Where is Latu?

[OLD FAN MAN]

4 minutes ago, OLD FAN MAN said:

we should have taken the te bowers who will be the next gronk or kelse

a te like bowers comes along rarely

[ColtAndOrioles]

13 minutes ago, OLD FAN MAN said:

we should have taken the te bowers who will be the next gronk or kelse

He was gone when we picked, but I agree we should have traded up for him.  A lot of Ballard apologists will say he tried but it "just didn't work out". 

 

Which is nonsense.  If we wanted him, and we should have, we should have done all we could have to get him. 

 

Just more Ballard weakness. 

[John Waylon]

He’s getting pressure. He's not just being stonewalled by tackles. TEs who try to block him usually get their lunch money taken by him. He’s going to start getting home sooner than later. He’s learning and putting the pieces together. 

[Shive]

A quick stat:

 

[jemack]

22 hours ago, ADnum1 said:

Well what if Colts traded up from 15 to 13 and drafted Brock Bowers ?

 

This offense would look completely different with AR throwing to Bowers as a safety blanket. 

 

Maybe AR would still be starting!

That's who I wanted. I was ok with Latu and still think he'll develop into a outstanding, if they keep the Dline fed with quality talent.

[rock8591]

Most rookie DEs don't put up 10-12 sacks their rookie year.

 

Myles Garrett had 31 tackles and 7 sacks, and that was from a 1st overall pick!

[throwing BBZ]

On 11/4/2024 at 3:30 PM, ColtAndOrioles said:

I am sorry I just don't know what some of you are seeing.  I watch him and he just looks like Werner 2.0 to me.   Weak.  Not super great athletically.  He just looks soft to me.  

 

And on a petty note, his haircut and dye job do him no favors haha.  Hideous.    It makes him look even more weak. 

 

For Ballard supposedly being such a great drafter?  Only 2 rookies played last night and neither affected the game, and that has been the story all season.  Mitchell and Latu.

 

 Our starting LT and RG last night were rookies. Carlies the LB was starting and playing quite well until injury.
Bortolini has started and will be starting the next 4 games and will be our center for years to come.
 As a leading pre-season candidate for Defensive Rookie of the Year our Latu is making Ballard look foolish.

His strong, highly athletic lower body is matched with a shirt off "really" undersized, muscular lacking upper body.

Gotta be concerned that he has trouble adding thickness and muscle up there.

 To be a dominate DE, I think tackles have to also be concerned with a highly effective bull rush. Latu makes me project that he will be a year 3 ish breakout guy.

[rock8591]

Latu playing as expected.

 

21 tackles, 3 sacks so far through 11 games. Rookie DEs typically don't have breakout seasons; even Myles Garrett only had 31 tackles and 7 sacks his rookie season and he was a #1 overall pick.

[jvan1973]

On 11/4/2024 at 9:15 AM, Indeee said:

This guy has virtually done nothing. The highest touted pass rusher in the draft and the last 2 weeks has shown a nothing burger on the stat sheet.

 

I'm not sure if he is hurt but he wasn't part of the inactive last night so where is/was he?

 

This guy has 2 sacks over the span of 8 games and only 9 tackles.

 

 

 

You suck at this sort of thing.   

[Indeee]

1 hour ago, jvan1973 said:

You suck at this sort of thing.   

Why? Because he finally got a sack today? Big whoop.. He needs to be more dominate consistently

[2006Coltsbestever]

2 minutes ago, Indeee said:

Why? Because he finally got a sack today? Big whoop.. He needs to be more dominate consistently

I thought he played good today and he had a sack too. 

[jvan1973]

9 minutes ago, Indeee said:

Why? Because he finally got a sack today? Big whoop.. He needs to be more dominate consistently. 

He had several pressures.  Do you not watch the games?

[2006Coltsbestever]

3 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:

He had several pressures.  Do you not watch the games?

We know his posting history too like @ImissPeyton18, so yeah that says it all. 

[Jackie Daytona]

16 minutes ago, Indeee said:

Why? Because he finally got a sack today? Big whoop.. He needs to be more dominate consistently

How come no one among Hoosiers knows the word is dominaNt?  Its been killing me here since around the time "corps" was forgotten and replaced by "core" lol

[2006Coltsbestever]

Just now, Jackie Daytona said:

How come no one among Hoosiers knows the word is dominaNt?  Its been killing me here since around the time "corps" was forgotten and replaced by "core" lol

I see it here a lot, I know what you mean. 

[GoColts8818]

1 hour ago, jvan1973 said:

He had several pressures.  Do you not watch the games?

He also made one of hell of a read on a screen pass for an end and blew it up.

[Indeee]

11 hours ago, jvan1973 said:

He had several pressures.  Do you not watch the games?

