Why is colts coach in hospital

As Bruce Arians , the Colts offensive coordinator and interim head coach put it this week: "It was more about getting Chuck the game ball than a football game, and they got that done. Now they've gotta go win football games. Davis understands perhaps better than most. Aside from a personal relationship with Pagano that stretches over two decades, Davis had to step away just after taking the UNC job in March of when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

He would return in time for the start of the season that fall, but he delegated much of his spring coaching duties to his coordinators, Pagano among them. In a situation like Chuck is in right now, he needs what he's already built in his time there.

Arians said after the comeback win over the Packers , he delivered the game ball to Pagano on Sunday and the two met again on Tuesday in Pagano's hospital room. Quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen called the plays in Arians' absence, a late adjustment that made a bigger impact than anyone acknowledged after the game. It's a major happening, it's major adversity that you have to deal with. Arians was released from a Baltimore hospital on Monday evening after his blood pressure stabilized, but has been under doctor supervision since then.

He was medicated for the return flight to Indianapolis and taken immediately to an Indy hospital by ambulance, the person said. Pagano, rookie quarterback Andrew Luck and other Colts players have repeatedly said they would like Arians to stay in Indy, though they understand why he would leave for another team.

But they certainly didn't want a health problem derailing what could be Arians' last best chance to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming an NFL head coach. Arians has said he will listen to other offers, though he is happy in Indianapolis. The Colts are expected to give him a pay raise and a new job title if he returns next season. Clearly, things weren't the same without Arians during Sunday's loss to the Ravens. That's the guy who is talking in your ear, and then you're in the playoffs and all of a sudden that's gone.

It's a big deal. Arians has mentored the likes of Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and now Luck. He won two Super Bowls as an assistant in Pittsburgh, served on Paul "Bear" Bryant's staff at Alabama and has had a big part in two of the biggest turnarounds in NFL history - the game improvement of the Colts and Indy's nine-game improvement this year. His only previous head coaching experience came during a six-year tenure at Temple in the s. Sources: Panthers acting as if Darnold out for ' Carolina Panthers.

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