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Originally Posted by Oldcolt (Post 334597)

For sure. You can manufacture pressure and sacks through scheme, blitzes and stunts. There is no way to manufacture coverage. You either can cover or you can't. Much much easier if you have two shutdown corners that don't need a ton of help. I think, and I hope, we will be amazed at how effective this defense is going to be. I have never been this excited about defensive possibilities with a Colt team

CBs Marlin Jackson and Kelvin Hayden
FS Antonio Bethea
SS Bob Sanders

With Freeney and Mathis at DE

Gary Bracket at MLB

Those were some years that I was excied about the defensive possibilities of a Colts defense.

However, since then? Yeah, our secondary should be fun to watch.

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Originally Posted by sherck (Post 334603)

I think the Bubba Smith, Ted Hendricks, Mike Curtis and Rick Volk group was the best I ever rooted for. Not old enough to have seen Gino Marchetti and that group

Sanders didn't play enough but when he did he really elevated everything to the point you may be correct

I stand by being more excited about this group because having two shut down corners in this pass happy league is such a unicorn

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Originally Posted by sherck (Post 334603)

CB Marlin Jackson

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VqghEVDToo

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Originally Posted by Oldcolt (Post 334614)

I think that the Bubba Smith, Ted Hendricks, Mike Curtis and l Rick Volk l group was the best I ever rooted for.

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Whenever l hear or read about Rick Volk, it always reminds me of reading about him in regard to Super Bowl III, in which he was knocked unconscious twice. It was in an auto-biography of Joe Namath.

One of those times was when the Colts recovered a successful onside kick late in the 4th quarter. I couldn't believe it when I saw 4 of his teammt6es literally carrying him off the field, each one with a limb ...... today if a player is knocked unconscious, you have a stoppage in play for about 5 minutes, a whole slew of people out there on the field with him (doctors, trainers, head coach, assistant coaches, etc) ...... back then, players were more concerned about getting their unconscious teammate off of the field as soon as possible, as though their biggest concern was avoiding getting a delay-of-game penalty.

Fast-forward to the 1:55:12 mark to see Volk literally getting dragged off of the field by 4 of his teammates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW5GnZCxqIw

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