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You can imagine my confusion when I read the headline. I didn't know Anthony Richardson was pregnant.
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I've seen too many mediocre players become very good players with proper coaching.
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Sometimes, watching the Colt's play football in the recent past will drive one to drink.
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1 minute ago, richard pallo said:
There is no doubt in my mind that if Steichen wasn’t happy with Gus he would have replaced him. I think all three were on board with trading Gilmore and intentionally going younger in the secondary and they all were on board with being patient with Leonard. So they were all pulling in the same direction. I think they reach consensus on important decisions that need to be made. Nothing has changed as the off season gets underway.
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.
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On 2/13/2024 at 3:49 PM, Solid84 said:
You NEED a QB who can make the all the throws - to stretch the field, to hit tight windows etc.
You NEED weapons on offense - chainmovers, playmakers etc.
You NEED elite playmakers on the Dline - good doesn't cut it.
You NEED elite playmakers in the secondary - again, good doesn't cut it.
You NEED great playcalling on both sides of the ball.
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.
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14 hours ago, chad72 said:
The marriage between Kyle Shanahan and Steve Wilks was always rocky. Sometimes I felt KS was too willing to throw Wilks under the bus by publicly disagreeing with his calls (like that blitz before half-time in the Vikings game resulting in an Addison TD) putting Wilks in a spot to defend himself to media. Coaches like Dungy, Pagano, Steichen would have addressed it behind closed doors.
The results on the field however were too hit and miss with the slow starts versus Packers and Lions that required offensive comebacks. The overall body of work wasn’t as good as they’d have liked.
Mile Vrabel or Belichick would be good names to look at for the DC spot though I think both of them would prefer a HC job.
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.
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Imagine that? A coach gets fired for making bone-headed calls during an important game.
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22 hours ago, CoachLite said:
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.
Obviously, I meant Steve Wilks instead of Spagnuolo.
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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.
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9 hours ago, Boondoggle said:
The GM has to be capable at a minimum. He has to hire a good coach, or a good coach has to hire a capable GM. One of those two. And those two need to be in lockstep. Pulling in one direction.
Obviously the better the two positions the better chance you have of winning every year. And some coaches are good enough to pull a GM over that line but you gotta have both if you want to win consistently and even then there will be down years.
On top of that if you have a good cap planner and an owner who can move money around with the deep pockets to pay out to the players to enable it, you can get away with murder just about. You hear all this hubbub about teams going all in, but some can do that every season because of those elements being in place. There's a big difference in that regard in owners. Most recent example would be the Rams who won a SB and cleaned house this past year and somehow are going to have a cleared cap in '24. It's some nonsense.
Pulling in one direction, but it should be the right direction, too. Pulling down doesn't work.
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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.
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4 hours ago, ColtStrong2013 said:
If you are stating that favoring disposing of Pagano and Reich more quickly, then I would suppose Jim Irsay would argue that he learned being patient and keeping the emotional stuff out of professional decisions was from the way his father ran things, which was on the opposite end of the spectrum.
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?
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6 minutes ago, ColtStrong2013 said:
that’s more Jim Irsay’s philosophy on coaching than anyone…Ever heard the story of his dad firing the head coach after a preseason game? Jim was a kid and was humiliated. Sat and cried on the bus with the players he was so embarrassed. Swore he would never run the team like that. He’s been more than generous with coaches. It’s a large reason why Ballard is still handling things.
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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4 minutes ago, CoachLite said:
Simple. They understand what it takes to hire good coaches, good players and play winning football. The rubric we use in these matters isn't cutting it, and this is evidenced by keeping Gus Bradley. My prediction is the same 'ole, same 'ole in the future. Look how long we kept Pagano and Reich? Pitiful.
Some here may not be familiar with using rubrics for personnel evaluations. Here's an example:
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20 hours ago, indyagent17 said:
I’ve been putting a lot of thought to this just thinking about it how come Pittsburgh has never had a losing season. Why was the New England so good for so many years? Why is San Francisco always competing for championship? It’s because they have great owners that their general managers on the team. Great coaching from the entire staff and steller scouting. Rarely missing on draft picks
Simple. They understand what it takes to hire good coaches, good players and play winning football. The rubric we use in these matters isn't cutting it, and this is evidenced by keeping Gus Bradley. My prediction is the same 'ole, same 'ole in the future. Look how long we kept Pagano and Reich? Pitiful.
