Wow, Margus Hunt might win us a game or two

[Lucky Colts Fan]

I had no idea Margus Hunt was such a kick-blocking specialist.  I mean, that's points.  I didn't even think about that.  This is a sneaky-good move by Ballard, especially now that the leaping block is illegal.  Even if Hunt has no sacks, or even QB pressures this year, if he can block kicks, or passes...  The following is from the article about him on the Colts main page:

 

"While a raw college prospect, Hunt would take some time to work on his skills along the defensive line, but he quickly developed a knack for blocking kicks on special teams. He would go on to block 17 kicks with the Mustangs — the second most in NCAA history — and his 10 blocks on field goals broke James Ferebee’s NCAA record of eight blocked field goals set at New Mexico State from 1978-81.  he led the NFL in 2016 by blocking two extra-point attempts and also swatting down a field goal "

 

I know I'm going to be looking for #94 when our kick-block team is on the field this year.  

 

A block in the 1st quarter could change the game in our favor, but if he can block that crucial extra point or field goal at the end of the game, he might win us a game or two this year.  

[chad72]

Especially now that they banned leaping over the center without touching him, it might come in handy against coaches or players who do not account for him during a kick. 

[akcolt]

1 hour ago, Lucky Colts Fan said:

I had no idea Margus Hunt was such a kick-blocking specialist.  I mean, that's points.  I didn't even think about that.  This is a sneaky-good move by Ballard, especially now that the leaping block is illegal.  Even if Hunt has no sacks, or even QB pressures this year, if he can block kicks, or passes...  The following is from the article about him on the Colts main page:

 

"While a raw college prospect, Hunt would take some time to work on his skills along the defensive line, but he quickly developed a knack for blocking kicks on special teams. He would go on to block 17 kicks with the Mustangs — the second most in NCAA history — and his 10 blocks on field goals broke James Ferebee’s NCAA record of eight blocked field goals set at New Mexico State from 1978-81.  he led the NFL in 2016 by blocking two extra-point attempts and also swatting down a field goal "

 

I know I'm going to be looking for #94 when our kick-block team is on the field this year.  

 

A block in the 1st quarter could change the game in our favor, but if he can block that crucial extra point or field goal at the end of the game, he might win us a game or two this year.  

Chris Milton CB had 7 blocks at Georgia Tech. He spent most of last season on the PS. His total isn't near Hunt's but that and his 4.3 speed makes him a guy I'll have an eye on in camp. The thing to get excited about with Hunt is his best football is still ahead of him. He's a guy who it could click for and we could have a good player on our hands. His size makes him very interesting I too will be watching 94. 

[RockThatBlue]

Put him and Banner in the middle on field goal tries.

[life long]

32 minutes ago, akcolt said:

Chris Milton CB had 7 blocks at Georgia Tech. He spent most of last season on the PS. His total isn't near Hunt's but that and his 4.3 speed makes him a guy I'll have an eye on in camp. The thing to get excited about with Hunt is his best football is still ahead of him. He's a guy who it could click for and we could have a good player on our hands. His size makes him very interesting I too will be watching 94. 

Not saying its unheard of to break out late but he is about 30. To say his best football is ahead of him is not the wording i would have used. 

[WoolMagnet]

10 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

Put him and Banner in the middle on field goal tries.

He and DAVID Banner maybe would help....... maybe

[akcolt]

25 minutes ago, life long said:

Not saying its unheard of to break out late but he is about 30. To say his best football is ahead of him is not the wording i would have used. 

He didn't play organized football until 2009 I think the hope is the switch to back to the 3-4 will unlock the freakish athletic ability that saw him drafted in round 2 back in 2013. If that happens we will see his best football. It wouldn't take a lot he didn't set the league on fire in Cinny. 

[akcolt]

31 minutes ago, life long said:

Not saying its unheard of to break out late but he is about 30. To say his best football is ahead of him is not the wording i would have used. 

