Jackson Suspended (Merge)

[snkdy]

2 minutes ago, MTC said:

Love it! Gives D'Qwell rest for the playoffs.

 

 

 

 

Since he has a concussion, and the suspension typically starts when you're healthy, he'd still miss the first game no?

[cbear]

I don't think those celebrating dq's lose will be so thrilled if we get hit with another ilb loss. 

[krunk]

Um, Nate Irving is still out there. https://t.co/wZLl5he5F5

[richard pallo]

1 hour ago, Gabriel Alexander Morillo said:

Very, very nice. 

 

Id roll with Geathers as a permanent ilb the rest of the season imo. 

 

Use Butler/Adams as the safeties ; do not start Green if you want any chance at a win please. he's not ready 

I agree.  This is the perfect time to move him to ILB.  He has shown he can be very effective there. I love Butler at Safety.  Robinson goes back to corner when healthy and to the slot in the nickel.  Cole starts in place of Mathis.  Ridgeway has quietly assumed a starting role and has looked good as well.  Another rookie making the grade.  We are now getting better utilization of our players and the defense is getting better every game.  

[SilentHill]

22 minutes ago, snkdy said:

 

Since he has a concussion, and the suspension typically starts when you're healthy, he'd still miss the first game no?

 

suspensions don't care about injury

[Jackie Daytona]

Irving, come on down.......

[DougDew]

Rookie Morrison's problem is coverage and tackling in space, not stuffing the run.  Interestingly, Molasses Jackson has the same problems, so there shouldn't be much difference.

[Creekside]

30 minutes ago, DougDew said:

... Molasses Jackson 

 

man, that made me laugh hard..

[TheRustonRifle#7]

1 hour ago, Dustin said:

Best news all week.

Why?  Because it gives you something to "Troll" about?  

[jbaron04]

1 hour ago, 21isSuperman said:

Is it just me, or have Colts players been caught with PEDs a lot recently?  Mathis a few years ago, Art Jones, DQ, LaRon Landry, and I feel like I'm missing a few others

Freeman, just got caught on bears 

[Track Guy]

1 hour ago, 21isSuperman said:

Is it just me, or have Colts players been caught with PEDs a lot recently?  Mathis a few years ago, Art Jones, DQ, LaRon Landry, and I feel like I'm missing a few others

 

All defense guys, and we're not even good at defense. 

[csmopar]

29 minutes ago, jbaron04 said:

Freeman, just got caught on bears 

Missed that

[csmopar]

2 hours ago, 21isSuperman said:

Is it just me, or have Colts players been caught with PEDs a lot recently?  Mathis a few years ago, Art Jones, DQ, LaRon Landry, and I feel like I'm missing a few others

Our GM is pumping them full hoping to win?

[Colt Overseas]

D'Quell has let the team down with this.

 

I dont care if he says he didnt know about the PED, he is a highly paid professional, entering into the most important part of the year. These players are blue in the face from been told about these substances. 

 

Ridiculous.

[Gavin]

Just means Morrison  takes his place. Rhodes might be brought up from the PS to back Morrison up

[chrisfarley]

unbelievably sad and very hurtful to the team.  we have tough contests ahead and road games and we can't just lose our leading tackler without a monster in there.  where are we going to come up with one?

[COLTS449]

He's not having a good year anyway. I mean this doesn't hurt us one bit IMO. And honestly. I would stick Akeem Ayers at ILB nex to Edwin Jackson.

 

[TDewar1987]

I think we will be alright. time for the young guys to step up and make some plays. keep chopping wood and play with grit. be a warrior. 

[NewColtsFan]

25 minutes ago, COLTS449 said:

He's not having a good year anyway. I mean this doesn't hurt us one bit IMO. And honestly. I would stick Akeem Ayers at ILB nex to Edwin Jackson.

 

 

Well....     you wrote three sentences....

 

As best I can tell,  they all deserve this.......              

 

What are you thinking.......?

 

[Dustin]

2 hours ago, TheRustonRifle#7 said:

Why?  Because it gives you something to "Troll" about?  

 

You got  me m8

[jskinnz]

58 minutes ago, COLTS449 said:

He's not having a good year anyway. I mean this doesn't hurt us one bit IMO. And honestly. I would stick Akeem Ayers at ILB nex to Edwin Jackson.

 

 

The idea that his loss won't hurt "one bit" is simply nonsense.

