"There are, Jeff Saturday conceded, two sides to every story. That includes the one involving the minicamp holdouts of Reggie Wayne and Robert Mathis.

The Pro Bowl center, though, sides with his teammates. Saturday is the Colts' representative to the NFL Players Association and a member of the NFLPA executive committee.

"I'm going to side with players 100 percent of the time,'' he said Sunday. "I want players to get as much money as they can, when they can.

"Careers are short, and you never know what's guaranteed or what's coming your way.''

On the flip side, Saturday understands teams must look at the bigger picture.

"They have a responsibility to look to the future, way past how we as players look at it," he said. "We look at it one year at a time."

Wayne and Mathis skipped the mandatory minicamp, and have not participated in any of the Colts' voluntary organized team activities after asking the team to renegotiate their contracts. Each has two years remaining on his deal."