Improved Session symbolic of Colts' methods

<em>Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky</em> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="65"><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><font size="2"><img alt="" border="0" height="90" hspace="4" src="http://assets.espn.go.com/i/headshots/nfl/players/65/10579.jpg" vspace="4" width="65" /></font></td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1"><font size="1">Session</font></td></tr></table> <p>During the Dec. 18 broadcast of the Colts' playoff-clinching win in Jacksonville, the NFL Network's Cris Collinsworth spent some time talking about linebacker <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?playerId=10579" shape="rect" target="_new">Clint Session</a>.</p> <p>The gist: Session was a raw player who was flying around outside the framework of the defense early in the season, but now he looked like a completely different guy.</p> <p>I relayed that to Session recently and he didn't shy away from it.</p> <p>"I was so nervous about not making mistakes, being on my assignment, I was also battling losing my best friend, he got murdered down in Florida," Session said.</p> <p>Terrance Walker, Session's closest friend, was shot and killed by armed robbers in Pompano Beach, Fla. on July 20.</p> <p>"When things kind of ironed themselves out, I got a little more comfortable, my mind got a little more clear," said Session, who finished the regular season as Indianapolis' fourth-0leading tackler with 99 and forced three fumbles. "I was able to step it up, start picking my game up a little bit."</p> <p>Session is symbolic of the Colts way of operating.</p> <p>The team needed him after <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?playerId=8587" shape="rect" target="_new">Tyjuan Hagler</a> started the season the PUP list after an offseason chest injury and was patient with him as he figured things out. When his mind was racing early and he needed to settle down, he knew the team would be patient with him.</p> <p>"It's a system," Session said. "The thing about Mr. [Bill] Polian and his whole crew, they get the right guys here. They see promise, and they get the right guys in here and they watch them develop, they make them develop. We've got a lot of good players that are behind me right now that are going to develop into great players. We just keep reloading it."</p>

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