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Last time we fired everyone, we drafted Luck and decided to build around him. With that peice in place, Irsay basically said he wanted what the pats have, which isn't going to happen.
Belichick is Belichick. It is what it is. He may cheat, but he is the greatest at aquiring specific talent and fitting it into his schemes. He went 11-5 with Matt Cassel, and nobody was surprised, while Chuck is barely making 11-5 with Andrew Freakin Luck.
The variance of his schemes are his brilliance though. No coach today has as much control over the team as Belichick, because he consistently and successfully changes his gameplans according to his opponent. And he somehow always has the right guy for each task, whether it's an undrafted gem, or a veteran he picked up off some other teams' trash pile.
We are like the other 30 teams, we don't have Belichick, so we have like 3 people trying to do everything that Belichick does. Can you imagine 3 people trying to come to the conclusion that maybe we run a 4-3 this week with this personnel as opposed to the usual 3-4 with the regular personnel? It would take half the week, as opposed to Belichick just coming in on Monday and saying "OK, this week the D is 4-3 with this personnel, and this is specifically what we need to do to beat this team."
He does it on offense too. Run the ball down the Colts' throat with Jonas Gray, check. Throw the ball 50+ times against a stout run D, check. Belichick decides the gameplan and personnel each week, and his word is law because it works.
It's like Belichick has a whole set of different shaped blocks at his disposal and no single block is his favorite, so no matter what holes are in front of him, he can put a round block in a round hole, square block in square hole, etc. While the rest of the coaches insist on their specific type of block being the best, no matter what the hole looks like...
So unless you know of a more moral version of Bill Belichick that is just sitting around waiting for Jim Irsay to call him/her, then it doesn't matter if we fire everyone today or wait to see who is available at the end of the season.
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If we stay healthy this year, yet miss the playoffs, then let's revisit this topic.
I think we all know it's insanely premature to start firing people and rebuilding 2 games into the season.
There aren't any better alternatives at home waiting for a call from Irsay, and there won't be any until the season ends. So we kind of have to wait until the end of the season to start this talk anyway...
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Every team that has ever won a Super Bowl has gone through some sort of adversity during the season. Even the undefeated Dolphins of '72 lost their starting QB early in the season.
Let's just hope we are getting all of our adversity out of the way in the first couple games. We haven't lost anybody to season ending IR, and these concussions will allow backups to get game experience early in the year.
We have an entire season to go, so let's calm down and hope for the best.
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I wonder if these were the same people calling for Dungys head after that horrible run defense in 2006. He was a defensive coach that was supposed to fix our D, but The JAGS ran for over 300 yds with Ol' Fred and MJD in one game, and the Colts ended up allowing over 100 yds/game the entire season.
We were supposed to be one-and-done in the playoffs because our run D was so bad, and we limped into the playoffs because we won a soft division. We had to stop one of the best runners in the league in Larry Johnson, and nobody gave the Colts a chance.
What happened? The Colts didn't fire anybody, didn't bring in any new personnel or change their scheme, and they NEVER GAVE UP.
That horrible run defense turned into our strength, and led us to a Super Bowl, and it made the turnaround in ONE WEEK.
NFL teams can turn it on like a switch sometimes. It's like a light bulb and they look like a completely different team than the week before.
This is as bad as it has looked with the new regime, but it looked about as bad as it had during Dungys' regime at the end of the regular season in 2006. We just have to get to the playoffs, then all bets are off.
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The pats admit guilt and take a fine and give up draft picks, yet the three people "responsible" (Brady and the 2 ballboys) for the deflated footballs are all innocent?
So if nobody deflated any footballs, then shouldn't the pats get their money and draft picks back?
It's one or the other right? Guilty or innocent?
I feel like we're in a gray area and nobody really knows what the heck should happen...
I guess there is proof of wrongdoing, but no proof of who did it, so the organization gets punished, but no indidvidual gets punished...
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Here's a better question:
Who should we bring in to replace ______ ?
What if we get to the offseason, and our options are our current coaching staff or a box of poop...
Firing any of our coaches or GM is stupid if there are no better options available. You take what you can get when you can get it.
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I didn't see any edge rushers against the Bills.
He was on the sideline...
Also, we were playing from behind the whole time, so the defense couldn't pin its ears back and go after Taylor. They had to play the run.
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Did you even watch the game? The play calling was bad. The defense got burnt by a guy making his first start. I bet the patriots are licking there chops contemplating the b**t whipping there going to give the colts, Nonesense ya right Nonsense is picking a w/r in the first round when you need o and d-line .
How much did our 1st rounder help today or for that matter will for the rest of the year?
I wouldnt blame Luck for not resigning with the colts, he wont last another couple of years getting hit like that all the time.
Calm down. Are there pieces of the sky all over your yard right now? We went 0-2 last year. So did the eventual champs. I'm sure the coaches will make necessary adjustments after a loss like that. We're only 0-1, like 15 other teams, so put the torch and pitchfork away. If we go 0-6 or 0-9, get 'em back out.
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Hopefully this lightens the mood a little bit.
I want the Colts to win the rest of their games just so we can go 18-1 and make a bunch of T-shirts like the Giants fans after they upset the Pats.
I know this is unrealistic, especially in light of todays game, but just imagine it...
"We went 18-1, AND won the Super Bowl!"
"My 18-1 is better than your 18-1!"
"We went 18-1, and didn't even have to cheat!"
I could go on, but just to add to the fantasy, imagine beating the undefeated Pats in the AFCCG to do this, making them 17-1.
