I know it is the offseason and things are pretty boring around weareindy.com.  While you are pretty busy trying to get all your work done so you can take some time off to enjoy our posts during the season, we here at weareindy.com are working hard on coming up with a guerrilla marketing campaign that features everything from platypus-sponsorship to  harassing you at urinals.

In the meantime, I wanted to bring up an interesting point of nomenclature.  In speaking with The Father a while ago and discussing the Colts past and future, it struck me as funny that we always speak of “The Super Bowl Year.”  When we speak of it, I always know that we are talking of crushing the Bears in Manning’s single Super Bowl victory.  We are never talking about the year we played the Saints who cheated with their electronic spying and bounty program.  I just find it curious that when we talk, it is like one Super Bowl year never really existed.

Another tedious post to follow in a month or so.

Recently, we learned that Andrew Luck is not going to be able to borrow Jim Irsay’s plane to fly people in to practice.  And this article says that Luck is going to find a way to get to Miami to get in a little practice with Reggie Wayne.

Well, breaking news has it that Rick O’Shay has come to the rescue.  Various news outlets are reporting that Rick has lent Andrew Luck his 1999 Chevy Cavalier with a leaky head gasket.  Luck intends to travel cross country in the Cavalier.  ESPN reports that the Cavalier includes not only a cassette deck but also a cruise control lever that isn’t really hooked up to anything.

Look to see a 10 TD season by Wayne and Luck, all attributable to Rick O’Shay!

Previously, Rick had lent Peyton Manning a lemon yellow Ford Maverick for similar purposes.

Here at weareindy.com, we wanted to be one of the first blogs to grade the draft.  And the grade we are giving is a C+.  While some might see the draft as helping us out, especially on offense, we are giving a low grade given how far the Colts’ picks were from our mock draft and assessments of best player available.  Below is the Colts pick and who Paddy and I had slotted for that pick.

Colts Pick:  Andrew Luck

Rick’s Pick:  Donald Draper

Scouting Report:  Experience anchoring Madison Avenue creative teams should pay off when anchoring the Colts offense.  Tons of experience escaping difficult situations.  A leader, a real “Mad Man.”

Colts Pick:  Coby Fleener

Rick’s Pick:  Andy Warhol

Scouting Report:  A Factory product, should see 15 minutes a game.  Currently rehabbing a gunshot wound and death.

Colts Pick:  Dwayne Allen

Rick’s Pick:  Dwayne Johnson

Scouting Report:  Large, solid body and runs a 4.235 40 and is very light on his toes.  Should be The Rock of the offense.

Colts Pick:  T.Y. Hilton

Rick’s Pick:  Paris Hilton

Scouting Report:  Who would pick Paris Hilton?

Colts Pick:  Josh Chapman

Rick’s Pick:  Pepperoni Lovers Pizza from Pizza Hut

Scouting Report:  Love the way the pepperoni on the top gets toasted.  A good value for the pick.

Colts Pick:  Vick Ballard

Rick’s Pick:  Rubber Ducky

Scouting Report:  Most buoyant pick available.  Can offer protection and comfort on special teams.

Colts Pick:  LaVon Brazill

Rick’s Pick:  Brazil

Scouting Report:  A large South American country that might fall to later rounds.  Ample shoreline, but rumors of too much partying.

Colts Pick:  Justin Anderson

Rick’s Pick:  Mr. Anderson a.k.a. Neo

Scouting Report:  Late blooming prospect.  With appropriate training and visits to the oracle, might be able to stop bullets.

Colts Pick:  Tim Fugger

Rick’s Pick:  Steven Seagal

Scouting Report:  Came into college lean and mean, but has gotten pudgy lately and is a bit slow.  Good value in later rounds of Netflix surfing.

Colts Pick:  Mr. Irrelevant

Rick’s Pick:  Mr. Ambivalent by Loudon Wainwright III

Scouting Report:  Definitely a sleeper pick, but weareindy.com prefers apathy.

In a very recent post, Brad Wells of Stampede Blue, seems to have forgotten a little something.

In that post, he writes:  “Last night on Twitter, I posed this question: If the Colts are going to hire a defensive coach like Chuck Pagano to run their team, and then ask him to completely switch around their defensive scheme, how can they not give him anything to work with in the draft?”

My answer is that this sounds a little familiar.  When did the Colts last have a defensive coach to run their team, asked him to turn things around, and not give him any defensive players in the draft?  Sounds kind of like the Dungy Years to me.  While Dungy was coach we drafted a lot of offensive dudes and asked him to make do with a lot of average defensive guys (remembering our linebacking corps that changed year to year?!?!).  And I don’t hear anyone complaining about those days.