Name three positive things this season.

[Colts1324]

As painful as this season has been, there are some positives to take out of this season. If I had to name 3, they would be:

1.) Our offensive line has really developed through the later week of the season. Kelly and Luck will be a great combo for the next decade! They may have struggled in pass blocking all year, but they have been solid in run blocking. Excited about this line's future. 

2.) Our tight end group looks very promising. Jack Doyle and Erik Swoope have really developed. We could afford to trade Allen as those 2 are really coming on! 

3.)  Rasheen Melvin and Edwin Jackson were great finds! Edwin Jackson will be one of our starting ILB's next year and Melvin will be a key slot or nickel in the coming seasons. 

[Superman]

Sorry to break the spirit of the thread, but Melvin is not good.

[RollerColt]

I just can't... I've got nothing at the moment. 

[IndyD4U]

Andrew Luck is back

 

Oline has improved

 

We have some promising young players 

[Solon]

1. Run blocking. I thought our run blocking was pretty much good for the majority of the year.

 

2. Jack Doyle's development. I didn't expect him to play as well as he did this season.

 

3. Clayton Geathers development. He's never going to be Bob Sanders, but his versatility will surely allow us to create some spicy defensive schemes next season. 

[Andrew Luck fan club]

Literally the only good things are we finally didn't waste a 1st round pick, and Luck isn't dead. That's it.

[coltsva]

1. I should be able to upgrade my seats again

2. I was able to sell the few games I couldn't attend

3. I'll get back to you on this around January 2

[AKB]

Honestly the fact that we did not make the playoffs. We get better draft position and we would not have made it past the divisional round anyways. 

 

Luck is back to form.

 

I think we found a solid LB in Pound Cake, and a situational run stuffer in Morrison. The combination of those two and Geathers makes our defense quite flexible.

[tvturner]

1. Luck

2. TY

3. Jack and Erik

[Crunked]

#1) I like the uniforms

#2) The Beer in stadium isn't bad

#3) The Steelers fans (for the most part) were gracious in victory at the Thanksgiving game

[deedub75]

There are no positives unless some people are shown the door.  

[PeterBowman]

O line has vastly improved 2nd half of the season

 

Lucks decision making has improved ( for the most part)

 

There are some really good young prospects.....Geathers, Kelly, Doyle, Swoope, E Jackson, Ridgeway, Henry Anderson( when healthy), Clark could be the real deal with an offseason of weights, and even Harrison looks solid at guard and Morrison has flashed towards the end of the year.

 

[twfish]

#1 Andrew luck is back and had his best year as far as comp% goes

#2 frank gore broke our 100 yards game streak, and he had 2 100 yard games and is close to having 1,000 this year

#3 we will have relatively decent draft position where depth in positions of need is decent (historic if you look at RB)

 

There are several key things that are to be excited about next year and I expect a huge turn abound next year.

[2006Coltsbestever]

6 minutes ago, twfish said:

#1 Andrew luck is back and had his best year as far as comp% goes

#2 frank gore broke our 100 yards game streak, and he had 2 100 yard games and is close to having 1,000 this year

#3 we will have relatively decent draft position where depth in positions of need is decent (historic if you look at RB)

 

There are several key things that are to be excited about next year and I expect a huge turn abound next year.

Luck cut down on his INT's as well this season. I think he had a Good season. Also TY Hilton was Very Good this season to add to your list.

[1959Colts]

I just don't see how everyone is saying how vastly improved the O-line has gotten.

I thought they stunk today.

[csmopar]

30 minutes ago, 12to13 said:

Literally the only good things are we finally didn't waste a 1st round pick, and Luck isn't dead. That's it.

Yet.... still one more game

[csmopar]

Just now, 1959Colts said:

I just don't see how everyone is saying how vastly improved the O-line has gotten.

I thought they stunk today.

They did pretty good against two players that are in the running for DPOY awards in Mack And Irvin. Much better than last year. I see some improvements but yet there's plenty of room for more. 

[LockeDown]

1.  Oline is young and promising.  No philly has been free agents started this year.

2.  TEs look pretty good

3.  Kickers are tops in NFL

[MR. Blueblood]

1.  Gore finally broke the 100yd rushing drought.  Although I feel so sorry for him.  #Ididntcomehereforthis

 

2.  There is actually a light at the end of the tunnel for this O-line.

 

3.  Tickets for the Jacksonville game will be so cheap now that I can take my baby to the game and not feel like I'm being bent over by Irsay.

[LockeDown]

Win a game, lose a game, win a game, lose a game, ...next year our schedule needs us to play divisional games every other week on the weeks where we win.  We win the division barely over .500 but we have all of he tie breakers.

[lennymoore24]

1) We had a pretty solid draft.  The young O-Line players look good. 

2) The TEs are pretty good.  I  actually Allen is the weakest.

3) I think defensively, if we can do to the linebackers what we did with the O-Line this year in the draft, it would make a huge difference.  We have potential on the line but the linebackers are terrible at stopping the run unless they are clean.  And we have zero pass rush.

[jimmy g]

13 minutes ago, 1959Colts said:

I just don't see how everyone is saying how vastly improved the O-line has gotten.

I thought they stunk today.

Stinking is Vastly Improved over what they were a few weeks ago...