It couldn't have been as bad as Chuck saying "every spot in the secondary is wide open".  

[Gabriel Alexander Morillo]

33 minutes ago, WoolMagnet said:

He and DAVID Banner maybe would help....... maybe

Maybe Bruce Banner... 

[RockThatBlue]

35 minutes ago, akcolt said:

It couldn't have been as bad as Chuck saying "every spot in the secondary is wide open".  

Well Pagano is pretty much right when he said that. Vontae and Geathers are the only probable guaranteed starters. The other spots are basically wide open.

 

Chuck exaggerated a little bit but hes not really wrong either.

[Boiler_Colt]

I still think he is a long shot to make the roster. The d-line batle should be fun to watch in the preseason.

[bananabucket]

Man people here are easily excited lol

[akcolt]

1 hour ago, RockThatBlue said:

Well Pagano is pretty much right when he said that. Vontae and Geathers are the only probable guaranteed starters. The other spots are basically wide open.

 

Chuck exaggerated a little bit but hes not really wrong either.

I was talking about Chuck's choice of words saying every spot in the secondary is wide open. The secondary's job is to cover. It's clear if you start for this team in 2017 you will earn it.  

[NewColtsFan]

 

It's not entirely clear that Hunt even makes the team yet.

 

He's got great physical tools and a great attitude,  but he has yet to put it altogether to be a productive contributing member of a football team.

 

There's a reason why Cincinnati let him leave....

 

I hope Hunt makes the team,  but he's not a lock yet....

 

[Stephen]

4 hours ago, RockThatBlue said:

Put him and Banner in the middle on field goal tries.

Him banner and grover lol

[WoolMagnet]

3 hours ago, Gabriel Alexander Morillo said:

Maybe Bruce Banner... 

Is the Hulk Bruce or David?  Thats who ii meant.

you'd think with as much tv as i watch (too much) i'd remember that.

 

[COLTS449]

He'll be lucky to make the team IMO. I think he's best suited as a 34 DE, and maybe he'll make the team and have a breakout year, he's got a lot of upside still, but how may DL are we going to roll with?

 

Anderson

Hankins

Langford

Ridgeway

Stewart

McGill

Woods

Hunt

Parry

Boyd

 

I'd say go ahead and scratch Boyd. So then we're down to 9. So 2 more has to go. Parry and Woods? Let Stewart and McGill man the backup NT spot in the rotation? Or do you guys think that's a little dangerous. Maybe Boyd, Hunt, and one of Parry or Woods get cut? Then again. We have Hankins, and Stewart or McGill either one is capable of playing NT, so we should probably just roll with our best 7 when we have to cut down to 53.

[il vecchio]

46 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:

 

It's not entirely clear that Hunt even makes the team yet.

 

He's got great physical tools and a great attitude,  but he has yet to put it altogether to be a productive contributing member of a football team.

 

There's a reason why Cincinnati let him leave....

 

I hope Hunt makes the team,  but he's not a lock yet....

 

He's not a lock, but I take clues from listening to Ballard during interviews and noticing whom he mentions and does not mention.  Just a few days ago on JMV, when talking about the front 7, he mentioned...

Sheard, Simon, Basham, Ayers, Edwards, Mingo, Hankins, Woods, Anderson, Ridgeway, Hunt.

There are a couple names conspicuously not mentioned, excluding the rookies.  Remains to be seen if there is any significance to this.  

 

Edit: Sorry, I think he was talking about OLBs and D-Linemen

 

[Boiler_Colt]

47 minutes ago, WoolMagnet said:

Is the Hulk Bruce or David?  Thats who ii meant.

you'd think with as much tv as i watch (too much) i'd remember that.

 

Well its both. In the comics and the new movies its Bruce. However, in the Lou Ferrigno/Bill Bixby TV series they changed his name to David.

[WoolMagnet]

2 hours ago, Boiler_Colt said:

Well its both. In the comics and the new movies its Bruce. However, in the Lou Ferrigno/Bill Bixby TV series they changed his name to David.

