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Dungy Focused On Chargers

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 11, 2008

TAMPA - Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy wants to concentrate on Sunday's playoff game against San Diego.

Whether the fact his son Eric is enrolled at Plant High School is a sign the former Bucs coach is looking to retire after this season is something he will discuss later.

"What's going to happen at the end of the year for us, I'm going to sit down with my wife like I have the last couple of years," Dungy said, "and we're going to talk through where we are and what we want to do."

Dungy, who has expressed a desire to begin a prison ministry when he's done coaching, admitted he wasn't sure after the Colts' Super Bowl victory in February whether he would return for another year in Indianapolis. Ultimately he decided to help the Colts defend their title.

Eric Dungy enrolled at Plant and began classes Tuesday. The sophomore wide receiver will begin working out with the football team when weight training begins Monday. Whether his father will be a retired coach watching from the stands at Dad's Stadium remains to be seen.

"The only thing I can tell you is that no decisions have been made," Coach Dungy said. "I'm right where I have been the last two years and really focusing on this game with San Diego and nothing past that."

GATES TO BE GAME-TIME DECISION: Antonio Gates' limp suggested that he's going to have a hard time playing Sunday when his San Diego Chargers face the Colts in a divisional-round playoff game.

But with two days left to treat his dislocated left big toe, the star tight end said the decision whether he plays will be made Sunday morning.

"It's definitely going to be a game-time decision," Gates said Thursday after missing his second straight day of practice. "I'm not going to make any decisions before that. We're just going to wait to see how it feels on Sunday."

Gates was hurt in the second quarter of Sunday's 17-6 wild-card win over the Tennessee Titans and didn't return.

His left foot was in a boot Thursday.

"It's pretty sore. It's going to be sore. That's expected with this kind of injury," said Gates, San Diego's leading receiver the last four seasons.

Katherine Smith, Tribune wires

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