I have hope with the defense, we were missing some major parts yesterday in Sheard, Leonard. We then also had Lewis leave the game, Turay and Desir both were guys who were playing injured, and then we had lots of rookies making mistakes, but gaining valuable game time experience.

Justin Houston has not really shown me much so far this year, have been very disappointed in his play.

I just wish that we could get a hand on the ball at some point, yeah we had the one interception, but that was more a terrible throw than good defensive play. Did we have a single pass breakup? We need to challenge the receivers, we are letting them make the catch, then trying to deliver the huge hit to dislodge the ball, don't let them make the catch to begin with! We are consistently getting killed by TE's, i realise Hooper is one of the better TE's, but he appeared to be wide open all day. At least with Jones we did have some coverage in place. There were some outstanding throws from Ryan as well.

Even with the complaints of our pass defense, we won that game relatively comfortably, we had the ball in position to score at the end of the game. I think we punted just the once, special teams overall looked good.

Turay only played 13 snaps.

So that may explain why you didn’t see much of him.

Per PFF, Houston has the 3rd highest pressure rate in the league on 3rd/4th down. He’s getting pressure, just not getting many sacks so far.

I think he will have a 3 sack game against the the Raiduhs.

Kevin Bowen‏ @KBowen1070 · 5h5 hours ago

This was a play the #Colts put in last week. Trying to initially sell the inside run, before Nelson pulls.

Quenton Nelson: “It was a DB, who just fell to the ground, before anything could happen."

Reporter: "Business decision by him?”

Nelson: “Yeah, probably a smart one.”

https://twitter.com/KBowen1070/statu...34008750641157

:cool:

Everyone saw the Barry Church highlight. No one wants to be a gif for the next few years over one play.

:D And people complained about us drafting him where we did. WELL worth it.

a small but consequential aspect I noticed was at end of the game both mack and doyle secured a first down then went to the ground ensuring they didnt go out of bounds, keeping the clock running. shows good situational awareness and good coaching.

Nelson was my choice at 1.03 before the trade down. Beast at Notre Dame too... :cool:

By the end of his career, if he doesn't get hurt, five teams will wish they had taken him Best player in the draft, best player on the team since he showed up.