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[DrSpaceman]

Originally Posted by albany ed

On a sports talk show this morning, Bruce Arians name got mentioned.

I think he will be available and while I like Arians, I agree with others who have stated his type of vertical emphasized passing game is what has been the problem for Luck and the Colts for 5 years.

[sherck]

Originally Posted by DrSpaceman

I think he will be available and while I like Arians, I agree with others who have stated his type of vertical emphasized passing game is what has been the problem for Luck and the Colts for 5 years.

Concur.

I see what a lot of the NFL is running and it is basically a West Coast Offense with a mix of longer patterns on each and every single play giving the QB options at multiple levels. Check the long ball to see if coverage was blown and if you have time or progress and hit someone shorter in space with hopefully room to run.

Our current offense often floods the same space with 2 or 3 receivers grouping all of the defenders into the space where the ball is going. Does not result in much YAC.

I would love to see Luck in a real offensive system. Arians system is not what I want; we saw that in 2012 with the long ball all the time. No thanks.

Walk Worthy,

[DrSpaceman]

Discussion today on the local talk radio (in Indy right now for the holidays) was about this. Not by Dakich, but whoever comes on 1070 after him.

Consensus seemed to be Toub, who is likely Ballard's top pick, would be a tough sell to the fans, whether he is the right pick or not, given his lack of previous HC experience and the fact Irsay the last few seasons seemed to be striking out for a big name coaching hire and failed. Toub would be a bit of a let down compared to the guys it seemed Irsay was going after

Further the feeling was would be best to have someone with some prior head coaching experience or at the very least someone with just more than 1-2 years as experience as a coordinator, pointing out how while Pagano was the DC in Baltimore, it was only for a season and the D was pretty stacked at the time he was coaching him and with a good system in place even before he took the job.

Also felt the job would have been much easier to hire for 1-2 years ago, when Pagano should have been fired and before there was the lingering issue with Luck's shoulder. For that reason its not likely to be a "big name" hire, so basically forget Harbaugh (I though that was a longshot before anyway) or any well established coach looking to make a change.

All decent things hard to argue, though not sure where that leaves things on the coaching front.

[DrSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Coltsalr

I didn't even like Marty, but this was a really good feature that they did on his Alzheimer's:

http://broadband.espn.go.com/video/clip?id=20896213

Interesting that he/his family agreed to being interviewed and displaying his ailments on full display like this.

That's a good feature and not matter how you feel about him as a coach, its a horrible disease for any family to be put through.

But Marty really was a HORRIBLE playoff coach. 5-13 career playoff record. I know many things play into that record, like the Fumble, the Drive, 3 missed FGs vs. the Colts I believe in 1995, even the fluky INT for Brady and then a fumble on the INT return in 2006. Heck the Colts benefited greatly from his losses over the years. But still, that's a bad record.

5 times he had teams with eleven wins or more that lost in the first round in the playoffs. Those aren't just playoff teams, those are teams that should be conference championship contenders that lose in the first round. And this is with multiple different teams over multiple different decades, not just one team that failed over and over

I know Manning, as QB, struggled with this same perception for years, but he actually ended up near .500 for his career in the playoffs, which is not great but respectable.

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...es/SchoMa0.htm

[apballin]

Originally Posted by NoLuck4Chuck

Maybe Dam got stuck up apballins butt... now Dam is literally talking out of his ass.

Nice post Michael Sam

[apballin]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Where's your butt buddy alter ego been?

Your mom's like the rest of us?

[YDFL Commish]

Hears on XM Radio today that there is an apparent rift between Bill O'Brien and GM Rick Smith. So O'Brien may be on his way out.

Anybody interested?

[Indiana V2]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Hears on XM Radio today that there is an apparent rift between Bill O'Brien and GM Rick Smith. So O'Brien may be on his way out.

Anybody interested?

Let me think about it...no.

[GoBigBlue88]

I hate this YOU GOTTA HIRE A BIG NAME thing JMV is on about. The last big name Irsay trumpeted was Joe Philbin, so how's that working out?

[FatDT]

Why is a big name important?