[deedub75]

22 minutes ago, 1959Colts said:

I just don't see how everyone is saying how vastly improved the O-line has gotten.

I thought they stunk today.

 

I agree. Even when they weren't giving up sacks, Luck was still getting getting killed in the backfield. 

[aReggie7]

2 minutes ago, deedub75 said:

 

I agree. Even when they weren't giving up sacks, Luck was still getting getting killed in the backfield. 

 

 

I feel that the rookies on the oline have showed promise. Above that the biggiest problem with the oline has to do with play calling. This team has not attempted enough short/quick passe imo. 

[jameszeigler834]

1 hour ago, Solon said:

1. Run blocking. I thought our run blocking was pretty much good for the majority of the year.

 

2. Jack Doyle's development. I didn't expect him to play as well as he did this season.

 

3. Clayton Geathers development. He's never going to be Bob Sanders, but his versatility will surely allow us to create some spicy defensive schemes next season. 

On Geathers lets hope that neck isn't serious.

[deedub75]

2 minutes ago, ar7 said:

 

I feel that the rookies on the oline have showed promise. Above that the biggiest problem with the oline has to do with play calling. This team has not attempted enough short/quick passe imo. 

 

Yes, they did show promise. No offense to them but this is the type of promise we needed in year one and not in year five. 

[AZColt11]

There are probably some positives somewhere but I just don't feel like this is the appropriate time to be discussing them after the letdown of a season we all just witnessed. Maybe in a couple of months?

[Colts_Fan12]

1. Luck

2. TY 

3. Clark looks good and besides AC our o line is looking better 

[GoBlue12]

12 minutes ago, deedub75 said:

 

Yes, they did show promise. No offense to them but this is the type of promise we needed in year one and not in year five. 

Grigs and company blew the entire 2013 draft. Holmes and Thornton weren't NFL capable. We are still suffering the consequences of that blown draft and not only on the OL.

[snkdy]

1. Luck

2. TY

3. They actually did address our slow-starts issue in the latter half of the season. It was refreshing to see our team play with a lead against teams like Green Bay and Minnesota. I just wish we had done a better job finishing games this season.

[Architects08]

1) The WR we draft in the first round will be better than Dorsett

 

2) Um?

 

3)I'm positive this team will be the same next year if Grigson and Pagano are still around.

[GoColts8818]

1.  Very solid draft class.

 

2.  The Oline is better and has really improved lately, one sack or less in four straight games and none the last two weeks.

 

3.  We broke our 100 yard rusher drought.

[VocableLoki]

1) Luck is playing smarter and better, seems like his skills will translate forward.

 

2) Some hope for the O-Line for the first time in awhile

 

3) Running game in general was better this season

[Andrew Luck fan club]

3 hours ago, csmopar said:

Yet.... still one more game

Yup fingers crossed. 

[CR91]

1.gore will get 1000 yards if he rushes for 36 yards

 

2. we have our oline of the future with AC mewhort kelly haeg clark

 

3. we can have 81m in cap space by cutting robinson jones jackson langford and gore

[gacoop1]

1.  High draft picks

2. Firing Pagan/Grigson(wishful thinking)

3. Another year of experience for Luck who in two plus years will be 30 and still no SB.

[Big Webb]

4 hours ago, Colts1324 said:

As painful as this season has been, there are some positives to take out of this season. If I had to name 3, they would be:

1.) Our offensive line has really developed through the later week of the season. Kelly and Luck will be a great combo for the next decade! They may have struggled in pass blocking all year, but they have been solid in run blocking. Excited about this line's future. 

2.) Our tight end group looks very promising. Jack Doyle and Erik Swoope have really developed. We could afford to trade Allen as those 2 are really coming on! 

3.)  Rasheen Melvin and Edwin Jackson were great finds! Edwin Jackson will be one of our starting ILB's next year and Melvin will be a key slot or nickel in the coming seasons. 

I agree with trading Allen I've been saying that for a while , we could pick up D -Line help

[Defjamz26]

1. Hilton shut everyone up and proved he's a top 10 receiver 

2.McaFee is undisputed best at his position

3. TEs with the exception of Allen look good

[ClaytonColt]

1) We've got some nice young parts on offence who seem to be on an upward curve and have got good experience this year.

 

2) The salary cap situation gives us plenty of options going forward. We should be able to fix some of our deficiencies with good choices.

 

3) The other teams in the division didn't make the step forward which was expected. If a couple of their personnel decisions had worked out better or their young players progressed we could have been facing a much tougher battle in future years.

[superrep1967]

9 hours ago, Colts1324 said:

As painful as this season has been, there are some positives to take out of this season. If I had to name 3, they would be:

1.) Our offensive line has really developed through the later week of the season. Kelly and Luck will be a great combo for the next decade! They may have struggled in pass blocking all year, but they have been solid in run blocking. Excited about this line's future. 

2.) Our tight end group looks very promising. Jack Doyle and Erik Swoope have really developed. We could afford to trade Allen as those 2 are really coming on! 

3.)  Rasheen Melvin and Edwin Jackson were great finds! Edwin Jackson will be one of our starting ILB's next year and Melvin will be a key slot or nickel in the coming seasons. 

 

Yeah, I like Morrison as a run stopper. I also like Geathers if he can come back fully healthy. I don't know his prognosis, though.