Okay, there are hot chicks at Rose-Hulman, but most of them went to NASA for the summer, so it will just be the rednecks.  Still, many of the questions that camp needs to answer haven't been widely asked yet, and Bruce Paine want to ask them.

1. While most folks want to know whether or not Joe Addai can step in full-time and produce for the Colts, I want to know who will do it when he doesn't.  A look at the Colts will show you about four guys on the big roster who haven'thad serious minutes in the NFL.  If you want a guy who has played with the Colts, you have to look at DeDe Dorsey. (WHAWHOSIT?! you exclaim?)  I know what you are thinking.  I looked up his stats last year (all defensive states because he served only as a special teamer) and I noticed he went to Lindenwood.  Lindenwood?  I know what you are thinking again, still, I seemed to know that name from somewhere.  I sat back in my chair and pondered it while Adult Swim sent a delicate hum through my mind.  I saw it on a football schedule.  I have a cousin who is quarterbacking Campbellsville University, a small NAIA school in Kentucky, and sure enough, I saw the name on an old football schedule.  Lindenwood is a small school in Missouri that participates in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.  Dorsey was, get this, a standout defensive back until the last four games of his Junior season when they moved him over to tailback.  He had over 800 yards in those four games and spent his Senior campaign as the starter and made NAIA All-America.  If he performs up to the standards of other no-name tailbacks that stood in the breach for the Colts in the recent past (Mungor and Rhodes) I guess we will be alright, I still wouldn't mind a littler veteran depth.  Late last season that Colts discovered that the stretch running play is beginning to lose its effectiveness at setting up play-action because teams are beginning to sit back deep, let Manning have the underneath stuff, and let deep linebackers push the stretch to the edge.  The Colts began running more quick-hitter plays behind Jeff Saturday to keep the linebackers and safeties closer to scrimmage and to benefit Addai's downhill style while putting viability back into the stretch.  It needs to work for all the backs, though, for the Colts to be able to keep leads late in the third and early in the fourth quarters. 

2.  For all of the talk spouted concerning the retirement of Tarik Glenn and the ascension of Tony Ugoh, I want to know what the Colts are going to do at guard.  The Colts have tentatively named Ugoh the started at left tackle, forgoing the idea that Charlie Johnson might have taken over, but they really need to establish continuity throughout the line to make the spring really productive.  With Ugoh in and Johnson out, the Colts are going to have some depth on the line if they intend to keep last-year's starters (Ryan Lilja and Jake Scott) at guard.  Lilja is an effort guy who has almost no real athleticism.  That means Bruce Paine likes him.  A good effort guy, but I think we have seen all that he can give us, he has probably reached his developmental limit.  Is it enough to have a rookie left tackle and Ryan Lilja on the blind side of Jesus?  Howard Mudd, the filthiest mouth in show business, will have to make that determination.  The Colts have another option at guard.  They recently signed Rick DeMulling, a guard from Detroit who cut his teeth in the Howard Mudd system in Indy before he was released for cap reasons.  He had two disappointing years in Detroit, and his  comments   about their program up there really made me wonder about some things.  Anyway, DeMulling is back and I would assume he is currently sitting behind Lilja on the depth chart Mudd is constructing together in his mind.

The center is Jeff Saturday.  He is awesome in his blue-collarness.  I can't wait for him to return to his Tuesday segment on  Bob and Tom.  

At right guard the Colts have Jake Scott.  He was last year's starter, and had his moments.  Scott is a prototype athlete.  He is tall and long-armed with good strength and speed.  Does well moving the stretch to his right but could down block better in many situations.  He has measurables but lacks technique and gets beat by powerful guys or top end speedsters in the gut.  Bruce Paine doesn't like Scott as a starter.  He gets beat too often and lacks technique to be a real bruiser drive blocking upfield.  I think that he excels at times because he lines up on Maning's right side, in full view, where many teams dare not blitz.  Scott is also another option at tackle given his size and length, but I wouldn't start him there either.  Last year Dylan Gandy backed up Scott and played some tackle as well.  Gandy has probably earned a chance for more, but if the Colts stay with Scott he probably won't get it, and in reality doesn't have elite size, strength, or technique for the position.  I haven't even mentioned Matt Ulrich.  The Colts tend to develop plug and play guys for the offensive line, it is part of their system to scout effort players for late round picks and coach them into place.  The beauty of the otherwise grizzly Howard Mudd has been his ability to provide the Colts with low cost answers on the O-line.  With Glenn gone, I don't know if any of these guys will get the job done satisfactorily.  Skeeter erased a multitude of sins, and now...  I expect the Colts to solve part of the problem by running to the left as often as possible and working hard to keep play-action working.  It may cause teams who gameplan to push that side of the line with blitzes and stunts to back off if they are being pushed around themselves by the Colts quick-hitter running game that they introduced late last season.  What I love is the depth we now have on the O-line, what I hate is that we don't have a real solid guy at either guard position or the left tackle spot.  It worried me last year and I thought the numerous times we witnessed Manning scrambling out ot the pocket or dancing up into it or making a throw with a guy wrapped around his feet was evidence of my theory.  I expect to seeo even more this coming season.  When Peyton is running it is like watching Richard Burton inBeckett, you kinda know that something good might happen but it makes you sick to watch anyway. 

3. Is it hard to believe that Freddy Keiaho may exceed Cato June?  For many folks it might given the way the lament the loss, but I can't help but say, "good move".  All last season I sat there screaming at Cato to tackle something.  I watched him slide off of so many tackles (always arm tackles way too high, at shoulder level instead of below the ribs) I thought he might have been sweating bacon grease.  June may be quicker in space than Keiaho, but Freddy can tackle and the Colts are desperate for that.  For proof of the mindset the coaching staff has in regards for Freddy, look at tape of the Colts hosting Kansas City in the Wild-Card round last season.  When the Colts give the ball up deep in their own territiry and the baddest running game around in sitting first and goal, June is getting some Gatorade and Freddy gets one solo tackle for loss on LJ and one assist.  Grooming.  I have been mentioning Keiaho pretty regularly, and it is time for people to stop being amazed at the idea.  Now that camp has started and the national media is starting to see him, you are going to hear more about his tackling and hard work.  Believe that he can be better for the Colts than Cato and you will see it for yourself.  Oh, and Keiaho was tearing up during the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl, I don't know what it means but I think I like it.