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Jim Caldwell was fired Tuesday after three years as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts following a 2-14 season without star quarterback Peyton Manning. Caldwell, who took the team to the Super Bowl after the 2009 season and back to the playoffs a year later, was the latest to be shown the door by the Colts this month, following vice chairman Bill Polian and general manager Chris Polian.

Should Caldwell have lost his job under such circumstances? Was is it time to change direction for a franchise that has a new general manager in Ryan Grigson and presumably will draft Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck as the top pick in April's draft?

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Dan Pompei, Chicago Tribune

Jim Caldwell was not the reason the Colts went from 10-6 and 2-14, so if he was fired for failing to win, he was fired for the wrong reason. If he was fired because he was part of the old Colts and the team wants to head in a new direction, that makes more sense.

Gone is Bill Polian, the man who hired Caldwell. In his place is new general manager Ryan Grigson, who undoubtedly wants to put his stamp on the team with a new head coach. It’s also at least possible that Peyton Manning will be gone, replaced by Andrew Luck. So Caldwell’s offensive system that was so important to Manning may no longer be necessary.

Caldwell wasn’t incompetent; he merely got stuck in a situation in which all of the pieces around him changed.