Came on to say that was horrible play calling by Steichen at the end there, but looks like you Freaks already have that covered.

I think he and Shane needed each other.

I think he had, "Colts win on 60 yard field goal"....had to call for a rewrite!:D

that will never happen

Taylor was good his rookie year in the passing game

he for sure did

great game. colts have some work to do but that was what I wanted to see. well not exactly but we gave ourselves a punchers chance and got it done

That play calling at the end was the suckiest bunch of such that's ever sucked. Holy fuck, they had 9 guys in the box and he was still robbing it, when the FG was 60 yards away. Unreal.

I would have liked to see them be more bold, but with 9 defenders in the box, you don’t have enough people on the line to pick up every rusher. The last thing you need is to take a sack and end up out of FG range.

That's where you have to a naked bootleg, end around play, or something more creative.

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Remember the manner in which the Colts ended this game 15 years ago ???



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HCUUP0-J_8

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For sure, this team is not a top contender by any means, but we have a chance kind of like the Harbaugh Colts of the mid-90s.

Didn’t they run a bootleg earlier in the game that lost 5 yards?

There is life in the organization that I would say we have not seen since Luck's great season in what, 2018? There was a bit of energy during the Rivers year, but this is starting to feel a little different and a little more collective. That celebration with Schrader at the end to Butter's point, had some 1995 era to it.

Not convinced we are a playoff caliber team yet, but also not ready to say that we aren't, and that's a LOT more than I expected 2 games into this season.

No doubt. Steichen was calling plays like we were at their 20 instead of their ~40. Hopefully he realizes how super lucky we were and learned his lesson, but since we won I doubt it.

did anyone see the irsay gals face when the last play call came in? even she knew it was dumb as fuck to run the ball and hope for a 60 yard field goal.


coach really fucked up at the end of this game.

It is weird how a coach who went for it on 4th at midfield was so conservative at the end.

I was thinking that too. Remember when Hasselback did that and won us the game?

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On the final play from scrimmage, Jonathan Taylor lost 2 yards.

If Steichen was going to take the ultra-conservative at that point, then he should have run a QB sneak on 3rd down ...... a QB sneak will at least gain a yard or 2, AND it will prevent you from losing yardage ...... so instead of a 60-yard FG attempt for Schrader, it would have been a 55-yard or a 56-yard attempt.

And yes, I do think that it helps a kicker a lot if he is trying to make a 55 or 56-yarder instead of trying to make a 60-yarder ...... just like I think that it helps a kicker if he is trying to make a 52 or 53-yarder instead of a 57-yarder.


Steichen did neither risk-take nor conservative with that final play-call from scrimmage ...... he did the worst thing possible, which is to hand off to the running back who was lined up a good 5 or 6 yards behind the line of scrimmage, which gave the defense a chance to penetrate and throw the ball-carrier for a loss.

That is what I was thinking as it was happening. It was clear from the previous 2 calls from scrimmage that Steichen was going ultra-conservative, but in my rat's ass of an opinion, he even screwed that up ...... thankfully it became a moot point because of the 15-yard personal foul penalty, but I really think that there would have been a decent chance that Schrader would have been a little more confident and might have made a 56 or 57-yard attempt if it had come down to that.

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I know it was a conservative play call, but often I've seen a play like that pop through a seam and gain 20+ yards. It's the old saying, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan"

Bottom line, The Colts are 2 and 0.

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As stated in my previous post, I was thinking that the Colts should have run QB sneak on 3rd down instead of giving the ball to Jonathan Taylor for the 3rd consecutive time while it was happening, not after the fact ...... so my problem wasn't with Steichen taking a conservative route and trusting his kicker, but rather that he screwed up that conservative route by not being conservative enough and making sure that Shrader's attempt would be from about 55 or 56 yards instead of risking the possibility of losing yardage and making him kick it from 59 or 60 yards.

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