Interesting analysis on just how awful the play calling was in 2017.
 

http://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com...the-2017-colts

There is a lot of breakdown of the why in the post, worthwhile read. It is all stuff we saw with our eyes and bitched about in posts, but seeing a statistical analysis of it is interesting. Show just how bad Clappy and crew were, fuck those guys.

They were the definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.

Is it Groundhog Day? :p

Reading this, especially the 100% run part, actually made me slightly nauseated

It should give us fans reasons for optimism. We get Luck back, we have a capable back up, a coaching staff that shouldn't be making game losing decisions, and an improved OL.

With Brissett at qb, Doyle and Hilton the only consistent recievers, they really had few options. Put that with an offensive staff with 0 imagination, we have last season

Sad realization, the O coordinator could have done a better job pulling random plays out of a jar.

Worst coach in the history of the league

Probably even worse than Rich Kotite.

Dam’s lofty praise for Pagano in 3...2...1...

yea its been posted a couple times already but I don't mind, its one of the reasons for my optimism this year. This was a team that was better than its record, personnel wise. And despite some issues with how the d-line was handled this off-season, I think Ballard has definitely improved the personnel.
New coaches alone would add 4-5 wins to that total. Add in Luck.

For just the Eagles or both Eagles and Jets? Seriously, he had an extra shot at sucking.

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The Colts and the Jets were the proverbial Washington Generals of the NFL in 2017.


http://coltfreaks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29114


You just knew that the Globetrotters (Colts opponents/Jets opponents) were going to find a way to come back and win the game at the final buzzer/gun.



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You clearly don't pay attention. Playcalling was the biggest issue I had with Pagano, and ultimately the reason I think he lost his job. Just because I don't agree with the asinine opinion held by most here that he's the worst head coach in NFL history (which more than anything shows how spoiled this fanbase has been for the last two plus decades) doesn't mean I can't levy, see the reasoning behind, and agree with an actual fair criticism with a legitimate basis behind it. You confuse "not conforming with board groupthink" with "lofty praise".

The coach before Pagano was incompetent, too. So hardly spoiled.

To be more accurate, it's been a decade since this fanbase has been spoiled by any coach.

Spoiled in results. This team hasn't had a truly great head coach since Shula. It hasn't had a truly terrible coach really ever, but Meyer is the closest thing I can find to one.

..Buddy, he couldn't get the ball on the correct hash in a snow bowl to let Adam V have a chance to win it. Put me on that hash coach..........and he failed.

Pagano, a great guy. Lousy head coach. It would be worse if he was a great coach, and a lousy human being. Oh, he would be Belicheat. :eek:

Your recollection of history must be foggy. Here is a list of terrible Colts HC's:

Lindy Infante, Rod Dowhower, Frank Kush, Mike McCormack. Meyer was actually a decent HC.

McCormack, Kush, Venturi and Dowhower qualify I suppose. Infante made the playoffs in one of two seasons.

Pagano is not a great guy. He has done some good things charity wise, but the man lacks the integrity of a great guy. Just ask all the old coaches. Ask Grigson. Pagano let a lot of people take the fall for his terrible coaching. No great guy does that

Ok, I can see your point.

I'm not sure I would know who to believe between Pagano and Grigson.

I pretty much agree. After the whole cancer thing his first year, that was such an uplifting story for the city, everyone loved him. But in the following years, he seemed two-faced, stubborn, and back-stabbing. That cancer thing bought him extra time just as much as having Luck did. If that had never happened, fans would have turned on him a long time ago.

Venturi was never a HC, an interim HC yes. But he was never hired as an HC.

Pagano let his assistant coaches get canned. When he did that he lost my vote as a wonderful man. Great leaders, friends don’t do shit like that. They have a backbone and stick up for their people, even if it hurts them personally. I’m glad he beat cancer but that in no way makes him a wonderful man. It makes him a guy that he got the kind of cancer that can be cured. Glad he’s gone.

Damn Dam! Pagano was a terrible coach, without Luck he would have been fired a long time ago. He was a worthless POS. You need to quit riding this dead fucking horse.

Neither one, they are both scum buckets. Irsay fucked up those 2 hires.

Yes, and that is in the past. Moving forward, with two men of repected caliber, I'm thinking about the future.

The picture was painted pretty clear. The media was being fed constant stories about how grigson was terrible and controlling everything. Constant hit pieces on grigson and pagano always looking good.

Grigson never said a word. Although he has admitted publicly to being a dick as a gm yet hasn’t said anything that I have heard about pagano or anyone.

Pagano got all his coaches fired and recently admitted Luck got him more years than he deserved.

Not really hard to connect the dots

And by doing so, set the franchise back 4-5 years !!

When this board first began having "fire Pagano" posts, some of his defenders claimed it wasn't his fault, that Grigson was forcing him to start players and run the team the way Grigson dictated. I remember saying at that time, I DON'T WANT A COACH WHO WOULD DO GRIGSON'S BIDDING JUST TO SAVE HIS JOB! I want a coach who would say "KMA" I'm the coach and I'll run this team the way I feel it should be run. Pagano didn't do that, he was more interested in keeping his job than he was in doing his job.

There is no actual evidence to say that grigson was forcing his hand on who to play. All that was leaked to the media and more than likely from pagano to gain public support. And it worked

The look on Pags' face after the fake punt is completely indicative of his entire tenure.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-h...horribly-wrong

Grigson can go fuck himself. As bad as Pagano was at his job Grigson was equally as bad at his.

And really Pagano looks bad regardless of which is true.
If true that Grigson dictated playing time and depth chart, Pagano was spineless and incompetent.
If not true, then the teams poor performance was Pagano's fault.

June 22, 2018 and people are still arguing about Grigson and Pagano. Guess it's the off-season blues...

You would have thought his place was the House of Representitives

The pagano debacle is still pretty fresh

Who ? :cool:

Maybe I'm deranged, but I'm over it. I'm enjoying some World Cup goodness!

Yep, deranged soccer is for children and girls. /s

Haha. That's 1...