Indy Week
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Red Averages said:
I would expect the Colts to work on run defense all week, also. So perhaps the Pats come in with 2 TE + LGBT formations making the Colts play base, then throw the ball?
MainerInExile said:
the colts are super thin at DB (and also pretty terrible after Davis) so i think they might actually show a lot of 11 personnel early and spread em out. you can still check / motion into runs in this set with gronk and edelman more than capable of springing lewis. then go 2TE later and hit em with the blount force trauma.
obviously depends on what they're showing and giving you, and this would somewhat go against my earlier hypothesis about coming out conservative, but in many ways the mcdaniel pats have shown that the spread formation / short passing attack is their equivalent of a ball control / safe approach.
ESPNFL getting their troll on during Indy week. I'd normally roll my eyes at such an accusation, but when it happens time and again with only one team, it seems intentional.
http://nesn.com/2015/10/espn-forgets-patriots-leaves-them-out-in-tweet-about-undefeated-teams-photos/
http://nesn.com/2015/10/espn-forgets-patriots-leaves-them-out-in-tweet-about-undefeated-teams-photos/
Maybe it just means that Larry Fitzgerald is finally getting traded to NE. Do the Patriots still have any 6th round picks left?
With the inclusion of Carson Palmer in the opening image instead of Brady, I think the person assigned to the ESPN Twitter account is a Cardinals fan who refuses to believe that Tom Brady exists.
Gregg Doyel @GreggDoyelStar 5s5 seconds ago
Pagano "faked cancer for sympathy calls" from refs. Who would say such a thing? A Patriots fan, duh: http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2015/10/13/outrageous-accusations-spew-colts-patriots-fans/73817200/ …
via @DanaBenbow
Pagano "faked cancer for sympathy calls" from refs. Who would say such a thing? A Patriots fan, duh: http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2015/10/13/outrageous-accusations-spew-colts-patriots-fans/73817200/ …
via @DanaBenbow
I like this one from that same article:
This is actually kind of brilliant. If the Pats aren't doing it? They should be.
They are taking things pretty seriously over at the IndyStar Colts forum. Mods have stepped up their game in preparation for this key conference matchup:
Gosh darn and Golly Gee Wilikers!
As I'm sure we're all aware the Patriots games is coming up and given the events of the off season there's fair chance that tempers might run a little hotter than usual on the forum.
Let this then be fair warning to posters that we are going to be especially vigilant in enforcing the forum rules leading up, during and after the game. We'll have no compunction about limiting the posting privileges of those who step out of line. In case you're unaware of the rules they can be found here:
No baiting of, trolling of, or taking shots at other posters. There will no doubt be a fair degree of disagreement on things but this doesn't mean you have to resort to attacking other posters or groups of posters. Keep it civil.
You know, the whole "they are cheating and the refs are on their side" narrative isn't all that compelling when you've been outscored about 200-10 on your last 4 matchups.
Really... no smack talk? Where's the fun in that? I can at least understand no trolling or vulgarity (as it's their perogative), but no smack talk?
What'e the point of having a message board?
Way to go. Good game. Attaboy. That was a sub-optimal outcome for your team.
What'e the point of having a message board?
Way to go. Good game. Attaboy. That was a sub-optimal outcome for your team.
Gregg Doyel @GreggDoyelStar 5s5 seconds ago Pagano "faked cancer for sympathy calls" from refs. Who would say such a thing? A Patriots fan, duh: http://www.indystar....-fans/73817200/ via @DanaBenbow
Spoken in Yoda voice:
"Begun the Gregg Doyel Derp War has."
Spoken in Yoda voice:
"Begun the Gregg Doyel Derp War has."
H78 said:
No it's not.
The "joke" in that sign is that the Patriots will beat up on the Colts for "snitching", i.e. ratting out the Patriots's ball manipulation scheme to the league. It rests on the premise that the Patriots were actually doing something wrong.
The entire reason why deflategate is bullshit is because the Patriots did not do anything wrong in the first place. The Patriots beat the shit out of the Colts fair and fucking square, and always have.
Making deflategate themed signs is playing on the Colts' fans' turf. Don't go there. Pick a sign that makes fun of the Colts for sucking and always losing.
drleather2001 said:
Now explain the Steve McQueen joke; you're so far over my head on that one I just see a dot against the sky.
I know all of this. The joke is the Colts TRIED to snitch because they were sore losers and incompetent enough to think Brady deflated footballs, rather than consider what actually happened (IGL).drleather2001 said:
Snitches get stitches, right or wrong. Period. The debate itself as to whether they were right or wrong doesn't matter.
Ferm Sheller said:
Orientated is a real word. It's more common in British English than American, but it's in Webster's.
The cheating narrative is so tired. I was laid up yesterday and got caught in the fox hole of some other teams message boards (I'll admit, I like to go and look what is being said. I never take the time to register an account and actually make a post). But the amount of patriots cheating posts is absurd. There were threads on every board about the Pats running pick plays and rarely getting called for it. This is their new method of cheating now.
The best rant I saw, though, was a Steeler fan (I think they are the most paranoid fan base when it comes to thinking the Pats are up to no good. In the wake of the headset "controversy, a fan suggested that the Patriots should have to forfeit their 1st and 2nd round draft picks for 2016 and 2017, no home games for 2016 and 2017, and Belichick, Kraft, and Brady suspended for two years. And better yet, if they try to appeal, the rest of the NFL teams should refuse to play them.
The paranoia is real, friends. Fans of these teams cannot come up with a way as to how we're just better than everybody.
The best rant I saw, though, was a Steeler fan (I think they are the most paranoid fan base when it comes to thinking the Pats are up to no good. In the wake of the headset "controversy, a fan suggested that the Patriots should have to forfeit their 1st and 2nd round draft picks for 2016 and 2017, no home games for 2016 and 2017, and Belichick, Kraft, and Brady suspended for two years. And better yet, if they try to appeal, the rest of the NFL teams should refuse to play them.
The paranoia is real, friends. Fans of these teams cannot come up with a way as to how we're just better than everybody.
Doyel Derp, Take 1: http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2015/10/13/doyel-patriots-colts-rematch-not-what-we-had-mind/73868996/
Damn that Indy Star website is freakin' annoying!
Damn that Indy Star website is freakin' annoying!
God what an embarrassment. Cheated and rigged the game Doyel? Yeah because shoving the ball down your throat repeatedly is cheating and rigging.Don Buddin's GS said:
He admits to being a homer, rails against the evil patriots, and builds in the excuse of a rusty Luck for when the blowout occurs.
You almost hear his tiny little feet stomping on the ground as he wrote that.
Be a shame if his tires got slashed again.
Be a shame if his tires got slashed again.
IMHO, Doyel couldn't give two farts about the Colts or the Patriots' evil ways. I don't think he's even from Indiana, and he's only been writing here for ~1 year. This is all red meat for the unwashed masses.
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On this score, at least, he has no worries. Nobody believes the Colts are anything like the Pats, or vice-versa. If you asked most football fans to associate the following words/phrases with one or the other franchise:
On this score, at least, he has no worries. Nobody believes the Colts are anything like the Pats, or vice-versa. If you asked most football fans to associate the following words/phrases with one or the other franchise:
- Defending champs
- Can't stop the run
- HOF QB
- Tanked to get a #1 pick who turned into Andrew Luck, for better and worse
- Look for excuses after they get beaten
- Beat other teams in the playoffs
- Raise banners to celebrate losses
- Raise banners to celebrate Lombardis