Colts Defense!

[Smitto]

Can we get some praise for the defense... AP 60yds 3.8avg a touch... constant pressure. Freeman is starting to look like the real deal, Mathis and Hughes had a great game today. Thoughts?

[colts52761]

i was impressed with all our linebackers today!

[ruksak]

Overall, a solid showing but very inconsistent. I'm withholding my praise because, despite having a few stars, Minnesota's offense sucks eggs.

[neverstop1863]

Overall, a solid showing but very inconsistent. I'm withholding my praise because, despite having a few stars, Minnesota's offense sucks eggs.

Yes they may but they do still have some guy named Adrian Peterson.......and our boys did a pretty good job on him.

[neverstop1863]

The run is what worried me the most, not to bad of a day for the D.

[jemack]

Can they waive King now? I'm mean Great overall performance

[Coltssouth]

Yes they may but they do still have some guy named Adrian Peterson.......and our boys did a pretty good job on him.

I was just getting ready to post this. Held him to 60 yards. Good job D

[Smitto]

yea they definitely did, seems like QB's are challenging powers more and it looks like he's paying off big time..

[chad hugo]

powers and bethea played exceptionally well, also freeman was a nice surprise!

[Warhorse]

Hate to, you know, praise them until they deserve it. How fan like. Lol.

I'm liking the D and I like the aggressiveness. The consistency will come

[HtownColt]

It was great for 3 quarters holding them to 2 field goals. Now gotta improve and be great for 60min

[coltsfanatic24]

great run defense but still work in progress with secondary. i think as the season goes along they'll do much better.

[shakedownstreet]

I was just getting ready to post this. Held him to 60 yards. Good job D

well we were playin' with a two touchdown lead. our offense took them out of their game plan. just sayin'

[jemack]

I was just getting ready to post this. Held him to 60 yards. Good job D

I'll take putting the ball in Ponder's hand rather than Peterson's any day. The colts were fortunate to create a lead which is a credit to the entire team

[ballin colt]

I really liked the way Castonzo handled Allen today he is going to be a great left tackle. Total Defense.

[neverstop1863]

well we were playin' with a two touchdown lead. our offense took them out of their game plan. just sayin'

Thanks for the Update.........Still AP held to 60 yds 3.8 avg per touch ill take that and be proud no matter how big of a lead we have.

[neverstop1863]

Thanks for the Update.........Still AP held to 60 yds 3.8 avg per touch ill take that and be proud no matter how big of a lead we have.

In addition maybe we would not have gained that lead if AP was having a normal " AP day".

[SLILLINGTON10]

other than the freak tipped pass, and king we had a darn good defensive game. now if we could iron out our run game it wouldn't have even been close. before that last field goal drive our offense in the 4th had a whopping 1 yd. thats a tough spot to put your defense in.

[Coffeedrinker]

There were some good things with the D. Cory Redding showed why he was the priority signing this offseason. Moala played on the Vikings side of the LOS most of the D. But,personally, I'm not going to give a lot of praise to a D that allows Christian Freakin' Ponder to go 27 of 35 for 245 yards and two TDs. Part of that is Manusky's fault, not calling the correct D, but some of that falls on the players as well.

[Moose Of Woe]

Penalties.

Defense needs a lot of work and, more importantly, the O-line. I'm getting tired of hearing "almost intercepted." It's gotten old after a couple of decades. It's time to hold on to those picks and run them back some.

That being said, good job getting the W, and a great job containing AP.

[Warhawk]

It was certainly better than last week.

MJD next. Definitely have some work to do.

[dgambill]

Its good to get AP and MJD early in the season before they are really in game shape as both have missed a great deal of time. We also will have back to back weeks with sub-par young qbs to go up against. It will be important to string some wins together early...they will only get more difficult against better opponents.

[Smitto]

There were some good things with the D. Cory Redding showed why he was the priority signing this offseason. Moala played on the Vikings side of the LOS most of the D. But,personally, I'm not going to give a lot of praise to a D that allows Christian Freakin' Ponder to go 27 of 35 for 245 yards and two TDs. Part of that is Manusky's fault, not calling the correct D, but some of that falls on the players as well.

how you gonna try and downplay his game when he did the same thing against a pretty good jags defense? ponder had a nice game with no turnovers with some good short passes leaving it to his receivers to get the yards.. overall pretty good defense for the colts... especially from keeping the vikes from getting any big passing plays.

[HtownColt]

Least we didn't let a QB throw for 510yards like Eli Manning did to this one defense I know(Buccaneers). But we wasn't like the Texans Defense who held Gabbert to -4 pass yards in the first half and led to his benching and a QB controversy with Chad Henne

[ColtFan12]

Jacksonville doesn't have much of an offense, except for MJD. Hopefully the defense can hold him to under 100 yards and force their quarterback to step up. Jacksonville was terrible against Houston today. Hopefully the same thing happens next Sunday.