[jskinnz]

4 hours ago, Bluefire4 said:

Welp.. don't know how we stop the run without DQ and Kendall Langford so I don't know how we win next week.

 

Dear God...

[coltsfanatic24]

Not surprised and he wasn't a great player to begin with. 

[indyagent17]

Thanks DQ for doing this to the fans that pay your salary!

 

you know the rules and you dont seem to care about us or team

[Gavin]

57 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:

 

Well....     you wrote three sentences....

 

As best I can tell,  they all deserve this.......              

 

What are you thinking.......?

 

Jackson was having a bad year. .

 

2015 solo tackles a game-5.5 solo tackles a game......ended up with 89

2016 solo tackles a game-4.3 solo tackles a game....average that out he would have ended with 69

 

 

Jackson was on pace for 104 combined tackles this year compared to 150 last year

 

 

His loss does not hurt that much other then it could put us in a situation where we see more of Morrison. Morrison was even a little bit better against the run. Both stink against the pass

 

According to PFF Jackson was not good either

[ColtsFanMikeC]

5 hours ago, TKnight24 said:

 

 

Ayers looks to be pretty good at ILB, and like others have said, Geathers coming back may lessen this blow... unfortunately, we have to bank on winning out and the Viking (especially if AP comes back) and Oakland have pretty good running teams (where DQ's loss will hurt most).  Even if we beat the Texans, we still lose a tie-breaker to them if they win out after we beat them and we lose a game.

 

5 hours ago, 21isSuperman said:

Is it just me, or have Colts players been caught with PEDs a lot recently?  Mathis a few years ago, Art Jones, DQ, LaRon Landry, and I feel like I'm missing a few others

 

I was thinking the same thing... Landry was no surprise... Mathis, AJ, DQ are surprises to me, though.

 

The amount of time these guys spend at the practice facility and talking to eachother ("being a family" - like Chuck says), makes it a bit hard for me to believe that they are all doing this in their own time and not spilling the beans to anyone about it .. Landry kind of hung out by himself and probably worked out for 5 hours trying to be a body builder away from the facility, so he doesn't shock me.... just kind of surprising Mathis, AJ, and DQ who were all supposed to be 'respected leaders' of this team and veterans have gotten in trouble ... I really hope this isn't an epidemic in our locker room (although, I'm sure every team has multiple players PED'ing). 

 

 

[ReMeDy]

5 hours ago, 21isSuperman said:

Is it just me, or have Colts players been caught with PEDs a lot recently?  Mathis a few years ago, Art Jones, DQ, LaRon Landry, and I feel like I'm missing a few others

 

It would be quite the tale if Andrew Luck starts a PED club.

[NewColtsFan]

1 hour ago, Gavin said:

Jackson was having a bad year. .

 

2015 solo tackles a game-5.5 solo tackles a game......ended up with 89

2016 solo tackles a game-4.3 solo tackles a game....average that out he would have ended with 69

 

 

Jackson was on pace for 104 combined tackles this year compared to 150 last year

 

 

His loss does not hurt that much other then it could put us in a situation where we see more of Morrison. Morrison was even a little bit better against the run. Both stink against the pass

 

According to PFF Jackson was not good either

 

Gavin.....

 

It doesn't matter what kind of year DQJ was having.

 

Do we have ANYONE ELSE WHO IS AS GOOD?       No.      Then it hurts the team.      Period.

 

Your comments are badly over-thought.

 

Plus,  the poster I was responding too ended his short post by recommending that we move Akeem Ayers from OLB to ILB.       In less than a week.       That was his solution to the problem.      You OK with that,  because that's part of my response......

 

 

[jameszeigler834]

6 hours ago, GusBus24 said:

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter  1m1 minute ago

Colts LB D’Qwell Jackson suspended without pay for next four games for violating NFL policy on performance enhancing substances.

This is just the league trying to cripple us the rest of the way like they tried in 2014 with Mathis.

[COLTS449]

 

10 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:

 

Gavin.....

 

It doesn't matter what kind of year DQJ was having.

 

Do we have ANYONE ELSE WHO IS AS GOOD?       No.      Then it hurts the team.      Period.

 

Your comments are badly over-thought.

 

Plus,  the poster I was responding too ended his short post by recommending that we move Akeem Ayers from OLB to ILB.       In less than a week.       That was his solution to the problem.      You OK with that,  because that's part of my response......

