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It's remarkable how inaccurate Curtis Painter is. Talk about Tim Tebow. He is missing receivers by 10 yards. Please, at least try Orlovsky. You can't get any worse. This game could be competitive.
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"Don't let the door hit you in the butt!!!"
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I don't know that Chris Polian had his hand in JIm Caldwell following Tony Dungy. That seemed to be more his dad. And Caldwell is who brought in his staff.
I honestly feel it is a mistake to throw Chris Polian under a bus for what is going on. In my opinion, what you are seeing is inept coaching, not lack of talent. If Bill Belichick or Bill Walsh (if he were alive) were running this team, they would have made drastic game plan changes to compensate for who is missing or the strengths of the team. It seems with Caldwell and Christenson, we still act like Manning is back there. I still can't figure out with Carter, Brown, and Addai running well, why Painter is throwing the ball 40+ times in a game. On the other side of the ball, Coyer has to do SOMETHING diffeent than 10 yard cushions and obvious blitzs. That is now Chris Polians fault. If this is now his team, lets see him get his head coach in. Then we can hold him accountable.
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First of all, I HATE seeing the Colts lose. I have been a Colts fan since 1975 when I was a little kid. I have watched every game they have played since NFL Ticket was introduced. So by no means do I want to see them lose another game.
So I am looking for a silver lining to all of this and I came up with this. Let's pretend Peyton has playing this year with all the other factors being the same. Same injuries. Same defensive problems. My guess is the Colts would be probably 5-3 right now. Peyton would pay well enough to somehow get them into the playoffs, but the poor defensive play would ultimately cost them in the playoffs.
Now lets look at what is likely going to happen. The Colts, without Peyton, are going to have likely a Top 4 pick, if not the #1. If they have the #1 pick and Peyton is healthy, which I completely expect him to be, they will trade that pick to a team like Miami who also has a very night pick for a bonanza of picks. Since this is all make believe, lets say the Colts trade the #1 pick to Miami for their #1 pick, which is a top 5, and their #1 pick next year. Now the Colts have the ability of picking two blue chip players in the next two drafts, plus their own #1 in 2013. I think Justin Blackmon would be the pick in 2012 with the pick obtained from Miami and he woudl become the next great Colt receiver. With their high #2, the pick a cornerback. So in 2012 we are looking at Peyton Manning being back, a much improved offensive line and running attack, his same weapons plus Blackmon, and hopefully a new defensive coordinator running a more base 4-3 zone or bump and run. I don't think it is too far fetched to say the Colts are Super Bowl contenders. After all, this is essentially the same team that made the Super Bowl two seasons back who couldn't run. And in 2013 we have have Miami's top 10 pick as well, and we get a stud cornerback.
I know, I know, this is all speculation. But after the Colts win the Super Bowl in 2013 and 2014, we will look back and say "If we didn't have that down year, we would have never gotten those blue chip players and the coaching staff changed to get us to this level". At least that is my hope. Again, it sucks. I will be pulling for my beloved Colts to go 8-8 this year, but as things are going, it doesn't seem likely. So I have to find that silver lining.
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I admit that it seems Jerry going half speed all the time. But my hope is that he is a gamer. If he is in there, he has to play and has to make plays, he will rise to the occassion. I do hope he develops some moves because running straight at a OT is not going to work.
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Thanks everyone for the kind words. I can already tell that I will be better than I was before surgery. And I might also mention that, like Peyton, I had a few failed procedures beforehand. But they were more to manage pain rather than fix the problem. From my understanding, the procedures Peyton has were options I had as well, which was to basically manage the pain but could never really fix the core problem. That disk is going to continue to buldge. At some point, you have to make the decision you are just going to fix the core problem.
Since mine was before Peytons, I kidded my friends he copied me.
Again, I don't know the future, but I full expect Peyton to be back and better than ever. Once that bone fuses, it will be a great relief.
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I really think far too much is being made out of Manning's recovery and that he likely will not ever play again just because at this point he isn't feeling so much better.
I had that same procedure that Peyton had, only a week earlier. I can tell you what I went through and what I learned. Now, given, I don't claim to be an NFL quarterback, but at least the healing process is about the same. I was told it would take probably 3 months for the bone fusion to even start. Before that time, it is likely I would feel weakness and numbness in my arms and hands until things stabilized, which is what I experience right now. My left arm is weaker than my right, but that is expected from this surgery. Between 3-6 months is the fusion taking and solidifying. And it can take up to a full year for the person to completely recover from this surgery.
On the good side, the disc pain I have had for years is mostly gone. I can turn much better than I could before.
So I really think it is far too premature to speculate whether he will play or not. I was told there was a 80% chance I would be pain free after surgery and be better than ever. But it does take time. My fusion hasn't started yet, but I can feel the relief of the pain I had before. My expectation is by the end of the year, Peyton will be throwing the ball just as he did previously and he will be fine. He neck will actually be stronger, with the fusion, then it was before when the disk could bulge at any point.
None of us can know and can only guess, but I expect next year he will have the best year he has had in 4 years.
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Got this from Profootball talk. But it reminds me of Hughes. In all fairness to him, he really doesn't get a lot of snaps in real games:
When Aaron Maybin returns to Buffalo on Sunday for the Jets to play the Bills, he probably can’t expect a warm reception. The Bills took Maybin 11th overall in 2009 and he was one of the NFL’s biggest draft busts of the last few years, getting released without ever recording a single sack.
