Our own worst enemy [Merge]

[Narcosys]

Can we PLEASE for the love of everything Holy, GET. HARRISON. OUT.

[House]

This is becoming an unsettling pattern this season.

Flukey or part of our identity this year?

We look entirely undisciplined at times, and it gives our opponents so many chances.

[thedude]

That was not defensive pass interference.

[thedude]

Man, the Colts sure have received the benefit of questionable officiating tonight.

[21isSuperman]

I want to say it's part of being a young team, but I don't know if that's accurate.  But we do have a tendency to make bad mistakes at the worst times.  Perhaps it's coaching?  They get conservative, resulting in poor play from the team?

[House]

That was not defensive pass interference.

Not at all.

Refs were awful all day though.

[Dustin]

Man, the Colts sure have received the benefit of questionable officiating tonight.

 

"muh poor officiating"

[UKCOLT17]

wasnt great after 1 half but ill take it wins a win rather play poor now and get mistakes out the way 

[House]

I want to say it's part of being a young team, but I don't know if that's accurate. But we do have a tendency to make bad mistakes at the worst times. Perhaps it's coaching? They get conservative, resulting in poor play from the team?

I think it's partly being a young team, but we have to put an emphasis on cleaning up the most basic mistakes.

If the Texans kick that field goal, instead of us making a mistake, and then giving up a TD. It's an entirely different game.

Happy with the win, but this is a troubling pattern that veteran teams will feast off of.

[LordHelpOurColts]

I thought the O-line and Luck looked jittery in the 2nd half for the most part

[hawkeyes]

We have got to do a better job playing with a lead thats for sure!   Don't know if its play calling or if we take our foots off the pedal, or we just don't have a killer instinct, but I hope it changes soon!

 

Tonight's game started to remind me of the Eagles game - nice early lead only to end up super tight - when it really shouldn't be.

 

These up and down - losing big leads really takes a toll on a fan - so happy though that we did pull this one out and on the road!

[krunk]

I like what I see from the Texans under Bill Obrien.  They have a lot more fight to them than they did under Kubiak.

I think they'll be very solid next year once they add more to the team. Definitely respect the effort tonight although

they did not win the game.

[GoColts8818]

Turnovers are killing us. Colts are making way too many mistakes in that department. Could have eaisly had three more tonight than they had.

[Narcosys]

Our own worst enemy is harrison as our center.

[thedude]

Inconsistent and outright poor officiating is becoming the new normal in the NFL. Now it's remarkable when you see a well officiated game.

[krunk]

Still have to eliminate these game changing turnovers.  Also I think we took some steps back playing the run tonight, but I trust we'll get it fixed.

[21isSuperman]

I think it's partly being a young team, but we have to put an emphasis on cleaning up the most basic mistakes.

If the Texans kick that field goal, instead of us making a mistake, and then giving up a TD. It's an entirely different game.

Happy with the win, but this is a troubling pattern that veteran teams will feast off of.

I want to use the "we're a young team" reason, but we have a lot of leaders on the team and guys like Luck are in their 3rd year.  They're young, but they have a lot of experience.

 

For the record, the awful reffing has been a factor.  I think Kerr was clearly lined up in the gap on their punt, but we got called for him being lined up on the snapper, which they used to score a TD

[House]

We have got to do a better job playing with a lead thats for sure! Don't know if its play calling or if we take our foots off the pedal, or we just don't have a killer instinct, but I hope it changes soon!

Tonight's game started to remind me of the Eagles game - nice early lead only to end up super tight - when it really shouldn't be.

These up and down - losing big leads really takes a toll on a fan - so happy though that we did pull this one out and on the road!

I do believe you had us already written down for 3-3 midway through the 4th quarter lol.

[House]

I want to use the "we're a young team" reason, but we have a lot of leaders on the team and guys like Luck are in their 3rd year. They're young, but they have a lot of experience.

For the record, the awful reffing has been a factor. I think Kerr was clearly lined up in the gap on their punt, but we got called for him being lined up on the snapper, which they used to score a TD

Reffing was awful. Even when it benefited us.

Mike Carey dropped in respect for me tonight. Blatantly wrong. Defiantly wrong. I can only imagine NFL refs are similar in that mindset.

[GoColts8818]

I like what I see from the Texans under Bill Obrien.  They have a lot more fight to them than they did under Kubiak.

I think they'll be very solid next year once they add more to the team. Definitely respect the effort tonight although

they did not win the game.

last year for them was a lot like 2011 for us. Things spiraled out of control and after a while you just can't get out of the sprial. This is still a good team missing a QB. They get a QB and they will be right back where they were in 2011 and 2012.

