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A good stop by Lacey? Good hit....credit when it's due
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We get it. You don't like Caldwell. Can you be quiet now?
So only your opinion counts?
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That was annoying.
Now before people blame the defense, consider how it happened: we flushed McCoy out of the pocket, we had good coverage, but it's hard to cover guys for 5-6 seconds. It was just a good play by the young QB and the TE, not necessarily poor play by our defense.
Spineless coaching. They should have blitzed.
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I am really sick of Pat McAfee making tackles......not that I don't want him to make the tackles, but he shouldn't have to.
He should kick it out through the end zone then.
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Why not playaction on 3rd and 1? Why doesn't Caldwell have the stones to make gutsy calls?
Because he's not a NFL calibre coach, that's why.
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Please, that's like us saying there is also no evidence that Peyton Manning doesn't have the plague and that is why he's out. To say someone is suffering from something it's on the person throwing that out there to show evidence of it being there not the other way around.
Chris Polian also backed up why he was hired as the director of pro scouting. Who do you think found all those undrafted free agents that his dad signed? Frankly our draft fall offs has gone hand and hand with the time Chris Polian stopped being the head of scouting and became more invovled with the GM role side of things. I do agree with that Chris Polian would be a GM some place else if we hadn't locked him up in fact there Falcons were very close to hiring both him and Jim Caldwell and taking them to Atlanta that's why we locked them into place as GM and Head Coach in waiting.
Frankly I wouldn't put too much stock in the titles the Colts use. We all know Bill Polian is still the person making the final call on things on there. Yes I do think he has been giving his son more power over time and is going to give Chris Polian the job full-time but the fact Chris Polian holds the title of GM doesn't mean he's making the final call on things, yes his dad is giving him more power on several things like the draft but I would almost be willing to bet the house that dad still has veto power.
Contradiction made easy. In your 1st paragraph you demand evidence re nepotism, in your final paragraph you show no evidence of Bill's right to veto.
Or maybe you have it, but are keeping it up your sleeve?
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Well said. It's the same with our d-line. We have added a lot of bigger bodies this year. More importantly, they are big bodies who can play. We just need them to gel. It was a short off-season, and a big wrench was thrown in with Manning's situation, but I KNOW this defense will be improved. People need to stop with the "we're too small" talk, because it just isn't true anymore.
"We just need them to gel". Isn't that what camp and training camp is for? Houston switched from a 4-3 to a 3-4 over the summer and they 'gelled'.
Not having a pop at you Doog, but if we didn't gel, then it's either we don't have the quality on the field, or it was very poor pre-season prep and coaching.
I appreciate the optimism, but what's the magic ingredient for this thing you call 'gel'.
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Its not very big tbh, i was in wembley for last years game and fans were wearing all types of jerseys and the enthusiasm just wasnt there. But there are a few spots where you can find some real fans.
I respectfully disagree. I've been there for the last 3 games, and the enthusiasm is terrific, as is the atmosphere. It differs from big time soccer games, where you have two sets of 30,000 fans screaming at each other. At the Wembley game, the vast majority of the spectators don't really care who wins.
Would we get 80,000 fans 8 times a year? I doubt it. Just about all those that atttend already follow a team, and I certainly wouldn't dump my Colts for the London Monarchs. But perhaps our kids would?
Now who do I cheer on next month, Bucs or Bears?
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I heard the Colts have to do additional pat downs just in case the fans try to smuggle in a Defensive Line.
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we compare our team to others because we compete against them
I didn't ask why we did it, just that it was pointless.
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How many games did Peyton help Polian win in Carolina and Buffalo? Name me another GM who has taken three teams to conference title games and has built teams that have gone to six Super Bowls? Then name another GM that did it with two teams that were known for losing (the Bills and Colts) before he got there and did it with an expansion team in only it's second year for the other stop?
It's amazing how many people just like to over look all the success Polian has had in his career and try to credit it all to Peyton Manning.
Also everyone wants to be the Pats despite the fact the Colts have won more games in the past 10 years than them and in fact have won more games in NFL history than any other team over that time. It's the Colts, not the Pats that have tied the NFL record most straight trips to playoffs. The Pats have not won a playoff game since they lost the Super Bowl and since their last Super Bowl win they are 5-5 in the playoffs while the Colts are 6-5 over that same run and have been to two Super Bowls to their one and have won one of them and beat the Pats in their only playoff meeting over that time and are a 5-2 vs. the Pats over that span. Remind me again why we are dieng to be the Pats? Just looking at numbers it's the Colts not the Pats that have been the better team from 2005 on.
Why bother comparing ourselves to others, it's pointless. With Manning, we have came up short where it counts. It's hardly a disaster winning all those 'lead up' games, in fact it's been fun. But it really should have been a Dynasty. Who's to blame? Who knows. Probably the Draft and Salary Cap. It's there to stop Dynasties. Our Front Office Management can also take some of the blame. Putrid drafting, poor management decisions on contracts and resting starters, and their stubborn refusal to really attack our biggest weakness, our Defense. Don't forget luck either. It's a funny old game. I'm not a Polian lover as you know, but it's not all on him.
