The Colts' Defense, 2023 Season

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The Colts are tied for 3rd in the NFL with 42 sacks, and exactly half of that total (21) has been accumulated in the 4 games just prior to the Bengals fiasco (in which they had 0 sacks.)


SOURCE: ( Stephen Holder, ESPN Sportswriter



This exemplifies that the Colts' defense (for the most part) was pretty darned good in their 4-game winning streak, and pretty darned lousy in their game against the Bengals.

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Easy to be lousy when the refs have the fix in for your opponent. Not the first time the Colts have been screwed by the refs in Cincinnati, likely won't be the last, either.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

Easy to be lousy when the refs have the fix in for your opponent. Not the first time the Colts have been screwed by the refs in Cincinnati, likely won't be the last, either.

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The Colts' offense was lousy, the Colts' defense was lousy, and the Colts' special teams was lousy.

The referees didn't make Gardner Minshew throw inaccurate passes, the referees didn't make Matt Gay miss an extra-point attempt and a 38-yard field goal attempt, and the referees didn't make the Colts' defense come out for the second half as though they were playing an exhibition game ...... the Colts did that all on their own.

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[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The Colts' offense was lousy, the Colts' defense was lousy, and the Colts' special teams was lousy.

The referees didn't make Gardner Minshew throw inaccurate passes, the referees didn't make Matt Gay miss an extra-point attempt and a 38-yard field goal attempt, and the referees didn't make the Colts' defense come out for the second half as though they were playing an exhibition game ...... the Colts did that all on their own.

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Spot on. Sometimes teams just throw a clunker out there and don't have Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck to bail them out. To be fair we lost some clunkers with those 2 QB's as well.


The only call I even had a problem with was the Q holding call. He and the opponent were hand fighting and Q slapped his hands away and the guy fell to the ground. Sometimes Q gets those calls against him because he's just so dominant.