07-25-2007, 10:02 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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-- Tarik Glenn Won't File Retirement Papers Immediately --
Wed Jul 25, 2007 --from FFMastermind.com
The Indianapolis Star reports the Colts will place starting OLT Tarik Glenn on the reserve-retired list before training camp. Glenn, who announced his retirement yesterday, gave QB Peyton Manning great pass protection. The Colts seldom gave Glenn blocking help with a tight end or running back when he faced one of the league's top pass rushers. "Hey, 78 was out there every week come hell or high water and he was going to do his job to the best of his ability," GM Bill Polian said. "And that vast majority of the time, he won the battle every week. "That's the story of Tarik Glenn's career." Glenn met with Colts owner Jim Irsay for approximately three hours Monday night to discuss Glenn's plan to retire. The nature of the conversation was to make certain Glenn was doing the right thing, not to talk him into returning for the 2007 season. "I just wanted to ask him a lot of different questions and make sure he was doing this for the right reason and he was certain about it," Irsay said. "After we finished talking, I could tell he was." The Colts will receive a roster exemption, and Glenn will turn his back on his $4.5 million base salary, which the team will gain in relief under the salary cap, but apparently will not immediately file his retirement papers with the league office. That leaves the door ajar, however slightly, for a return at some point should the fire return to Glenn's belly. The retirement, Polian said, "is not irrevocable." [/b]
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