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Caldwell Denies Ex-Player’s Claim That He’s Not in Charge

Released by the Indi­anapo­lis Colts on Wednes­day, cor­ner­back Justin Tryon sug­gested that Colts coach Jim Cald­well isn’t call­ing all the shots when it comes to who plays and who doesn’t.

“Cald­well wanted to start me but it wasn’t up to him!” Tryon tweeted, accord­ing to ProFootballTalk.com. Another tweet later said: “IM BLESSED!! lay off of Cald­well he’s a great coach! Peace.”

Cald­well denied Tryon’s com­ments on Thursday.

“Well, prob­a­bly with­out being boast­ful or seem­ing as if that I’m react­ing to that par­tic­u­lar state­ment, but I can just tell you that if I wanted him to start, he would have started,” Cald­well said, accord­ing to the Indi­anapo­lis Star. “If I wanted him to be here, he’d still be here, plain and sim­ple. I’m not going to carry on a back-and-forth, you know, because the young man did a good job for us while he was here and I hope he’s able to land with some­one else.

“You always say there’s always sort of a three-pronged sort of a decision-making progress. All of us have an oppor­tu­nity to talk about dif­fer­ent issues, and we can cer­tainly express our opin­ion. But in play­ers and deal­ing with play­ers on the field and that sort of thing, that’s my deci­sion. I get the ulti­mate deci­sion there in that regard. That’s the way it’s always been.”

Colts cor­ner­back Jer­raud Pow­ers said Thurs­day that he was sur­prised at the deci­sion to waive Tryon.

“It was sort of a shock to all of us,” Pow­ers said.

Colts owner Jim Irsay responded to Tryon’s tweets on Wednes­day, defend­ing the team’s vice chair­man, Bill Polian.

“Bill Polian is 1 day, going 2 The Hall of Fame, he knows what he’s doing, and Coach Cald­well makes final call on who plays n who doesn’t, period,” Irsay wrote. “I already told some of u guys Coach Cald­well decides who plays, I would know, I own the team.”

Tryon saw his play­ing time decrease this sea­son after start­ing six games last year because of injuries.

The Star asked Colts defen­sive coor­di­na­tor Larry Coyer last week why Tryon wasn’t get­ting more play­ing time.

“You know what, any of that stuff you have to ask Jim (Cald­well), to be hon­est with you,” Coyer told the Star. “I like him a lot. He’s com­pet­i­tive. But where that is, it’s with our head coach.”

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