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2011 Colts Media Guide - Nfl

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2 0 1 1 I N D I A N A P O L I S C O L T S<br />

PERSONAL DATA:<br />

College: Dodge City Community College 1988-90; Appalachian State 1990-91.<br />

Coaching Career: Dodge City Community College 1992; Alabama A&M 1993; South Carolina<br />

State 1994; James Madison 1995-97; Cornell 1998-2000; Virginia 2001-05; Kansas State (head<br />

coach) 2006-08; Virginia 2009; Indianapolis <strong>Colts</strong> 2010-present.<br />

FRANK REICH<br />

Wide Receivers<br />

Frank Reich is in his first season as wide receivers coach of the <strong>Colts</strong>. He served<br />

from 2009-10 as quarterbacks coach with the club, and he served previously as<br />

offensive coaching staff assistant in 2008. He was a coaching intern with the club<br />

from 2006-07.<br />

In 2010, QB-Peyton Manning was 450-679-4,700, 33 TDs/17 ints., Manning set<br />

club seasonal-bests in completions, attempts and yards, while his completion total<br />

also set the NFL seasonal record. Manning was selected to his 11th Pro Bowl, surpassing<br />

John Unitas for the most by a <strong>Colts</strong> QB and tying Brett Favre for the most<br />

by an NFL QB. Manning has started all 208 career games, the most ever to open a career by an NFL<br />

player at any position. The offense produced a franchise-record 13th consecutive season with 5,000+<br />

net yards. Manning extended his own NFL records with his 13th consecutive 25+-TD season and an 11th<br />

4,000+-yardage season. Manning has 11 double-digit victory seasons, the most by an NFL QB in the<br />

Super Bowl era. He ranks 3rd in NFL touchdown passes, and he stands as the only NFL QB with 200<br />

more career scoring passes than interceptions. The club had the NFL's top-ranked passing offense.<br />

In 2009, Manning was 393-571-4,500, 33 TDs/16 ints., for a 99.9 rating and a franchise seasonalrecord<br />

68.8 completion percentage. Manning won an unprecedented fourth Associated Press Most<br />

Valuable Player Award (2003-04, 08-09), along with a 10th Pro Bowl bid. Manning became the 4th<br />

NFL QB with 50,000 career yards. The club had seven fourth-quarter comeback wins, the most by any<br />

team since the 1970 NFL Merger. The <strong>Colts</strong> had a league-record five consecutive fourth-quarter comeback<br />

wins. Indianapolis produced the NFL's 2nd-ranked passing attack. In 2008, Indianapolis ranked<br />

15th in NFL total offense and 3rd in AFC passing offense, 5th in the NFL. Manning was 371-555-4,002,<br />

27 TDs/12 ints. The offense sported four receivers with 50+ receptions for only then the second time<br />

in franchise history (82, Reggie Wayne; 77, Dallas Clark; 60, Marvin Harrison; 57, Anthony<br />

Gonzalez). Wayne produced the fifth of his now seven consecutive 1,000+ seasons and earned a Pro<br />

Bowl bid. Clark set the franchise seasonal records for TE receptions and yards (848), then broke both<br />

again in 2009. The club surrendered 14 sacks, 4th-fewest in the NFL, while setting a club seasonal<br />

mark (since broken) by allowing one sack for every 42.8 pass attempts.<br />

Reich was a 14-year NFL veteran quarterback. He was a D3-85 draft choice (57th overall) by Buffalo,<br />

where he played from 1985-94, before signing with Carolina in 1995. Reich spent 1996 with the New<br />

York Jets and 1997-98 with Detroit.<br />

During his playing career, Reich engineered two of the greatest comebacks in football history. He first<br />

led the University of Maryland from a 31-0 deficit to Miami in 1984 to a 42-40 victory. It was then the<br />

greatest comeback in college football history. Then, in the 1992 AFC Wild Card Playoffs, starting for<br />

injured QB-Jim Kelly, Reich led Buffalo from a 35-3 third-quarter deficit to a 41-38 overtime comeback<br />

victory against Houston. It still stands as the greatest comeback in NFL history. Reich started the next<br />

game and led Buffalo to a victory against Pittsburgh in the Divisional Playoffs, before Kelly returned to<br />

help lead the team to the Super Bowl.<br />

Reich was born December 4, 1961 in Freeport, N.Y. He resides with his wife, Linda, and their three<br />

children in Indianapolis.<br />

PERSONAL DATA:<br />

College: Maryland 1981-84.<br />

Playing Career: Buffalo Bills 1985-94; Carolina Panthers 1995; New York Jets 1996; Detroit Lions<br />

1997-98.<br />

Coaching Career: Indianapolis <strong>Colts</strong> 2008-present.<br />

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