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On 11/13/2023 at 5:39 AM, NFLfan said:
Correlation does not equal causation. Too many variables and factors are involved in a team's success to attribute that success to just one person. JMO
Causal chains (causation) are networks of complex-coupled factors that are frankly beyond the grasp of most people. Even big honkin' computers have difficulties sussing them out.
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The Pats are a toothless tiger, and not the competitors they once were. This game will tell us a lot about the Colts, especially if they were to lose.
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On 11/8/2023 at 6:17 AM, lollygagger8 said:
DE / Pass rusher is #1
I hate to say it, but Ballard has yet to draft a great one.
I wonder how the decisions are being made? Who's pounding the table for these players, and who is picking the lesser of evils? If Ballard is driving this bus, he needs a better rubric (evaluation criteria). Hopefully, he's not using gut feelings.
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1 minute ago, RollerColt said:
Giving up kills a locker room. You think the players give a % about draft position?
In most sports, you are either winning or learning. At this stage, if we are learning that's what we need to be doing. If we win while learning, I'm fine with that, but so far - every ***** week - I see the same soft defense giving up miles to weak teams. We seem to have perfected our weak defense. Drives me crazy. If it weren't for the talent of a few of our players in making turnovers ... nevermind.
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21 hours ago, RollerColt said:
A pyrrhic victory is self damaging. “Win the battle lose the war” type of stuff. I would constitute our win against Tennessee as pyrrhic considering we won but lost Anthony for the year.
Tell me again when it comes to 2024 draft position how this win was helpful. Or, do you still think we are going far in the playoffs?
Cue Jim Mora's infamous rant ...
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2 minutes ago, RollerColt said:
I’ll never apologize for winning.
It's what is known as a Pyrrhic Victory.
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We have some good defensive talent, but our defensive strategy sucks. Maybe Bradley would be better at McDonalds.
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4 minutes ago, RollerColt said:
Guys,
WE DIDNT LOSE TO THE PANTHERS!
You mean we didn't soil the bed, but we puked in it?
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It's hard to evaluate Ballard with our coaching history being so bad. Our player development is terrible. This is not to say the Ballard is a good or great GM. We just can't make that judgement.
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You go to war with the army you have. Quit making excuses, and learn to play the game.
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Love the Colts, but really angry at the NFL. Maybe the Colts should play Lacrosse?
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On 10/30/2023 at 12:28 PM, 1959Colts said:
Sometimes the defense plays ok, but I get the feeling, whenever we face a top tier QB, its a safe bet, the D will get picked apart. I honestly believe, whether they fire Bradley this year or not, the team will never be successful with Gus as D coordinator
Gus Bradley need to go somewhere else where he can succeed, if possible. It's not here.
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They asked Ross Blalock if he wanted to be here. He said 'No' and he was gone the same week.
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I can see the Colts recovering a fumble on a fake punt by Carolina and running it back seemingly for the win. The officials will mistakenly call an offsides on the Colts who lose.
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While there is plenty of blame to go around, the most goes to the coaches. Some are incompetent, some are inexperienced, and some pay too much attention to analytics without understanding what they mean.
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On 10/30/2023 at 7:39 AM, 2006Coltsbestever said:
I am a fan and into reality - you can be both. My weekly picks speak for themselves, that shows right there I know what I am talking about. For 3 years now I have been picking around 63% of my games right on the weekly picks thread we do in here. Just because I picked the Colts to win 8 games this year (which still isn't many), doesn't make me picking more as a fan. I really believed they could win 8 games after looking at our schedule and that pick was before AR got injured. That was my before season pick. By the way I picked the Ravens to win the SB before the season, that is aging well right now.
Yeah, my pre-season guess was about 6 wins. It will be somewhere between 5 - 7 and I figure that would be the case even with AR in the lineup. IMO, that is underperforming the talent we have (which obviously needs to be better than it is), but recent history shows that the Colts consistently underperform their talent level. I think I know why.
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2 minutes ago, CoachLite said:
Here's the rub - the GM and all the coaches and coordinators have to be in philosophical alignment on the strategy and tactics they employ. Those strategies and tactics need to be successful at winning when matched with the players we bring on board. Winning solves a lot of small problems.
If Ballard is unilaterally "driving the bus", that's a problem, and we will never be a winning team. After 7 years under Ballard, I hate to say it but we have a problem - and it is a team problem, probably in how the brain trust of the Colts are configured. It can't be solved one piece at a time.
"A camel is a horse designed by committee". The Colts are currently a camel trying to run in the Kentucky Derby.
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2 minutes ago, stitches said:
Agreed with this... but I will add one wrinkle - to me it seems like Ballard wants to run a specific type of defense. So even if we replace him, chances are Ballard will hire another coach that wants to run the same type of "rush with 4, heavy zone, limit deep throws" type of DC.
Here's the rub - the GM and all the coaches and coordinators have to be in philosophical alignment on the strategy and tactics they employ. Those strategies and tactics need to be successful at winning when matched with the players we bring on board. Winning solves a lot of small problems.
If Ballard is unilaterally "driving the bus", that's a problem, and we will never be a winning team. After 7 years under Ballard, I hate to say it but we have a problem - and it is a team problem, probably in how the brain trust of the Colts are configured. It can't be solved one piece at a time.
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Imagine how the players feel if they are constantly put into a losing posture by their scheme? While that scheme may work for a few other teams, it doesn't fit the personnel we have (and, yes, maybe the personnel we do have shouldn't be here).
Honestly, lets look back at some of the coaches the Colts have hired. I won't name names, but there are a lot of really bad coaches hired by the Colts. I wonder, why?
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14 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Crap will hit the fan sooner or later. when it does Homer will be there
, laughing.
https://www.themirror.com/sport/american-football/mike-tomlin-diontae-johnson-steelers-166328
Get ready to cue Homer.
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1 minute ago, ThorstenDenmark said:
I remember a quote from Chris Ballad when Andrew Luck retired:
"It's never about one player". he said...
well without an NFL starting QB under center, and though Minshew is a decent QB, we just aren't a good team.
When we won the super bowl against the chicago bears, they had rex grossman as their qb, and he wasn't a top 10 or 15 QB in the league, but they had a very great defence and an overall good team that were well balanced, where he just had to avoid making any big mistakes.
The colts team 2023 is mediocre at best, and I wonder if this will be the last year of CB as our GM if we land another top 10 selection.
Being a GM has to be one of the hardest jobs. The problem is: They often see in players what they want to see, not what's really there. That is made worse by recommendations by a coaching staff with the same problem. It boils down to performance, not personalities.
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Just now, DougDew said:
Maybe gus should try domann
Maybe Gus should coach for another team.
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Solution: Ballard needs to hire better referees.
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Bradley should join Reich in coaching a high school team preferably in another state.