I’d like to point out that the 2011 Colts situation wasn’t just that Manning was hurt. The guy hired to be his backup, Kerry Collins, was someone that would have had a shot at starting on many teams that year, so it is not as though Polian did not have a decent Plan B. He just got hurt quickly himself and Plan C was Curtis Painter (they had released Dan Orlovsky previously or he probably would have been Plan C, which would have been unfortunate for the Colts as when they resigned him to be Plan D he almost cost them the chance to draft Luck by daring to win games with that patchwork team).