I do watch the games. I never said he didn't play better against the jets. I reacted Big Whoop to his performance as a whole.

 

He is getting better, but this dude was supposed to be a game wrecker right out of the box, and he hasn't been for whatever reason. 

 

I'm not hating or down on the player. Just stating that I thought he should already be more than what he has shown. 

 

Not sure why we keep being okay with these players brought to Indy that takes a lot of time to develop while the rest of the league seem to find players that make real impacts right away. 

 

Anyways, he did have a good game, but it was against a jets team that is terrible. 

[SOMDColtsfan]

On 11/4/2024 at 7:16 PM, OLD FAN MAN said:

we should have taken the te bowers who will be the next gronk or kelse

Would the Colts be using him correctly? Have tendencies not using our players to their strengths.

[Superman]

1 hour ago, Indeee said:

I'm not hating

 

[cdgacoltsfan]

2 hours ago, Indeee said:

I do watch the games. I never said he didn't play better against the jets. I reacted Big Whoop to his performance as a whole.

 

He is getting better, but this dude was supposed to be a game wrecker right out of the box, and he hasn't been for whatever reason. 

 

I'm not hating or down on the player. Just stating that I thought he should already be more than what he has shown. 

 

Not sure why we keep being okay with these players brought to Indy that takes a lot of time to develop while the rest of the league seem to find players that make real impacts right away. 

 

Anyways, he did have a good game, but it was against a jets team that is terrible. 

[NewColtsFan]

2 hours ago, Indeee said:

I do watch the games. I never said he didn't play better against the jets. I reacted Big Whoop to his performance as a whole.

 

He is getting better, but this dude was supposed to be a game wrecker right out of the box, and he hasn't been for whatever reason. 

 

I'm not hating or down on the player. Just stating that I thought he should already be more than what he has shown. 

 

Not sure why we keep being okay with these players brought to Indy that takes a lot of time to develop while the rest of the league seem to find players that make real impacts right away. 

 

Anyways, he did have a good game, but it was against a jets team that is terrible. 

“But this Dude was supposed to be a game wrecker right out of the box and he hasn’t been for whatever reason.”

 

 

@Indeee… You and I don’t interact much.  I don’t know how often you read this website?    But somehow you got the Anthony Richardson evaluation completely wrong.   In fact,  backwards.  
 

Richardson has game breaking physical tools, (great arm, speed, size) but he was always said to be a project.  A huge project.  One that would take years, and not right out of the box.   The Colts said all this the night of the draft.  They preached patience. 
 

Richardson only played 13 starts in college and had less than 1,000 snaps.  His rookie year he gets hurt several times and gets less than 200 NFL snaps.  That’s less than 20 percent of the season.  So he still is as raw as can be.   
 

We can hope to see improvement this year and next.   But odds are we won’t see the best of Richardson until his 4th year, or maybe even his 5th.  Patience is going to be needed. 

[NewColtsFan]

On 11/4/2024 at 4:31 PM, ColtAndOrioles said:

He was gone when we picked, but I agree we should have traded up for him.  A lot of Ballard apologists will say he tried but it "just didn't work out". 

 

Which is nonsense.  If we wanted him, and we should have, we should have done all we could have to get him. 

 

Just more Ballard weakness. 

Oh Dear God….   More of this?  

[Smonroe]

4 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:

“But this Dude was supposed to be a game wrecker right out of the box and he hasn’t been for whatever reason.”

 

 

@Indeee… You and I don’t interact much.  I don’t know how often you read this website?    But somehow you got the Anthony Richardson evaluation completely wrong.   In fact,  backwards.  
 

Richardson has game breaking physical tools, (great arm, speed, size) but he was always said to be a project.  A huge project.  One that would take years, and not right out of the box.   The Colts said all this the night of the draft.  They preached patience. 
 

Richardson only played 13 starts in college and had less than 1,000 snaps.  His rookie year he gets hurt several times and gets less than 200 NFL snaps.  That’s less than 20 percent of the season.  So he still is as raw as can be.   
 

We can hope to see improvement this year and next.   But odds are we won’t see the best of Richardson until his 4th year, or maybe even his 5th.  Patience is going to be needed. 

Well said.  I don’t think anyone expected him to be a “game wrecker” with such limited college experience.  Nix and Daniels both played around 60 games in college.  Their experience is showing in how well they’re playing now.

We just want that needle to keep trending up (and hope for no injuries).  

 

[Smonroe]

3 minutes ago, Smonroe said:

Well said.  I don’t think anyone expected him to be a “game wrecker” with such limited college experience.  Nix and Daniels both played around 60 games in college.  Their experience is showing in how well they’re playing now.

We just want that needle to keep trending up (and hope for no injuries).  

 

My bad @Indeee  I believe you were talking about Latu, not AR.     
 