[manning04]

D played good. did not hear too much about missed tackles this game. couple of bad 3rd downs. but as we get more comfy in the system things can only get better. Redding played extremely well just glad to see him not get hurt.

[ballstmc53]

Zbikowski is starting to worry me...... he got pushed around a lot today on the screen passes

[Coffeedrinker]

how you gonna try and downplay his game when he did the same thing against a pretty good jags defense?

I'm not down playing his game... and Jags does not have a pretty good defense. The Jags are really bad this year.

ponder had a nice game with no turnovers with some good short passes leaving it to his receivers to get the yards.. overall pretty good defense for the colts... especially from keeping the vikes from getting any big passing plays.

So, it's a good defense even though Ponder 78% percent of his passes with no turnovers.. Okay Smitto, if you consider that good then I can't help that.... me, I will be happy the team is improving but I will keep my standards of good D and wait until they play a good game before I praise them.

[jemack]

Thanks for the Update.........Still AP held to 60 yds 3.8 avg per touch ill take that and be proud no matter how big of a lead we have.

I can't resist...... Please keep your snide intros to another forum. No one, especially me deserves that type of response. Besides your "Thanks for the update" regurgitation, I pretty much agree with you.......

[colt_fan]

As a whole, I was impressed with the Colts defense. Even though they gave up the two late touchdowns, they were able to contain Adrian Peterson and Percy Harvin pretty well. Definitely some positives that we can gather from this game going into next week.

[Smitto]

I'm not down playing his game... and Jags does not have a pretty good defense. The Jags are really bad this year.

So, it's a good defense even though Ponder 78% percent of his passes with no turnovers.. Okay Smitto, if you consider that good then I can't help that.... me, I will be happy the team is improving but I will keep my standards of good D and wait until they play a good game before I praise them.

Did we watch the same game? ponder made short completions most of the game... not alot you can do to defend that. Completions dont really tell the whole story either. Colts defense had a pretty good game, would have been even better if they had kept that tipped TD off the board.

[oldunclemark]

Can we get some praise for the defense... AP 60yds 3.8avg a touch... constant pressure. Freeman is starting to look like the real deal, Mathis and Hughes had a great game today. Thoughts?

very, very good......with Freeney and Angerer both out.....we controlled a good offense......until that tipped ball TD.

,and Adam V came through after a miss in Chicago.....

[HtownColt]

4 sacks and a forced fumble. Feels good to win the turnover battle and not have a turnover today. Huge step in the right direction in ball security from last weeks 5 turnovers

[needanoline63]

Let's not shoot our pants just yet, holding Peterson to less then 100 yards was surprising. Freeman is getting more comfortable as a starter. 2 players that REALLY need to step up is Justin king and Tom zibikowski. Especially tommy z.

[ztboiler]

There were some good things with the D. Cory Redding showed why he was the priority signing this offseason. Moala played on the Vikings side of the LOS most of the D. But,personally, I'm not going to give a lot of praise to a D that allows Christian Freakin' Ponder to go 27 of 35 for 245 yards and two TDs. Part of that is Manusky's fault, not calling the correct D, but some of that falls on the players as well.

Give Manusky at least enough credit that he called a good enough game to execute a 4th down stand to hold it at 20-6 in the middle of the 4th....interrupted by only a fluke.

[Elmo]

Can you believe Freeman is third on the depth chart :o

[Coffeedrinker]

Did we watch the same game?

Probably not... I watched the game with understanding.

ponder made short completions most of the game... not alot you can do to defend that.

I'm sorry, do short completions not count and move the chains? Wasn't it the short completions that lead to 2 TDs.

Completions dont really tell the whole story either.

Nope they don't, that is why I didn't just mention completions but the yardage and TDs and lack of turnovers.

Colts defense had a pretty good game, would have been even better if they had kept that tipped TD off the board.

Again the D showed some nice improvement that is good to see with a new system, but it was far from a good game or a game that deserves praise.

[Coffeedrinker]

Give Manusky at least enough credit that he called a good enough game to execute a 4th down stand to hold it at 20-6 in the middle of the 4th....interrupted by only a fluke.

Which part am I supposed to give him credit? That Redding tipped it, that the receiver still caught it or that, or the poor defensive calls that allowed the Vikes to moves easily to the 7?

The main that that prevented fans from calling this a defensive meltdown by the Colts is the fantastic play of Luck, Avery and Wayne at the end of each half.

[oldunclemark]

I really liked the way Castonzo handled Allen today he is going to be a great left tackle. Total Defense.

That was big..Allen didnt kill us

[Boiler_Colt]

D played great for the majority of the game, that tipped pass was a fluke. Powers played great, Redding was a monster all day. Didn't see many passes go Vontae's way but he was good in run support. King was terrible and got worked all day and I have yet to see Zbi do anything at all. Once Angerer gets back I want him to play with alongside Freeman. Not that Conner was bad, just that Freeman is all over the place. A solid performance by the D who wasn't getting any favors from the conservative O in the second half.