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Tony Dungy (1 Viewer)
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AnonymousBob
Footballguy
Now we just need to know if Harrison will be coming back...
massraider
Footballguy
Profootballtalk.com really dropped the ball on this one.
trader jake
Footballguy
Reading between the lines, you get the vibe that Irsay talked Dungy out of retirement.
The lame duck/replacement in the wings approach is the wrong way to go about things in my mind, but if anyone can pull it off it's Dungy with Manning and company supporting the coaching staff.
The lame duck/replacement in the wings approach is the wrong way to go about things in my mind, but if anyone can pull it off it's Dungy with Manning and company supporting the coaching staff.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Press conference on NFL Network now.
Here's a snippet, just uttered by Bill Polian:
"Tony will be here more than he was last year. Winning the Super Bowl took him away a lot (in the offseason), so he'll be here more in 2008 than in 2007."
"Tony is back and committed 100% to acheiving the goal we all want to acheive - to become Super Bowl champs again."
Tony Dungy: "The process for me has not been much different than in the past...it's a little surprising that it attracted more attention this year than in the past."
"Tony will be here more than he was last year. Winning the Super Bowl took him away a lot (in the offseason), so he'll be here more in 2008 than in 2007."
"Tony is back and committed 100% to acheiving the goal we all want to acheive - to become Super Bowl champs again."
Tony Dungy: "The process for me has not been much different than in the past...it's a little surprising that it attracted more attention this year than in the past."
Kevin Ashcraft
Footballguy
Pure speculation.....we have no idea what happened.
Michael Fox Fan
Footballguy
gee, shocking.
pinequick
Footballguy
Hope ESPN mentions "the initial report that Dungy was retiring immediately, posted on Profootballtalk.com, appears to have been erroneous," since Florio got a pretty big chub that ESPN mentioned the website in the initial report.And please don't start with the "But Profootballtalk does this and that..." BS. It's stuff like this that makes me unable to take that site seriously.
BusterTBronco
Footballguy
Let me guess. PFT will "stand by their initial report" and say that Dungy "was going to retire" but was talked out of it by Polian in the last couple of days.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
For all those ripping PFT, everyone knows that Florio hates Dungy, Peyton Manning, Polian and the entire Colts organization for some reason. It's not a surprise at all that he went with whatever story he thought made them look the worst.
That being said, PFT is pretty good most of the time. You just have to know where Florio's biases are and take things with a grain of salt when it involves something that he can't be neutral on.
That being said, PFT is pretty good most of the time. You just have to know where Florio's biases are and take things with a grain of salt when it involves something that he can't be neutral on.
massraider
Footballguy
I don't even mind Florio posting rumors that turn out to be false. Rumors don't have to always come true, that's why they are rumors, and not facts.But there is no site more devoted to pointing out the errors of other info guys. One might think "people in glass houses" and all that.
And something new about PFT that has bothered me. Now they aren't even protecting their sources. Anyone read their posting once it was rvealed that their "report" that they have been "standing behind" for a week was erroneous?
Check this out:
Adam Schefter of NFL Network reports that Colts coach Tony Dungy has decided to stay with the team for one more year, and then to hand the reins over to assistant head coach Jim Caldwell.
So our report from a week ago was right in content, wr-wr-wr-wr-erroneous in timing. We apologize for the error.
Though we suppose we could say that our report is right because our source genuinely thought that Dungy was leaving now, we won't. Our source was wrong, and thus by trusting that our source was right, we were wrong.
The bolded line is hilarious. What an absurd premise. Hey, we reported exactly what our source said, so the report was correct, but the source was wrong.
Then in the next paragraph, Florio isn't content to throw his source under the bus, but does his best to make sure Caldwell knows who ratted him out:
And it doesn't matter whether the source sat in a steam room with Caldwell as the head-coach-in-waiting confessed that Dungy is leaving now. The report was wrong, and that's our responsibility, no one else's.
Forget about journalistic ethics, the guy just has no class.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Florio's first line was actually in reference to Mort Anderson doing that earlier in the season. When Mort reported something about the Mike Vick thing, he reported it as as 100% going to happen. When it didn't, Mort said that he never said it was going to happen, the source had said it and been wrong. I think his other comment is just a hypothetical. Florio is saying that that no matter how credible the report seemed, it was still wrong and that the buck stopped at PFT for reporting it.Though we suppose we could say that our report is right because our source genuinely thought that Dungy was leaving now, we won't. Our source was wrong, and thus by trusting that our source was right, we were wrong.
The bolded line is hilarious. What an absurd premise. Hey, we reported exactly what our source said, so the report was correct, but the source was wrong.
Then in the next paragraph, Florio isn't content to throw his source under the bus, but does his best to make sure Caldwell knows who ratted him out:
And it doesn't matter whether the source sat in a steam room with Caldwell as the head-coach-in-waiting confessed that Dungy is leaving now. The report was wrong, and that's our responsibility, no one else's.
Forget about journalistic ethics, the guy just has no class.
Seems to me like he actually took responsibility for being wrong. Should he have done it without taking potshots at other people, thus reducing the effectiveness of admitting he was wrong? Absolutely.
Tanner9919
Footballguy
god told him to keep coaching.
switz
Footballguy
Actually, that would be most likely, as Dungy's retirement was basically a done deal per someone I know very close to the Colts organization two weeks ago. The problem with rumors is that until someone makes a public statement (and even after when dealing with the likes of Petrino
) the rumor has a good chance to be wrong, because people change their mind a lot in the NFL.
