Au revoir, nooittall, mon ami!

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Bill will have to payoff alot of people to get nominated now.

Polian probably would have been a shoe in for HOF, if he would have retired before he quit his perfect season. Now all of his colors are coming out.

We need to mention the pumping in of noise and hitting another teams employee. Normally not actions of a HOFer.

First round draft picks:
2011 Anthony Castonzo OT
2010 Jerry Hughes DE
2009 Donald Brown RB
2008 None
2007 Anthony Gonzalez WR

Second round
2011 Ben Ijalana OT
2010 Pat Angerer LB
2009 Fili Moala DT
2008 Mike Pollak C
2007 None

Doesn’t sound too compelling to me…

It has always seemed to me he is like a figure head in Indy. someone else is calling the shots and he is just along for the ride or some motivation or something.

This just confirms what everyone has already thought the last couple of seasons. I don’t believe Irsay for a minute that Caldwell picks the lineup…or does much else really.

But he does seem like a nice guy…

His entire career is based on Peyton Manning. Peyton made Bill Polian.

This is one of the most ignorant and ill-informed remarks I’ve ever seen around here….and that’s saying a lot.

Sure, Polian has stunk on ice over the past several years….but in no way does that diminish what he accomplished in Buffalo or Carolina, long before Peyton Manning ever arrived in the NFL.

Granted, he didn’t win any championships prior to Peyton….but in Buffalo he took a perennial joke of a franchise and quickly built them piece-by-piece into one of the winningest teams of the next decade.

Then he went to the Carolina Panthers, where they didn’t have a team at all…and two years later, the Panthers were in the NFC Championship.

Polian may be well past his prime….but the fact is, he’s been one of the most influential GM’s the NFL has seen over the past 25 years. To judge his performance based on the Colts/Peyton years is not only shortsighted…it’s just plain dumb.

Let’s face facts here, without Peyton Manning the careers of many players are considered average, and not near HOF careers. Marcus Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, Edge….without Manning they probably don’t have the numbers they do.

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Manning helped them, but those were/are not average players. It’s just as true that without those players, Manning wouldn’t have enjoyed the same level of success he’s had either.

Polian’s quick response shows he has something to hide. Real owners would simply laugh off comments from a released player but to get on twitter and remind us he should know he is the owner, when he was the owner time after time when he has lied, like that is supposed to mean something. When someone get online and says I know what I am talking about, it usually means he doesn’t, or he wouldn’t have to tell you.

I bet you anything that fans aren’t going to be crucifying Bill Polian for making on-field personnel decisions the way that fans are all over Al Davis for doing the same with the Raiders.
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Would all you Raider fanboys please stop posting about your team on every single unrelated post? Your team has sucked badly for over a decade, and has done so by many accounts because of Al’s over-involvement. People were “all over Al Davis” because he earned it. The Raiders were awful. It’s that simple. If they were good, that would have stopped. I am happy that you now look good (even though it’s still early), but don’t act like the criticism was somehow unjustified or unfair. Ridiculous.

honestly, the only way Polian gets into the Hall is if he buys a ticket like the rest of us.

Why?

When your supposed masterpiece (The Colts) turns out to be a house of cards, and you have to lean on a team you built 20 years ago when there was an expanded draft, no salary cap and no (or extremely limited) free agency, you might not be a Hall of Famer.

I’m not going as far as some people on here- I believe he is a GOOD gm, I just think Hall of Famer is a stretch, at best.