In 50 words or less, what is wrong with the colts

[Horse Shoe Heaven]

 

• Lack of front office leadership from Irasy and Grigson
• Poor coaching: bad play calling, chronic slow starts
• Undisciplined play
• Not enough talent
• Luck is over thinking
• Not using Gore enough
• FA strategy is awful
• Too many under performing players: Luck, Newsome, Allen, Cole, Johnson

 

This is true too!

[Horse Shoe Heaven]

Lots Of stuff starts with Pep IMO!

[Hoose]

Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad coaching. ESPECIALLY PEP. 

The Colts could replace Pep with Chud and just move on. I seriously doubt they fire the head coach until the end of the year. But they sure as heck can fire Pep right now. It might just kick the team in the backside and provide a spark. 

[Mameluc]

Bad Coaching, not enough talent on Defense.

 

But above all, Luck is not playing like he can/should/expected to do. He is insecure and hesitant.. He is the reason we are not 5-2 or 6 - 1.

[CanuckColt]

Pep  is incompetent at the NFL level.

 

Pagano is incompetent at the NFL level.

 

Grigson is incompetent at the NFL level.

[Dark_Indy]

Uh. Ryan Grigson

 

Cheeseburger

improper spelling 

tornado

foxhole 

hula hoop 

stop sign

baguette

vagabond

HOLD ME CLOSER TINY DANCER!

Tony Danza, actually.

Fifty words yet?

Nope, only 25, er. 30

Sangria Tea Kettle

Don’t try to stack dominos on an escalator

Ultimate Sadness comes from a lack of Submarine Sandwiches

[ar1888]

Not building the Oline and Dline. High price old free agents. Throwing away draft picks. Building for now, and not for the future.

[NewEra]

Coaching

[BlueShoe]

I think it's very likely the reports about Grigson being a GM who needs too much control are true. It makes too much sense.

 

That said, I believe our issues stem from communication within management.

 

A GM needs to be a GM and a coach needs to have control over the players and coaches.

 

Our problem is due to the two getting mixed up.

[deedub75]

It would take more than 50 words...but honestly...Andrew Luck needs help.  He has been in Peps system for how long now...college and pros? 7-8 years....maybe he hasn't progressed because the system and cordinator is holding him back. (maybe)  The rest I can't say about the coaching...I'm not inside the team. I don't know if the GM is meddling with coaches..I don't know if the coaches are just not preparing this team...or if they simply are over their head.  Team seems to love them but I think some accountability is in order...and that to me is Pep and Chuck as where I'd have to start. Sorry lots more than 50 words...but you know me lol.

 

The funny thing with Pep is that at Stanford, they had a power running team.  Luck was completing passes at about 70% in his final 2 years with very few picks.  Pep is out of his element.

[presto123]

 

Uh. Ryan Grigson

 

 

Cheeseburger

 

improper spelling 

 

tornado

 

foxhole 

 

hula hoop 

 

stop sign

 

baguette

 

vagabond

 

HOLD ME CLOSER TINY DANCER!

 

Tony Danza, actually.

 

Fifty words yet?

 

Nope, only 25, er. 30

 

Sangria Tea Kettle

 

Don’t try to stack dominos on an escalator

 

Ultimate Sadness comes from a lack of Submarine Sandwiches

 

 

 

 I think it's more than just Grigson....but this post made me laugh. Good job.....

[ColtsBlueFL]

Believe it is teams know our tendencies.  Read keys and make plays.  Luck doesn't see the D, and doesn't get us out of bad plays.  Hasselbeck's experience does.  He can go hot, or check off anytime and get us forward progress.  Luck forces it into tight windows and loses often.

[presto123]

Believe it is teams know our tendencies.  Read keys and make plays.  Luck doesn't see the D, and doesn't get us out of bad plays.  Hasselbeck's experience does.  He can go hot, or check off anytime and get us forward progress.  Luck forces it into tight windows and loses often.

 

 

 This is still baffling to me considering everything we've heard about Luck being one of the smartest people around. Does anybody know his work ethic inside and out? I would assume it's just as good or better than most other QB's in the league.

[tvturner]

Pep Hamilton.

[ColtsBlueFL]

 This is still baffling to me considering everything we've heard about Luck being one of the smartest people around. Does anybody know his work ethic inside and out? I would assume it's just as good or better than most other QB's in the league.

 

I'm sure Luck is a film nut, and hard worker.  He's a professional.  But Hasselbeck has been in the league as long as Peyton Manning.  I'll bet there isn't a defense alignment invented they haven't seen.  Luck entering year 4 hasn't seen all of those alignments yet, nor how many are disguised and how to trigger motion to undisguise a defense, etc...

 

It looks like Luck is looking #1 instead of Hot on many of his pass plays.  But I don't get all the games, nor see all of the plays. I just have Redzone and National broadcasts.  Some peeps here with all 22 that like to go over game film might comment better.  Especially on blitzes where the field opens up (but not for long if you hold the ball too long) and if picked up you should kill a D on it.

[Phil]

Only 50 words? What is this, Twitter? I go away for like five years and it all goes to pot.

 

Starting word count in 3... 2... 1:

 

We still can't stop the run. That's been true since Rob Morris was our MIKE and we were running the 4-3. 
Luck is clearly hurt, but we won't rest him.
Our offensive line is terrible. 

We bought old guys from the U and they're not really all that. 

 

There. 

[Dark_Indy]

Only 50 words? What is this, Twitter? I go away for like five years and it all goes to pot.

