COLTS7's Blog

Not sure where to start. I said in my "Defining Moment" blog, that if we experience an embarrassing loss, we can give up any SB dream. Well, the loss was embarrassing less for

performance and more because of sheer incompetence. Although the O-line yet again & still

is woefully inadequate, our skill players made some good plays. In terms of performance,

we had to resort to on-side kicks, fourth down go for it plays and a monumentally,

inexcusable and to be blunt stupid play to try and stay up with a superior team. You simply can't rely on high risk, high reward plays to beat any opponent. And second half looked

like nothing was learned from the successes we had in holding Gronk in check in the first

half. Is that on the Coaching or talent? I contend that's on the coach and his assistants

COLTS7I think you are being entirely too generous in describing Pagano & Grigson as good

but not great.

I try to look at both sides of any opinion, we played the best team in the NFL-by far and outplayed them in the first half and led 21-20 at half time  and eventually lost by 6 points,after pretty much giving them 7 points, that would seem to indicate we can play with anybody

I also believe that we have too many issues , in my opinion to make  a serious run, this year, good teams can look good , at times, look not so good, at times, I feel that is where this team is...good-not good enough

I also know , every year there are teams that are written off early, then get on a roll and become the team to beat, late in the year, so...................anything can happen

 

We have made the playoffs every year in this era, advanced further, each year in this era, played in the AFC championship last year, I admit that alot of that has do with our QB, but to say that he is the only reason for that sucess is pretty silly, in my opinion, which is why I feel that Pagano and Grigson have done good, but like team-overall, not good enough......that sucess also indicates to me that team is really close and a few good players at a few key positions would place this team in the conversation, which won't happen this year.

Thanks COLTS7 for the perspective. I guess I'm just very frustrated and it's coming out sideways. Manning & Luck = 1 SB.

unacceptable. Simply stated even with upgraded talent at a few key positions which Grigson is incapable of identifying, Pagano

and his staff are incapable of developing them. So I agree, a couple of studs on the O-Line and D-Line and we could right the

ship. However, remember thanks to Grigson, we've got some real dinosaurs on this roster with non-performance contracts which need to be dealt with. Sorry, But we may be looking at a couple of years of this kind of up & down performance until we get a Jim

Harbaugh or a Sean Payton to coach some talent that someone with a proven eye for talent does the signing.

i appreciate the input, I think many fans are bitter that we have only 1 ring from the Manning era, we came very close to 2, we came very close , several other times ( fans don't want to hear this , but we have not been blessed by the football god's on more than 1 occasion-luck does have alot to do with winning) and I believe that in the salary cap era, new england has been  the standard. There is no doubt in mind if we played in the NFC all of those years, we would have significantly more super bowl appearances , although prob not many more wins. Our best era, coincided with new englands run and we have many times come up short , as has the rest of the league vs them. Those same fans are feeling that the same thing in going too happen in the Luck era. I do believe this era will produce more rings, if only because new englands run is nearing an end and regardless of who is charge, going forward, there is alot of sucess in the future of this team, the question is ...how much?

I believe that if we keep the Pagano/Grigson team in place, we will not fullfill our potential and believe that some of the blame is on Pagano, but most of it is on Grigson.

I feel that many fans are spoiled with the sucess, since 1998, the only team that can realisticly say they have been more sucessfull than us, is new england. That means the 30 teams would love to have our record, so as they say .....it could be worse...I have been a Colts fan since 1968 and I remember how it used to be and it wasn't pretty. It sucks that we have not been able to get over the new england hump. All we can do is hope that this era, however it shakes out, will not leave fans feeling like we missed out......again.