Quote:You're talking about colluding to cheat each other out of the first pick in the draft.   How does that work?   Is the Colts' owner going to call another owner and tell him not to hire Polian and Caldwell because they refused to engage in a conspiracy to cheat the other losing teams out of the first pick in the draft?   You think the other owners wouldn't say, "Oh, you tried to cheat your way to the first pick in the draft, and now you want to tell me who I can and cannot hire to run my team?"

 

I think all of the owners know that a lot of things happen. I also think the ownership is very exclusionary because of it. They don't let people in that won't go along with the program.

 

For some reason Indianapolis has been a favored team in the league for a long time now. First the NFL bailed them out when they were going to crash into the salary cap in the middle of last decade, and now the NFL let them get away with tanking for the best QB prospect since Manning.

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