"18-1 > 17-1"
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If we don't have drive-killing holding calls (Holmes and Castanzo) and protect the ball (Luck and Dorsett) we win the game today.
If you negative nancies need someone to blame, look no further than those handful of mistakes.
We can run the ball and stop the run, which is what every Colts fan has wanted forever. The passing game should come around, and if everyone stays healthy, we can have a legit defense.
Hopefully, the worst game of the season is out of the way.
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When last season ended, we knew the Colts overachieved, making it to the AFC title game and then losing in a blowout loss @ New England, we knew there was a chance to win, but we also knew last season the Colts got smashed by almost every upper tier team they played. The loss @ NE last year was coming at us like a freight train, and while I know most of us tried to stay optimistic we all knew what was coming.
Speak for yourself buddy. You don't speak for all Colts fans, and you are incorrect when you say "we knew the Colts overachieved". Some might think they underachieved, and nobody "knew" a loss at NE was coming.
Stop with the nonsense.
The coaches are who we thought they were, and unless you know of better options sitting at home waiting for a phone call from Irsay, then they are who we are riding with this season. Unless you want to cheat to win like Belichick, then we are going to lose games because every team we play is different and we don't have the answer for everything that every team throws at us.
I, for one, have noticed improvements from the coaches. Except for a few notable bad days, the run defense has steadily improved in the last few years. We can run the ball too, but sometimes the game dictates that we throw (like today). Running the ball and stopping the run have been cried to the rooftops over the years, and it's actually starting to happen, so just BE PATIENT.
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Brandon Stokley and Wes Welker - Broncos
Anquan Boldin - Ravens
Darren Sharper - Saints
And these are just FA signings. Let's not forget all the "aging vets" that get re-signed with their team because they are good players...
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Wow, let's just rattle off a few names of "aging vets" that played well for playoff teams, that were signed by universally praised GMs:
Peyton Manning and Demarcus Ware - Broncos
Randy Moss and Junior Seau - Pats
Julius Peppers and Charles Woodson - Packers
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No season ending injuries yet.
The Super Bowl hype should die down some now, and the bandwagoners can jump ship.
We won't have to deal with the pressure and media hype of going 19-0.
Luck had a bad game, so the MVP talk should die down some.
Vinatieri missed a FG, so there won't be a streak of made FGs to mess up later.
Maybe losing this game leads to lower expectations, therefore less pressure to win, and the Colts can relax and just play ball.
Hopefully, the coaches can somehow use this game to motivate the team for a Super Bowl run.
Two sides to every coin, we'll see what happens this season...
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Hopefully Fitzpatrick plays worse than Taylor did and Luck plays better. I think playing without TY for a couple of weeks will help Luck find other options.
It might open the door for Dorsett. He came in to replace TY today, which shows confidence from the coaches, but he played like a rookie today.
If Dorsett can settle down and fill in til TY gets back, the offense should be fine, but we just need to run the ball more.
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Scoring 28 against the Jets will be very tough
What are your predictions?
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This is a Madden team. Great QB and fast WRs on offense. Shutdown CB and edge rushers on defense. Accurate kicker and Boomstick punter on special teams.
When a Madden team goes against a traditional bully, we see what we saw today. We used to see it when the Manning Madden teams had to play the Steelers, Ravens, or Pats.
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Do we beat the Jets? (Yes, 28-14)
What will the offense do without TY? (Run it more, like it should have done game 1)
Will the D do better against a pure pocket passer like Fitzpatrick? (It had better)
Will that Bills D (+Marcell Dareus) do the same thing to Brady and the Pats, proving their legitimacy as possibly the best D in the league? (I really hope so)
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Dude, your team was actually IN the game until they complained about the air pressure in the ball. After that, when whatever issue was fixed, they got completely lambasted like 100-0.
You WISH the Patriots cheated against you, then your loss wouldn't be so embarrassing.
The Pats have always cheated, against everyone, so any loss to NE should be considered unfair instead of embarassing. See how this works Puppet?
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I think I know why there are Pats fans on a Colts forum. They are minions in Belichicks' propaganda machine. They must keep repeating that the Pats are the greatest and never do anything wrong.
I think I will start referring to them as Puppets.
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See how this works?
"Pats are cheaters that cheated"
Good explanation bud.
Listen, when there's a smart argument against them, we'll have a discussion. But right now, none of the ones you guys are bringing forth are rooted in reality...instead they are simply a haters' lament based on a very intense inferiority complex due to years and years and years of thinking you guys were gonna win something and being left hanging participation banners. And that is a fact...NOT an opinion.
Nah, we just got cheated by cheaters. See how this works?
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LOL.
And the Colts tanked a season. That's the national opinion. And throwing a season is the saddest thing a team can do.
And yet... I'm not on a Pats forum defending the Colts sucking for Luck... HMMMMM
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This is stupid. Why in the world would "those closest to Pagano" be talking to Jason La Canfora about Chuck behind his back?
Now we play a bad game to start the season and people want to fire everybody, blow it up, and start from scratch... SMH
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It's only one game. That D is pretty good. They get Marcell Dareus back for the Pats next week. If they do the same thing to Brady, maybe they are that good.
If the Pats put up 40 on that D, with Dareus, and we can't score more than 14 against the Jets next week, then we have a problem.
At least we know we can stop the run and run the ball.
The "sky was falling" at the beginning of the year for the eventual SB champs last year, so let's not freak out after week 1.
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OK, so we are already experiencing more adversity than the freakin '85 Bears, what's your point? Should we panic and start firing everyone?