 

 

I don't know how you view Ayers, but he's a much better option than Morrison or McNary. Ayers is athletic and has shown to at least be capable of dropping back in coverage

[COLTS449]

1 hour ago, jskinnz said:

 

The idea that his loss won't hurt "one bit" is simply nonsense.

 

Maybe from a leadership standpoint.

[Gavin]

1 minute ago, NewColtsFan said:

 

Gavin.....

 

It doesn't matter what kind of year DQJ was having.

 

Do we have ANYONE ELSE WHO IS AS GOOD?       No.      Then it hurts the team.      Period.

 

Your comments are badly over-thought.

 

Plus,  the poster I was responding too ended his short post by recommending that we move Akeem Ayers from OLB to ILB.       In less than a week.       That was his solution to the problem.      You OK with that,  because that's part of my response......

 

 

Ayers has been on the roster since September the 6th. My point was taking out Jackson does not hurt much simply because your taking out a 2 down thumper and replacing him with a 2 down thumper in Morrison. Morrison according to PFF grades against the run has been better in less chances this year than Jackson. Thats not saying much because Jackson has not been very good but its not like we lost a 3 down linebacker and had to replace him with a 2 down linebacker

[RockThatBlue]

5 hours ago, krunk said:

Um, Nate Irving is still out there. https://t.co/wZLl5he5F5

I hope we sign him, but we've had times where we could have and still didn't. Don't know whats up with him.

[NewColtsFan]

3 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Ayers has been on the roster since September the 6th. My point was taking out Jackson does not hurt much simply because your taking out a 2 down thumper and replacing him with a 2 down thumper in Morrison. Morrison according to PFF grades against the run has been better in less chances this year than Jackson. Thats not saying much because Jackson has not been very good but its not like we lost a 3 down linebacker and had to replace him with a 2 down linebacker

 

Your just going from bad to worse here......

 

If Morrison was better than Jackson,  don't you think Morrison would be playing more?       As it is,  he's been playing mostly special teams.

 

Come on now......

 

[runthepost]

If Mathis is not playing next game then we might see some major communication issues.. hopefully not in key points of the game

[Gavin]

Just now, NewColtsFan said:

 

Your just going from bad to worse here......

 

If Morrison was better than Jackson,  don't you think Morrison would be playing more?       As it is,  he's been playing mostly special teams.

 

Come on now......

 

This depends on how much you value PFF grades:

 

Morrison-44.4 overall grade, 60.4 against the run, 43.9 in coverage

Jackson-43.0 overall grade 51.0 against the run. 46.9 Coverage

 

 

Both have been bad this year all around but give Morrison as many snaps as Jackson has had then he will still grade out poorly against the pass most likely. But give Morrison the 275 run defense snaps that Jackson has had and he will grade out better against the run

 

I don't think the coaches look at it as if Morrison is worse than Jackson so lets just stick with Jackson. I think they see Morrison as the incumbent to be to replace Jackson if not next year then certainly the year after. I would not be surprised if the Colts moved on from Jackson this offseason either given his dip in production and not using him as much and his.

 

His dead cap to cut him is $250,000,

 

$5,750,000.00 if we keep him next year according to spotrac

 

Personally I want 2 cover ilb's and would not have touched Morrison.. One for Mike and Will but I think Morrison will be replacing Jackson

[will426]

1 hour ago, COLTS449 said:

 

I don't know how you view Ayers, but he's a much better option than Morrison or McNary. Ayers is athletic and has shown to at least be capable of dropping back in coverage

Ayers also has played ilb in NE it's not "new" to him 

[AZColt11]

8 hours ago, 21isSuperman said:

Is it just me, or have Colts players been caught with PEDs a lot recently?  Mathis a few years ago, Art Jones, DQ, LaRon Landry, and I feel like I'm missing a few others

Yeah, but I think it's league-wide.  A LOT of other guys are getting popped as well.  Seems to be an "old man" syndrome.

[NewColtsFan]

 

Anyone know who would be calling the defensive signals that are called in?

 

And who would be responsible for adjustments made before the snap?

 

Oh yeah....................................

 

 

[Bluefire4]

5 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:

 

Anyone know who would be calling the defensive signals that are called in?

 

And who would be responsible for adjustments made before the snap?

 

Oh yeah....................................

 

 

I'm sure they've had a backup signal caller ready just in case but DQ being out is a bigger deal than some are making it.