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Old 12-18-2018, 10:21 AM
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There is a LOT more to this young team than just Andrew Luck to T.Y. Hilton!
I agree. It's a different approach to team building and I like it. With Manning the idea was to build on strength and make it nearly impossible to stop. We won a lot of games but we know how it often ended in the postseason. The best defenses were able to scheme up ways to take away a key piece or two of our offense, and if Manning and company didn't adjust quickly enough it was game over, season over.

With a balanced team we can win several different ways. Luck can go nuts for 400+ and 4 TDs. Hilton can have a 200+, 2 TD game. Ebron can catch 3 TDs in one half of a football game. With a healthy, talented OL even an inconsistent back like Mack can go off for 130+ and 2 TDs.

And if a lot of that isn't working, the defense can take the ball away, they can sack the QB, they can get TFLs and force punts.

And we have a coaching staff that is usually putting the team in the right position to play well.
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I agree. It's a different approach to team building and I like it. With Manning the idea was to build on strength and make it nearly impossible to stop. We won a lot of games but we know how it often ended in the postseason. The best defenses were able to scheme up ways to take away a key piece or two of our offense, and if Manning and company didn't adjust quickly enough it was game over, season over.

With a balanced team we can win several different ways. Luck can go nuts for 400+ and 4 TDs. Hilton can have a 200+, 2 TD game. Ebron can catch 3 TDs in one half of a football game. With a healthy, talented OL even an inconsistent back like Mack can go off for 130+ and 2 TDs.

And if a lot of that isn't working, the defense can take the ball away, they can sack the QB, they can get TFLs and force punts.

And we have a coaching staff that is usually putting the team in the right position to play well.
It’s almost like they are building something. Something....monstrous. Like... a monster, yea.
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It’s almost like they are building something. Something....monstrous. Like... a monster, yea.
This was great
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I agree. It's a different approach to team building and I like it. With Manning the idea was to build on strength and make it nearly impossible to stop. We won a lot of games but we know how it often ended in the postseason. The best defenses were able to scheme up ways to take away a key piece or two of our offense, and if Manning and company didn't adjust quickly enough it was game over, season over.

With a balanced team we can win several different ways. Luck can go nuts for 400+ and 4 TDs. Hilton can have a 200+, 2 TD game. Ebron can catch 3 TDs in one half of a football game. With a healthy, talented OL even an inconsistent back like Mack can go off for 130+ and 2 TDs.

And if a lot of that isn't working, the defense can take the ball away, they can sack the QB, they can get TFLs and force punts.

And we have a coaching staff that is usually putting the team in the right position to play well.
This is in line with what Reich said recently. He wants the team to be "multiple" meaning that they can win any number of ways. That will allow them to take whatever weakness an opponent presents, and exploit it. Conversely, it also makes the Colts harder to gameplan against, because they could throw any number of things at an opponent.
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(vs. GIANTS, 12/23)



Luck and the Colts got off to a bad start today, but he came back to have a big day overall (as did the Colts as a team.)

He threw 2 TD Passes, had 1 INT, and passed for 357 yards through the air.

For the season he now has 34 TD's, 13 INT's, and 3,951 yards passing.

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(vs. GIANTS, 12/23)



Luck and the Colts got off to a bad start today, but he came back to have a big day overall (as did the Colts as a team.)

He threw 2 TD Passes, had 1 INT, and passed for 357 yards through the air.

For the season he now has 34 TD's, 13 INT's, and 3,951 yards passing.

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I was told he was done all off season by so many pundits, yet here he is having his best season ever.
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I was told he was done all off season by so many pundits, yet here he is having his best season ever.
And a big FU to all of them!
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Luck and the Colts got off to a bad start today, but he came back to have a big day overall (as did the Colts as a team.)

He threw 2 TD Passes, had 1 INT, and passed for 357 yards through the air.

For the season he now has 34 TD's, 13 INT's, and 3,951 yards passing.

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I was told he was done all off season by so many pundits, yet here he is having his best season ever.

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An almost identical sentiment as was asserted by many "experts" in regard to Peyton Manning when he missed the entire 2011 season ........ with the difference being that Manning was considerably older than Luck was during his recovery/rehab period.

Even at his advanced age, Manning proved them wrong by having 3 excellent seasons from 2012 through 2014, and then capping his career with a Super Bowl victory in his injury-plagued 4th and final season with the Broncos.

Luck (like Manning in 2012) is having an outstanding season this year, belying those same type of doubtful sentiments and assertions.

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Even after the first few weeks there were giant questions on whether Luck could throw the ball down the field anymore. We were mostly running short passing routes, I think to protect Luck while the rookies got some time as the last thing we needed was another season of luck being injured.
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This is a mind-boggling stat.

Even though he missed all of the 2017 season and half of the 2015 season ........ since 2012, Luck is tied with Drew Brees for the third-most game-winning drives in the NFL. )


What's most impressive about that is the fact that in that span (2012 - Present), Brees has missed only 1 game ........ while Luck has missed 26 games. To me, that kind of statistic smacks of a Peyton Manning-like ability to carry an average and/or below average team on his back.



SOURCE: ) Andrew Walker, Colts.Com Writer

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