerman and defensive end Fred Dean.

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Quinn Pitcock #97 tells Ed Johnson #99 that millions of dollars don’t mean anything

Why did Quinn Pitcock retire after 1 year?

After much deliberation and careful thought, Quinn resolved to retire from the NFL,’’ Brad Leshnock, Pitcock’s agent, said in an email to The Star late Tuesday. “He notified the Colts of this decision last week.
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The guy was young and he was playing on a great defense.

The 6-foot-2, 299-pound Pitcock was injured early in training camp last season, but was healthy enough to play in nine games. He made 30 tackles and became a bigger part of Indianapolis’ defense after former league sacks champion Dwight Freeney went down with a season-ending foot injury in November. The Colts allowed the fewest points in the NFL (262).

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Theories abound, but what is the truth?

Does anyone out there know?

He was playing. Dungy is returning, and with Peyton Manning, they had a chance to win it all. What gives?

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Marvin Harrison shows how it is done!

Marvin Harrison of the Indianapolis Colts suffered a ton of injuries last year. That seems to happen to older players a lot. Will he be back this year? Really back?

But one question persists: Will Harrison be all the way back? Can he not only put an injury-plagued 2007 season behind him, but defy Father Time and regain the form that made him an eight-time Pro Bowl selection, one of the most feared offensive players in the league and the Colts’ record-holder with 1,042 receptions, 13,944 yards and 123 touchdowns?

Injury concerns aside, Harrison, who turns 36 on Aug. 25, is attempting to go where few players have gone before.

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36 years old? That is old in football years. Cannot have been a lot of wide receivers that reached the age of 36 and were still playing in the NFL. It never hurts to be in the Colts offense with Peyton Manning throwing the ball to you.

Cris Carter may have some of his records broken by Harrison this year and would love to see it.

Even at age 36?

“Marvin is a guy who kind of defies logic,” Dungy said. “That’s what you hope, that you’re dealing with the rare guy. We saw it with Jerry Rice. You see it with very, very few people. Marvin shows every indication of being that way.”

Cris Carter ranks second to Rice in NFL history in receptions and touchdowns after a 16-year career that likely will deliver him to Canton. He’s fully prepared for Harrison to leapfrog him on both lists this season.

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Tyjuan Hagler is injured

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The Colts get bad news and they weren’t even playing in a game.

Tyjuan Hagler tore a pectoral muscle during off-season conditioning.

Hagler, 27, started seven games and appeared in five others off the bench last season. He was a fifth-round draft pick in 2005 who missed his rookie season after undergoing surgery to repair a sports hernia.

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Tyjuan is not the only one hurt on the Colts.

Safety Bob Sanders, the NFL’s reigning Defensive Player of the Year, underwent offseason shoulder surgery. Three-time Pro Bowl end Dwight Freeney is on the mend after having surgery to repair a Lisfranc injury to his left foot that forced him to miss the final seven regular-season games and the playoff loss to San Diego.

Even Peyton Manning needs a defense!

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