OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: Win the Game, Make the Playoffs (vs. TEXANS, 1/06)

[DragonTails]

I don't even care about the rest of the games any more other than I am rooting for Jax and buf because I don't want shitty pittsburgh to make the playoffs.

I feel empty again after another Colts season.

[nate505]

One thing that irritated me was Steichen taking the timeout on 4th and 1. Just run a play. If it doesn't work, now you have three timeouts to stop the Texans and then to at least have a drive with 40 seconds left. Probably not going to get a TD anyway, but it at least gives the team another chance.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by nate505

One thing that irritated me was Steichen taking the timeout on 4th and 1. Just run a play. If it doesn't work, now you have three timeouts to stop the Texans and then to at least have a drive with 40 seconds left. Probably not going to get a TD anyway, but it at least gives the team another chance.

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That's what I said, at the time that it was happening.

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Now, we only have 2 time-outs left if we don't make it.

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Game over ...... I wanted to save that time-out, and go with a play.

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[Spike]

Originally Posted by nate505

One thing that irritated me was Steichen taking the timeout on 4th and 1. Just run a play. If it doesn't work, now you have three timeouts to stop the Texans and then to at least have a drive with 40 seconds left. Probably not going to get a TD anyway, but it at least gives the team another chance.

Steichen said he called the timeout to see what defense the Texans were in. He found out and called the right play. That timeout he used was to win the game right then and there. I don't have a problem with it at all. Steichen is a hell of a good coach, glad we have him.

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by Indystu2

OK, I slept and...I am still mad. When the game was on the line and you HAD to have ONE yard, they got cute with the pay call. Your best offensive weapon, a RB, was not on the field on a day when the pass game was ridiculously bad and a RB who NOT been on the field for a single play was in the game, not even RB2, but RB3/4! I am sure the thinking was the other team would not expect the ball to go to RB3. Keeping the ball on the ground and out of the QBs hands was CLEARLY working. So on the most important play of the game, they left it to a QB with maybe 100 yards passing. I get it, it was a short pass, but COME ON! They got cute and outsmarted themselves. That is all.

Look, as far as I’m concerned, it was a great call. Houston was playing one of those 5 man fronts that have bedeviled the Colts run game all season. They double-teamed Pittman, leaving Goodson alone in the flat with clear sailing to the five. Heck, with a well placed pass, he might even evade a tackle and score.

When Steichen drew up the play, he couldn’t have anticipated that Minshew would screw up or that Goodson would drop it. As Greg Doyle said, the throw was the equivalent of a layup in basketball. Any journeyman Quarterback should complete it in his sleep.

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by nate505

One thing that irritated me was Steichen taking the timeout on 4th and 1. Just run a play. If it doesn't work, now you have three timeouts to stop the Texans and then to at least have a drive with 40 seconds left. Probably not going to get a TD anyway, but it at least gives the team another chance.

With the season resting on one play, I don’t have a problem with Steichen calling a timeout in order to dial up the perfect play. And, the call was pretty darned close to perfect…Goodson’s uncovered in the flat for a first down and then some. It doesn’t get any better than that.

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

I think Grover and Pitt are the most important to keep.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Braden Smith is released. Been nothing but hurt and they seem to like Freeland.

The only reason they like Freeland is because there’s no one else on the roster to turn to.

[rm1369]

I was at the game so didn’t hear JT was hurt. I’ll take back some or my criticism of him on his last two runs. And if he was hurt to the degree he needed to avoid contact and run out of bounds, he shouldn’t have been in there. He obviously kept them in the game, but man those were not the runs you want in that situation with that much on the line.

[rm1369]

Originally Posted by Kray007

With the season resting on one play, I don’t have a problem with Steichen calling a timeout in order to dial up the perfect play. And, the call was pretty darned close to perfect…Goodson’s uncovered in the flat for a first down and then some. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Agreed. The team had passed the point that they could expect another possession. That was the one. They had the perfect play call and they didn’t execute.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Don't feel too badly about l Nico Collins l burning us ...... the 3rd-round draft pick in the 2021 draft had what was by far his best season to date this year.



2021: ll, 33 ll Catches llllllll 446 llll, Yards llllllll 13.5 ll YPC llllllll 1 ll TD lllllllllll (14 GAMES)


2022: llt 37 ll Catches llllllll 481 llll, Yards llllllll 13.0 ll YPC llllllll 2 ll TD lllllllllll (10 GAMES)


2023: llll 80 ll Catches llllllll 1,297 ll Yards llllll) 16.2 ll YPC llllllll 8 ll TD lllllllllll (15 GAMES)

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That one catch late was ridiculous. I thought Stroud was just avoiding a sack, and we would get the ball back. Collins comes from nowhere, and makes that catch. We likely win if not for that.