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    Sudden Death Cage Match: Colts vs. Texans *Saturday 8:15pm (MERGE)

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    1 hour ago, IrsaysArmy said:

    Ya I’m not confident at all. The lows of the team is just so low I wouldn’t be surprised if we get beat handily. And even if we don’t play bad, I think the Texans are the better team. Luckily, what I think doesn’t matter. We’ll find out Saturday.

     

    Offensively, at least, I think the Colts have shown over the course of the season that even with the injuries that they are well coached, schemed enough to get themselves into some opportunities to put points on the board. Currently we are 10th in the league in PPG.  Plus, the Texans D is pretty much league average in points and yards per game so do I think the offense can do some things as long as they take care of the ball (Houston is +9 in TO differential this year) which in turn, hopefully, limits the exposure on the defense. 

     

    My apprehension comes on how our D is going match with their O.  Realistically, we probably are not shutting them down, but can they produce the critical situational stops, TOs?  Thats where going outside the season long trends regarding coverage calls, blitzing becomes so critical IMO.  

     

    Sudden Death Cage Match: Colts vs. Texans *Saturday 8:15pm (MERGE)

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    They are going to have to play a clean game.  Some of the errors that we have seen in the last few weeks (both in wins and losses) cannot happen.  

     

    Bradley has to be willing to do things that don't necessarily vibe with his core beliefs and change up coverage and blitzes.  I can tell you right now, if they play that soft (5+ yrds off) zone, with no extra rusher Stroud will tear that apart.  O'Connell set a career high in passing yards today and I will venture to say 80% of his yards came when the Colts were in zone.  Heineke also killed us last week when we played a large part of the game that way.  With the way this season has turned out, Stroud is probably going to be the best QB we have faced and he is a completely different player than he was in week 2.  That being said, he is still a rookie and they have to try and confuse him, speed him up and not allow him to get comfortable or in a rhythm.    

     

    I don't think we can win this game without forcing a turnover or two, winning the turnover battle.   We have gone two straight games without a turnover and hopefully that ends next week. 

     

    Offensively, they need to continue to lean on the run game and continue to mix up how they are running and who they are using.  I think Trey Sermon has shown enough in both the Steelers game and today that he warrants getting closer to 1/4th to 1/3rd of the total rushing attempts.  

     

    If Steichen has any wrinkles (such as splitting JT wide) which we have not seen in a few weeks, now is the time to break them out. 

     

     

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    Colts vs Raiders post game thread

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    - Offense put up 23 points without benefit of any short fields, turnovers.  Steichen did a good job of adjusting play calling for the most part late and sticking with running outside the tackles. Trey Sermon once again gave us a boost.

     

    - Defense did enough but I absolutely do not like when they play passive sit back zone with no extra rusher.  I’m going to take the last Raiders TD drive out of the discussion because with the time and score being what it was, that was probably the smart way to play things but outside of that there are minimal examples of that coverage call helping us.

     

    - I hope the coaching staff uses Speed’s bonehead penalty of what can happen and how it can cost the team when you play without awareness regarding the game situation and what a given player is doing on the field. 
     

    - They are going to have their work cut out for them next week. Houston is a much better team with a confident QB than when we played them in Wk 2.  Coaching staff is going to have scheme the heck of out things and the team is going to have minimize the mental mistakes we saw today.

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