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The Indianapolis Colts have scheduled a news conference for Monday afternoon, presumably to announce the retirement of coach Tony Dungy.

 

Foxsports.com reported Monday that Dungy will step down after seven seasons in Indianapolis. The news conference is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET at the team's practice facility in Indianapolis, although the Colts have not given a reason for their announcement.

 

A source told Foxsports.com that Dungy has talked his decision over with family members and they decided it was the best time for Dungy to step down. Dungy, the source said, was at the team's complex Monday morning saying goodbyes to players and team employees.

 

The Colts have designated associate coach Jim Caldwell as Dungy's eventual replacement.

 

Since winning the Super Bowl after the 2006 season, Dungy has thought long and hard each offseason about how much longer he really wants to work in the NFL. He said after the Colts' overtime playoff loss to the San Diego Chargers in the AFC wild-card game nine days ago that he would spend about a week deciding whether to return for an eighth season as their coach.

He spent much of that time in Tampa, Fla., where his wife Lauren and children moved full-time about a year ago. The Dungys had the week to contemplate his future with the Colts, but a trip to New York for son Jordan's surgery on a broken leg occupied their time. Jordan Dungy is back home in Florida and doing well after surgery.

 

In Dungy's 13 seasons as a head coach, including six with Tampa Bay, he's put together a sparkling resume.

 

He has 148 career wins, including playoffs, and ranks 19th all-time in victories. He's the only black coach to win a Super Bowl, the first coach in league history to reach the postseason in 10 consecutive seasons and the only coach to preside over six straight seasons of 12 wins or more.

 

Two years ago, Dungy acknowledged there was a temptation to retire after winning the Super Bowl. He pondered retirement again last January, but returned after Colts owner Jim Irsay agreed to make Caldwell the eventual successor and offered Dungy the use of a private jet to visit his family in Florida.

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I think Dungy is put on a pedestal and I think he is good, but not this great guy that ESPN always talks about.

i think he was a pretty damn good coach. he knows how to win (especially with the talent around him)

its not too shabby when you got one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game by your side...

 

going to be a little weird not seeing him around anymore or hearing his name...

as a jaguar fan I welcome this move :)

I think Dungy is put on a pedestal and I think he is good, but not this great guy that ESPN always talks about.

 

What do you mean? (genuinely curious)

 

He's easily one of the top 3 classiest coaches in the league, and probably one of the top 3 BEST coaches in the league.

 

If you notice... sans this recent Marvin Harrison thing (which I don't think Harrison is really guilty of anything substantial in) his teams/players never get in off-field trouble and all that jazz.

I think they made him out to be greater than he was because he was a black coach. He made the playoffs for 10 years, but only won 1 superbowl and they barely got by new england that year.

 

He was around a great team in TB. One of hte best defenses ever and then he get Peyton Manning as his QB and with all that talent he only got 1 super bowl win.

 

I think he was a good coach, a very good coach, but not this god of coaches.

 

It is typical ESPN. They worship about 4-5 people to the point its annoying.

 

Dungy, Farve, LeBron, and Ortiz...

 

Good yes, great sometimes, but it is annoying how much thye prop these people up.

Good for Dungy, real classy guy, Loves his family and def has the right to retire...

I think they made him out to be greater than he was because he was a black coach. He made the playoffs for 10 years, but only won 1 superbowl and they barely got by new england that year.

 

He was around a great team in TB. One of hte best defenses ever and then he get Peyton Manning as his QB and with all that talent he only got 1 super bowl win.

 

I think he was a good coach, a very good coach, but not this god of coaches.

 

It is typical ESPN. They worship about 4-5 people to the point its annoying.

 

Dungy, Farve, LeBron, and Ortiz...

 

Good yes, great sometimes, but it is annoying how much thye prop these people up.

 

That's 1 more Superbowl than probably more than half the teams in the NFL. A lot of teams don't win multiple Super Bowls, with the notable dynasty exceptions (Cowboys, Steelers, Packers, Pats)

 

Ask the Cowboys circa 1970s what they think of the Steelers of the same era. It's a fact that by beating the Cowboys like they did in that era, the Steelers kept several Cowboys players out of the Hall of Fame and turned them into pretty much nobodies. Ultimately Dungy may or may not be cursed to the same fate

 

The fact that Dungy ran into the Pats quasi-dynasty era is absolutely nothing to fault him for.

 

You cited his "great defense"... but that defense was constructed by he and Monte Kiffin... those two are the surrogate fathers of the "Tampa 2" (partly influenced by his days in Pittsburgh with the Steel Curtain /obligatory Steeler reference) which has become the West Coast Offense of defenses. He, by no means, inherited a great team. And, though he was fortunate to get Marvin Harrison and then Peyton Manning... it was that defense that ultimately won that title in Indy... with Bob Sanders leading the way.

 

Now, in terms of "God of coaches" I've never seen anyone assign that to him, and I know MANY coordinators that get more credit for what they do than Dungy (including Tom Moore of the same team being lauded as an offensive genius - others include LeBeau, Kiffin, Martz etc). All that Dungy really gets credit for is being a good coach and being very classy and, like I said before, co-creating the Tampa 2. Dungy also set a new NFL Record for consecutive playoff appearances by a Head Coach.

 

You also have to judge a coach by their coaching tree... a la Bill Parcells and Mike Holmgren.

 

Dungy has dispersed multiple VERY talented coaches, from that tree, into the league... including my team's own head coach.

 

Now, if you want to assign a "god of coaches" that title begins and ends with Bill Walsh. He was directly responsible for 6 coaches and indirectly for 24-25 other head coaches as well as innovating the west coast offense... "creating" Steve Young, Joe Montana and Jerry Rice and many many other things.

Oh well. Good guy, even better coach. I'm going to miss "Mr. Nice Guy".

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