Ever Since Tom Moore, offensive coordinator since 1998, and Howard Mudd, the offensive line coach since ‘98, each retired earlier this month because of the NFL’s pension plan, people have wondered how it will effect Peyton Manning. Peyton isn’t taking it so well, and seems a bit perturbed over the whole situation.
“I can’t tell you what’s going on,” said Manning, “I will say I don’t think it’s been the most properly communicated scenario around here.”
In other words, Manning is getting all pissy about the uncertainty in the Colts coaching staff, and how no one has communicated with him about the process after he lost his favorite two coaches.
“It’s not a situation that I’m just thrilled about,” he said. “I think the communication has been pretty poor in my opinion. Somebody says one thing, then somebody else says another thing.
Supposedly Owner Jim Irsay plans to bring Moore and Mudd back as consultants, probably for the start of training camp on Aug. 2.
But for now assistant head coach and receivers coach Clyde Christensen is now running the offense with Pete Metzelaars taking over full-time position duties. The team also hired Frank Winters and Ron Johnson to help with the offensive line and receivers.
On the new coaching staff Manning says ”I know we hired a couple of guys to come in, but these guys are learning. They’re not offering a lot of coaching out there, I can assure you of that.”
“I’m not sure everybody’s on the same page in this building. I’m just trying to focus on playing quarterback well.”
Whoa Peyton settle down a bit. Everyone, including yourself, knows that you will be running the offense anyway, regardless of who the OC is.
Peter King of SI.com breaks down the coaching carousel pretty damn well…
The Colts have been thinking for the last couple of years that either Moore, 70, or Mudd, 67, would retire. They’ve been preparing for it. The new offensive coordinator,Clyde Christensen, has been the receivers coach for seven years; he’ll formulate the game plan in concert with former quarterbacks coach Jim Caldwell, now the head coach, who has also been on staff for seven years. The new offensive line coach, former Bills tight end Pete Metzelaars, has been on staff for five years, working under Mudd as his apprentice. The successor-in-waiting for Mudd, Metzelaars coached the unit on the field during practice for three weeks in 2008 while Mudd was mostly in the office recovering from a knee replacement. The only relatively new kid on the block will be Frank Reich, who moves from offensive quality control coach to quarterback coach.
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