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INDIANAPOLIS - Colts coach Jim Caldwell has the perfect backup plan. Is not put in the next guys and get the same results.

The newst example came Sunday when Indianapolis needed rookie Jeff Linkenbach, to protect the blind side of Peyton Manning and another rookie Blair White.

They did not miss a step in the 27-13 win against Denver.

"One thing my coach always says is," for being a starter, to have always be ready to go "," Gray Brackett defensive captain said Monday, referring to a linebackers coach Mike Murphy. ''"Guys do good work preparation here."

Indeed, preparation has become a strong tradition in Indy cloakrooms.

In the years President Bill Polian team was among the best in the League at the conclusion, and cultivate talent in locations from other negligent.

Brackett, as Linkenbach and white, made the Colts as a free agent to Rutgers.Four-time Pro Bowl Center Jeff Saturday signed with the Colts after getting cut by Baltimore before 1998 training camp and spending a year full of football.Dominic Rhodes set an NFL record in race for yards as a rookie 1,104 is out of State of the West, and rookie crop this year already wrote a new chapter.

Linkenbach made his NFL debut left tackle at the end of the first half of Manning Bowl II.Peu noticed then, but the handful of pieces, he graduated in house bottle opener against the Giants helped 23 Colts years to prepare for the greatest work of his life on Sunday - taking care of the MVP only four times in the history of the League.

"You can not really consider it like that,", he said. ""."After the pre-season, it really no matter where you're writing, you have to go out and jouer.Il was good for to do me a few drives against the Giants.Il helped me get my feet wet."

The Colts have not said when Johnson, who has run out of more than a month of training with a right foot sprained, camp might return.

The biggest concern on Sunday was the receiver.

With the former first round point out Anthony Gonzalez with an ankle sprained right and no. 2 receiver Pierre Garcon out with a hamstring injury, three-receiver attack of Indy was two players healthy list of 53-Man - Pro Bowler Reggie Wayne and emerging Austin Collie star.