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Originally Posted by Dam8610
The defense has actually done really well this year considering the circumstances, and I noticed they adjusted the gameplan against Houston to do what GB did successfully against them, with great results. Given the major injuries on defense and that they've been on the field more than any other defense in the NFL, it wouldn't be surprising for them to have much worse results. I think the Colts are a low end playoff team if Flacco performs well, but likely not one that makes it past wild card weekend.
Hopefully AR takes whatever time he's on the bench and uses it to learn, study, and do whatever it takes to fix the minor flaws that are holding him back from success.
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That's a pretty big stretch. While they had a bunch of injuries they were still a shit show for the first 5 weeks of the season. They did have a good game @Hou, but the Texans were without Collins and without Diggs for ~half the game. You can't really put much stock in the Tits and Phins games b/c the Tits O is a shit show, and the Phins without Tua are historically bad only scoring 2 TDs in 19 quarters w/out him (one of which was against our D).
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This move makes zero sense unless the Colts are 100% done with the AR experience in Indy. We are not a "win now" team and everyone knows it....except perhaps a Jim Irsay who will be handing over the reigns of the team to one of his daughters soon. He may want one more "glory season" to ride off into the sunset with. It might set the franchise back again but all signs point to this being his decision.
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Agree this has Jim wanting to see a playoff team before he's gone written all over it. Or maybe there's been a power struggle going on between Steichen and Ballard over AR where Steichen wanted to stick w/ Flacco after AR was back from his hip injury but Ballard forcing him to go back to AR.