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K e n s i l aside, Kensil, same to him. Good news for beleagured Colts.
Jaric is off getting stone drunk!
McAfee didn't hold back.
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Irsay doing presser now. He does not have a new GM. He will interview GMs. Colts VP of personnel Jimmy Raye will interview for GM position. Pagano IS coach in 2017 no matter who new GM is. That is surprising. I am shocked Pagano is coming back. Irsay said ManninHGH is out of picture.
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It would have been better had he been set on fire.
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Errrsay is mad...in more ways than one.
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McAfee didn't hold back.
I knows he's a punter (all-pro punter) but god I love that man.
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So he helps start Deflategate with the intention of nobbling the Pats. It backfires as the Pats go 3-1 without Brady and a (in hindsight) rested Brady goes 11-1. Then he gets fired. Unlucky! 
Well congrats to the Colts. This instantly makes the team better. (Though Pagano is still there) but at least there should be some sanity in FA and in the draft where you can get some O Linemen.
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The problem is that Irsay is still there. Polian and Manning aren't. I'm not betting on them fixing things just because Grigson was canned. it can't hurt them that he's fired, but if Colts fans are optimistic, I think it's premature.
HSanders
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Man, if mcafee is willing to go on record with that, you know grigson was thoroughly despised.
MinuteCat
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Maybe Roger will offer him a job in the league office.
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Looks like Grigson and Pagano tried some marriage counseling.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Colts hired psychologists to improve Chuck Pagano-Ryan Grigson relationship:<a href="https://t.co/2IEUPpEnrn">https://t.co/2IEUPpEnrn</a> <a href="https://t.co/Oal7R6jDxT">https://t.co/Oal7R6jDxT</a></p>— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/823191468600938498">January 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Colts hired psychologists to improve Chuck Pagano-Ryan Grigson relationship:<a href="https://t.co/2IEUPpEnrn">https://t.co/2IEUPpEnrn</a> <a href="https://t.co/Oal7R6jDxT">https://t.co/Oal7R6jDxT</a></p>— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/823191468600938498">January 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I LOVE the timing of this firing:
"OK. Now that every other teams has done this 3 weeks ago, and there's nobody left out there to step in and help, Let's make a move."
ROFL
"OK. Now that every other teams has done this 3 weeks ago, and there's nobody left out there to step in and help, Let's make a move."
ROFL
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The Grigson Legacy
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...-comes-full-circle-as-pats-near-another-title
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The seasons have a way of blending into one another in New England, the AFC Championship Game being the thread that binds the years together. These are so routine here -- this was the sixth in a row for the Patriots -- that getting to one is no longer considered much of an accomplishment. Those four Lombardi Trophies, after all, cast quite a shadow over everything else, even being one of the top four teams in football, moments that would be signal achievements for other teams.
It was a few hours after another one of these games two years ago -- that was a Patriots win, too, of course -- that word first came about underinflated footballs and a league investigation.
The New England Patriots have never been quite the same since, stained by the suspicion of scandal, furious about an investigation and penalties they thought were unfair and unbelievable. They won the Super Bowl immediately after Deflategate first erupted, long before anybody knew much about the Ideal Gas Law and pressure gauges and the toll it would all take on the league and the team that was one of its model franchises. But the thread that began with an email from the Indianapolis Colts general manager in the days before that game, alerting the league to the suspicion of football tampering, is wrapped still around the Patriots and this weekend; it felt like it was tied in a neat bow.
Little more than 24 hours after Ryan Grigson, author of that fateful email, was fired by the Colts, the Patriots won another AFC Championship, beating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 36-17. They are headed to their seventh Super Bowl in the Belichick-Brady era, a remarkable accomplishment under any circumstances, but particularly staggering considering Tom Brady was suspended for the first four games of the season for what the league believes was his role in those footballs being underinflated in that other AFC Championship Game. Brady has put a mostly sunny veneer on his season since he returned -- he turned a question from CBS' Jim Nantz about his personal satisfaction after the season he had into an ode to how many people help the team perform during the season -- and outwardly, there has been little to be unhappy about. The Patriots, after all, have lost just one game on Brady's watch in the 14 games he's played this season, and he's thrown 33 touchdowns and four interceptions.
