First you have to give credit to Peyton – he was kind of a one man team last night. Our inability to get serious heat on him was really the death blow of our D, along with the inability to hang with Clark. Obviously we all saw major issues in the center of the field; our Safety play looked uncoordinated, overmatched, and someone please teach these guys how to tackle! Yea, Wilson looks like a bum right now and we can only hope he picks up his game – a LOT.
IMO the lack of tackling in training camp showed in general – we had problems getting guys to the ground all night long (albeit for what – 35 plays).
The OL proved they can be physical with an undersized D, though the Colts are bigger than in prior vintages. All in all the OL looked solid to dominating at times – but the numerous pancakes of Long by Freeny was kind of embarrassing for the #1 pick in the entire draft last year. Freeny obviously plays with remarkable leverage and his motor last night was nothing less than awesome.
Poor Teddy had a big time chance to make a statement about his game and quite simply couldn’t make the play. Bottom line, regardless of how you spin it, he’s GOT TO make that catch in the endzone with single coverage by a FA rookie! Everyone in the world saw the ball hit him in the hands… At this point I wonder if “the play that could have been” will wind up defining Teddy’s career; tons of potential but lacking in clutch play.
The Wildcat was so dominate, in retrospect you have to wonder why we didn’t run it even more. At somewhere near 10 yards a clip it was obvious the package was beyond the Colts defensive capacity – and the sheer power and angles it brings was never solved by the Colts at all. I’m sure they were glad to see Pennington under center as opposed to Ronnie in the gun.
Speaking of that – our passing game in general looked somewhere between high school and semi pro. Of course the “2 minute offense” looked more like we were running out the clock than actually trying to win. It was, in a word, inept.
I guess a big question now is do we look at Henne or just hope Pennington can execute the Wildcat sprint off the field more often? Seriously, this team has too many question marks in the future right now to not consider Henne – if indeed the staff see’s him as a real NFL player. Bottom line, we need some big play capacity and we can only hope Henne is more dynamic than Pennington. If he’s not – well the future of the franchise is still very questionable IMO.
Anyway it’s not the end of the world but it’s disappointing we couldn’t tackle and execute a 2 min O better than a high school team – so we’re obviously a team still under construction – which most of us probably knew already. The team played hard and they were motivated but in a few areas of the game we simply couldn’t hang.
Last, the usage of Pat White seemed more like practice than actually playing in a real game. We’re obviously still bringing the kid along – but I don’t see why we take the ball out of Ronnies hands just for Pat to hand off up the middle? I guess our coaches haven’t quite resolved what we’re all about yet and we’re deciding that in real time. So we have 14 more chances to get some serious answers…
IMO the lack of tackling in training camp showed in general – we had problems getting guys to the ground all night long (albeit for what – 35 plays).
The OL proved they can be physical with an undersized D, though the Colts are bigger than in prior vintages. All in all the OL looked solid to dominating at times – but the numerous pancakes of Long by Freeny was kind of embarrassing for the #1 pick in the entire draft last year. Freeny obviously plays with remarkable leverage and his motor last night was nothing less than awesome.
Poor Teddy had a big time chance to make a statement about his game and quite simply couldn’t make the play. Bottom line, regardless of how you spin it, he’s GOT TO make that catch in the endzone with single coverage by a FA rookie! Everyone in the world saw the ball hit him in the hands… At this point I wonder if “the play that could have been” will wind up defining Teddy’s career; tons of potential but lacking in clutch play.
The Wildcat was so dominate, in retrospect you have to wonder why we didn’t run it even more. At somewhere near 10 yards a clip it was obvious the package was beyond the Colts defensive capacity – and the sheer power and angles it brings was never solved by the Colts at all. I’m sure they were glad to see Pennington under center as opposed to Ronnie in the gun.
Speaking of that – our passing game in general looked somewhere between high school and semi pro. Of course the “2 minute offense” looked more like we were running out the clock than actually trying to win. It was, in a word, inept.
I guess a big question now is do we look at Henne or just hope Pennington can execute the Wildcat sprint off the field more often? Seriously, this team has too many question marks in the future right now to not consider Henne – if indeed the staff see’s him as a real NFL player. Bottom line, we need some big play capacity and we can only hope Henne is more dynamic than Pennington. If he’s not – well the future of the franchise is still very questionable IMO.
Anyway it’s not the end of the world but it’s disappointing we couldn’t tackle and execute a 2 min O better than a high school team – so we’re obviously a team still under construction – which most of us probably knew already. The team played hard and they were motivated but in a few areas of the game we simply couldn’t hang.
Last, the usage of Pat White seemed more like practice than actually playing in a real game. We’re obviously still bringing the kid along – but I don’t see why we take the ball out of Ronnies hands just for Pat to hand off up the middle? I guess our coaches haven’t quite resolved what we’re all about yet and we’re deciding that in real time. So we have 14 more chances to get some serious answers…
