Here we are in the middle of another NFL season and I'd be lying if I said I am happy with how we started out. one win in three weeks is not acceptable and we will work to fix this.

As I've thought about it and really nothing else for the past two days, I can't even say that our team has really begun playing as a team yet. At least playing like I know we're capable of. The fact is, there are so many important lessons you can take from losing games (though you wish you never had to).

There is no question that we haven't been playing at full strength. Now we don't use that as an excuse and we never have around here. But the facts are the facts. You have to adjust and deal with it and play to the players' strengths. Dallas Clark and Jeff Saturday, two all-pro guys, just got back on Sunday, which will help, but doesn't guarantee anything.

Personally having missed training camp, I'm still working out some of my own kinks. We've got a young offensive line which means I've got less time to make plays. I have to play better as a quarterback, make better decisions, throw the ball better. And the same goes for every guy in there. It doesn't matter how old you are, how many years they've been playing. These are professional athletes. They're in there so they have to get it done. The veterans have to lead by example and raise their level of play as well.

Wins hard to come by in this league as this past game showed. Our running game finally got going but now it was the passing game was off. In the NFL, actually no matter what level you play at, a few plays on either side can determine the outcome of a game.

We had some missed opportunities, throwing a pick that gets returned for a TD, that's obviously something you wish you could get back. We were in control of the game. You've got to make the most of what you get in any situation. I'm frustrated that we couldn't keep the momentum. I made some poor decisions. Give the Jags credit, they controlled the ball and the time of possession. Going up 21-20 late, I thought we had a chance, but our defense was worn out because we on the offense didn't give them the rest they needed to seal it for us.

Right now, the two key messages are to stay together as a team and believe in the things that the coaches are telling us. This is a team, and we're all responsible for both the wins and the losses. Having a multi-faceted offense has been our trademark and what we'll need to get back to where we belong. We have to find a way to get it done. There may be a lot closer games and we have to find a way to win them.

We've got the bye week now, which is like the worst possible timing. I know each and every single one of us wants to get back out there and get things back on track. But as far as getting everyone healthy, this is just what the doctor ordered.

It's game-week and we're in serious prep mode for Chicago on Sunday night. The good news is that I'll be ready to play. I never really had any doubts that I'd be ready, but I know there was some concern out there.

It would take something seriously wrong to keep me out there, which is why I haven't missed a game in, well, a long time. The records aren't something I'm consumed with, but there is some real desire in wanting to be out there on the field for teammates every Sunday. I expect my left tackle to be out there for me on Sundays just like I expect Dallas Clark to be out there for me on Sundays. So it's as important for me to be there for them as well.

When you think about it, how many games I've played... Brett Favre's streak is nothing short of spectacular, for him to play that many years and start that many games in a row is a real credit. For me, I'm not an individual statistics guy. Never have been. It's really all about the team in this sport, but that is one record I'm proud to be in second place for. And my brother Eli is in fourth place, I think.

So to me, that's not really a statistic, that's being a good teammate. I haven't picked an age to play until and have no idea how long the streak will run. I just know that when I'm no longer a starter or can't make the throws I used to, I'll know it's time to think about stopping. Until then, my plan is be a productive player and give my teammates every change to win.

Week One is all about getting off to a good start and beginning the quest for a Super Bowl. Good luck to everyone out there as your own football seasons start. Stay healthy, be safe and have fun. - Peyton

P.S. - Let's keep this petition going... starting to get some real support here. Get those homemmade video messages up there in the group so we can send to the IOC with the petition. That way they KNOW we're serious.

One week to go until the start of football season and things are finally coming together.

It's pretty crazy that this is going to be my 11th season. You know sometimes it feels like it has been that long, sometimes it doesn't. It is hard to believe that it has been ten years already, but then the next day it could feel like 1998 was not that long ago. I just know that I can't wait to get back to work.

My goal is to be as productive in my 11th year as I was in my third or fourth year.

One thing I really am proud of is that in the past ten years, I've been able to make every start, every game since I started playing since opening day 1998. I'm knocking on wood as I write this obviously, but I've also had great protection and great help around me.

Offseason training has helped keep me healthy and there is a great deal of accountability knowing your teammates need you on that field and are depending on you. That's why you work hard to get back from injuries and fight through aches and pains.

Off to practice now. Man, that feels good to say.

Without a doubt, the Olympics are one of the greatest sporting events, trulya worldwide spectacle that brings amazing athletes together and energizes entire nations with excitement.

But the fact that my sport, football, continues to go unrecognized by the Olympic committee is just plain wrong.

