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Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell (Darron Cummings/AP Photo)
Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell already is looking to the future.
Caldwell, entering his second season as the Colts' head coach, has spent a bit of time in recent weeks reviewing Super Bowl XLIV. But he said what's past is past, and the process of looking ahead is continuing at this week's NFL Scouting Combine.
“I’m excited about the future,” Caldwell said Sunday morning at the combine, which continues at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis through Tuesday, March 5. “That’s the thing about this time of year. You see it in these young guys that are out here, really trying to get themselves in the best possible position for the upcoming draft. Every single one of the coaches in this building also feels the same way.
“There’s an energy level that’s contagious.”
Caldwell on Sunday discussed a variety of Colts-related issues, including what he said was the ongoing solidifying of the coaching staff. Senior Offensive Line coach Howard Mudd, the line coach since 1998, retired following last season, but Caldwell said any changes on the rest of the staff have yet to be finalized.
He declined to discuss the reported hiring of Ron Turner as an assistant, saying, "Not everything is solidified. We’re still negotiating, still talking, still working some things out. Everybody knows Howard is going to retire, that’s a given, so we have to make some adjustments there. But until we have it all ironed out, it wouldn’t be very, very prudent of me to make any statements.”
Of Senior Offensive Coordinator Tom Moore, the offensive coordinator since 1998, he said, “Tom’s been great for us.
“I’m anticipating he’s coming back,” Caldwell said. “It’s still up in the air. Because we played so late, our situation is a lot different than others, and we’ll take that every year. Right now we’re still in the stage of making certain we get guys in place.”
Caldwell said while has reviewed the 31-17 loss to New Orleans enough to evaluate the game, he said the time for poring over the details of the loss has passed.
“That’s behind us,” Caldwell said. “You can rehash that thing a thousand times, or three hundred fifty thousand times. That’s how tough games are. When you lose, that’s what you do. I’m through that. I’m looking ahead. All competitors do. You go through a situation where you have a tough loss, but there’s a certain point in time you have to look forward. That’s where we are at this point. Obviously it’s 2010. It starts over right about now. . . . This is a brand new year. It’s a new slate.
“You look at our regular season, we did what we had set out to do We met all of our goals in the regular season. We won our division, we ended up securing home-field advantage throughout the playoffs and this was just a caveat, we had the best record in football. We met all of our goals. Then we won our first game in the playoffs and won the AFC championship, which was another of our goals.
“We only missed one. You look at all the things that were accomplished during the course of the season, there were some steps involved, our guys played extremely well, played hard – just didn’t win the last game of the season.
“You look at it and count ‘em up, I think things went along extremely well, when you meet all of your goals but one.”
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