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If you agreed with me more, you would be right far more often than you are.
I have to disagree with you sir...
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John Waylon - excellent topic and discussion.
I seem to recall Polian talking about a study he did about 1st round draft picks and if I remember correctly, he said that the average hit rate on player contributing to his team was 55%. In other words, 45% of the drafted 1st rounders in the period of time he studied, were considered to be busts.
If that is the case and you look at Polian's drafts from 1998 to 2006, he had an amazing run of success. Clearly since 2007 that run has stopped although I would argue it is not accurate to call Gonzo a bust if the reason for his lack of production is injury related. Regardless though, the drafts from 2007 on have really hampered this team.
But there are some who believe that the game has passed Polian by. I think that is just absolute nonsense. He did not all of the sudden forget how to scout and draft. I think it is just the odds evening things out. Not every pick can be a home run. The result is a team dependent on aging players with a lack of talent behind them. I would be shocked if they open the 2012 season with their 2007, 2008, 2009, & 2010 first draft picks on the roster. That is a tough stretch to overcome even with a completely healthy Manning.
"Just the odds evening things out". So GREAT (former) + VERY POOR (latter) = AVERAGE.
Yep Skinnz, I agree with you for a change. Good job.
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No kidding!
Many people seem more transfixed on that 'perfect season' debacle than the fact that we lost the Super Bowl.
Because quitting on the season cost us the Super Bowl. That is why my dear Mr Ruksak.
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This is the perfect time to try Hughes out at LB as well as other experiments ... move some players around, give the rookies more playing time, and try out some new plays. We may find some diamonds in the rough or maybe there is some slim chance Hughes can play LB ... who knows. This season is shot anyway we may as well get something positive out of it, who cares if we only win 2 games instead of 4 or 5 ... thats a better chance at the #1 draft pick.
The guy is a dud. He should be cut now. Why should his failures stop a real LB getting his shot? More FO incompetence.
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I wish we had Wade as our DC.
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But you're dead wrong. That's an indisputable fact. They brought in guys with slightly different skill sets than we are used to seeing (ie: run-stuffing specialists), all with additional size. That's not the same old philosophy. Face it. :-P
To the comments on O-line play and Manning getting hit: Collins may have had a quicker release than normal, but he doesn't know the Texans defense as Manning would have with months of study, and he also doesn't know our own playbook well enough to adjust properly to visible pressure. There's no way Manning would have let Clark stay lined up against Williams, for example, and Manning also wouldn't have fumbled the ball.
On top of that, our O-line was very good in the run blocking department. That is a big change compared to the last 3-4 years. Anyone suggesting otherwise is being delusional on principle.
With the opportunities Manning would have afforded us over Collins in terms of time of possession and a reduction in mistakes, the Texans would have had to respect the improved ground attack (thanks to improved O-line play) in a tight game, or suffer the same fate as the 2010 Giants. Suddenly pass blocking becomes easier when Houston isn't blitzing every other play.
We are all armchair coaches. You say we were run blocking well. Probably true. Yep we still passed twice as much as we ran. The OC and HC need to grow some and start running more. But I've got no faith in Caldwell whatsoever. Despite his 2 year record, I really do believe he is out of his depth.
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Balzer40 as a fan of football of 27 years, you of all people should realize that one bad game does not define a team, lets see how things look week 7 or 8, then we can get a grasped of the season and the '11 colts . . . ;) . . . we really can't be making definitive statements about a team until we seem some games . . .
This isn't about one game though. This is about a Defense that has been struggling for years. We don't have very poor players really, so it must be the coaching staff. Peyton covered up a lot of cracks, we all know that, but come on.
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That won't help, we'll just get penalties for roughing the passer
Ha. Hit Schaub? Can't get near him.....
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Special teams joining the party.....! All this is not a surprise, so not getting the 'sick' feeling I normally get. I hope we take a knee to end the half...
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Dont wory guys. We still have Caldwell's half time adjustments to come. That should see the Moo Cows reach 60 points.
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Stupid Indiana and their law against buying liquor on Sundays. The flood gates are wide open now.
Buy it on a Saturday?
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Yep. Game over. This is beyond pathetic......Andrew Luck?
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Brock also over looks the fact that he was the one who came in for Freeney and once Freeney went out we stopped getting a pass rush and that was when Brees started picking us apart. He had just as much to do with the loss as Basket did in a lot of ways.
Yep, very true. There were many mistakes during this game. He's an easy target, and a coward hiding behind his little tweetie machine. Hank's mistake didn't lead to n 'immediate' TD like Manning's interception.
He's a second rater himself, as he proved when Dwight went down.
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At least we are still in touch. The Offense will progress during the season, but the Defense looks to be regressing. Forget Andrew Luck, we need to be thinking DT's and CB's in the draft.....