But just beneath the surface, Brady continues to simmer and seethe, only occasionally allowing it into view, letting others do the talking for him. The anger is still so palpable that the team's owner, Robert Kraft, voices it openly, and Commissioner Roger Goodell has yet to attend a game at Gillette Stadium since, an absence noted by fans who derisively chanted his name and painted his face on made-up milk cartons Sunday night. On the podium, with the Lamar Hunt Trophy -- which goes to the AFC champion -- in his hands, Kraft was a thinly veiled allusion to the trials of the last two years.
"For a number of reasons, all of you in the stadium understand how big this win was," Kraft said.
Patriots president Jonathan Kraft was more pointed about the irony of the timing of Grigson's firing just before Sunday's game kicked off, noting in a local radio spot on 98.5 The Sports Hub that "that game might have been Ryan's pinnacle."
Ouch. But also accurate. Getting to an AFC Championship Game is a pinnacle for other teams, and it is a fine one. The Colts have that, although they are clearly not satisfied with that, either.
But the Patriots have Brady, fueled this season by those who questioned his honesty and integrity, by the embarrassment and distraction of hearings and court sessions and appeals and a saga that stretched over the course of the entire 2015 season, with the penalty finally infecting this one. Whatever Grigson unleashed two years ago, the rest of the AFC is paying a price for it now. Brady is the first quarterback to appear in seven Super Bowls.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...-comes-full-circle-as-pats-near-another-title
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The seasons have a way of blending into one another in New England, the AFC Championship Game being the thread that binds the years together. These are so routine here -- this was the sixth in a row for the Patriots -- that getting to one is no longer considered much of an accomplishment. Those four Lombardi Trophies, after all, cast quite a shadow over everything else, even being one of the top four teams in football, moments that would be signal achievements for other teams.
It was a few hours after another one of these games two years ago -- that was a Patriots win, too, of course -- that word first came about underinflated footballs and a league investigation.
The New England Patriots have never been quite the same since, stained by the suspicion of scandal, furious about an investigation and penalties they thought were unfair and unbelievable. They won the Super Bowl immediately after Deflategate first erupted, long before anybody knew much about the Ideal Gas Law and pressure gauges and the toll it would all take on the league and the team that was one of its model franchises. But the thread that began with an email from the Indianapolis Colts general manager in the days before that game, alerting the league to the suspicion of football tampering, is wrapped still around the Patriots and this weekend; it felt like it was tied in a neat bow.
Little more than 24 hours after Ryan Grigson, author of that fateful email, was fired by the Colts, the Patriots won another AFC Championship, beating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 36-17. They are headed to their seventh Super Bowl in the Belichick-Brady era, a remarkable accomplishment under any circumstances, but particularly staggering considering Tom Brady was suspended for the first four games of the season for what the league believes was his role in those footballs being underinflated in that other AFC Championship Game. Brady has put a mostly sunny veneer on his season since he returned -- he turned a question from CBS' Jim Nantz about his personal satisfaction after the season he had into an ode to how many people help the team perform during the season -- and outwardly, there has been little to be unhappy about. The Patriots, after all, have lost just one game on Brady's watch in the 14 games he's played this season, and he's thrown 33 touchdowns and four interceptions.
But just beneath the surface, Brady continues to simmer and seethe, only occasionally allowing it into view, letting others do the talking for him. The anger is still so palpable that the team's owner, Robert Kraft, voices it openly, and Commissioner Roger Goodell has yet to attend a game at Gillette Stadium since, an absence noted by fans who derisively chanted his name and painted his face on made-up milk cartons Sunday night. On the podium, with the Lamar Hunt Trophy -- which goes to the AFC champion -- in his hands, Kraft was a thinly veiled allusion to the trials of the last two years.
"For a number of reasons, all of you in the stadium understand how big this win was," Kraft said.
Patriots president Jonathan Kraft was more pointed about the irony of the timing of Grigson's firing just before Sunday's game kicked off, noting in a local radio spot on 98.5 The Sports Hub that "that game might have been Ryan's pinnacle."
Ouch. But also accurate. Getting to an AFC Championship Game is a pinnacle for other teams, and it is a fine one. The Colts have that, although they are clearly not satisfied with that, either.
But the Patriots have Brady, fueled this season by those who questioned his honesty and integrity, by the embarrassment and distraction of hearings and court sessions and appeals and a saga that stretched over the course of the entire 2015 season, with the penalty finally infecting this one. Whatever Grigson unleashed two years ago, the rest of the AFC is paying a price for it now. Brady is the first quarterback to appear in seven Super Bowls.