Enough from the Talking Heads About the Colts Resting Their Starters

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Published: December 29, 2009

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... head coach Jim Caldwell pulled his starters with only a slim lead.

Now it seems that everyone with a television camera or a column or blog is talking about how the Colts shouldn't have done that. 

You hear things like they they should have gone for 16-0 or they've changed the competitiveness of the league, and even it was unsporting of them.

First off, I kind of wanted there to be two 18-0 teams in the Super Bowl because then we would finally have a 19-0 team and the '72 Dolphins could finally shut the hell up.

Secondly, though, I have absolutely no problem with Caldwell sitting his players.  They have home field sewn up, why risk an injury to Peyton Manning (or another star), especially after we saw how well his back-up did.

Also, had Manning stayed in and gotten hurt in a game that meant nothing to the Colt then all of these talking heads would be saying what an idiot Caldwell was for not sitting Manning with the ...

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