Run the damn ball?

[Pez]

The Colts have the best running back in the league, a top 5 OL, and the steelers are 14th against the rush.

Daniel Jones had 31 passes against JT's 14 rush attempts. I'm not sure how our game plan made sense.

[albany ed]

Run or pass, I don't think it made much difference. Some games are destined to not go your way. That's why there's only been 1 team to win them all from start to finish. The steelers were animals in that game. They probably spent the week listening to reports of how the Colts offense was doing things no other team in the Super Bowl era had done. They were frothing at the mouth and ready to do whatever it took to win this game. Colts, especially the OL came in overconfident and just got manhandled. It happens. The key is, will they redouble their efforts for next week or will they lose a little of their chutzpah and shrink.

[sherck]

On one hand, we committed SIX turnovers and only lost by a singled TD.

On the other hand, well, there really is no other hand.

We played badly. The worst we have played all year and were still only a TD away from tying the game. No team in the NFL can commit SIX turnovers in a game and expect to win it.

But, I will say that one thing I think Shane has to change is his perchance to ignore the rush in preference to the pass.

We saw it last game against the Titans at the end of the 2nd quarter. We stalled on two offensive series when we did not have a single rush attempt until a 3rd and 16 at our own 24 yard line. While JT did gain 8 yards on the run, it was not a serious attempt to gain the first down.

And against Pittsburgh, the rush went right out the window in the 2nd half. Once the PIT defense knew we were going to be one dimensional, they could tee up blitz packages that we could not block.

Worst showing of our O-Line this season but they were besieged.

I hope we can get a win against the Falcons and go into our bye week 8-2 and get some things straigtened out but Daniel Jones is best when he is not asked to play hero ball. Against PIT, they asked that of him and it showed.

[Oldcolt]

The fact that he falls apart when asked to win the game himself (hero ball as sherck calls it) worries me about having this dude long term. If you are going to have a deep playoff run most of the time you will need a QB that can win a game or two for you. This was the first time we actually needed him to step up and he failed spectacularly. I know the whole team sucked, but that is where true top QBs can shine. Hopefully he and the team can learn from this. However this has been who he has been his entire career (if you believe the media) and it does worries me.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

The fact that he falls apart when asked to win the game himself (hero ball as sherck calls it) worries me about having this dude long term. If you are going to have a deep playoff run most of the time you will need a QB that can win a game or two for you. This was the first time we actually needed him to step up and he failed spectacularly. I know the whole team sucked, but that is where true top QBs can shine. Hopefully he and the team can learn from this. However this has been who he has been his entire career (if you believe the media) and it does worries me.

Jones does not worry me as much as how it all fell apart. The line didn’t block well for either Jones or Taylor. Not sure if the plays called were the problem, or if it was whoever was calling the protection. Maybe Jones didn’t audible or did the wrong audible. The entire offense was out of sync. The muffed punt also hurt, as we were dominating them up to that point, and the momentum swung all the way, which seemed to panic the offense, which we have not seen them panic before. I hope it is just a small bump in the road and nothing more.

[HoosierinFL]

Kinda goes to show, we get our first 100 yard receiving games, in fact times 2, and it ends up being the lowest offensive output (points), highest turnover margin of the season, not to mention an ugly loss that wasn't as close as the final score indicates.

Run the damn ball.