2024: Game #3, Bears @ Colts, September 22, 2024, 1 PM ET

[Mr. Irrelevant]

Just now, chickenMan said:

Two of the dumbest teams in the league trying to outsmart each other, to little success

😅

[NFLfan]

Just now, CardiacColts said:

This game is about to give me an aneurism. Why do we have to make it look so hard? 

 

I was thinking earlier that football is not good for my health.

[Mr. Irrelevant]

A true clown show 

[bluebombers87]

Game!!!!!

[nyyankeechris]

Just Fire Bradley!!!

[CardiacColts]

Just now, chickenMan said:

Two of the dumbest teams in the league trying to outsmart each other, to little success

This might be the greatest take. My goodness. This has been something…

[Chrisaaron1023]

Just now, CardiacColts said:

This game is about to give me an aneurism. Why do we have to make it look so hard? 

Bears boutta get the ball back and Williams will throw for over 400 on us ... cJ did this to us last year too

[chickenMan]

Just now, Mr. Irrelevant said:

A true clown show 

No kidding

[NFLfan]

Alright!!! JT with a long run and a first down.

[Happy2BeHere]

Little Caesar’s pizza…the colts offense of all the crappiest pizzas ever created…

[nyyankeechris]

Please....Fire Bradley. 

[chickenMan]

Just now, Happy2BeHere said:

Little Caesar’s pizza…the colts offense of all the crappiest pizzas ever created…

Even crappy pizza is still delicious. The Colts defense is just painful

[Happy2BeHere]

Just now, chickenMan said:

Even crappy pizza is still delicious. The Colts defense is just painful

Wrong…the box little Caesar’s comes in tastes better 

[coltsva]

2 minutes ago, chickenMan said:

Two of the dumbest teams in the league trying to outsmart each other, to little success

Funny way to end the day

[Dobbinblitz]

ALWAYS- good to be taking a knee to end an NFL game. They are all hard.

[nyyankeechris]

I like their garlic butter sauce they put on their pizza. Yummmmm.

 

Oh yeah....and Fire Bradley!!!

[Patrick Miller]

Ugly but I’ll take it

[chickenMan]

A win is a win! Thank goodness. On to next week

[Patrick Miller]

Isn’t this AR’s first win that he’s made it all the way through the game anyway?

[smittywerb]

Hopefully Shane watches the tape and sees how his playcalling affected the game.  Other than that, a win is a win

[SwedishColt]

Im really happy about the win! The season is still a go!

 

We have a saying here in Sweden that fits perfectly for a situation just like this.

 

"The corpse lives!"

[Douzer]

Steps!

[NFLfan]

Colts win. Texans and Titans lose.

 

The Vikings beat the Texans 34-7. @MB-ColtsFan  you gave us luck.

[a06cc]

We won thanks to the defense. AR can’t throw and it’s been 3 weeks. People keep using the excuse he missed last season and the youngest QB in the league. Blah blah blah! Should be sitting and working. Done with the excuses and not trying to hear them. 

[Patrick Miller]

2 minutes ago, a06cc said:

We won thanks to the defense. AR can’t throw and it’s been 3 weeks. People keep using the excuse he missed last season and the youngest QB in the league. Blah blah blah! Should be sitting and working. Done with the excuses and not trying to hear them. 

Yep. Just got a hope The Colts lean on Taylor and that Richardson somehow magically becomes more accurate.

[Sputnikv8]

3 minutes ago, Patrick Miller said:

Yep. Just got a hope The Colts lean on Taylor and that Richardson somehow magically becomes more accurate.

…and learns some “football IQ”.  When to throw it away, when to slide/go oob and when not to throw to the opposite team.  😀

[Happy2BeHere]

5 minutes ago, a06cc said:

We won thanks to the defense. AR can’t throw and it’s been 3 weeks. People keep using the excuse he missed last season and the youngest QB in the league. Blah blah blah! Should be sitting and working. Done with the excuses and not trying to hear them. 

I don’t think sitting a QB who needs to actually practice throwing helps…

[a06cc]

29 minutes ago, Happy2BeHere said:

I don’t think sitting a QB who needs to actually practice throwing helps…

He should’ve been given the Mahomes treatment last season. 

[Myles]

2 hours ago, a06cc said:

We won thanks to the defense. AR can’t throw and it’s been 3 weeks. People keep using the excuse he missed last season and the youngest QB in the league. Blah blah blah! Should be sitting and working. Done with the excuses and not trying to hear them. 

I agree.   AR looked like crap again today.   I'm sure Flacco could have done better.  I'm fine with giving AR this season and accepting that we will not be in the hunt for the playoffs.   

[Jz0204945]

4 hours ago, luv_pony_express said:

The defense has played pretty well, tbh.

Until they gave up 400 yards to a pee wee offense...

