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2 hours ago, throwing BBZ said:
For his career Budda has 10% missed tackles. Pretty high actually.
His big year with all those tackles he had a 72.7% completions rating.
And a 125 passer rating and gave up 4 tds. Yowwww!
Since winning is everything, I see our management team adding 3 more pieces to strengthen our chances. I would expect at S, LB, RB. Barring injury, going right up to final cuts works for us.
I put very little stock into those kinds of stats.
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47 minutes ago, r a y s k i said:
Yeah don't get me wrong I like Budda but what we need is a ballhawk free safety. What Hooker was supposed to become. Damn, I love that man's college highlights
I think we need someone to just make open field tackles, as simple as that sounds. I felt like our secondary was pretty poor at just simply getting guys to the ground.
There is way too much diving at peoples legs in the open field. And Budda might be the best open field tackler in all of football. The guy is a demon. He had like 150 tackles a few years back as a safety, which is incredible.
Budda is the closest thing to Bob Sanders I have seen since he retired. He doesnt lay the huge hits Bob did (to be fair Bob was juiced to the gills and a literal tank). But I mean, that heat seeking missle type of guy who just ends plays with picture perfect pursuit and tackling of the ball carrier.
I believe in tackling being the most overlooked skill in football. People dont seem to see the value in it, or know how to do it. but it is a lot of times what seperates really bad defenses from good defenses. I felt like we gave up like 1000 extra yards last year due to poor tackling.
I actually used to teach heads up tackling at football camps, so its a bit of a sore spot with me. But I see a lot of horrible tackling around the league.
Also, Blackmon is our ballhawking free safety in this scenario. I know a lot of people see him as more of a SS, but not me. I dont think he is top tier at it, but he is solid at both spots, and solid is fine with me.
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16 minutes ago, r a y s k i said:
Sorry to interrupt but I see this Budda conversation on here a lot. Isn't Budda Baker a in the box strong safety?? He isn't the type of free safety that roams deep and gets you picks. 7 interceptions in 7 years. Simmons fits that bill a lot better
He has played both at different points in his career.
I think Baker and Blackmon would be one of the better duos in the league.
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38 minutes ago, VikingsFanInChennai said:
I'm not sure it's right to keep comparing this defense to Legion of Boom, even fundamentally both defenses may not be similar apart from having similar formation.
For example, did Seattle have similar coverage scheme like the way Gus has been calling?
Im not comparimg anyone to the legion of boom.
The more talent you have, the more options you have when calling the game. The addition of Baker would simply give us more flexibility in coverage, and thats a good thing.
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1 hour ago, Smonroe said:
Yeah, I can't see them spending about $15M on a FS when there are a few other veterans that could do the job. Hopefully Cross gets his head together and can take the spot. He has the physical abilities. Not sure if he has the football smarts.
But those players cant do the job as well as Baker.
The entire idea is to put the best team out there you can. The money isnt an issue really. We have it.
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28 minutes ago, richard pallo said:
I would love to trade for Budda Baker but I would be thrilled with Diggs or Simmons.
Budda would be the ultimate cherry on top. He would fill that Earl Thomas role in this defense perfectly. Great idea.
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This was a hell of a get for us. I feel like Mitchell has as high a ceiling as anybody in the draft, including MHJ. He has size, elite speed, great hands and is silky smooth in his routes. If he can refine his route running a bit, and find some consistency, look out.
I think he is a tad bit immature, but he is coming into an excellent situation. To have a mentor like Reggie Wayne and an example like Pitt.......if he is a good kid with a solid head on his shoulders, he could be one of the top receivers in football with some good QB play.
For all this talk about our recievers, I think we might have the most talented group with the most upside in the division.
On Goncalves, I cant help but wonder if the plan is for him to challenge Fries this year with an eye on potentially replacing Kelly at some point. Ballard mentioned him playing center, which I found odd because hes never played there. He certainly has the feet. Anyways, I like that pick as well. To get a guy you feelclike could play any position on the line is huge.
We have excellent depth at DL, OL and WR.
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1 hour ago, smittywerb said:
I mean, i kinda ma because in year 4 Trey had 13.5 sacks and probably way more pressures than paye has had in year 4. Paye has one more year to show he can be the pass rusher we need.
and only reason why Trey was being compared to Paye is because someone else brought him. There is honestly no comparison when it comes to their year 4s
Paye hasnt even had a year 4 yet.
His first 3 years are WAY better than Hendricksons first 3 years.
