Click here for linkNFL wanted to be fair to Terrelle Pryor... Making Tressel sit out 6 games. To save face, they are saying it was Tressel's idea.
Jim Tressel won't begin his tenure as replay-game consultant with the Indianapolis Colts until the seventh game of the regular season.
Colts vice chairman Bill Polian said the move came at the former Ohio State coach's suggestion after discussions over the weekend.
"In addition, we had a conversation with league officials to apprise them of the details of Coach Tressel's employment and the issues we were reviewing," Polian said Monday morning in a statement.