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    Winston Justice is a good RT

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    I have seen some breakdowns for sure, but if we have Castonzo, a healthy Reitz, "Shipley" or a HEALTHY Satele, McGlynn (Link has played better next to Shipley at guard than tackle) and Justice....and some continuity without injury we can succeed. :thmup:

    We have all been very critical of our OL, but look at the league as a whole. We would be hard pressed to say that with all of the injuries this year.....there are not mor than 5 superior OLs. Even the good ones are getting spanked week in and week out....it is a league-wide OL mess....and holding could still be called on every play. OK....done with my :lecture: on the OL quality! Time to get ready for some :nfl: :coltsfb: football.......and get to .500! :td: Reggie Wayne.....I can hear it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :blueshoe: :blueshoe: :blueshoe:

    agreed. get the top five healthy and able to practice together and watch what happens. plenty of talent there that needs time to work TOGETHER.

    What the heck happened?

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    young beat up team coming off a highly emotional game going on the road against a high profile team with their backs against the wall. not surprising at all. colts are about where i thought they'd be. thought they would have beat jacksonville and lose to green bay. look for them to handle the browns next week.

    Offseason free agent o-linemen

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    if that happens I can confidently say Grigson wont make it beyond year 3 and that if he thinks his pickups on the right side of the O Line are starters in the NFL then (which I certainly dont think he does they came cheap after all) he truly is a bad evaluator of O Line talent

    what makes you more competent ? you've had a hard on for mcglynn and justice since they came on board. mcglynn hasn't given up a sack and has been solid at two spots. justice has been fine when healthy. no one is going to be perfect all the time. satele has clearly been the worst of the three acquisitions. i honestly believe you have no clue about what you are watching or have even the most fundamental understanding of how the game is played.

    Starting 5 O linemen next year - PREDICTIONS

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    cant be any worse then Mcglynn pretending to be a Guard in a Power Blocking scheme and dont get me started on Olsen I do think its very possible the whole right side of the O Line is not changed and one of the positions will but Justice and Mcglynn are not the answer regardless

    my money says mr grigson and mr pagano definitely disagree with you. i see you still have a hard on for mcglynn despite the fact he has graded out the highest through 4 games of all the linemen.

    Linkenbach Starts Again, Chandler Harnish as Tebow

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    The only qb that has struggled against the bills this year is Weeden from the Browns. Don't read too much into it. Sanchez is just not good. If he is pressured, he struggles. If he has no running game, he struggles. With Mangold banged up, I'd say we have a good shot of rattling him early and often.

    what was reitz surgery for ? seems like he's been out an awful long time.

    Reitz

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    Yes because Linkenbach is a back up lineman and not a starter and has played both guard and tackle before. Also they didn't have McGlynn go in and play center because they thought it was a good match up they did it because they didn't have another choice. It's not unlike the Chargers game a few years ago where Jake Scott got moved out to tackle because we were out of lineman so they had to do something strange. It's not something they wanted to do they were forced into it. Also McGlynn wasn't exactly smooth the rest of the day most of his snaps were low in the shotgun and the TV announcers in the Vikings game did a great job pointing that out and showing how it was impacting Luck having to look down for the snaps and take his eyes off the defense and making his reads. So yes he did miss a beat.

    Did you ever think that the reason he didn't even make those active rosters and why he made one here is because he wasn't a good tightend or tackle and he is a good guard? Not everyone can do both. My guess would be the Colts aren't playing him at tackle because either they don't want to mess with something they have that is good on the left side or they don't think he can play tackle. I honestly doubt it's because they haven't thought of it. Also Justice has done fine at the tackle poistion thus far this season, not great but not bad either. Our biggest weakness most people felt was the left guard spot with Reitz out. Why would want to move a guy out of his poistion to play another poistion when him coming back can fix the biggest weakness on your line?

    Also yes it is counter productive to always be shifting your line around. Lines play well when they have a chance to jell. They don't jell if you are moving people around the line week-to-week. Also if the line isn't playing well why do you want mess up the one side of the line that has proven to do well? All you are doing is making more holes for yourself to fill with no promise that the change you made is going to work.

    To your last point Link has started one game at right tackle and one game left guard not because they wanted him out there in both cases it was due to injury and on Sunday it was because of two injuries. Starting someone because you are forced too due to injury isn't exactly the samething as shifting your line around.

    GEEZ, a guy has to switch positions in the middle of a game to a spot where he hasn't practiced at in two years and you nitpick ? plus the first series he goes in they run the hurry up offense and he directs the line flawlessly and they score. yes the snaps were low. did you expect perfection ? i would think fans would be thankful there are competent players who are versatile enough to contribute no matter where they play. i don;t think they missed a beat. the offense has been BETTER when someone other than satele has been over the ball.

    Donald Brown Had Surgery, out 2-3 weeks (merge)

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    Continuity yes but its more about knowing your assignment and beating your man

    see that's where we disagree. you function as a unit. you don't always have a "man". now i agree about not blowing assignments as that's a mental thing. but as ANY of us watch a game we aren't privy to what schemes were called and what responsibilities each player has. the guy in front of you is not always your responsibility.

