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Old 03-13-2019, 09:32 AM
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The colts defense was better than I expected but we also played like 12 games against terrible quarterbacks
Was that any different than 2017?
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Old 03-13-2019, 11:56 AM
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Was that any different than 2017?
I don’t know. Was it?

We had an offense that was terrible in 2017.
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A pass-rusher would have been nice
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A pass-rusher would have been nice
The ones that could've been available were franchised. The only potential young pass rusher that hit the market got paid $13.5 million AAV as an off the ball LB. Maybe the Colts will go after Justin Houston? Could be a possible value signing.
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I don’t know. Was it?

We had an offense that was terrible in 2017.
I posted that the Colts defense had improved dramatically between 2017 and 2018, and thus the Colts’ progress last year wasn’t attributable solely to Luck’s performance. You said in response that we played lots of bad QBs last year. So I asked whether that was markedly different from 2017 - because I don’t think there was a substantial difference in the level of our opponents’ QB play between those seasons, so that wouldn’t explain the big uptick in the defensive performance as I believe you were suggesting.
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So apparently Chris Ballard is smarter than everyone else.
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I posted that the Colts defense had improved dramatically between 2017 and 2018, and thus the Colts’ progress last year wasn’t attributable solely to Luck’s performance. You said in response that we played lots of bad QBs last year. So I asked whether that was markedly different from 2017 - because I don’t think there was a substantial difference in the level of our opponents’ QB play between those seasons, so that wouldn’t explain the big uptick in the defensive performance as I believe you were suggesting.
QBs are hard to judge, especially with the two games vs Foles over Bortles.

based on opponents records, the colts had:

The 32nd hardest schedule in 2017, opponents = .424
The 22nd hardest schedule in 2018, opponents = .484
The 7th hardest schedule in 2019, opponents = .518

I think that we will really see where our defense is in 2019. Getting WR addressed through a free agent pick like Fun cheese will free up a pick for a DT / EDGE. Ballard is using the assets he has, namely that Andrew Luck will make the WR1 for a shitty QB look Like a fantastic WR2 for a good one.

Yes, he is getting criticized for this being a stop gap, but I think that is a shrewd move, as that's all we really need right now, and doing so enables us to build defensively.
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