So while I know it's too late for the 2008 Olympics in China, we need to get the movement going as soon as possible - for either 2010 or 2012. It doesn't matter. I just want a gold medal.

Whether you are American, Polish, English, German, Kenyan, Jordanian, Japanese or a citizen of the world and fan of football, all you need to do is go to our petition website -

http://www.makefootballanolympicsport.com

Only together we can make it happen.
Thanks.

Together again, training camp has begun for the Indianapolis Colts and it is an exciting time for all of us.Unfortunately, as you may know, I am not able to be out there on the field with my teammates at the moment as I had a procedure on my knee a few weeks ago. I'm following the doctors' instructions right now, but still have plenty of time to get ready by the time Week 1 rolls around. I'm not really in very much pain right now, which the doctors think means the infection is clearing. I appreciate everyone's concern and support, but in the meantime, I am still getting ready for the season, studying film, tossing a few balls and talking with teammates.That said, I definitely still get excited for training camp. I can't promise you that my offensive line feels the same way as training camp is work. It's a grind as a football player, but I get excited about the chance for our team to come together really for the first time. For everyone out there, it's a chance to bond on the practice field, bond in the dorm rooms at a small college, no carpet, one bathroom for every four guys. It's like camp as a kid, except we get to go to camp as an adult. That's part of the fabric of our league.No matter what level you play at - Pop Warner, high school, college or in the pros, there is chemistry and those bonds that form in practice early in the summer, maybe on a training table, eating meals together or maybe even hanging out in a dorm room... and somewhere that's going to make a difference. It might mean converting a key third down or making a big stop on defense when we need it. So I still do get excited.Of course, I also get excited because it means that the regular season is getting closer. For me, it's hard to know how much time I'll need to get ready because I've never had to experience something like this before. I'm going into my 11th year now, so I think I have enough deposits in the bank to be ready for a new season without much work in training camp, though it will still be a challenge getting ready. You can't expect to just walk onto a field against the Bears and be 100%ready.Our team practices about an hour north of Indianapolis in Terre Haute at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Every year, I love driving up there, sending a mass text message to my teammates to fire them up, something like " let's do it this year." And they'll respond back "Yeah, let's do it." "Let's make this our year," that's a fun feeling.

A big thank you to the campers, coaches, counselors and everyone behind the scenes who helped make this year's Manning Passing Academy so great.

We've created a Manning Passing Academy group on here on weplay and uploaded a bunch of photos from the weekend. Definitely upload yours if you have some good ones... also a good way to connect and keep in touch with everyone you met.

http://www.weplay.com/groups/932-Manning-Passing-Academy

Remember to keep working in the things you learned and hope to see a bunch of you back in 2009.

Hey out there. So summer is in full effect now which means one thing- training camp is just around the corner and the offseason is finally over. Although the word offseason is a very misleading word. If anything, it's more like an off month, that's all.

The myth is that the offseason is one big relaxing vacation, but the truth is, we work all year round and I maintain a very disciplined training regimen.

It's a 5-day-a-week lifting program from April through July, when training camp starts. February is really the best month because we're truly off. The coaches encourage us to really get away from the game in that month to rest the mind, to rest the body. Then in March, we kind of start working out on our own. The official offseason program starts in April, then the mini camps start.

To help us stay on the program, we have a strength coach with the Colts who has been there as long as I have been there. He designs a workout for each and every player, position-specific. Even as a quarterback, we do all the main weightlifting exercises. We certainly work the arm and rotator cuff, but we also focus on our legs since that's where your power as a quarterback comes from. The other key area of focus is the core, the middle body and the upper body, so we can absorb the hits from the big defensive players.

Lifting weights is important, but we're also doing a lot of running. But the running we do is very football-specific. We're not just out there running miles on end anymore. That's not what you do in a football game so it doesn't make sense for us to do. Our emphasis is on sprinting in short intervals, trying to simulate game situations - from the Huddle to a scramble or whatever it may be.

Of course, you have to do a lot of throwing in the offseason with your receivers. You get the timing down in April and May, get on the same page then so you can hit that critical 3rd and 8 pass to Reggie Wayne in November.

Over the course of the past 10 years, I've really honed in on my routine and figured out what works for me, but everyone is different. Work with your coaches, but for me, it is a strenuous program with lots of repetitions to also get the mental work in at the same time.

3 weeks to training camp! Get excited.

