quick thoughts after rams game

[CletusPyle]

Originally Posted by rcubed

maybe they should have asked peyton to go in instead of eason.

also forgot to mention it was good to see mack get some work in.

In all fairness, that was a terrible position to put Eason in yesterday...I don't dislike the guy at all, and I hope he proves me wrong, but if you have hopes of a winning season why would you not be better prepared considering Carson's past injury history.

I agree about Mack, love JT but the Colts need to find more ways of getting Mack in the offense...explosive player!

[Chromeburn]

Our strength is supposed to be on the lines. Our top guard in the league can’t get 1 yard at the goaline. Our oline looks absolutely awful. Castonzo threatened retirement for years and the best replacement was a guy coming off an Achilles. Our defensive line still can’t passrush from the end position despite spending a ton of high picks on ends. Now I know why our d line looked so good in camp.

We knew Eason is too wet behind the ears. Yet we still didn’t sign a vet.

[Brylok]

Perhaps we should have kept Autry, Walker, and Houston? For a team that is apparently lacking depth, having those guys would help. Okereke and AQM should be depth. Banogu is depth (at best)

We should have kept Bethea back in the day as well. And Freeney.

[Racehorse]

Still pissed about 1st and goal from the 1 when we ran the exact play three times and then got sacked on 4th down.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Still pissed about 1st and goal from the 1 when we ran the exact play three times and then got sacked on 4th down.

They were trying to say that the plays are different because different guys were in motion. They tried to run through the same gap each time.

One of the radio announcers said Brady looked like a deer in the headlights during the game.

[daedge]

So much talk about the woeful play from the o-line, and rightly so, but some of the secondary play has been inexcusable through two weeks. How the hell could Kupp be left so open so often? What a shambolic first couple of weeks.

[MeSayDayo]

-Reich needs to forfeit his play calling duties, but I don't think we have anyone nearly as capable on our team to replace him. Frank just needs to stop being so damn cute, so damn often.

-Wentz was good. Better than week 1. He isn't taking enough heat for that awful shuffle pass....Maybe the worst play of the year, and completely deflated any offensive momentum we had.

-Pittman may actually emerge as our guy, which is nice. He needs to show more TD upside.

-Where was Strachan? Not nearly enough looks consider Campbell was out.

-Was Granson perhaps the biggest waste of a pick from this years draft? Think Doyle will come back for another year? Has anyone ever seen a criminally and confusingly underused player in multiple regimes as Moe-Allie Cox? The guy must just be the worst route runner and practice player ever. I can never understand why he is never used a lot, lot more.

-Fisher looks solid and I think that's a huge bonus for us going forward. We really need this line to play a few healthy games together, if it ever happens. The line is crazy bad but way too talented to continue on this way. It will get better.

-JT looking a lot like he did early last season as well. Trying too hard to find the perfect hole instead of hitting the one that flashes early. He needs to get more screen passes and we need to find better ways to get him the ball in space.

-Can we just trade Paris Campbell (for a bag of peanuts) already so his career can flourish elsewhere? This guy is literally Phillip Dorsett 2.0

-Defensively, we are soft. We make plays at opportune times that always makes the game closer than it should be. Slow starts on D are killing us. Having Walker last season thump away on running downs made a huge difference. Splitting that LB with Walker last year has proven way more effective than trying to Pigeonhole Okereke into something he is not (a football player, apparently)

-Pass rush is still an issue. Edges have no creativity of plethora of moves to get to the QB. The punch from the D-line and speed is there initially, but the last punch to sack the QB is really lacking. Paye looks good, and obviously Buckner and Grove. Other then that, not much to talk about. Muhammad overplays his role on the team almost ever year.

Overall, same shit on a different day here. Reich ultimately lost this game for us, just like the first one.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by daedge

So much talk about the woeful play from the o-line, and rightly so, but some of the secondary play has been inexcusable through two weeks. How the hell could Kupp be left so open so often? What a shambolic first couple of weeks.

Yeah hasn’t been great. But we kinda know the secondary isn’t great. Oline is supposed to be our strength. 4th highest paid oline in the league soon to be the highest after Nelson is signed.