the official colts vs bo pix and the donkeys GameDay thread

[Butter]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

coach really fucked up at the end of this game.

It is weird how a coach who went for it on 4th at midfield was so conservative at the end.

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o


On the final play from scrimmage, Jonathan Taylor lost 2 yards.

If Steichen was going to take the ultra-conservative at that point, then he should have run a QB sneak on 3rd down ...... a QB sneak will at least gain a yard or 2, AND it will prevent you from losing yardage ...... so instead of a 60-yard FG attempt for Schrader, it would have been a 55-yard or a 56-yard attempt.

And yes, I do think that it helps a kicker a lot if he is trying to make a 55 or 56-yarder instead of trying to make a 60-yarder ...... just like I think that it helps a kicker if he is trying to make a 52 or 53-yarder instead of a 57-yarder.


Steichen did neither risk-take nor conservative with that final play-call from scrimmage ...... he did the worst thing possible, which is to hand off to the running back who was lined up a good 5 or 6 yards behind the line of scrimmage, which gave the defense a chance to penetrate and throw the ball-carrier for a loss.

That is what I was thinking as it was happening. It was clear from the previous 2 calls from scrimmage that Steichen was going ultra-conservative, but in my rat's ass of an opinion, he even screwed that up ...... thankfully it became a moot point because of the 15-yard personal foul penalty, but I really think that there would have been a decent chance that Schrader would have been a little more confident and might have made a 56 or 57-yard attempt if it had come down to that.

o

[albany ed]

I know it was a conservative play call, but often I've seen a play like that pop through a seam and gain 20+ yards. It's the old saying, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan"

Bottom line, The Colts are 2 and 0.

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Originally Posted by albany ed

I know it was a conservative play call, but often I've seen a play like that pop through a seam and gain 20+ yards ...... l it's the old saying, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan"

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As stated in my previous post, I was thinking that the Colts should have run QB sneak on 3rd down instead of giving the ball to Jonathan Taylor for the 3rd consecutive time while it was happening, not after the fact ...... so my problem wasn't with Steichen taking a conservative route and trusting his kicker, but rather that he screwed up that conservative route by not being conservative enough and making sure that Shrader's attempt would be from about 55 or 56 yards instead of risking the possibility of losing yardage and making him kick it from 59 or 60 yards.

o