Maddux wins 15th for 17th straight year\nPITTSBURGH -- Greg Maddux reached 15 wins for a record 17th consecutive season. Getting to 200 innings made him just as happy,\n"You always have your goals," Maddux said Thursday after leading the Chicago Cubs over the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3. "One of them is always to win 20, but you always have a goal to pitch 200 innings. If you can go out there and get your 200 innings, you have to be doing something right."\nMaddux also hit a two-run single in a four-run second inning for the Cubs, who completed their third series sweep of the Pirates this year. Maddux raised his total to 201 2-3 innings, reaching 200 for the 16th time in 17 years -- he missed by two-thirds of an inning in 2002.\nUnless Maddux pitched a combined 400 innings or more in 2004 and 2005, the Cubs have the right to void his $9 million salary in 2006.\n"I think 200 innings for me personally means more than the wins," Maddux said, "because you can't control the wins and losses as much as you can control showing up every fifth day and getting your 200 innings.
Packers will disguise defense to try to thwart Colts\nGREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers will have to disguise their defense like never before when they face Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.\nManning calls the majority of plays at the line after reading the defense.\n"It's like having an offensive coordinator on the field calling the play," Packers coach Mike Sherman said. "Obviously, his recognition of defenses, his intellect as a football player helps them ... make the right play against the right defense."\nThe Packers' ability to blitz might be hampered with both of their nose tackles sidelined with injuries and left cornerback Mike McKenzie set to make his first start after playing just nine snaps last week in his first game since ending a 46-day holdout.\nManning's play-calling could make it even harder to pressure the quarterback with blitzers the way defensive coordinator Bob Slowik would like.\n"It can at times," Sherman said. "I'm not saying it's going to be (difficult), but it just presents some definite challenges.\nManning is reluctant to discuss the process in which Colts offensive coordinator Tom Moore gives him great leeway in calling the plays.\n"I kind of like everybody trying to guess what they think we're doing and different people saying different stuff, and hopefully that keeps defenses off balance," Manning said. "I'll just say this: there's a lot of responsibility on the quarterback in this system. Tom Moore has been the offensive coordinator here for seven years, my entire time here, and the offense and the system here have really grown and developed and he's given me more and more trust and freedom every single year."\nManning said Moore preaches how the quarterback should be an extension of the offensive coordinator, "and I feel like we've really become that the last four or five years. I have a good feeling for what he's going to call and he does give me freedom to change plays and try to get us into better plays."\nManning said the secret, however, is the talent that surrounds him in running backs Edgerrin James and Dominic Rhodes and wide receivers Marvin Harrison, Brandon Stokley and Reggie Wayne.
