***The Official Colts Get Trampled By Tennessee Gameday Thread***

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

Matt Ryan is not the problem, aside from his inexplicable inability to hold on to the damn ball.

The problem is the offensive line. It’s the worst I’ve seen since some of those awful Luck years.

Look at it this way-what do you think would have happened to Philip Rivers behind this line? He would have already been hurt or retired. He sure as hell wouldn’t be doing as well as Ryan has.

The quarterback just doesn’t have a chance with this OLine.

Originally Posted by nate505

I mean, the deal with Ryan was "look how good he can be if he has time to throw in the pocket. He has a good release and is accurate."

That still holds true, even this season. In the 2nd half the protection was better (not great, but much better than that disasterous first half) and he did some decent things when he had time.

However, I don't think anyone would have been clamoring for Matt Ryan if they knew the OL would be this piss poor.

Ryan is not the problem outside of the fumbling. I'm not being a smart ass, I like a lot of what he's doing. But like I said in the other thread... a relatively simple negative play turns into a game-altering catastrophe. 9 fumbles is bananas. That's two games where the offense was moving, but we kept giving it away.

As for the OL... Reich basically said in coach-speak today that we're compensating for two guys. We have a guard playing LT and a back-up playing RG. Raimann needs to bump Pryor inside. I think that would help the run-game a lot, too.

For now, the coaches seem to think that the pass-pro was much better yesterday and I agree. They got beat a few times (other guys get paid, too) but there wasn't this non-stop onslaught collapsing the pocket every play like JAX/KC. If we can pass like yesterday going forward and Ryan can simply fall on the ball if he's in trouble... I think they can beat a lot of teams.