 

Starting word count in 3... 2... 1:

 

We still can't stop the run. That's been true since Rob Morris was our MIKE and we were running the 4-3. 

Luck is clearly hurt, but we won't rest him.

Our offensive line is terrible. 

We bought old guys from the U and they're not really all that. 

 

There. 

 

We got 3 guys from the U. One is good. The Wide Receivers aren't so hot.

[dew5150]

Putting together 2 good halves. Look at the first half of the NE game and the last half against NO. That's playoff level football. It needs to be consistency for 60 minutes! The pieces are there.

[SOMDColtsfan]

Problem - Poor execution of too many deep passes that take too long to develop. Its been this way since Tryste was a baby. Answer - Dink and donk down the field. Run the ball mixed with shorter passes. There are 4-5 play making TE`s/RB`s or WR`s more than capable of getting 4`5 yards per pass. Keeps Colts defense OFF the field, chews up clock, moves chains. Why is this so freaking hard for football people much smarter than me to see?  

Problem - Defense cant stay healthy, especially DB`s..no solution. We are a soft defense as has been the case since can remember even when healthy  

[texascolt]

TWO WORDS.      Turnovers - Penalties

 

They have caused all our loses.    IMHO the teams we played haven't won.  We just shoot

our self in the foot and lost.  In every game we've played, we had more turnovers and Penalties

by a wide margin.

 

 

I know other teams have these issues too, but what matters (besides having more) is when and where they happen. How many times have we had a first down, only to have them call back because of  penalties, and turnovers in the red zone and goal line.

 

You can talk about all the other things (coaching, play calling etc.)wrong, but turnovers & penalties

is the real problem.

[backshoulderfade]

4: Grigson, Pagano, Manusky and Hamilton.

[dudeski]

We don't draft any good tackles or guards or centers? Not true.

– After a solid rookie season, left guard Jack Mewhort (+3.3) has turned into the greatest success of this young season for the Colts after they called time on the experiment to play him at right tackle. Since Mewhort was moved back to guard in Week 3, only three guards (Marshal Yanda, Joel Bitonio, and Evan Mathis) have bettered Mewhort’s +9.8 overall grade, and none have bettered his +8.6 run block grade that he added to with his fourth straight grade of +1.0 or better last night.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2015/10/19/ne-ind-grades-bradys-brilliance-powers-pats-to-victory/

Dorsett instead of O-line? Really. Imagine Hilton is injured now, not Dorsett, and there is no Dorsett. Whalen is a starter. Oops.

pff rankings are irrelevant

[jimmy g]

Unpreparedness

[CanuckColt]

The biggest immediate change would come from a change in OC...fire Pep.

We get a different approach on offense, new personnel packages, probable better use of personnel.

 

Pep just MUST be replaced before we hit the bye week.

[Phil]

We got 3 guys from the U. One is good. The Wide Receivers aren't so hot.

 

Well, I meant Gore and Johnson. I don't think they were the best investment, though Gore isn't doing awful as a player. 

We could have better spent that money. Our line is sinful. 

 

[achcolts]

you know its bad when your best players are the punter and 2 rookie DL

[K-148]

pff rankings are irrelevant

Clocking Luck's average time to attempt is pretty relevant.

[dgambill]

The funny thing with Pep is that at Stanford, they had a power running team.  Luck was completing passes at about 70% in his final 2 years with very few picks.  Pep is out of his element.

He still had 10 picks and 3 fumbles in 13 games as a senior. Not that he was bad with the football but Luck has always made some throws that he shouldn't trying to make things happen. Especially against better competition he was basically throwing a pick a game.  Its in the kids DNA.....at least perhaps in this offense.  So maybe we change up things and perhaps we get a little different AL.

[deedub75]

He still had 10 picks and 3 fumbles in 13 games as a senior. Not that he was bad with the football but Luck has always made some throws that he shouldn't trying to make things happen. Especially against better competition he was basically throwing a pick a game.  Its in the kids DNA.....at least perhaps in this offense.  So maybe we change up things and perhaps we get a little different AL.

 

Agreed.  He does have that gunslinger mentality.  But this year is different.  Many of these throws are just plain bad.  I still think he was hurt earlier than they are leading us to believe.  Also, I think he's anticipating getting hit on each play and it's leading him to make bad decisions.  Injury with bad decisions equals more picks.  Receivers don't seem to be getting much separation either.  

[aaron11]

Everyone must go besides Luck, TY, Castonzo, Mewhort, Moncrief, Davis, Anderson, Parry, Sio, McAfee, Overton, and Vinatieri.

Coaching is making Castonzo struggle. He's mentally out of it.

if we accept your premise here then it puts us between a rock and a hard place.  too many free agents is bad, yet we dont have enough home grown talent to field even a 22 man roster let alone back ups and special teams

[dgambill]

Agreed.  He does have that gunslinger mentality.  But this year is different.  Many of these throws are just plain bad.  I still think he was hurt earlier than they are leading us to believe.  Also, I think he's anticipating getting hit on each play and it's leading him to make bad decisions.  Injury with bad decisions equals more picks.  Receivers don't seem to be getting much separation either.  

Yeah watching TY and company trying to get off press coverage at times makes me want to scream. I know he isn't the biggest guy but there is techniques etc that allow you to get separation and into your route much faster.  Its not just TY either....sometimes Luck holds onto it because he is waiting for guys to get into their route....everyone has to play better...and try to take pressure off of Lucks throws.