There was a lot of hype with him being the first D player taken in the draft.  Has he lived up to it?  Too early to say.  

[cbear]

Latu was the most pro ready pass rusher for sure, but if anyone expected him to be Dwight Freeney after half a season, was very mistaken imo. What he is turning out to be is a very good player who is young, growing and learning and performing very well for a mid first round DE and could become a pro bowler if he keeps progressing. 

[ADnum1]

He's a rookie and he's slowly improving.  He had some big plays yesterday. 

 

I think some Colts fans are missing the bigger picture. Because Ballard doesn't dabble much in FA, fans are expecting high round draft picks to become Pro bowlers right away.

 

It's just doesn't work that way sometimes. Sometimes rookies can take years to develop if ever.

 

But Latu is showing promise

[masterlock]

On 11/4/2024 at 12:02 PM, tweezy32 said:

He also needs to hit the gym i think.. by the looks of it (I could be wrong) he doesn't look strong at all upper body. He relies on speed and his moves which is good but sometimes if not most you still need strength to push them back. Just wait until he has an offseason of NFL weight training.

I've thought the same thing since I first laid eyes on him. He doesn't seem to have a lot of muscle tone.

[MikeCurtis]

40 minutes ago, ADnum1 said:

He's a rookie and he's slowly improving.  He had some big plays yesterday. 

 

Agree 100%

[Indeee]

3 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:

“But this Dude was supposed to be a game wrecker right out of the box and he hasn’t been for whatever reason.”

 

 

@Indeee… You and I don’t interact much.  I don’t know how often you read this website?    But somehow you got the Anthony Richardson evaluation completely wrong.   In fact,  backwards.  
 

Richardson has game breaking physical tools, (great arm, speed, size) but he was always said to be a project.  A huge project.  One that would take years, and not right out of the box.   The Colts said all this the night of the draft.  They preached patience. 
 

Richardson only played 13 starts in college and had less than 1,000 snaps.  His rookie year he gets hurt several times and gets less than 200 NFL snaps.  That’s less than 20 percent of the season.  So he still is as raw as can be.   
 

We can hope to see improvement this year and next.   But odds are we won’t see the best of Richardson until his 4th year, or maybe even his 5th.  Patience is going to be needed. 

I'm on record stating that I hope for the Colts sake Richardson works out regardless of how I feel about the player and would GLADLY be wrong if he does. With that said, I have also been on the record saying that I didn't think the Colts could afford all that patience that might be needed with this player as the team had been floundering in the middle for a number of years now with zero real football results moving in the direction of championship contenders. I still think they might have hoped that AR would have proved to be a faster study than he has been all while preaching patience to cover their backsides in the event he wasn't a quicker producer, knowing the position of the entire team as I already stated about the lack of time based on results over the past few years. 

[Boondoggle]

On 11/4/2024 at 2:48 PM, NewColtsFan said:

So you’ve decided after half of his rookie season?   Seriously?   
 

Latu will be fine, he's on a solid track for a rook rusher.  But he is unlikely to be as good as Jared Verse, who is bullying tackles already.  The guys who do what he's doing are rare.

[JediXMan]

Just like AR Latu will only get better the more experience he gets. He has made many impact plays like clinching the Bears game by get a sack fumble.

[jimmy g]

Latu was drafted was to back up Samson Ebukam. Then not only did Samson go down, but so did Paye for  a while. He’ll be fine….

[smittywerb]

NGL, I was on record thinking Latu would come in and eventually take a starting spot and would win DROY.  But, I’m happy we have him.  Is he having the success like Verse is having, no, but he’s having success.  Especially in a scheme where we depend on our DEs to do so much.  

[Dingus McGirt]

8 hours ago, cdgacoltsfan said:

Ditto…in fact, triple-dog ditto.  Too bad they don’t have these troll figures wearing clown outfits.

[ColtStrong2013]

22 hours ago, Jackie Daytona said:

How come no one among Hoosiers knows the word is dominaNt?  Its been killing me here since around the time "corps" was forgotten and replaced by "core" lol

what’s a corpse got to do with anything 

[chickenMan]

On 11/17/2024 at 10:11 PM, Jackie Daytona said:

How come no one among Hoosiers knows the word is dominaNt?  Its been killing me here since around the time "corps" was forgotten and replaced by "core" lol

Average Indiana University education 😜

[JediXMan]

4 sacks as a rookie that’s still learning and getting experience not to bad and still 5 games left against some average OL.

[GoColts8818]

Like most rookies he’s coming on as the season goes along.

[ColtStrong2013]

…getting better. Hopefully ready for a massive breakthrough. 

[Solid84]

Latu is going to be so good for us, I don't doubt that.

 

It's a travesty the rest of the team is all over the place.