quick thoughts on another debacle

[Hoopsdoc]

Texans and Jags both lost so the Colts are only a game and a half back in the division.

It doesn’t matter though because they can’t beat Jacksonville and they can’t beat Tennessee.

You’d think these guys would have some pride at some point but they don’t. They just don’t care. And Frank can’t do anything about it.

It’s ridiculous. This offensive line was bad last year but it’s just putrid this season. Consider this-the Colts gave up 32 sacks in 17 games last year. They given up almost half that already this year in just 4 games. 15 sacks allowed. That’s 28th in the league. Only the Bears, Bengals, and Commanders are worse.

It’s unbelievable how bad they’ve been.

[CletusPyle]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

I watch a ton of football, a ton. Though I hate what Goodell has made of this league, I still love watching the insane athleticism these guys display week after week.

That said, and maybe it is just because I am so close to it and watch it with such intense focus, but it seems like the Colts have SOOOOOO many fucking different sets. It seems like the WR / TE group, and including Hines, are a constantly rotating cycle. It seems like it is hard to get continuity in Frank's system unless you are Taylor and Pittman. Seems like he does waaaaaaay too much scheming to try to make the opposition believe he won't be focusing on those two.

Outside of riding Taylor he doesn't seem capable of riding the momentum of particular players.

When a player gets rolling in basketball and he can't miss, you don't sit him down to get him a drink, you ride that wave until his ass collapses.

I literally despise watching Frank overcoach the game so damn much!

He seems to figure out a way to kill every drive with some asinine gadget play. They get in the red zone just playing pitch and catch and running JT. Just keep going and stop trying to outsmart the other coach with some gadget that never seems to work or end in some kind of penalty! Ryan has been a QB for 15 seasons, let him make more on field decisions.

[apballin]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

I watch a ton of football, a ton. Though I hate what Goodell has made of this league, I still love watching the insane athleticism these guys display week after week.

That said, and maybe it is just because I am so close to it and watch it with such intense focus, but it seems like the Colts have SOOOOOO many fucking different sets. It seems like the WR / TE group, and including Hines, are a constantly rotating cycle. It seems like it is hard to get continuity in Frank's system unless you are Taylor and Pittman. Seems like he does waaaaaaay too much scheming to try to make the opposition believe he won't be focusing on those two.

Outside of riding Taylor he doesn't seem capable of riding the momentum of particular players.

When a player gets rolling in basketball and he can't miss, you don't sit him down to get him a drink, you ride that wave until his ass collapses.

I literally despise watching Frank overcoach the game so damn much!

I was thinking that today while watching like wtf we rotate guys in like a fire drill after every fuckin play

[Brylok]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

I disagree to an extent. Yeah, blow up the coaching staff. However, the players have the talent to win in this league more often than not. The problem is that they need a coach to put them in the best possible situations to do so. Every team has some level of talent. A good coach, and a good QB are often the difference between the 2021 Jags and the 2022 Jags. Replace Frank, and I bet we sweep the division next year.

I would agree, but this rot is settled in and getting deeper. Frank isn't a good coach anymore, and his team talent is deteriorating game by game. We need to flush the toilet, and I'm not getting any younger. There's no quick and easy remedy for this. It has been a long time coming, probably before Luck quit. We've just been kicking the can down the road.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Brylok

We need to blow the whole thing up at the end of the season.

As I said in the game thread, Ballard out, Reich out, Jim Irsay out. All high priced/salaried players out. Try to get first round picks for Taylor and Leonard, and if you can't, trade them for what you can get. Start Ehlinger and hopefully draft a franchise QB for the future in the next draft. It's going to hurt, it's going to suck, but I'd rather go 2-15 next year than keep this mess/fraud/sideshow going on and on and on.

Obviously can't test this hypothesis but I would venture to guess this team could win 9 of the remaining 13 just by firing Frank right now. The talent is there for this team, but they need someone that is better at this than him.

The final 2 minutes, dude literally managed the clock so bad that they only had to get ONE first down in the final two minutes to seal it.

The guy is clearly bad at motivating these guys and he makes so many bad decisions in the game it is crazy.

[Brylok]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

Obviously can't test this hypothesis but I would venture to guess this team could win 9 of the remaining 13 just by firing Frank right now.

I don't think so. The rot is too deep now. It's so deep it's making Taylor suck.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

A gutless spineless heartless jellyfish of a team. They’re Tennessee’s bitch, they’re Jacksonville’s bitch and they don’t f*****g care.

They got their fat contracts, they got their pro bowls and they don’t give a flying f**k

They ran Wentz out of town and 4 games into the season it’s clear that he wasn’t the problem. The problem is they’re a bunch of heartless pussies.

Matt Ryan has a better QB rating than Wentz. Wentz would be 0-4 on this team without JT’s running.

[Oldcolt]

It is amazing how badly these assholes have played since they got paid. I’m talking both players and coaches. Reich gets himself a nice contract extension and forgets how to coach. Offensive line has 3 budding all-pros, they get paid and now can’t block for shit. It goes on. Ballard takes the majority of the blame to me. He keeps harping on having ‘high quality’ guys. He is right except he has zero idea of how to evaluate for that. We even have one guy who’s only job is to make sure we get the right mind set in players. There is no answer to this. We will just have to live with a shit team for the foreseeable future. Damn this sucks.