56 minutes ago, Myles said:

I agree.   AR looked like crap again today.   I'm sure Flacco could have done better.  I'm fine with giving AR this season and accepting that we will not be in the hunt for the playoffs.   

He wont learn from sitting that would get us nowhere...

[Jz0204945]

3 hours ago, a06cc said:

We won thanks to the defense. AR can’t throw and it’s been 3 weeks. People keep using the excuse he missed last season and the youngest QB in the league. Blah blah blah! Should be sitting and working. Done with the excuses and not trying to hear them. 

Not for nothing but he was drafted knowing he was a project...

[Jz0204945]

3 hours ago, smittywerb said:

Hopefully Shane watches the tape and sees how his playcalling affected the game.  Other than that, a win is a win

He has been calling bad games yes but im not gonna defend thosr bad int's there were horrible passes and the one in the endzone was a terrible decision.

[smittywerb]

26 minutes ago, Jz0204945 said:

He has been calling bad games yes but im not gonna defend thosr bad int's there were horrible passes and the one in the endzone was a terrible decision.

I agree, but as the coach and primary playcaller you also have to know what you have.  The best coaches understand the strengths and weaknesses of their qb and tailor their game plan to make their qb shine.  Making AR throw on a goal line situation when you have JT and AR himself as a runner is head scratching to me.  Not absolving AR of any wrongdoing, but it’s more complicated than “AR can’t throw”.  I see a lot of AR bashing and not enough Shane playcalling criticism.  And both are equally the problem.

[luv_pony_express]

37 minutes ago, Jz0204945 said:

Until they gave up 400 yards to a pee wee offense...

Good grief, our D had 3 takeaways, 3 sacks, held them to below average rushing yards.

[Jz0204945]

15 hours ago, luv_pony_express said:

Good grief, our D had 3 takeaways, 3 sacks, held them to below average rushing yards.

Doesnt mean Bradley is suddenly good still gonna get smoked by Pittsburgh.

[Jz0204945]

15 hours ago, smittywerb said:

I agree, but as the coach and primary playcaller you also have to know what you have.  The best coaches understand the strengths and weaknesses of their qb and tailor their game plan to make their qb shine.  Making AR throw on a goal line situation when you have JT and AR himself as a runner is head scratching to me.  Not absolving AR of any wrongdoing, but it’s more complicated than “AR can’t throw”.  I see a lot of AR bashing and not enough Shane playcalling criticism.  And both are equally the problem.

I can agree there but Ar seemed better than this in the short time he played last year how do you look this bad?...

[smittywerb]

1 hour ago, Jz0204945 said:

I can agree there but Ar seemed better than this in the short time he played last year how do you look this bad?...

In my opinion (which is worth 2 cents):

1.  AR himself:  The one foot superman throws have to stop.  I think teams have studied the film and are hip to it now.  Last year, it seemed when AR would attempt them, it was against 1on1 situations, but this year it’s been a safety shadowing and there to pick off the overthrown ball.  AR has to not try to depend on his athleticism and stick to the mechanics.  Use the athleticism to create but use the mechanics to execute.  Also, he needs to get comfortable with the amount of touch he puts on his throws, but that will and hopefully should come with experience and coaching.

 

2.  Playcalling:  last year, the playcalling for the small sample size we got is vastly different than this years.  Last year, we leaned on zack moss and the run game and utilized ARs legs with designed runs, rollouts, etc.  this year, it seems we’ve gone straight Air Raid with running sprinkled in.  Shane says it’s because of the urgency to score quick to mitigate us losing the TOP battle by a wide margin.  I think we should worry about that until it’s time to in the game.  We shouldn’t be panicking in the 1st and 2nd qtrs when it’s a one score game.  I’ve said it in other threads, AR shouldn’t throw more than 25 times.  Maybe 30 tops depending on the game.  And also, would like to see AR out of the pocket more.  Keep the defense on its heels and guessing.  
 

3.  Not having JD and productive TE group:  downs didn’t play the first 2 games and our TE room has been abysmal.  Last year, you had guys like ogletree and even cox making some plays.  This year, it seems all we have is the one flash per game from Granson.  Not to mention, MPJ is off to a BAD year.  AR doesn’t have any safety blankets.  He doesn’t have someone he can fall back on when things downfield aren’t there.  That should be MPJ but as I said above, MPJ has been bad.  We just got downs back so they should be back cooking once downs get his game wind back. 
 

4.  Missing time due to injury:  I stated in the offseason that the colts needed to utilize every opportunity we had to get AR reps in the preseason.  We have the youngest and most inexperienced starting QB.  Not playing him in the preseason that much held him back.  Me personally, I would’ve let AR play every preseason game until he asked to come out due to soreness or whatever.  
 

so as you can see, I think it’s more to it than just “AR sux”.