quick thoughts on this epic battle between afc super bowl contenders

[Racehorse]

Pagano chided the team for taking their foot off the gas in the second half. What a loser!

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Pagano chided the team for taking their foot off the gas in the second half. What a loser!

REALLY? REALLY? What a fukn loser! The players were not the ones calling the plays where it was run Gore up the gut of the I-formation, behind Doyle and Bond, time and time again!

[omahacolt]

Grigson is gone

And we see the same shit. No wonder dam is so quiet. He sees the real issue with this team

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Pagano chided the team for taking their foot off the gas in the second half. What a loser!

Pagano is so good at throwing everyone under the bus, except his own damn self. He's nothing but an asshole.

[bertjones]

Good stuff as always Oma.
I hope getting those DBs back helps because I have to tell you, to me, the story of the game other than Brissetts strong play was how appallingly open the
Cleveland receivers were. If their QB was more accurate and if the recievers
didn't drop like 10 balls they would have hung 50 on us easily. Even if we
get those DBs back the fact remains that our linebackers can't cover a sick
mule on the way to the glue factory.
Another point, Moore. He made a stupid st play last week. This week he made
another one on the gunner play and another(roughing) that should have been
called. Why is he here?
I thought Moncrief had a couple of nice catches early. But then when Cleves
d adjusted to Hilton he didn't/couldn't take up the slack. At this point it's
hard to justify giving him another contract. As I said last week, I think we
need a culture change at WR.
Doyel did not have a good game. He had a terrible drop and a fumble and
like Moncrief did not pick up the slack when Hilton was taken out by the
Browns D.
As for the Offensive pass interference penalties they are being called a lot
more this year. I thought the Packers were screwed on that last week against
Atlanta. I was pleased with the officiating this week. At the risk of infuriating
the officiating police on this board, I think the Colts too often come out on the
short end with the refs so I was happy with what transpired today.

[DrSpaceman]

The OL may actually be worse this year than last year. Still no running game at all, most of the plays lucky to even get back to the line.

I still like the secondary's potential. The open guys and weakness of the team on D is still the LBers. Can't cover the middle or anything underneath.

For the most part the run D was good, but the TD run it was awful.

They are actually being creative with the pass rush.

Second half play calling, awful. I don't care if Chud goes along with Pagano. Playing not to lose second week in a row and almost lost, again, with a big lead.

Even with Luck this is still a mediocre team until the OL and LBers are better.

[sherck]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

1)13) prevent defense and running the clock for a full half is not a great coaching strategy, chuck.

From the most recent interview between Pagano and Sports Illustrated:

"But, but, but....I got a super duper secret coaching plan and decoder ring when I sent in the box tops from only 40 boxes of Sugar Puffs cereal when I was 11 years old! I ate all 40 boxes in 3 hours I was so excited to see what it said!

To this very day, I keep that super duper secret coaching plan locked up in the safe behind my desk and I pull it out every week, use the special secret squirrel decoder ring to figure it out and do what it says! Every week!

Know what it says?

Run the ball when ahead no matter what!
Never get beat on the long ball!

That's it! Success in two sentances! My game planning is done every week in about 45 minutes (that ring takes a long time to use).

The rest of the week? I chop wood."

Walk Worthy,l