[thedude]

I thought the O-line and Luck looked jittery in the 2nd half for the most part

I thought the colts offensive line played fairly well.

[Dark Superman]

One half we look like super bowl contenders..

The next we look like Oakland Raiders..

11 days til our next game.. We need the break..

[NewColtsFan]

Once the Texans turned up the pressure on our O-line, things went South fast.

 

That changed things.    And our run defense really went sour.    I didn't even see Chapman play very much.   I'm guessing he may be hurt....   and I didn't see Montori Hughes in there at all....   when Chapman was out, it was either Kerr or RJF on the nose over Center...

 

Strange game.     Glad we escaped with a win.....

 

4-2 feels good after our 0-2 start.......

[John Waylon]

It seems peps playcalling gets worse the closer the game gets. It's like his brain logjams up and the good ideas stop flowing and the meek ones come out to play.

[GoColts8818]

Still have to eliminate these game changing turnovers.  Also I think we took some steps back playing the run tonight, but I trust we'll get it fixed.

yes, Foster is pretty darn good. Credit the Texans for not going away from him even when it was 24-0.

[a06cc]

We won the game thank God! Now we have ten days off to rest up. Held players out. We had tons of mistakes. 4-2 is good for me. Keep fighting!

[hawkeyes]

I do believe you had us already written down for 3-3 midway through the 4th quarter lol.

 

YES I had ... the game felt so much like the Eagles game - Texans had all the momentum.   Hate to think what happens if we dont get that late turnover - scary game to think we blow a 24-0 lead!

[21isSuperman]

Reffing was awful. Even when it benefited us.

Mike Carey dropped in respect for me tonight. Blatantly wrong. Defiantly wrong. I can only imagine NFL refs are similar in that mindset.

What's funny is that he was really wrong, but then continued to say "I disagree with that".  The reffing was really bad last year too.  That's certainly not helping us, or anyone else in the league.

 

I think another factor could be Luck trying to do too much.  I can appreciate him wanting to get rid of the ball instead of taking a sack, but some of those throws are close to being intercepted

[Narcosys]

For the record, the awful reffing has been a factor. I think Kerr was clearly lined up in the gap on their punt, but we got called for him being lined up on the snapper, which they used to score a TD

For the record, these refs have just got to be paid under the table for some of these calls. There's no way they are this bad.

It's very possibly the nfl said we're tired of TNF blowouts and made a call to the refs.

[1yrdandacloudofdust]

Its a good thing Watt swatted that last Luck pass. Had int written all over it.

I blame coaching. Why even throw where Watt is? Why does Richardson get so many snaps?

[GoColts00]

This is becoming an unsettling pattern this season.

Flukey or part of our identity this year?

We look entirely undisciplined at times, and it gives our opponents so many chances.

Totally agree

[GoColts8818]

One half we look like super bowl contenders..

The next we look like Oakland Raiders..

11 days til our next game.. We need the break..

yeah I really like how they bye week and this game fell for us almost gives us two byes.

[House]

One half we look like super bowl contenders..

The next we look like Oakland Raiders..

11 days til our next game.. We need the break..

I don't think our lows are that low this season, but we can't seem to sustain that elite level for entire games.

Even the dominant Titans win was sketchy at halftime.

[NewColtsFan]

I thought the colts offensive line played fairly well.

 

Shows you how little you know.    Our O-line was actually quite poor for 3 out of 4 quarters.....

 

I'll let you figure out which quarter they were good in..........

 

(Start the Jeopardy theme music.......)

[BlueCollarColts]

I think as Harrison gets more experience he will cut out those mistakes, he's an UDFA rookie, and that penalty shouldn't happen again, we turned that from 3 points to 7 points.

[corgi]

Have to take better care of the ball. No interception, and no fumble and it's not close. Credit to the Texans opportunistic defense.

[Dark Superman]

yeah I really like how they bye week and this game fell for us almost gives us two byes.

Hopefully we can get some of our guards back, butler and maybe even Jones.

Gordy played well though..

[GoColts8818]

Not at all.

Refs were awful all day though.

yes both ways. I am over NFL refs. I say fire them all.

[Qwiz]

This one stings, but credit to the Colts for pulling out the tough win.

[House]

What's funny is that he was really wrong, but then continued to say "I disagree with that". The reffing was really bad last year too. That's certainly not helping us, or anyone else in the league.

I think another factor could be Luck trying to do too much. I can appreciate him wanting to get rid of the ball instead of taking a sack, but some of those throws are close to being intercepted

Goes to show the ego these guys probably carry.

Luck knows better than to throw some of those, he's just not been able to shake the habit yet. Doesn't concern me for his future, but he's still needs to show better judgment.