Rick Venturi – Football Coach, Media Savant, and Great NFL Analyst
by Kent Sterling Rick Venturi coached football for 41 years, and learned the game at a level few can. He slip seamlessly into media, where he explained complex elements of the game in simple and easily understood term. Knowing something, and being able to get others to understand are different things, and requires a very […]
Coach Rick Venturi Loves Colts 2013 Draft Class
by Kent Sterling The 2012 draft for the Colts yielded some spectacular results. Andrew Luck, Coby Fleener, Dwayne Allen, T.Y. Hilton, and Vick Ballard headlined the class, and whether it was because the rest of the cupboard was bare, or because these guys were just that good, it went a long way toward producing a […]
Coach Rick Venturi on What Makes Andrew Luck so Good
by Kent Sterling Covering the St. Louis Rams last year, I didn’t get a chance to watch Colts quarterback Andrew Luck as much as I would have liked. After moving back to Indianapolis, I watched all of his snaps, and I thought he was outstanding in his rookie year and potentially the best in the […]
by Kent Sterling The Colts hope the extra ‘e’ in Bjoern stands for effort, excellence, and efficiency. The shiniest new Colt was projected much higher in the draft before the pedestrian 4.83 Bjoern Werner ran at the Combine, but football isn’t a track meet. Unique sets of athletic skills yield different levels of productivity on […]
by Kent Sterling Not only does no one know what’s going to happen tomorrow night’s NFL Draft, but in most cases it doesn’t matter a damn. Yet, we search mock drafts to try to figure out who the Rams will take with #16 and #22, and what the Colts will do with #24. We watch […]
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by Kent Sterling In just under three years, the two worst teams of the 2011 NFL season will meet in Super Bowl L. The host city is yet to be determined, but the teams and the reasons for their movement through the next three seasons into the NFL Championship are clear. It’s often said that […]
by Kent Sterling Former Colts GM Bill Polian would never tell the media anything about the team’s plans for the draft, so the Indianapolis media believes that no one will. There are coaches and GMs who will absolutely layout team strategy. Whether people choose to believe it is a different story, but while in St. […]
by Kent Sterling The toughest part of Colts coach Chuck Pagano’s job will be to manage the expectations of fans who incorrectly assess last year’s 11-5 record as just the beginning of things to come. I’ve spent the last two weeks watching the Colts season on nfl.com’s Game Rewind feature (the best $25 I’ve ever […]
by Kent Sterling The City of St, Louis wants to love Sam Bradford. Rams fans want to believe that the three-year veteran will be a late bloomer who will show his potential with better protection and weapons. They point to a variety of reasons Bradford has looked nothing like a championship quarterback to this point […]
