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Originally Posted by albany ed
I've been a Colts fan for a long, long time. I've seen highs and I've seen lows. I can accept the lows, it happens to all teams. But for me as a fan, I'd like a few highlights even in a big loss. Yesterday's game did not have any. The team played without heart and without brains. The way they played yesterday, they should each take their week's pay and give it back to Irsay.
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Frank coaches the heart out of his teams. It's all paint by numbers vs an empty canvas and a beautiful mind with a paintbrush.
You can just see it in the play calls and the way he tries to "confuse" the other team vs just playing football. As weird as it sounds, his reputation as being this risk taking gambler, is a fallacy built on going for it on 4th down, otherwise, he is incredibly conservative- or maybe better stated- incredibly mechanical. His play calling is all about schemes and things he has concocted as mismatches. It relies way too much on so many things going perfectly that when they don't, the team is screwed because outside of Taylor, there's no creativity, because he has coached it out of them, they can't paint outside the line because their next dot is # 12, not just what feels right, they've had their instincts stripped away. To me, he looks way too easy to game plan for- like yesterday, Pederson had him completely figured out before the opening kick off. And I personally think this same flaw bleeds over to his defensive mentality and results in the defense basically being exactly the same model= lineup exactly this way and play this exact line, coverage, etc.. and I think Leonard succeeds because he says F that and plays with his instincts vs the damn handbook that Frank tries so hard to impose upon his team.
Did anyone pay attention to Miami? Their nerdy coach is somewhat the same way, but when they were down big, he said screw it, let's throw the long ball and see what happens- and they started rolling. Brady, constantly Brady would just wing it downfield when the team wasn't moving the ball (in this NFL a 40 yard penalty is just as likely as an incompletion, so why not?). Parris is not very good at football but Parris is damn fast and we have seen him get behind some defenses. How many times did Frank just tell Campbell to streak and Ryan to throw it and see what happened? ZERO TIMES.
We're never winning shit with this guy as the coach, it just isn't in him to build a team that knows how to play football vs executing a handbook.