But Maybin has three sacks so far this season with the Jets, and he says the difference between his old team and his new team is simple: His old coaches never gave him a chance to show what he could do, and his new coaches are making the most of his talents.
“When you get between five and seven plays a game, that’s not really an opportunity,” Maybin told Sean Jensen for Yahoo Sports. “There was something the Bills’ coaching staff didn’t see that Rex Ryan and that coaching staff did. Whatever it is, I can’t tell you or put my finger on it. I can sit here and try to focus on why that is. But it doesn’t matter anymore.”
Of course, the Bills would argue that the five to seven plays a game were an opportunity, and that Maybin also had plenty of opportunities in minicamps, training camps, practices and preseason games to prove he deserved more than five to seven plays a game in the 27 regular-season games he played for the Bills.
That time is over, though, and Maybin has found a role he can fill in the Jets’ defense. That’s a credit to him, and to Ryan. And it can’t make the Bills happy to see Maybin contributing for an AFC East rival in a way he never contributed for the Bills.
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I honestly think the ONLY WAY the Colts would draft Andrew Luck, providing they have the #1 pick, is if Manning simply has to retire. If Manning can play, I think there is zero chance the Colts draft him. Of course, they are going to say they will now, because they want to drive that trade value up. But here is why I feel that way:
1) This offense is built around Peyton Manning and his strengths. Sure, Luck is a great prospect, but it will take him a couple of years to be up to speed. And who's to say he could run this offense?? Might be that they have to chance it to accomodate his strengths. So I would expect the Colts to be bad for 2-3 years.
2) By the time Luck is playing at a high level, lets say 2-3 years, it is very likely there is no more Mathis, Wayne, Freeney, Saturday, or even Dallas Clark. So he is better, but the talent around him is worse. So maybe they are still not very good?
3) This is a WIN NOW sport. Does Bill really want his son to have to go through a 3-4 year stretch of likely not being very good? He might not last that long, especially considering this season.
4) Lets say the Colts have the #1 pick and a team like Miami desperately wants him. So trade the pick to Miami for their high #1 and maybe their #1 next year or this year and next years #2s. Now pick WR Justin Blackmon and fortify the cornerback position with those extra picks. The Colts are built to WIN NOW with Manning, so this sets them up next year to make a run at the Super Bowl with potentially another great WR and more talent. The reason I say Blackmon is because that high of a pick, I think we go for a skill position even if we need CB more. We need the next great Colt WR.
5) I highly doubt Luck would want to sit 3-4 years on the bench behind Manning.
Obviously, this is just all my opinion. But if I could play fantasy GM, that is how I would approach it. I would go for winning now, getting the most I can out of trading Luck if I had the #1 pick, and think about Mannings eventual replacement in probably two years if he is able to play at the same level.
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Bringing in John Elway to run the team, who then hires the coach off the worst team in the league to be the new head coach
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Tressel
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I disagree with the idea of drafting a tackle, though. Castonzo and Ijalana are both tackles and expected to be the starters. i honestly think with a pick that high, they will go after another skill position, probably WR. Reggie is nearing the end and we need another Marvin Harrison type player. Garcon is good but inconsistent. Unless there is a Suh type DT, I just don't see it happening.
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Coaching is the bigger issue. Powers and Bethea have shown they can be very good players. Powers hasn't done much this year, but Bethea certainly has. Let me make this 100% clear though, we are NOT the fastest defense in football. We have the fastest front 7, but our secondary doesn't have much speed at all
Coming agree with you. As I have said on other posts, I think we would have two Revis' playing back there and would still give up many points. When you are playing off a receiver so far, nobody will get covered.
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I think that is a big, big reason the Colts have not had a good running attack in years. The run is given up far too easily. I went back and watched some games from like 2004-2005. Manning would get behind center more and the stretch was run or he did a lot of play action passing. I remember how his play action fakes were always so convincing. That simply hardly happens anymore. The Colts, even with Manning, will start the game in a shotgun. They immediate make themselves one dimension. Now, that one dimension is enough to win most games, but i don't understand why they don't even it out more. I think Carter is a future star. The really should just pound him into the line a bit more to setup some passes.
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I honestly don't think it would matter if we had Revis and Suh on the team. The schemes are just bad. We have decent players. Just need a different system
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A new coaching staff. I really believe that we could have Suh and Revis and it wouldn't make a different. The schemes are just bad.
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The Tampa Too Much Cushion just isn't getting it done
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You hit that right on conditioning. I have never seen a team get so many injuries. Especially at the O-Line.
I think Caldwell needs to go. He is a black George Seifert without a SB win.
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There you go!!! Always something that happens to ensure the loss!
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Why does Caldwell always look like there isn't much going on upstairs??
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They way the Colts play, they will make it 20-17, get the ball, and Wayne will be stripped of the ball.
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Until the other team wins?
hahahaha Nice one!!
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Hey neat!
Jim Caldwell is dressed like an NFL coach for Halloween.
That might be the best post I have seen in awhile!! hahahahah
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How long are CBs going to play 10 yards off the WRs?
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Unless Peyton has to retire, I see zero chance Luck comes to Indy. If we have the number 1 pick, I think we trade it to Miami for their #1 and maybe their #1 next year. There is just no way that Luck wants to sit for 4 years, nor will the Colts expect a rookie to do better with a veteran team. By the time Luck is good, most of the Colts stars would be gone or retired. So, I think if you take it as a whole, it makes far more sense to make a 3-4 year run then rebuild