DT Quinn Pitcock (official thread)

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This is unfortunate, I was really looking forward to seeing what he could do, as I'm sure all of us were.

Best of luck to Quinn. Hopefully he can find something that he loves to do and be very successful doing it.

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Wednesday, July 30
MOVING ON

By John Oehser - Colts.com


Pitcock Placed on Reserve/Did Not Report List, Polian Says
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ? For now at least, the Colts? wait for Quinn Pitcock is over.

Pitcock, a second-year veteran defensive tackle who did not report to 2008 Training Camp, has been placed on the team?s reserve/did not report list, Colts President Bill Polian said on Wednesday morning.

?Quinn?s really thinking that he?s not going to play,? Colts Head Coach Tony Dungy said Wednesday between a pair of practices at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Polian and Dungy did not rule out the possibility of Pitcock returning.

?We put him on ?Did Not Report,? and we?ll see where it goes from here,? Polian said. ?It happens.?

Dungy said the Colts will ?leave the door open for him.?

?I have been aware of people who have changed their mind,? Dungy said. ?We?re not going to shut the door, but right now, that?s where he?s sitting. He feels like it?s just something he wants to do. We told him, ?Just take your time and if you determine you want to come back, you can be a good player for us,? but right now, we?re thinking that?s not going to be the case.?

Pitcock, a third-round selection by the Colts in 2007 NFL Draft, attended Ohio State University, and played in nine games last season, starting one. After playing sparingly early in the season, he started one of nine games and registered 1.5 sacks and 24 tackles, seven solos.

Pitcock played extensively in November and December, and during that period, he had four games in which he had four or more tackles.

In an early-December victory over Baltimore, he had 1.5 sacks.

?It?s a tough situation, because we really felt like Quinn had things we were looking for to be a very good player for us,? Dungy said. ?By the same token, football?s a tough game. You have to be into it 100 percent to play effectively.

?If you?re not, it?s going to be detrimental to you and the team. I can see both sides of it and right now, we?re just going to let him relax and we?ll move on.?

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?I have been aware of people who have changed their mind,? Dungy said. ?We?re not going to shut the door, but right now, that?s where he?s sitting. He feels like it?s just something he wants to do. We told him, ?Just take your time and if you determine you want to come back, you can be a good player for us,? but right now, we?re thinking that?s not going to be the case.?

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?It?s a tough situation, because we really felt like Quinn had things we were looking for to be a very good player for us,? Dungy said. ?By the same token, football?s a tough game. You have to be into it 100 percent to play effectively.

?If you?re not, it?s going to be detrimental to you and the team. I can see both sides of it and right now, we?re just going to let him relax and we?ll move on.?

Reading this I get the feeling that it's not some fluke thing of numbers that the Colts have taken so many Ohio State players since Dungy landed there. Dungy and Tressel are like two peas in a pod.

If this had been Tom Coughlin or Bill Parcels, Pitcock's career would be over -- no changing his mind about it. That said, that makes this whole thing just all the more surprising. When you have a coach like Tony Dungy who covers his players' rears, doesn't air the teams' dirty laundry in public, falls on the sword like he had to do a million times in Tampa, and seems to genuinely care for his players and not treat them like interchangeable parts in the machine or pieces of meat ... How can a player not want to play for a coach like that?

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Dispatch

OSU notebook: Heacock stands behind Pitcock's decision to quit

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:24 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Two weeks ago when Quinn Pitcock shockingly ended his pro football career after one season, one of the people he confided in was Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Heacock, who had coached him for five years. "I was as surprised as everybody was. (But) I can't judge him," Heacock said yesterday at the Buckeyes' preseason camp. "In his mind I think he was just, 'I've had enough.'
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