Its all mental for the Colts...

[bap1331]

The team is there, the talent is there. The mentality just goes up in the clouds when it comes to the patriots.

Its like when you spend all that time studying and then when the teacher gives you the test, your mind blanks.

You simply dont stop the best, most talented WR corps the week before and just let a good wr corps run all over you.

Whatever it is, this team needs to work on keeping their heads in the game. Play 60 minutes no matter what. The seahawks were the perfect example yesterday.

Packers and colts dont play all 60 minutes. One thing goes wrong and the rest of the team just has no idea what they should do.

[JColts72]

Mental and Physical.

[bap1331]

Mental and Physical.

Well, the physical wont work if the mental isnt worked on. They all of a sudden forget how to tackle.

[NewColtsFan]

No.

 

For goodness sakes,  no.

 

Not even close.     No!   No!   No!     Sorry,  but heck no!   

 

You don't lose that badly in the biggest game of the year to a team you're losing that way to the previous 3 times and have it be mental.

 

New England is the better team.    The much better team.    They have more talent everywhere.    And they should.

 

They're in year 15 of the process for them.    We're in year 3.

 

We need more talent.    A lot more talent.

 

The sooner you embrace that the more realistic your view as a fan you'll better understand how games like this happen.

[Flash7]

I would say that it's more physical actually. We've played the Patriots 4 times now under the Luck/Pagano era, with the same exact result every time. We've tried different game plans and schemes, but it all comes down to physically winning the battles. We physically lost each man-to-man battle.

 

Patriots manhandled the Colts.

[schwamm]

No.

For goodness sakes, no.

Not even close. No! No! No! Sorry, but heck no!

You don't lose that badly in the biggest game of the year to a team you're losing that way to the previous 3 times and have it be mental.

New England is the better team. The much better team. They have more talent everywhere. And they should.

They're in year 15 of the process for them. We're in year 3.

We need more talent. A lot more talent.

The sooner you embrace that the more realistic your view as a fan will become and you'll better understand how games like this happen.

And it's an amazingly bright head coach who has reached a level of singlehandedly changing the way the game will be played. I personally really like Pagano, but he, in year 3 of his HC career, is nowhere near the level of BB. The Colts got outplayed, yes, but IMO the really got outcoached more than anything.

[bap1331]

We did okay in the first half. We always do against the pats. The second, they pick us apart.we have those chances, we just dont follow through

[Coltsman1788]

Andrew Luck is more traumatized of New England than Peyton Manning ever was. It's a wonder the kid isn't a nut case right now due to being bent over so much by them.

[NewColtsFan]

And it's an amazingly bright head coach who has reached a level of singlehandedly changing the way the game will be played. I personally really like Pagano, but he, in year 3 of his HC career, is nowhere near the level of BB. The Colts got outplayed, yes, but IMO the really got outcoached more than anything.

 

Perhaps.    But I'm not ready to dump on Pagano.    Coaches have been getting out-coached by Bill Belichick for 15 years now.

 

This is nothing new.    He's the best in the business.    One of the best of all-time.    A total jerk,  but a great coach.    No shame losing (even badly) to his team.

[ProblChld32]

I Disagree we just got plain ol beat. and man handled upfront. 

[colts8718]

The team is there, the talent is there. The mentality just goes up in the clouds when it comes to the patriots.

Its like when you spend all that time studying and then when the teacher gives you the test, your mind blanks.

You simply dont stop the best, most talented WR corps the week before and just let a good wr corps run all over you.

Whatever it is, this team needs to work on keeping their heads in the game. Play 60 minutes no matter what. The seahawks were the perfect example yesterday.

Packers and colts dont play all 60 minutes. One thing goes wrong and the rest of the team just has no idea what they should do.

Its more of a talent issue we don't have enough talented players

[Buddy Lee]

When your D front seven are blatantly overpowered, it's physical too. If, according to Chuck, Chapman is an immovable two ton safe in the middle of the line, we need a four ton safe.

[NorthEastColtsFan]

Obviously we could use some more talent and physicality in a few positions, but at the end of the day I agree the bigger piece might be a mentality issue versus the Patriots.  As soon as I saw the ball bounce off Cribb's face mask I knew it was going to me more of the same.  Every time we line up against that team we play scared.  We change the pieces on the board, but the results don't change.  For me it comes down to the mentality and culture of the team.  We've replaced the coaching staff, schemes, and players and somehow we get the same results on defense, the Colts can't stop the run.

[schwamm]

Perhaps. But I'm not ready to dump on Pagano. Coaches have been getting out-coached by Bill Belichick for 15 years now.

This is nothing new. He's the best in the business. One of the best of all-time. A total jerk, but a great coach. No shame losing (even badly) to his team.

That is what I was trying to say... a good coach in his 3rd ever year as head coach shouldn't really be measured against probably the best of all time, at a time when BB is likely transforming the game.

Pagano has done well with the Colts, and has earned time to become great in his own right, if he can.

[BlacknGold77]

from the outside looking in, to me its a bit of both.

 

Physical: o-line and front 7 are small.  RB is a glaring hole on O allowing teams to load up on Luck.

 

Mental: the Colts dont have any nasty and in the playoffs you need that more than anything.  The playoffs are about running and physically beating the man in front of you and half of that battle is mental.

 

The Colts need an injection of that Ravens/Jets/Seahawks mentallity.

[Indianapolis-Colts-Fan]

And it's an amazingly bright head coach who has reached a level of singlehandedly changing the way the game will be played. I personally really like Pagano, but he, in year 3 of his HC career, is nowhere near the level of BB. The Colts got outplayed, yes, but IMO the really got outcoached more than anything.

Pagano in basically year 2 vs BB in yearrr what? Obviously a lot more experience.

[RandomFan]

No.

 

For goodness sakes,  no.

 

Not even close.     No!   No!   No!     Sorry,  but heck no!   

 

You don't lose that badly in the biggest game of the year to a team you're losing that way to the previous 3 times and have it be mental.

 

New England is the better team.    The much better team.    They have more talent everywhere.    And they should.

 

They're in year 15 of the process for them.    We're in year 3.

 

We need more talent.    A lot more talent.

 

The sooner you embrace that the more realistic your view as a fan you'll better understand how games like this happen.

 

This guy gets it 

[NewColtsFan]

This guy gets it 

 

Careful.....     Not everyone here would agree with your view of me!              

[RandomFan]

NE is just the far better team. Its that simple.