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Following up on the previous item. ... The Colts fired team vice chairman Bill Polian and his son, Chris Polian, the G.M -- a decision that left Manning "stunned."
Reported by ESPN.com
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Owner Jim Irsay announced the moves Monday, one day after the team finished the year 2-14 without Manning. HC Jim Caldwell was retained, but Irsay said that evaluation was still ongoing. "I was stunned, I was surprised, I was saddened and just disappointed that it all happened this way," Manning told ESPN insider Chris Mortensen by telephone. "I was actually meeting with Bill in the training room and we were talking about my rehab schedule, what I could and couldn't do in the facility under the new (collective bargaining agreement) and my checkpoints when he was summoned to see Irsay. He actually chuckled and said, 'We'll see. ...'" And we did. Manning said he and Polian later had a very emotional meeting when the QB learned that the man who drafted him with the No. 1 pick in 1998 had been let go. In the end, it was the Polians' inability to find a suitable backup for Manning that doomed the Colts.
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