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6 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:
Why would you get down on the Colts over suspicious officiating? Why is that the Colts fault? Seems there are plenty of other legit reasons. But I’m confused on the officiating comment. Can you elaborate?I'm not so much down on the Colts as I am down on football in general. Some of the Colts decisions baffle me, but I'm always free to be a fan of another team, another sport, or just opt to take a nap.
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18 hours ago, richard pallo said:
I agree changing coaches doesn’t guarantee anything. Jim Schwartz, who many wanted to be our DC when Eberflus left just had his zone defense fall victim to Stroud yesterday as well. He’s being criticized for not changing anything for Stroud. His explanation was you play with what got you there and execute. Both Gus and Jim are 57 and successful. I agree if Steichen and Ballard are happy with him then you help him by improving the roster. That’s Ballard’s job. I’m feeling confident that with a few additions to the starting eleven coupled with the experience gained from the young guys we will see an improved defense next year. I think that’s a realistic expectation.
I hear that kind of thinking every year. I see what we have under Gus Bradley, and I don't like what I see. While we can always hope for more talent, we are underperforming with the talent we have. That drives me nuts!
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6 hours ago, GoColts8818 said:
Coaches don’t just change what they believe in and their system they have spent their life developing. If you want that changed you change the coach. The Colts elected not to do that. So all we can hope is Ballard is right about it being young players like he was right about the line last year and not making changes despite a lot of fans wanting them.
As for Ballard he said in press conference he knows both the offense and defense needs more explosive players. The thing is every team in the league is looking for the samething and when they find them they normally don’t let them get to free agency. If one does and Ballard thinks they will help the Colts you can bet he will make a push for them, the key is Ballard thinking it helps them though, not what fans want. We don’t get a vote.
Regarding him being on the hot seat he’s not. Irsay more or less cast judgement on him last year when he didn’t fire him and let him hire a new coach and draft a new QB. Like it or not Irsay pretty much reset the clock on Ballard. Then Irsay said before the year he wanted to see progress this year and there is no denying this team made progress this year compared to last year. So Ballard is most likely in good graces with Irsay which Colts fans who want Ballard gone don’t like accepting.
What with the suspicious officiating, the Colts staying with Bradley, it's becoming difficult to remain a fan of Colts football. I suppose it is regression to the mean, and the mean is getting lower and lower each year.
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1 hour ago, GoColts8818 said:
He probably watched the Texans game, and his resistance to illness crashed. It made me sick, too.
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Why try to bring in any talented player when we seem to be asking them to play sandlot football? We need a better coaching staff. The Colts have perfected hiring poor coaches like Caldwell, Pagano and Reich. The verdict is still out on Steichen, but he has a long way to go and needs to improve a lot. Our Defensive Coordinator needs to find a job that fits his talents - like Risk Avoidance.
We performed as well as we could with this staff.
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The Colts have shown they have a lot of structural problems to overcome. It's not fun watching a group of talented players play sandlot football against any actual professional football team. I'm not convinced the Colts would recognize good coaching if they had one arrive on their doorstep.
I'm not blaming any one person. I'm blaming all of them.
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That was the most stupidly called game I've watched all season. Makes me sick.
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3 hours ago, twfish said:
Bradley is so damn perplexing. One game he will adjust and call a hell of a game, the next he can’t make simple adjustments and lets us get boat raced
Bradley is the weakest link on this team. Between him and Reich, I don't know how we ever won a game. He must aspire to be pathetic.
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Just now, Jared Cisneros said:
Me too. My dog can sense when I'm mad, may not watch much more of this.
The defense is so bad, I'll see you next year.
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Per Jim Irsay’s Twitter TODAY: Andrew Luck IS FINALLY returning to the Colts at the upcoming 12th annual Chuckstrong Tailgate Gala
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Either way, this is a nothing-burger.