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On 10/30/2016 at 4:28 PM, tomloge said:
what I said 2 years ago. tear the entire team apart and start from scratch. People ridiculed me for that post. I was right on the money. I think a pee-wee team of 8 year olds could beat this team.
Said the same thing
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On 10/30/2016 at 4:32 PM, AllYouNeedIsLuck said:
That's dumb. No point in doing that
"trade Luck!" Hahaha
You must be a Pats fan that was DUMB statement
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No problem Pagano has him chopping wood
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1 hour ago, 1959Colts said:
To me, the most embarrassing is, the fans comments defending Pagano, Grigson and Irsay.
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13 minutes ago, Rally5 said:
I've been a die hard fan since the day the Mayflowers rolled it to Indy and I really respect the fans here who were fans before that time and followed their fandom from Baltimore to Indy. I was speaking with my son this morning lamenting the game yesterday and I told him this is how it used to be before the Manning and Polian era. In fact, during the Manning years, I never took for granted how good we were I always reminded myself that "this is a special time." Then I went on to tell him when people always talked about how great Peyton was (we live out of town) I would often respond with our MVP is really Bill Polian, that's when things changed in Indy no matter how you paint it. Remember many people wanted Ryan Leaf and Ricky Williams and Polian brought us Manning and James. Anyway, I decided to do a little research and found that during the Polian years the Colts were 146-94 and that with some bookend bad years. When you look at the Colts outside the Polian years (1984-1996 / 2011 - P) we are 128-149.
I thought about it some more and we're seeing a slow deterioration year over year of what I believe was a championship culture. During the Polian years we had: arguably the best QB of all time, a HOF GM (maybe GOAT), a HOF Head Coach, a HOF WR and a likely second in Wayne. We had two likely HOF Defensive ends and a Defensive Player of the year and several more Ring of Honor inductees. Remember, prior to Polian were inducting guys like Jim Harbaugh (who I like) for having a four decent years as a QB in Indy, that was as good as it got! As we sit here today the only people in our organization from players, coaches, and head office with that potential seem to be Andrew Luck, TY and Frank Gore mainly from his time in SF. So, the culture that was so carefully built over a decade is now been washed away with poor drafts, poor free agents and an arrogant head office approach based upon zero history of success.
Truth is, the Irsay's (Jim or Bob) have never been especially good operational leaders of this team, Jim "wanted his team back" so we ushered out HOF talent and culture and replaced it with a rookie Head Coach, a rookie GM, a rookie QB and decided to start all over with high energy media friendly people that Jim really likes. Well, the result of that is unfortunate for us Colt fans but should come as no surprise when you consider none fo these people had any experience int he job roles in which they were hired. I was critical of Irsay as a leader last year and a bunch of people came running to his defense. I'll stand by an old quote by Bill Parcells that ayss "you are what your record says you are" I happen to credit the Polian era to the leadership of Bill P and when you look at the franchise on balance it's not very impressive.
I guess here's the point (finally), I don't dislike Jim Irsay at all, I will always be thankful they brought football to Indy. I like Jim even more when he hires experienced, talented front office people and lets them run his franchise with intelligence and let him just play on Twitter and buy memoralbilia! I don't care how media friendly they are, I don't care how nice our coach is, I like Pags, good dude, not an NFL HC. The front office in the NFL is almost everything and Grigson may be a great GM someday but after he learns and evaluates his significant mistakes in Indy. Even Belichick was fired in Cleveland once upon a time. So, even if we turn this season around I never see this front office or coaching staff delivering at an HOF level and isn't that the ultimate mission? Irsay can eat the contract extensions, mistakes are expensive, and then go find people with serious bonafide's to put this back together again. No F/X Coaches or GM's, no college guys, get people with Super Bowls on their resume, there are people out there with a legitimate track record to be hired and take us to a new era. Sorry I took so long, the conclusions here are nothing new but we often do not contemplate the owner's role in all this and it seems worth mentioning,
I have followed them from Baltimore to Indy Irsay has taken a step back. The sooner he realizes the mistakes in hiring Pagano who is nothing more then a cheerleader and Grigson (Trent Richardson)the better off the team will be in the long run.
