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CoachLite

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  1. Does Indiana still have the law where contracts can't be signed on Sunday?
  2. You mean like Sneed --> Snood -- > Snooze? Wake me up if and when it happens.
  3. How all this 'stuff' got posted in a Colt's Free Agency thread is beyond me. Instead of 81 pages, it could easily be 3.
  4. I remember the Josh McDaniels' 'done deal', until it wasn't. Whatever ...
  5. I think I watched his mom and dad on TV in the 70s ...
  6. Wonder what influence our new DLine coach had on this signing?
  7. Does that include 8 - 10 mil for draftees?
  8. This is where I criticize the coaching. It seems that our coaching, by words and deeds, don't expect enough performance from our players. I've found people usually can perform up to quite high expectations given the right guidance and support. But if you undercut that guidance and support with a lack of confidence (like instructing your players to play off on a soft defense like bend-don't-break), the whole thing falls apart. This is why it's so hard to evaluate the players we have, and why so many of our players go on to perform better with other teams.
  9. A lot of Colt's fans were angry that he decided to retire right before the start of the season. I wasn't angry, but sad due to the circumstances that pressured him to retire. I do understand why many fans were angry, however. I was more than a little grumpy that we stayed with Pagano and Grigson for as long as we did. Why don't we just put those two bozos in the Ring of Honor, too? It's not about wins or losses. It's about honorable contributions to Colts football.
  10. Andrew Luck's 'retirement' from the Colts was a sad day. I don't fault Luck, but putting his name in the Ring of Honor would be pouring salt in the wounds. I wish him the best in whatever profession he chooses (except pro football).
  11. You can imagine my confusion when I read the headline. I didn't know Anthony Richardson was pregnant.
  12. I've seen too many mediocre players become very good players with proper coaching.
  13. Sometimes, watching the Colt's play football in the recent past will drive one to drink.
  14. You may be right and everyone was in agreement. That is not to say that they were correct, but who am I to judge? I guess time will tell how things shake out for the Colts. I lost my blue, Happy Colts glasses long ago.
  15. All these are necessary, but insufficient. I think the answer is more complex than most of us realize. There has to be an alignment between component parts where the result becomes greater than the sum of the parts. Some refer to this complexity as "flow" or "operating like a well-oiled machine". Without flow, a Chinese doctor would call it "constricted chi" ulimately resulting in a death sentence. I only wish the solution was as simple as "eating more pork". It's not.
  16. I think the point is that the DC has to fit into the entire picture of the team's overall strategy. Wilks didn't. The verdict is out on Bradley. Right or wrong, everyone has to be pulling in the same direction, otherwise chaos and conflict (and losses) results. For the past decade or two, I never felt like the Colt's coaches and GM were on the same page with the owner. You can't have that many drivers on the bus trying to go to different places at the same time. Some hard decisions need to be made about the direction a team is going. That applies to SF as well as the Colts.
  17. Imagine that? A coach gets fired for making bone-headed calls during an important game.
  18. Obviously, I meant Steve Wilks instead of Spagnuolo.
  19. I thought the game pivoted on two points: One the missed PAT, and two Spags calling up a blitz on Mahomes at the worst possible point in the game. Pretty even game other than that.
  20. Pulling in one direction, but it should be the right direction, too. Pulling down doesn't work.
  21. Fans tend to blame one person - Ballard, Irsay, the head coach du jour - but it is always a team effort to achieve a mediocre outcome. It is a "camel is a race horse designed by committee" problem. I see the problem as different perspectives being compromised down to some average (regression to the mean), not having one, clear vision that everyone can get behind. Honestly, I don't see that changing, even though the people may have the individual skills to be successful. My opinion is, the Colts couldn't identify a good head coach if their lives depended on it - given the organizational structure and people we have running the show. We end up taking whoever is available. This is not to say the Shane Steichen isn't going to be a good head coach (he's a rookie, and makes a lot of rookie mistakes). I just don't see the fan base being patient enough to to put up with years of mediocre results. There's not good reason why they should.
  22. The pendulum swung too far in the opposite direction. These are not emotional decisions either way, but objective decisions based on metrics from the rubric. Those of us in business do "what-if" comparisons (OK, competitions) between alternative scenarios. We do correlation analysis to see what metrics give us the biggest bang for the buck given various contexts. Boring stuff, but there are times when it shows us how wrong our gut feelings can be. Or, we can keep on being a .500 team, missing the playoffs year after year, and wasting the talent of our players. Are you happy with the performance of Reich and Pagano? Even when Luck was winning?
  23. This is why it is important to have 'provable' performance measures, and keep all the emotional 'stuff' out of professional decisions.
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