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40 minutes ago, smittywerb said:
maybe I do, idk. But we can agree Paye is not on Trey Hendrickson and we had an opportunity to possibly upgrade at one of the most important positions in our scheme.
I’m not saying Paye is bad. I said he’s serviceable. But for someone like Ebukam to come in and do what he did in one year let me know we could use an upgrade.
Are you comparing Paye to Hendrickson who is in year 8? Thats just not fair to Kwity. You need to allow guys time to develop.
Ebukam is a guy they are probably gonna let walk after this year. Buck isnt getting any younger. There is plenty of room for all these guys.
I think the plan is for Paye, Dayo and Latu to be the core of this defensive line for a long time.
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7 minutes ago, smittywerb said:
meh, not saying that. But in this scheme, we need to be able to rush with our front 4 because we’re not blitzing. We know Grover know isn’t here to rush the passer, so that falls on Ebukam, Buck, and qwitty. So that puts more pressure on those 3 to get the job done, and if one of those 3 can’t get it done, then it makes it easier for the opposing offensive line to prevent pressure. On another team, Paye may be a stud, but on this one he’s just serviceable.Or maybe you just have unrealistic expectations?
He is entering his 4th year. He has gotten better every year. He should continue to get better.
A guy who put up 16.5 sacks last year, Trey Hendrickson, had only 6.5 sacks over his first 3 seasons combined. Kwity has 3 times that many. Hes been very good.
People have to stop expecting guys to make the HOF in their early 20s.
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2 minutes ago, smittywerb said:
I said it before. Paye is the weak link on the line. Ebukam, Buck, and Grover all ranked in the top 20 in pass and/or run win rate. Qwitty was the only one who didn’t place top 20 in either.You have to be in the top 20 to be good enough?
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3 minutes ago, GoColts8818 said:
That means not complaining about what Ballard did which is what this poster was going to do regardless of the pick. Pretty easy to tell if you read the poster’s posts. He just wants to rail on Ballard so fine rail.
I admit, I didnt read his previous posts.
I get so comfused as to why so many people just seem to have no interest in finding a positive thing to say, like ever.
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Just now, IinD said:
Don't be dumb, you know everyone's gotta have 20+ sacks a season and never miss a snap over a 15 year career to be considered an 'average' DE around here.
Yeah no doubt.
We had 4 guys in the top 37 in sacks last year, which means they are in the top 1/3 of all starting DL, league wide, in sacks.
And 2 of those guys people are calling "misses"
Make it make sense......
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7 minutes ago, boo2202 said:
Here comes the Ballard love. Unbelievable how every year you guys convince yourself in trusting his judgement. There is no proof in the pudding. He could’ve went several different ways and been better. We didn’t turn the pick in until late. At some point he’s got to run out of passes. Edge shouldn’t even be a position of need if he gets things right, two years ago.
Kwity Paye and Dayo Odeyingbo are both very good football players.
Whats wrong with having a great defensive line with tons of quality depth?
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1 minute ago, csmopar said:
Not for a player with a serious neck problem…
and this goes against Ballards typical strategy.
I felt we needed weapons more than defense. But we’ll see how the rest of the draft shakes out.
as of now though, I’m not thrilled with this pick
Not sure why you feel that way.
We had a low ranked defense.
We did not have much trouble scoring points with a back up QB.
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Like the pick quite a bit. This guy has top level pass rushing traits and to get a guy like that at 15 is rare.
The Colts could have a truly elite DL. They seem to have it all, including great depth at every position.
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1 hour ago, Restinpeacesweetchloe said:
I hope holder was talking about offense and not this horrendous secondary.
The Colts were pretty much in the middle of the pack in every major category for pass defense last year. Considering their inexperience, I dont think its fair to call them horrendous. Darrell Baker Jr was pretty bad at times, but I thought they played pretty well most of the time, all things considered.
They should make a major jump this year.
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Just now, John Waylon said:
We won more games last year because we actually had more than a loaf of bread at QB. Matt Ryan showed up with the stink of grizzly death permeating around him, and we finally had a coach who wasn’t a complete and blithering simpleton.
We absolutely did not win any more games because of anything our defense did.
In fact, we probably would have won more games last year if our defense hadn’t sucked on average. Yeah, let’s run that back.
Thats not what I said.
I said there are other ways to improve the defense other than letting your better players on defense (Moore, Stewart, Franklin) walk, only to replace them with guys who arent any better. Different doesnt mean better.