    Donald Brown Had Surgery, out 2-3 weeks (merge)

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    I expected just what we paid for, Luck to have to run for his life to avoid sacks or throw with someone hanging all over him (Clay Matthews). dont be mistaking how good Luck is with buying time, for good O Line play because we have gotten anything but, and to your point yep Castonzo didnt have a great game but he has been the most consistent (not great) O Linemen so far in my opinion. yep Shipley played well, Im not talking about 1 game Im talking about consistency

    i don't know how anyone can have any expectations given all the injuries. quality o line play is based on how those five guys function as a unit. i think that its interesting that the two guys who have played 4 complete games are the two guys who have been the most consistent. costanzo and mcglynn. those two are holding the line together. costanzo struggled some sunday against matthews but who doesn't and mcglynn hasn't given up a sack all year playing two positions. it's not easy when the guys next to you are constantly changing. it's all about continuity.

    PFF: Castonzo gave up three sacks

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    The site is good, IMO. They do a play by play analysis. No they don't know the assignments, but sometimes it's pretty obvious that a guy plain got beat.

    i know what your saying. getting beat is one thing but if a guy goes free how do they truly know who's responsibility it was ? if a guy makes agood block on the wrong guy he gets a failing grade from the coaches. sure the obvious is easy but how many obvious ones are there ?

    PFF: Castonzo gave up three sacks

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    https://www.profootb...s-colts-week-5/

    Indy’s Offensive Line Woes

    Who was the last quality offensive lineman the Colts acquired? You’d have to go back a long way, and at some point Andrew Luck is going to need some of them if the Colts hope for him to dominate long-term. In this game only center A.Q. Shipley (
    +3.0
    ) graded out well with the rest coming in various shades of average or poor. Former first round pick Anthony Castonzo (
    -5.1
    ) was once again an issue at left tackle as he struggled to keep Clay Matthews quiet.
    He coughed up three sacks, a knockdown and three more hurries
    on his own, making life very difficult for Luck in the pocket. The line combined to allow 17 total pressures on their rookie quarterback with the team down to bare bones and replacement players across the unit. The Colts need to start dedicating some major resources into securing linemen going forward.

    I don't know about this. I didn't specifically watch where the pressure was coming from, because it seemed to me like it was coming from all over the place. PFF is usually on their game, but I wonder what they saw that I didn't.

    Did anyone else think Castonzo gave up that much pressure? Basically seven blown plays?

    i don't know about the sacks but i do think the guys he was blocking hit luck more than anyone elses guys. i don't care for that site as they don't know the assignments any more than we do. they are speculating. only the coaches know for certain what was called and what each players responsibilities were.

    Donald Brown Had Surgery, out 2-3 weeks (merge)

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    I like Carter, but as to the injury now all the Brown haters get there wish to see Ballard start unfortunately they will also have to come to the realization that our O Line outside of Castonzo is complete crap

    complete crap ? that line that was outstanding sunday in the 2nd half ? costanzo was responsible for more hits on luck than anyone else last week. sometimes i wonder what game you watch. shipley played well. link did a nice job. mcglynn hasn;t given up a sack all year playing two spots. look around the league. considering all the injuries and shuffling of players these guys have stepped up in my eyes. lots of lines in this league in much worse shape than the colts. they should be 3-1. what the heck did you expect ? they were much better than gren bays line. redding threw saturday to the ground like a rag doll.

    Reitz

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    It doesn't, but that's how it was set up. It's Arians' Offense, never expect "ordinary" things haha

    unless anyone knows for certain what protection was called no one can say exactly if it was a blown assignment or just poor execution. that's why judging o line play is almost impossible to do without the facts.

    A.Q. Shipley

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    I disagree (from the way it looked since I don't know what the line call was). Fleener pushes Perry to the outside you do that to give the tackle time to get back in position, Justice was just too slow to get back there.

    One, Perry wasn't stunting. Watching the game earlier I did not see AC miss any stunts, let alone two. He got beat a couple of times but none that appeared to be blown assignments or "misreads"

    the one play the two d linemen stunted and costanzo didn't hand his man off to link and links man looped around untouched. it happens.

    our o-line and d-line

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    Sometimes it is used like that no doubt. But in this case it was someone who was just having fun with it because to start a sentence with "are" instead of "our" changes the entire meaning and makes the sentence a question instead of a statement.

    I can never get separate correct the first time, I always have to go back and change the 1st "a" because I always think it should be "e".

    I will disagree to a point because in some cases (not all) poor grammar is just a sign of laziness on the part of the poster. Most of us learned basic English grammar in 12 years of school (the reason I say most is because I know there are people from different countries on this board) and IMO it does not matter the delivery medium people should at least make an effort. Quite frankly it is hard to take someone's ideas seriously when they don't know the difference between "are" and "our" or "your" and "You're" or, my biggest pet peeve when discussing football, those who use "core" instead of "corps" Corps is a group of persons associated or acting together. A core is the center of something. So when people say something like "the Colts have a good (or bad) LB core" they are not talking about the center of the LBers they are talking about the overall group of LBers so it would be LB corps.

    Anyways, I will get off my high horse now.

    The Colts need Reitz back and then they need some help at center, RG and RT. The defensive line, IMO has been doing well. Moala is really fitting into the DT role, Redding when healthy is a game changer at DE and Johnson does okay at NT. Nevis and Mathews play pretty well when they come in as well. I'd like a better back NT behind Johnson but you can't get everything in one year.

    i like reitz but some here act like he is a long term keeper. he hasn't shown anything yet amd is as unproven as most other players on this team.

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