What does Mitchell say to the team? What does Steichen say?

The Colts won that game but for one person. Everyone else left it all on the field.

Again, I’ve never seen anything like that.

Hank Basketf in the Super Bowl MAYBE. But that was one play. Mitchell had TWO soul crushing, game losing plays today.

I'm so pissed off I'm gonna check out for a while. Be glad I'm not the owner if any of you are Shitchell fans.

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We don't know that.

After Jonathan Taylor dropped the ball at the 1/2-yardline last year, most Colts fans probably thought that they would not be seeing that again from a player in a Colts uniform for many years to come ...... but it happened again today.

I wouldn't presume any player on any team to be immune from such imbecilic behavior, because as I stated in the thread on the main board, it has happened dozens and dozens of times all throughout both college and pro football over the last 30 years or so.

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I fully expected a loss. I just wanted them to be competitive.

But to lose like that? That’s the kind of loss that rips the soul out of teams.

And mainly because of one guy.

Steichen has his work cut out for him. He’s got to somehow salvage this.

Bullshit. Dulin isn’t a fucking imbecile. He wouldn’t make either of those mistakes.

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Bullshit to your bullshit. You don't know that, any more than you know which a player is going to drop the ball at the 1-yardline again, and it will happen many more times throughout the game.

And you have no idea if Ashton Dulin (or any player for that matter) will or won't make a dumbass holding call or clipping call that will nullify a touchdown. That has literally happened more than a thousand times throughout the history of pro football. You're actually going to go on record, and asserting that somehow Ashton Dulin is somehow immune to that ??? You can believe whatever you want to believe. I'll believe decades and decades of history of football.

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The fact that Steichen still had him in the game after all the shit he did today is mind boggling. Dude should have been sent home packing after the fumbled TD, and we certainly would have had a better chance at winning if that had happened.

What the fuck are you talking about? Dulin has been in the league since 2019 and has never made a boneheaded play like either of the ones Mitchell made today.

AD Mitchell has been in the league for 21 games and has done nothing but fuck up every chance he gets.

Of course no one is IMMUNE to that. But we have a lot of history that suggests Dulin is MUCH LESS immune to stupid shit like that than Mitchell.

So play Dulin. It’s really quite simple.

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I'm not arguing that Dulin should not play instead of Mitchell. I think that he should.

I'm telling you that you all we know about Dulin is the fact that he's been a marginal player on the Colts' roster since 2019. You didn't just say that Dulin should play instead Mitchell ...... you specifically said that Dulin isn't an imbecile and that he would "never make a play like that", neither of which you have any idea will happen. There is nothing uncommon about a horrible holding call or clipping call that nullifies a touchdown. And people weren't calling Jonathan Taylor an imbecile ...... until he acted like one and dropped the bll at the one-yardline.

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What does Steichen say?

Steichen should do just like they do when they win and there is the big circle and the game ball given out.

You pull that punk ass bitch into the circle- you say- "Do it fellas" and they all bum rush that motherfucker and beat his loser fucking ass. When he is out cold on the ground Steichen takes his contract out, writes void on it, and shoves it in his fucking loser ass mouth!

FUCK THAT DUDE!

Well said. Anyone who watched what happened after JT's blunder last season and would still prioritize celebrating over actually scoring a TD is extremely selfish and a complete dumb fuck. Mitchell needs to go.

I guess I don’t understand what exactly your issue is. Again, OF COURSE we don’t know FOR 100 PERCENT CERTAINTY that Dulin wouldn’t fuck up if given the opportunity.

But we DO know that all he’s ever done is make the most of whatever opportunities he’s been given. He’s an undrafted guy who has built a good career out of making the most out of his chances.

In other words, he’s the ANTI AD Mitchell, who does nothing but fuck up every opportunity he gets. Today was a golden opportunity for Mitchell and he more or less used that opportunity to single handedly lose the damn game.

So until I see otherwise, give Dulin a shot and shoot Mitchell out of a god damned cannon.

I’d bet my left nut he’d do better than Mitchell.

another stupid take.

you are as consistent as Mitchell. Mitchell is an issue 85% of the time he is involved in a play. fuck that guy

Mitchell has to be inactive. the guy is garbage. just a fuck up pretty much every time he is involved in a play. get that motherfucker off the team.

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Like I said, I have no problem with Dulin playing over Mitchell ...... in fact, I bumped the thread on the main board about hism calling attention to himself for making a big deal about being drafted behind polayewrs which he thought that he was superior to.

http://www.coltfreaks.com/forum/show...=180407&page=2


But you said that Dulin would never make a play like that, and that play that you were referring to (the horrible holding call) happens often. It's a stupid play, and it makes fans of the team feel like punching their TV sets, but it's one that occurs almost as often as a defense falling for a hard-count on a crucial 4th down, or a player running into the punter when his teams very badly needs the ball back ...... it happens, and it isn't rare.



Regarding dropping the ball at the 1/2-yardline, Jonathan Taylor almost did it again last week against the Titans ...... the play is at the 9:30 mark.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm3VaoeYVb4


I would presume that Taylor, of all people, wouldn't dream of ever coming close to doing something like that again ...... but he did.

Football players in general are not necessarily the brightest bunch of people when it comes to their profession. I get your anger and frustration about Micthell costing us the game today, but as I stated in the thread that I started last year about Taylor for dropping the ball at the goal-line, this shit is going to happen again, and again, and again. The best that you can hope for is that it happens to your team lesser rather than more frequently.

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The problem with this is that we all have seen Dulin play a lot of football, and never once has he exhibited the kind of explosive, big play ability we saw from Mitchell on the botched TD. No one can be happy with the boneheaded move, but with any luck, he’ll take a page from Jonathan Taylor’s book, put it behind him, and never do it again.

The defense had issues today but I still prefer Anarumo to Gus Bradley’s defense where the offense would literally call the play the defense was running.

Also, the Jags and Texans both won today so we’re now tied for 1st in the division with Jacksonville, with Houston 2 games back.

The Colts beat themselves today. They easily could've won this game if they didn't make unforced errors that cost them the game. Mitchell dropping the ball, the hold on the Taylor TD run, Mehki Blackmon tripping over his own feet in coverage on the game losing TD, giving up a 96 yard TD drive in the last 2 minutes of the first half. These are things you just can't do against a good team. That's the bad part of this.

The good part of this, IMO, is that the Colts showed today that they're capable of beating anybody even when they don't play their best game.

To add some fuel to the fire - apparently we only had 10 players on the field on the Atwell's 88 yard TD :mad:

I think that's an exaggeration. Mehki Blackmon tripped over his own feet, which is what allowed Atwell to be so wide open, which is where people are saying they "only had 10 men".

Edit: Nope, there were only 10 defenders on the field on that play. Inexcusable. Franklin is terrible.