ArmyFin7
U cry about the $$$, we do the dirtywork
The Colts just wrote the book on how to beat this team.
Their defensive gameplan drew criticizm from the commentators, but it was brilliant IMO.
The Colts knew the strength of this team is running the ball. They knew their weakness was stopping the run. So what do they do?
The let us run that ball all night long, without bothering to bring safeties into the box to even try and stop it. They had absoltely no respect for our passing game. It looked to me like the knew they could stop us when we got to the red zone where things get tight.
When you can run the ball with the efficiency we ran with last night, you should be able to PA right over the heads of LBs and CBs peeking into the backfield, never happened.
Everyone wanted to bash Ginn because "he can't get open on short or intermediate routes. Ginn caught 11 balls almost all of them we're qithing 12 yards of the LOS. He repeatedly burned Calvin Hayden (easily a top 10 cb) He had the one play he could have layed out for, 1 drop I blame on him.
The drop at the end of the game, the first time i saw it was just good coverage...I rewinded my tivo 8 times and watched it over and over....Ginn had the defender beat by damn near 3 steps. Put a hell of a double move on him to get open. If that ball doesn't float it's way to the endzone where Ginn is damn near standing there waiting for it to get to him, it's an easy catch, instead of having a defender right there....with his hand inside his shoulderpad at that.
It's all irrelivant at this point, but I could see a lot of teams taking this approach to playing us this yr.
We literally held the ball for more than 3 quarters and only came away with 23 points. The Colts had the ball less than 15 minutes and scored 27....I know a lot of it was blown coverages, but look at some other teams.
The Cowboys turned it over 4 times on Sunday and still scored 30 points with close to the same rushing yardage....
I know coming from me most won;t put any weight to it, but until we can threaten downfield, we're going to lose a lot of games like this. My boss, who is a huge cowboys fan pointed out to me the Cowboys comparison...
We cannot ask this team to play every game without haveing a single turnover, convert and many third downs as we did last night week in and week out and be effective.
Their defensive gameplan drew criticizm from the commentators, but it was brilliant IMO.
The Colts knew the strength of this team is running the ball. They knew their weakness was stopping the run. So what do they do?
The let us run that ball all night long, without bothering to bring safeties into the box to even try and stop it. They had absoltely no respect for our passing game. It looked to me like the knew they could stop us when we got to the red zone where things get tight.
When you can run the ball with the efficiency we ran with last night, you should be able to PA right over the heads of LBs and CBs peeking into the backfield, never happened.
Everyone wanted to bash Ginn because "he can't get open on short or intermediate routes. Ginn caught 11 balls almost all of them we're qithing 12 yards of the LOS. He repeatedly burned Calvin Hayden (easily a top 10 cb) He had the one play he could have layed out for, 1 drop I blame on him.
The drop at the end of the game, the first time i saw it was just good coverage...I rewinded my tivo 8 times and watched it over and over....Ginn had the defender beat by damn near 3 steps. Put a hell of a double move on him to get open. If that ball doesn't float it's way to the endzone where Ginn is damn near standing there waiting for it to get to him, it's an easy catch, instead of having a defender right there....with his hand inside his shoulderpad at that.
It's all irrelivant at this point, but I could see a lot of teams taking this approach to playing us this yr.
We literally held the ball for more than 3 quarters and only came away with 23 points. The Colts had the ball less than 15 minutes and scored 27....I know a lot of it was blown coverages, but look at some other teams.
The Cowboys turned it over 4 times on Sunday and still scored 30 points with close to the same rushing yardage....
I know coming from me most won;t put any weight to it, but until we can threaten downfield, we're going to lose a lot of games like this. My boss, who is a huge cowboys fan pointed out to me the Cowboys comparison...
We cannot ask this team to play every game without haveing a single turnover, convert and many third downs as we did last night week in and week out and be effective.
