Perhaps Their Most Impressive Win of the Season (vs. CARDINALS)

[Colts And Orioles]

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The Colts started the game with 3 of their starting offensive lineman out ..... then Eric Fisher went down with an injury in the 2nd quarter.

With almost the entire starting offensive line missing, the Colts still managed to have an incredible Time-of-Possession advantage at the start of the 4th quarter of 29:14. l to l 15:46. lThe Colts' defense was subsequently well-rested for that final period, while the Cardinals' defense had been laboring most of the night ...... a much-needed advantage, considering the surrounding circumstances of the Colts' offensive line.



Good teams find ways to win when they get bad calls from the refs, when they have multiple players injured, when they have bad luck on an unlucky bounce of the ball, etc ...... and that's what the Colts did tonight.

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[apballin]

Couldn’t agree more with the O line situation and losing Leonard and Willis at the last hour then Doyle and Fischer go down what a gutsy performance by everyone involved and that TD throw by Wentz was fuckin money

A runaway train with a fresh Maniac and Nelson

Let’s fuckin go!!!

[Oldcolt]

I'm guessing this is what Ballard meant by good team culture. Absolutely agree with C&O on this one. Would have been so easy to fold emotionally with this many people out but they didn't. Wentz didn't play hero ball and made some damn good plays. I don't even know what to say about this defense. How the hell did they get this good? They are starting to have the smell and feel of a championship defense. They are winning in a decidedly non finesse, playoff proven way. Freakin Puck may not be totally nuts after all. We just might win it all.

[ukcolt]

Cardinals, have little to nothing at receiver, AJ Green is at the end of his career, rookie first rounder Rondale Moore wasn't playing alongside all world receiver Hopkins, so this wasn't a true test for our DB's. They also had their starting C and starting RB missing. So they were without 4 of their starting offense.

It was still an amazing win on the road with the lack of time to gameplan for these loses of personnel. I am just trying to temper the quality of our defense just a little.

It's still amazing to think what we managed to do with such depleted resources though. It will be interesting to see what the snap counts were for this game. I suspect a lot of our star players had season high snap counts, basically having to step up, especially on defense.

What also concerns me is how many more are going to end up on the covid list in the coming days?

[Chromeburn]

I think the cardinals were hurting almost as bad as we are

[ukcolt]

Odum, Moore, Speed, Okereke, Rhodes all played 100%.
Addae 94%, Rodgers 85%, Buckner 77%, Muhammad 74% and Paye 66%

So ten guys played the majority of the defense.

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by ukcolt

Odum, Moore, Speed, Okereke, Rhodes all played 100%.
Addae 94%, Rodgers 85%, Buckner 77%, Muhammad 74% and Paye 66%

So ten guys played the majority of the defense.

odum is a fucking beast


so glad that dude is on the team

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by ukcolt

Odum, Moore, Speed, Okereke, Rhodes all played 100%.
Addae 94%, Rodgers 85%, Buckner 77%, Muhammad 74% and Paye 66%

So ten guys played the majority of the defense.

Was at a party so couldn't hear the sound. What was going on with Buckner - saw he came back in late?

[rcubed]

Ugly win, but good to get it.
I thought we were toast with all the missing players.
Wentz played mostly shitty but had enough to get the win. That TD pass to patmon was excellent.
We need better receivers next year to go with pittman.

[ukcolt]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

Was at a party so couldn't hear the sound. What was going on with Buckner - saw he came back in late?

Didn't notice him suffer any injury, but game did finish at 4.30am here, so was focusing more on trying to stay awake than anything!