Will Carroll said that if Hilton’s ankle is as bad as he’s heard, then we’re going to look back at this as a Ronnie Lott-level performance playing through severe injury.

hahahaha Going old school there.

That means something, because that dude literally cut his finger off to stay in a game.

Define "fully transparent". The Colts have him on the injury report, listed as "questionable". Hilton does not practice all week to rest the injury, and then suits up for the game. If he does anything wrong to it even getting out of bed, the dude could miss the game. He plays, and he takes downs off. Sounds like the very definition of "questionable" to me.

A lot of fans think they should be able to get the access to dudes every checkup and physical. Any vagueness means the colts are hiding something.

Why people think they need more info than they are given is beyond me.

I have no issue with the Colts holding their cards close with regards to things like it taking shots, etc to get him out there for a handful of plays. That's strategy and I'm for it. This is not fans though that are making these statements. It's local media making these statements and it hasn't been in a critical way but more in admiration of the toughness in perservereing and performing despite an injury that much worse than anyone knows.

Happens in every market. Media complains about ‘transparency’ in Philadelphia too. I’ve decided, its their way of passively-aggressively targeting the team because team isn’t enabling them to break a story, improve their ratings or clicks.

To me, though, there's a difference in how Colts handled the Luck injury last year (which everyone griped about), and how they're handling the Hilton injury.

With the Luck injury, things felt a bit more disingenuous, like they were stringing folks along.

With Hilton's injury, it's much more: he has an injured ankle and he won't be practicing; next question.

I think we all felt that way last year but I actually think the Colts were up front with us. I don't think anybody (including Luck) really knew if he was going to return. If that is the case what are the Colts supposed to say?

They kept moving the goalposts on his return. That was problematic.