Two Blogs in two days! Well, this is a special occasion because I wanted to be sure to wish my dad and all the Weplay dads out there a Happy Father's Day. This has been a great weekend as I get to spend it with my family. It's not all too often that we get to be together because I'm in Indy, Eli is in New York and Cooper and our dad are in New Orleans, and certainly rare that we get to be together on Father's Day.

Our dad Archie has given us so much great advice over the years, so much love and so much support just a great dad and I know I speak for my brothers when I say we owe much of our success to our parents. Of course, Mother's Day is equally important (if not more!). So the fact that we're together, we take advantage of those times when we can.

We are actually together up in New York City, even getting to throw a NERF football around this weekend. They said it was the world's largest football catch between fathers and their kids. But it was cool because that was something we used to do growing up as kids. You've all seen some of that footage in the vids we've posted already on Weplay of us playing outside our house, but we even played inside (don't tell our mom).

We used to play something called Knee football, where we'd get to stand up and my dad would be on his knees. And the NERF football can't break anything in the house so that was fun. I'd love to hear your stories about how you play sports with your dad, too. And be sure to let your parents and kids know how much you love them today and every day. There is nothing more important than family.

Hi everyone, Hope you're all enjoying the summer and getting outside to play. So since we last spoke, the NFL Draft took place and the Colts added a bunch of players to the roster. I always look forward to meeting my new teammates and getting to know them on and off the field. We've added some really good weapons to the team and I know how anxious they are to get in and start showing us what they can do.

It seems like just yesterday that I was in these young guys' shoes, waiting to hear my name called and walking up on that stage. This was the ten-year anniversary of the 1998 Draft and I could certainly remember and relate to what all of these Draft choices were going through. I remember like it was yesterday what it felt like, how exciting and nerve-wracking it was, to be going to a new team, especially an NFL team.

For me, getting drafted that day in April 1998, I was picked around 11 o'clock, did all my interviews, then flew straight to Indianapolis to meet the team. At that point, I was literally handed a playbook and told I was the starting quarterback. Wow, talk about a whirlwind, that was a life-changing day for me. Most of the time, rookies get some time to adjust and work their way in.

In the NFL, you go to work immediately, trying to establish yourself as a player. Everyone has a chance to come in and compete for a spot on the roster, which is why it's so tough. With mini camps and training camp, you really get to see what everyone is made of, and that healthy competition makes the players and our team better.

Alright, well I hope you all are doing well and having fun out there. Talk again soon.

Hey Kids,

Thanks for checking out my weplay blog, which I've finally got up and running here. And before even reading this, I hope you've added me as a friend. I've never been a numbers and stats guy, but the bigger my number of friends, the happier I'll be.

So let's start it off... People always like to ask me about winning the Super Bowl back in 2006. It was a great feeling to win it and to raise that trophy. Obviously. The game of football is a team sport and we had a number of guys who were together for years. So it was great to reach that goal after all the hard work we put into it. It was also a good feeling to bring the championship back to the fans in Indianapolis. We felt that we shared the victory with them and that's what this game is all about.

As many of you know, my brother Eli also led his team to the Super Bowl and won a championship this past season. As I watched the game, I was pulling for him and playing the game in my own mind. I was happy for him... in fact, just as happy as I was when we won it all the year before. I'm just very proud of him. Me and my brother pull hard for each other every Sunday. Not just in football, but in life, as well. And we pull for our other family members, too, outside of football.

We don't get to spend as much time together as I'd like... the holidays are tough, especially, since he is in New York and I'm in Indy. We still try to find some time to get back to New Orleans in the off season, and it's special when Eli and Cooper are all together, but it's been rare these days.

Family is important to me. My parents are the reason that sports were fun for me as a kid, and the reason me and my brother still have a passion for the game today. My mom and dad always hugged us, even if we lost a game. Although my dad probably knew more about sports than some of the coaches, he never interfered. He was just there as a parent, to support his kid. I think that is important, not yelling at the umpires or coaches. The role of the parent is not to re-live their sports memory. And I appreciated that even then.

Aside from the support I have received from my family, one of the best things about sports is the friendships you make. I didn't start playing organized football until I was in 7th grade. Up until that point, I was playing pick-up games and backyard football. But once we were on that team together, there's this bond that you form. It's something special and your wide receivers and running backs become your best friends. I'm actually still friends with guys I was playing little league baseball, basketball and football with. And that was a long time ago.

Alright, I think that's a good start for now. How I got here, at least. So thanks for checking out my first blog. There's more to come, too... more videos and photos from when I was just learning to play sports. The camera was always rolling back then. This is going to be a lot of fun! Heck, I'm having fun already.

Thanks, Peyton