Look, we know that plenty of you have made up your minds that there’s nothing troubling about last week’s disclosure from Titans quarterback Kerry Collins that Titans coach Jeff Fisher and Colts coach Tony Dungy had some type of “I’ll fall down and then you’ll pin me” agreement regarding the closing moments of the Week Seventeen game that decided whether Tennessee or Cleveland would make it to the playoffs.

But we’re still troubled by it, and since we’ve got the keys to this car, we’re gonna continue to talk about it.

Apart from the question of why the league isn’t looking into the apparent existence of a deal that allowed the Titans to kill the clock without having to attempt a field goal while leading only by six (and we can understand why the league wouldn’t want to scratch that scab), we can’t comprehend the failure of the media to explore the issue.

The only attempt to look into the situation came last week, when Peter King slow-pitched one to Fisher, who brushed it all off as absurd, even though the admission came not from an opposing player but from his own backup quarterback. 

So why hasn’t anyone asked Dungy about it?  Though we don’t expect the Indianapolis media to put down their pom-poms long enough to ask a question that might get them thrown against a wall, the national media has (as far as we can tell) opted to give Saint Tony a pass.

We realize that it’s easy to overlook the story right now because there are far more compelling football matters to address.  But to the extent that anyone assigned to an NFL beat aspires to engage in real journalism, we can’t envision a better opportunity to do so.