Tip to Kuharsky, it’s been a busy retirement
He certainly wasn’t the kind of coach who entertained with eye-bulging tantrums during games or boastful proclamations before them. Had he been asked about Cutler while with the Colts, Dungy would have said, “They picked up a good quarterback. It will take some time to work him into the system, but I know he’s going to help them.” “That’s what people see, and they assume that you’re just very, very quiet,” said Dungy, whose former team faces San Diego on “Sunday Night Football” this week. “People that know me well know that that’s not necessarily the case.” Not in the locker room after a 40-0 loss. “That’s the competitor in him,” said Indy linebacker Tyjuan Hagler. “You just haven’t seen that publicly.” People still seem to view Dungy as the mild-mannered Colts coach, not a guy paid to opine. Rex Ryan sought him out in August, after Dungy said on Patrick’s radio show that the New York Jets coach’s cursing on “Hard Knocks” reflected poorly on the NFL. Would Ryan have reacted differently if somebody else said the same thing? “Yeah, maybe so,” Ryan said, “because they always say you have to consider the source. Dungy’s a good man and I was surprised that he would have such negative things to say about me.”
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