We're on to Minnesota

[Lucky Colts Fan 5,556]

Colts home opener.  Colts and Vikings will both be 0-1 next Sunday.  Avoiding a losing streak is on the line, and 1-1 looks a lot better than 0-2.  Important game.

 

We obviously need to do better than we did today from top-to-bottom.  Coaching, offense, defense, special teams, everyone needs to step up next Sunday.  Especially after losing our RB1, when our running game was supposed to be our biggest strength.

Vikings D got carved up by Rodgers for 364 yds and 4 TDs, so hopefully Rivers has a better showing than today.  He threw for 363 yds against the Jags, just gotta be smart with the football.  The Vikes also gave up 150+ rush yds, so hopefully our running game can have a better showing than today (only 88 yds).

 

Packers owned TOP against the Vikings 41:16 to 18:44.  That's encouraging for us.

 

Maybe Rhodes steps up for a revenge game against his old team?

[NFLfan 7,963]

2 hours ago, Lucky Colts Fan said:

Packers owned TOP against the Vikings 41:16 to 18:44. 

 

2 hours ago, Lucky Colts Fan said:

Maybe Rhodes steps up for a revenge game against his old team?

 

I would not be surprised. How did he play today? I think Vike fans wish they had him today. The CBs did very poorly according to fans. (I live out of market; so I could not see the game.)

 

Let's see what happens next week.

 

(Good post, btw.)

[Lucky Colts Fan 5,556]

1 minute ago, NFLfan said:

How did he play today?

 

He wasn't great, but he wasn't awful.

 

He, and the defense as a whole, definitely need to play better against the Vikes, or Cousins is going to carve us up.

[Riversrun 81]

Until TY Drops Hilton stops choking we won’t win more than 4 games 

[Lucky Colts Fan 5,556]

2 minutes ago, Riversrun said:

Until TY Drops Hilton stops choking we won’t win more than 4 games 

 

Hopefully he has a good game against the Vikes.

 

It sounds like their CBs might be vulnerable, so we'll see what happens.

[danlhart87 6,192]

Trolls here need to be banned seriously 

[NFLfan 7,963]

49 minutes ago, danlhart87 said:

Trolls here need to be banned seriously 

 

All you need to do is "report" them. 

[Nickster 787]

1 hour ago, danlhart87 said:

Trolls here need to be banned seriously 

So what is troll like about what I posted?

[Lucky Colts Fan 5,556]

1 hour ago, danlhart87 said:

Trolls here need to be banned seriously 

 

40 minutes ago, NFLfan said:

 

All you need to do is "report" them. 

 

5 minutes ago, Nickster said:

So what is troll like about what I posted?

 

Wrong thread?

 

Tryin to move on to Minnesota.  

[Nickster 787]

Just now, Lucky Colts Fan said:

 

 

 

Wrong thread?

 

Tryin to move on to Minnesota.  

Gotcha.  Cool.

[danlhart87 6,192]

1 hour ago, Riversrun said:

Until TY Drops Hilton stops choking we won’t win more than 4 games 

I was talking about this nonsense 

[PuntersArePeopleToo 807]

1 hour ago, NFLfan said:

 

 

I would not be surprised. How did he play today? I think Vike fans wish they had him today. The CBs did very poorly according to fans. (I live out of market; so I could not see the game.)

 

Let's see what happens next week.

 

(Good post, btw.)

He had a blown coverage on their game winning TD. I am hoping he gets use to this D since no Preseason

[Lucky Colts Fan 5,556]

2 minutes ago, PuntersArePeopleToo said:

He had a blown coverage on their game winning TD. I am hoping he gets use to this D since no Preseason

 

Me too.

 

I figured there might be a transition period since he's used to playing man.

 

Heck, the game today might convince Eberflus to play some more man, which Rhodes might be more natural at.  We'll see.

[PuntersArePeopleToo 807]

3 minutes ago, Lucky Colts Fan said:

 

Me too.

 

I figured there might be a transition period since he's used to playing man.

 

Heck, the game today might convince Eberflus to play some more man, which Rhodes might be more natural at.  We'll see.

I wish we would, we have some guys who can in Rock and Rhodes and even Moore at his height. The biggest issues is our zone isnt always paying attention like we had that TD catch but they ran that early and we got lucky that someone noticed

 

 

If not zone, at least some jam, knock them off at the line, our guys have speed to get fixed

[Four2itus 4,717]

2 minutes ago, Lucky Colts Fan said:

 

Me too.

 

I figured there might be a transition period since he's used to playing man.

 

Heck, the game today might convince Eberflus to play some more man, which Rhodes might be more natural at.  We'll see.

Hey.....knock that being reasonable crap out!

 

Hehe....

[Lucky Colts Fan 5,556]

4 minutes ago, PuntersArePeopleToo said:

If not zone, at least some jam, knock them off at the line, our guys have speed to get fixed

 

If it gives the pass rush an extra half-second to get to the QB, even better.

 

Need more disruption from the DLine.

 

We're not going to have the usual home-field advantage when our D is on the field Sunday.  

[PuntersArePeopleToo 807]

1 minute ago, Lucky Colts Fan said:

 

If it gives the pass rush an extra half-second to get to the QB, even better.

 

Need more disruption from the DLine.

 

We're not going to have the usual home-field advantage when our D is on the field Sunday.  

Ya, they need to do better. Get to the QB and bring him down. Buckner hopefully shows more next week and it was just getting use to new team.

 

Also, what was that blindside block call on Doyle? Like when did it become illegal to take out a guys leg on the line when he isnt engaged?

[JediXMan 367]

Colts need to be more balanced on O Throwing 46 times is a recipe for disaster. On D mix up the coverages and stop only playing soft zones all the time even average QBs will carve us up if we don't.

[Stephen 1,740]

Definitely  need more balance  and can't  let cousins  complete 95 percent of  passes

[The Peytonator 451]

If Minshew can complete 95% of his passes then Kirk is gonna hit 100%. I bet they throw often at Rhodes with their history and exploit him at every turn. This secondary needs some serious changes next year. 

[Freenyfan102 182]

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[GoColts8818 4,302]

6 hours ago, Riversrun said:

Until TY Drops Hilton stops choking we won’t win more than 4 games 

Today was a total team failure.  While I agree TY was part of that he was far from the only who needs to take blame today.  Hopefully watching the tape gets them good and mad and they take it out on the Vikings next week.

[CoachLite 400]

It's 'gut check' time for the entire team, including the coaching staff. We'll see.