Indianapolis Colts President Bill Polian OK with former Head Coach Tony Dungy's NBC Sunday analysis

Former Indianapolis Colts Head Coach
Tony Dungy (Michael Conroy/AP Photo)

Former Indianapolis Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy on occasion this season in his role as an NBC analyst has discussed in detail the team's offense, including plays and signals.

And Colts President Bill Polian said this week that's OK.

While Polian said the information shared by Dungy on NBC's Football Night in America each Sunday evening doesn't necessarily thrill Colts QB Peyton Manning, he said Dungy isn't sharing any information that could hurt the Colts competitively.

Polian also said he's sure Dungy wouldn't do so.

“Peyton, I think, gets a little bit upset about it,” Polian said Monday on his weekly radio show on 97.1 Hank FM Indianapolis. “I don't think he [Dungy] is giving away much that people can't get on tape or television. He's just explaining the process of what's going on without revealing what the keys to the signals are.

“It's not unlike going to a baseball game and watching the third-base coach give signs. Unless you know what the indicator is and how the signs are to be read and interpreted, you see him going through the motions and you might say, 'Well, I think that if he hits his cap that's the hit sign,' or, 'If he hits his leg, that's the steal sign,' but the likelihood is that's not the case. That's what we have here.

“The real issue and the real troublesome part with our offense is if you had audio of it and you could match the calls at the line of scrimmage to the actual play being run. That would give you much, much better information than Tony revealed on television. . . . Knowing Tony as well as I do, he's not giving away any valuable information. It just looks that way.”

Polian on Monday also discussed:

*The next opponent, the Tennessee Titans: “It seems like everybody we play is the next big thing in the National Football League. The team nobody wants to play is our next opponent. In this case, it probably is true, because they have a great defense. Their defensive backfield is healthy. It was not when we played them last time. They have a ferocious rush line, which really, really gets up for playing us, as you might expect. And [quarterback] Vince Young is unorthodox, so it's not easy to prepare for him, because he does things in an unorthodox fashion. He does them well, obviously, but he's different from other people that you see, so it's really a challenge to play them.”

*On Young's improvement: “You saw it Sunday night. They [the Arizona Cardinals] tried to squeeze him off the corner and mush rush in the middle and he would step up, avoid the corner rushers and just deliver the ball. That's where that height, quick release and strong arm come into play. He went 99 yards with little or no time left on the clock. That's all you need to know about Vince Young. That's outstanding.”

Reviewing Colts President Bill Polian's weekly radio show . . .

* Part One: Late-season rust and momentum "pure fantasy." Here.

* Part Two: QB Peyton Manning at high a level as ever. Here.

* Part Three: No problem with Dungy's Colts analysis on NBC. Here.

* Part Four: Victory over Houston Sunday showed team's professionalism. Here.

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