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4 minutes ago, John Waylon said:
I saw the work our own guys could do last year. Every awful drive of it. Bend, bend, bend, and then break.
They didn’t cut it. Anyone who didn’t spend last season stuck on the dark side of the moon didn’t need much help to arrive at that conclusion
Putting 0 effort into fixing that doesn’t actually fix it.
We can’t even bring guys in for a visit and at least pretend to make an effort.
Something about the definition of insanity and doing the same thing over to the same results or something like that…
But the team more than doubled its win total last year and didnt do any of the things you suggest to improve the team. So maybe there are better ways to improve the team?
So again, I will say that maybe what you are suggesting sounds better than it really is.
You all are so quick to throw in the towel every single year and get frustrated. This is after 1 promising year with a new coaching staff. Good grief man take a pill.
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51 minutes ago, John Waylon said:
Every year grigson flailed wildly to fix the offensive line his entire tenure.
And still never accomplished that.
Just because you draft a guy ≠ fix. Especially when you have a history of day 1 and 2 whiffs as long as Ballard does. A swing and a miss is a swing and a darn miss no matter how much effort and good intention go into the swing.
Now the misses are starting to pile up, and they’re getting dangerously close to out-weighing the hits.
It’s just more bandaids, now at positions other than QB. There were ways to noticeably improve this defense without breaking the bank in FA, but we’re doubling down and running it back instead. If we sign anyone it’s going to be some mid player on a short, team-friendly deal and our secondary is gonna look like a bunch of jabronis out there this fall. Again. Then we’ll have to sit around in the fall and talk about why the defense hasn’t gotten any better and is the difference keeping us from being a contender. Hell, we still need WRs just two years after “I like the guys we have” and now it’s a problem that’s made its way to the secondary.
If only someone could solve this inescapable mystery of the universe. If only, I say!We've seen the effect, we’ve seen the cause, why people are putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5 is beyond explanation at this point.
All Ive heard is that we need to sign all these guys off other bad teams and magically our team will be better. But if they were really difference makers why were, in most cases, their teams worse than ours?
I just think you massively over rate these guys and under rate our own guys. I dont think anything you are suggesting would work.
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11 minutes ago, Hoose said:
Because his sack and QB hit rate is off the charts. Sign him and you don’t sign Lewis? Let’s not kid ourselves. The Colts’ pass rush late in games was non existent. They need more talent there and will have to address it one way or another. This was a rare opportunity to nab a rising talent while still affordable.
I think you are shortchanging the guys we already have.
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9 minutes ago, Hoose said:
I would not include Huff in your group of “shiny new toys”. His stats show a special player who was underutilized by the Jets. I think he’d have made the Colts’ pass rush special, and will prove to be a bargain at $17m.
Hows he gonna make our pass rush special sharing snaps with Ebukam, Paye, Lewis, Odeyingbo?
He is a situational rusher. He is a good one, but thats all he is. And he would be very redundant with Paye and Ebukam here.
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I feel like this entire situation pretty much sums up a lot of the reaction to the Colts every single year. The media makes a bunch of nonsense up because they need you to pay attention to them or they are gonna have to go get a real job and actually be productive citizens, and the fans get mad when the Colts actions dont match the rumors.
Turns out Ballard wasnt chasing Sneed at all. Im a little dissapointed because I thought we could have a really good secondary with him coming in. But Ill get over it.
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This is exactly why I cant stand analytics.
My idea of good is someone who actually produces results. Everyone misses tackles, because its very hard to tackle a professional athlete 1 on 1, a position hes in constantly because he plays in open space against incredible athletes. And the more plays you are involved in, the more youll miss. By your calculations there, he couldve made over 200 tackles that season. Thats an insane number that has only been produced twice in the history of the league.
Just the fact he was in a position to do that, is incredible. And youre essentially rewarding lesser players who arent good enough to put themselves in that kind of position and making them look better by suggesting them missing less tackles means they are better players. In reality, they just arent very good a lot of times.
To me this is like looking at the NBA and suggesting Magic Johnson wasnt that good because he led the league in turnovers almost every year. An argument Ive heard many times. But when you look at the list of players who turned the ball over the most, its a list of the best players of all time.
The best players.make the most mistakes because they do the hardest job. They expect to do things other athletes cant even get into position to do. Anybody can avoid missing a tackle by not putting themselves in position to make the tackle in the first place. Thats not a sign of greatness.