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Colts’ Off-Field Woes, Roster Holes a Product of Past Mistakes

September 30, 2014   ·     ·   Jump to comments

The Colts have been in the news a lot lately for the wrong reasons. Linebacker Robert Mathis and, as reported by ProFootballTalk's Michael David Smith, safety LaRon Landry were suspended for performance-enhancing drug use.
Receivers LaVon Brazill and Da'Rick Rogers were released for off-field transgressions.  Owner Jim Irsay was pulled over for a DUI of his own, where cops found a literal brick of cash in the car along with several pill bottles. 
If you ever go to the NFL Draft Combine and are fortunate enough to have the pleasure of enduring rapid-fire GM speak, you'll learn quickly that every one of them has a process. A system. A structure. Whatever they want to call it. 
This current Colts roster is the result of a failed process by former general manager Bill Polian. The string of Colts' off-field failures are, statistically speaking, poor rolls of the dice by the players in question. But they're also the result of the problems that current general ma...

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