That would explain it.  I'm allergic to reading.

also shows my age i guess.

thank you

kinda like that darn Fargo show that keeps changing actors for characters.  At least the mountain had his helmet on most of the time so you didnt notice.  And them switching Calisi's boytoy had me confused for a couple episodes.

come on man!

[Superman]

I don't think Hunt makes the final 53. 

[James]

7 hours ago, bananabucket said:

Man people here are easily excited lol

 

I mean, you're the expert. You get excited by the mention of Chuck Pagano.

[ColtsFanMikeC]

5 hours ago, COLTS449 said:

He'll be lucky to make the team IMO. I think he's best suited as a 34 DE, and maybe he'll make the team and have a breakout year, he's got a lot of upside still, but how may DL are we going to roll with?

 

Anderson

Hankins

Langford

Ridgeway

Stewart

McGill

Woods

Hunt

Parry

Boyd

 

I'd say go ahead and scratch Boyd. So then we're down to 9. So 2 more has to go. Parry and Woods? Let Stewart and McGill man the backup NT spot in the rotation? Or do you guys think that's a little dangerous. Maybe Boyd, Hunt, and one of Parry or Woods get cut? Then again. We have Hankins, and Stewart or McGill either one is capable of playing NT, so we should probably just roll with our best 7 when we have to cut down to 53.

 

44 minutes ago, Superman said:

I don't think Hunt makes the final 53. 

 

 

As it stands now, I think the list COLTS449 has is almost in order of skill, except I would put Hankins above Anderson. 

 

I think Boyd, Sokoli and Thomas are the obvious 3 weakest DL on the roster (though, honestly, I don't know enough about Jhaustin Thomas). 

 

The past 3 seasons our end of year roster had 6 DL, and 10 or 11 LBs.  We are not loaded with talent at LB or DL, though I think we've got more overall talent at DL, which may mean when we get to the numbers game an extra LB is kept along.  I tend to doubt we'll go w/ more than 6 DL on the 53 this year (unless Langford isn't going to be ready to handle a heavy load early in the year).

 

Parry, I expect, will be suspended and potentially cut as his legal process continues to work itself out.  So assuming at least the first 3-4 weeks (Parry suspension assumption) we will be keeping 6 guys and we drop Sokoli, Boyd, Thomas and Parry then we are down to 8 guys fighting for 6 spots.

 

Assuming Langford is healthy and back to form, I think the 3 locks are Hankins, Anderson and Langford and I'll give a fourth to Ridgeway, as I thought he was developing pretty nicely last year. That leaves us with 4 guys fighting for the final 2 spots.

Woods has never been spectacular, and I think McGill is pretty much at his ceiling.  Without knowing how Stewart's game will transition from a D2 program to the NFL, it seems like he's got better measurables and a bit more potential. Hunt has physical traits, though he's never really developed on his potential.

 

I would agree w/ Superman that he doesn't make the 53, but if he is proving very valuable on STs, I could see him getting a nod over Woods and/or McGill. Also, Hunt is really more of a true DE (whereas Anderson, Hankins, and Ridgeway seem to be able to play anywhere across the line) and the fact Langford is coming off injury may bode well for him.

 

 

[Superman]

1 hour ago, ColtsFanMikeC said:

I would agree w/ Superman that he doesn't make the 53, but if he is proving very valuable on STs, I could see him getting a nod over Woods and/or McGill. Also, Hunt is really more of a true DE (whereas Anderson, Hankins, and Ridgeway seem to be able to play anywhere across the line) and the fact Langford is coming off injury may bode well for him.

 

 

Yeah, almost four months to go, so who knows what happens. And Hunt has $500k guaranteed, but I don't think that guarantees him a spot. 

[COLTS449]

4 hours ago, ColtsFanMikeC said:

 

 

 

As it stands now, I think the list COLTS449 has is almost in order of skill, except I would put Hankins above Anderson. 