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Yes he did not want to many Colt fans did not no this but the Colts could have had Dan Marino I think it was Rozelle who blocked the trade
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As long as Pagano and Grigson are in charge doe's it really matter love my Colts but this is hard to stomach.
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15 minutes ago, IinD said:
So we shutting down Aaron next week with our pass rush and smothering D??
Just curious what you all think?
With Pagano"s MONSTER D Aaron will break all fantasy records
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1 hour ago, FanFromtheWasteland said:
Can't wait to read all the fairy dust and daisies posts of people trying to convince themselves.....and everyone else that this team is "not that bad" and "we are not that far away" when in reality this team sucks
You can include the owner and dumb and dumber
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5 hours ago, coltsfeva said:
I was born in '55 and remember my Grandfather having the Colts on a black and white T.V. , sometime around 1960. (I live in Delaware, so most of the fan base is Eagles' fans).
Went to Colts games in Baltimore, when they had Bert Jones, Roger Carr and on defense, the Sack Pack. That stadium ROCKED when they spelled out C-O-L-T-S
When they moved to Indy, my friends who were Colts fans, hated them, but I followed the "laundry".
When I was dating my wife in 2002, she had an autographed picture of Bruce Laird (a Baltimore Colts' Safety). So, I thought this must be a sign and I asked her to marry me....lol!
We've made some of our vacation trips around Colts' games (N.O., Miami, Tenn, Indy, Foxboro).
Pretty hard to beat the Colts' QB lineage:
Johnny U
Bert Jones
Jim Harbaugh
Peyton Manning
Andrew Luck
GO COLTS!!!!
Loved Bert Jones,Roger Carr and the SACK PACK man if we had the SACK PACK now
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I have followed them from Baltimore used to go to many games in Baltimore and when they played any of the NY teams. Have been to a few games in Indy love the stadium and the people. I remember seeing Jim Irsay at 16 boarding the bus so Im old
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1 hour ago, theanarchist said:
Grigson throwing picks around
It's like giving the keys of your car to that uncle that has 5 DWI's and say, have a good night out!
You must miss Trent Richardson
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22 minutes ago, LJpalmbeacher said:
Your assuming he knows how to read.
Now your giving him to much credit
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He would be a good zombie in the walking dead
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1 hour ago, lollygagger8 said:
Agreed.
Now can we all pitch in and buy this for Pagano for Christmas?
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21 minutes ago, 21isSuperman said:
1) Mariota is having a bad year. He had some accuracy and decision-making issues yesterday
2) We played Tennessee, not really the most talented team in the league
3) Our defense took several penalties that kept the Titans in the game when we should have put them away much earlier
4) I believe Tennessee had some OL issues, which contributed to our pass rush looking better than it is.
No, we still don't have a defense.
You mean Chucks MONSTER D
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On 10/21/2016 at 11:24 PM, 19colt said:
I can see some similarities at the moment. The good news is that Indy has another 10 years or more to turn it around for Luck. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
If he last 10 years after all the beatings he has taken
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Pagano and Grigson will now get another contract extension
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15 hours ago, ReMeDy said:
All the Colts fans would be cheering Pagano for taking a knee, and he would be like, "Why is everyone celebrating?"
Please take a knee for the team Pagano Please,Please,Please
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15 minutes ago, ReMeDy said:
That would be funny if Pagano took a knee.
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Chucks MONSTER D
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30 minutes ago, relkins said:
Don't forget he'll make the necessary corrections. Lol
His MONSTER D always makes the necessary corrections
Pagano: Green Bay's defense 'virtually unblockable'
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Irsay get rid of him