Travis and turnovers and special teams, oh my.

[Kray007]

Sunday’s game, against Tennessee, is proof of the old outage that on any given Sunday, the worst team in the league can beat the best.

Don’t get me wrong, i’m not saying that the Colts are the best team in the league; just that the gulf between them is a gaping chasm.

I mean, losing to Tennessee is hard work, you’ve got to try hard; and, on Sunday, the Colts did.

If you’re looking at the game objectively, the Colts pretty much dominated. They outgained the Titans by almost 250 yards. The racked up 24 1st downs to Tennessee’s 11. Tennessee converted 30% of their third downs, and Cam Ward managed a whopping 102 yards through the air.

The problem was that the colt, for whatever reason, pretty much wrapped this up in a package and put a bow on it.

Starting out with Jalen Travis, I am not sure just what he was doing out there. There were times in which he was beaten and other times, in which he never seemed to bother trying to block the rusher. Jones was sacked six times and pressured on 30% of his drop backs.

In terms of turnovers, Jones, throwing to a ragtag bunch of refugees from the practice squad, was picked off twice, deep in enemy territory. Part of the problem, on one, was the absence of Tyler Warren, who surely would have done a better job of attacking the ball than Mallory

And then there was Jonathan Taylor’s fumble to lead off the second half.

As far as special teams are concerned, we saw a 58 yard punt return that set up one Touchdown and a blocked punt that gave them another.

All things considered, they managed to pull a rabbit out of a hat and turn what should have been a 25 point win into a 6 point loss.

[HoosierinFL]

Nah, the colts are easily one of the bottom 4 in the league, no need to go into any detail to explain why they lost.
Colts, commanders, chargers and dolphins. 4 teams with sparse talent and no leadership.

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by HoosierinFL

Nah, the colts are easily one of the bottom 4 in the league, no need to go into any detail to explain why they lost.
Colts, commanders, chargers and dolphins. 4 teams with sparse talent and no leadership.

I’m torn in my response, unsure whether to say balderdash, poppycock, or bullshit.

I can’t speak to leadership, that’s an intangible, nebulous thing. i can say that they have pro bowl talent at at least 8 roster spots…Pierce, Taylor, Downs, Nelson, Warren, Buckner, Gardner, and Ward.

It’s a team that should be 3-3, and might have been 4-2 if only they’d elected to receive in overtime vs the Chefs.

They have what seems like a perpetual need for a difference maker at DE, the Linebacker corps is in flux, and Safety is problematic. Time, a lot of money in free agency and a good draft would solve all those problems.

[Oldcolt]

Historically we have been a middling team. Have some decent players but nobody at a high value position that shines that you need to really compete at the highest level. This year we may actually be a bottom feeder. With our QB playing like shit (QBR 32ish he is 31st out of 33 QBs rated), recieving corps that sucks, no-and i mean zero-pass rush when it counts and a linebacker group that is forgettable we look more like a bottom feeder than a team stacked with pro bowlers so far.