Offensive Gameplan

[grmasterb]

49 pass attempts for Painter. That's not a recipe for success. Carter and Brown combined were averaging over 4 yards per carry. We give up on the run way too easy.

[LUVTHESHOE]

49 pass attempts for Painter. That's not a recipe for success. Carter and Brown combined were averaging over 4 yards per carry. We give up on the run way too easy.

they will watch film, and adjust

[Truebluefan85]

they will watch film, and adjust

As far as adjustments, Painter will get 55 pass attempts next week.

[Andy]

They need to be more balanced. I've said this before the game, and it's a big reason we lost. We were too pass heavy. Delone Carter and Donald Brown ran well, and we could have moved the ball more effectively if we ran more.

Now in the future, I think that we should try more short passes. Try more screens, slants, quick outs/ins, then after doing that we can set up the long bomb to Garcon. We can't just take random shots down field and go for 15 yard passes when the guy is not open. We need more dump off passes and we need better play calls, especially on 1st down, because if we get nothing on first down, we get screwed-over on 2nd and 3rd.

[ruksak]

We had a gameplan?

Seriously, Carter was running hard and it seemed like they pulled him. Any word if he was dinged up?

[kayjay12]

Pardon the pun, but the entire gameplan was plain offensive.

[colts52761]

I didn't get to see the game, but maybe we should use more 2 te's. I would like to see what Epps can do.

[LUVTHESHOE]

We had a gameplan?

Seriously, Carter was running hard and it seemed like they pulled him. Any word if he was dinged up?

No he came back in late. I thought the same thing. He should have gotten 25 carries.

[unitaswestand]

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.