Week 6 Game Thread
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Few things make me happier than the Colts' continued irrelevance post-Deflategate. Fuck that franchise.
Oh, to be tall and young and able to look competent at QB for a half-season. Then I, too, could make $72 million.
The thing is Luck is being asked to carry this subpar Colts team as if he's prime Manning/Brady. He's a lot further from that level than that FO/fanbase seem to realize.
It's amazing that one division has at least 3, maybe 4 of the 5 worst coaches in the league.
I guess "So what, now what?" is Pagano's "Do Your Job." By itself, it goes a long way in explaining the chasm between him and BB as head coaches.
His post-game presser would unnerve me if I were a Colts fan. Or their QB.
His post-game presser would unnerve me if I were a Colts fan. Or their QB.
Grigson and Pagano both got four-year extensions in JANUARY. Hard to see them going anywhere this offseason.
That makes me giddy, but I still think they'll be gone after the train wreck this season is going to become.
Lol Colts.
Hard to gauge. As I've detailed in the main Colts thread, they have a terrible roster, which has steadily worse over the course of the Luck era. Not sure that Brady's ever had a team with a lousy offensive line AND an awful defense that consistently has the offense in catch up mode.
He's actually having a pretty nice season under tough circumstances.
Does anyone remember this with a side-by-side video of a cat pouncing on a kitten that was messing with him? It was hilarious, but I just spent 5 minutes trying to find it and have come up blank.
I think it was on ITP.
Edit: Found it!!!!
http://insidethepylon.com/blog/2015/11/26/indianapolis-colts-fake-punt-or-something/
Maybe if Luck didn't have a career passer rating of 80 in the first half of games, he wouldn't have to play catch up as much. He's done his part in putting his, admitteldy bad, team in early holes. To his credit, he manages to climb out of them with some regularity, but he's reached a point in his career where he needs to be more consistent.
It's really difficult to be consistent at Quarterback when your offensive line is below replacement level.
The worst offensive line Brady has played behind is better than what Andrew Luck has spent most of his career behind. It's almost a miracle that he's still physically able to play, let alone put up above average production.
Brady's OL has been pretty bad the past two or three seasons. Hell, I'm not sure the NE OL this year is worse than Indy's.
EDIT: To elaborate, I think the Patriots have done a good job scheming around the weak OL with a quick-passing O and building a stable of skill players who fit that mode. If Brady was taking a bunch of 7-step drops and demanding the OL hold up so he could throw 30-yard bombs to speedsters like Hilton and Dorsett, it wouldn't be pretty.
He was actually pretty good last year. I was actually worried he would end up on Denver during the offseason. Seems like a ridiculous worry at this point.
Tight ends?
FWIW, this isn't weird anymore. Pats have four WR in 11-19 and only one 80+.
Believe it or not, they have 5 TE on the roster.
This is really just transferring the weird problem that for years only kickers, punters, and QBs could be 1-19. Since teams usually only have four or five of those guys, that was a lot of unused numbers. Then they opened up 11-19 for WR so now there are fewer unused numbers 1-19 but more unused numbers in the 80s.
These refs are pretty terrible this game
Way to flag happy both ways.
It really ruins the flow of the game
Way to flag happy both ways.
It really ruins the flow of the game