 

I think Boyd, Sokoli and Thomas are the obvious 3 weakest DL on the roster (though, honestly, I don't know enough about Jhaustin Thomas). 

 

The past 3 seasons our end of year roster had 6 DL, and 10 or 11 LBs.  We are not loaded with talent at LB or DL, though I think we've got more overall talent at DL, which may mean when we get to the numbers game an extra LB is kept along.  I tend to doubt we'll go w/ more than 6 DL on the 53 this year (unless Langford isn't going to be ready to handle a heavy load early in the year).

 

Parry, I expect, will be suspended and potentially cut as his legal process continues to work itself out.  So assuming at least the first 3-4 weeks (Parry suspension assumption) we will be keeping 6 guys and we drop Sokoli, Boyd, Thomas and Parry then we are down to 8 guys fighting for 6 spots.

 

Assuming Langford is healthy and back to form, I think the 3 locks are Hankins, Anderson and Langford and I'll give a fourth to Ridgeway, as I thought he was developing pretty nicely last year. That leaves us with 4 guys fighting for the final 2 spots.

Woods has never been spectacular, and I think McGill is pretty much at his ceiling.  Without knowing how Stewart's game will transition from a D2 program to the NFL, it seems like he's got better measurables and a bit more potential. Hunt has physical traits, though he's never really developed on his potential.

 

I would agree w/ Superman that he doesn't make the 53, but if he is proving very valuable on STs, I could see him getting a nod over Woods and/or McGill. Also, Hunt is really more of a true DE (whereas Anderson, Hankins, and Ridgeway seem to be able to play anywhere across the line) and the fact Langford is coming off injury may bode well for him.

 

 

 

We'll carry 7 D-Linemen, and Thomas the UDFA is an OLB. So put him on that list. The locks are 5. Anderson, Hankins, Langford, Stewart, and Ridgeway. 5 sure fire locks. We spent a 4th on Stewart and he has enormous potential. He's making the final 53. He cant be put on the PS as somebody would snatch him up within 2 minutes. But the other 2 spots are up for grabs. My prediction.....

 

Anderson

Hankins

Langford

Ridgeway

Stewart

McGill

Woods

 

Parry, Hunt, and Boyd are cut. Maybe, hopefully we get to slip one on the PUP in case we need em week 8 or later. I'd prefer to keep Parry or Hunt over Woods, but this is my guess.

[life long]

15 minutes ago, COLTS449 said:

 

We'll carry 7 D-Linemen, and Thomas the UDFA is an OLB. So put him on that list. The locks are 5. Anderson, Hankins, Langford, Stewart, and Ridgeway. 5 sure fire locks. We spent a 4th on Stewart and he has enormous potential. He's making the final 53. He cant be put on the PS as somebody would snatch him up within 2 minutes. But the other 2 spots are up for grabs. My prediction.....

 

Anderson

Hankins

Langford

Ridgeway

Stewart

McGill

Woods

 

Parry, Hunt, and Boyd are cut. Maybe, hopefully we get to slip one on the PUP in case we need em week 8 or later. I'd prefer to keep Parry or Hunt over Woods, but this is my guess.

Agreed if woods is kept on it will be at the expense of parry and/or hunt. They each have their specific niche on the D line, with woods IMO being most capable against the run as a backup to Hankins. I love a good preseason dog fight. Steel sharpens steel lol paganoism 101. Any real competition on defense is a welcomed change. The colts are becoming the underdogs in the perspective of the media. Now it is time to quiet the naysayers *fans included*.... GO COLTS!!!

[Dark Superman]

Hopefully Hunt makes the 53 man roster..

But I did like the signing.

[NewEra]

So far he's been a second round bust with a ton of athletic ability. But at this level it takes heart and what's between the ears. With that being said I know if you really want it you can make huge changes in a years time. So hopefully for his sake he buckled down and trained his butt off. Got two 6'8 guys on the team with him and Banner