Becoming Better Than The Colts In 2010
 

After again watching the colts, I am now convinced that almost our total need is to find playmakers on defense.

COMPARING THE OFFENSES
1) The colts are in no way a running team. Their running backs and running game are no better than ours.
2) Were Collie and Garcon great? Naah! They were better coached. The playcalling and the communication between OC, QB and the receivers is really a level above anything we have. I have no doubt that the colts and their OC would have done fine plugging in Edelman, Aiken, Galloway or Lewis or Nunn for that matter.

COMPARING THE DEFENSES
There are no words.
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PREPARING FOR 2010
We need to re-sign Mankins and we need OG to replace Neal, and perhaps a second offensive lineman. We need to bring in 2-3 WR's in free agency and perhaps in the 6th or the 7th. And we need a TE and pehaps a FB in free agency. This isn't a major use of resources.

The rest needs to go to the defense.

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If we want to be better than the Colts in 2010 then we need to learn how to win the kind of games we lost this season - 2nd half collapses against Denver, Indy, Miami and Houston, and total blowouts to NO and Baltimore in which we just didn't bring the necessary intensity and focus.

How well our personnel stack up in comparison is a minor issue. Indy's learned to win, and we've forgotten how. Fix that, and we'll be better than the Colts in 2010.

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I agree. And I think that the first step is to bring in better coaches.

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Has O'Brien been fired yet?

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This is where the Colts lead the Patriots by a mile. They have a staff
of coaches that have been around for a long while. Peyton Manning
has not had to struggle thru changing coordinators.

The Patriots by comparison have a former coaching assistants teaching
the wide receivers and defensive backs.

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We also have a coaching assistent as QB coach and acting OC.

It would do us well to note that Indy was predicted to be a playoff team on the downtrun this year because it looked as if they were losing key coaches, including the OC. Manning warned ownership of the potential consequences. The ownership retained their coordinators and the rest is history.

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Get better qb protection. Get better pass rush. Pretty simple.

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Yea that's what I saw, PM had all day to pass,,
Their defense shut the run down also. Their speed defeats power.

By comparison to the Raven games, we fall far short.

How do we fix the O and D?
I can see the coaching helping both, but think the O needs more personnel upgrades.

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I agree and I think intensity and focus is something coaches should be helping with. To that end I would like to see:

1.) Pepper Johnson promoted to DC. He has a decade in the system, he better know it by now. He brings intensity and fire. As a former player he knows how to hold players accountable.

2.) Dick Jauron brought on staff. Tons of experience and a great teacher.

3.) A dedicated D Line coach, ILB coach and OLB coach hired and assigned to those work exclusively with those positions. Including running their own meetings and film review sessions. They should all be experienced coaches that know how to teach.

I think if this is done properly,without threatening BB's fragile control freak nature, we should be the best we can be as far as a defensive coaching staff.

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Yep, Ochmed, I think that's going to happen. Pepper has earned the right to be DC. And the first play of the Ravens game shows intensity was missing.

The only other person who interests me would be Iowa's excellent DC, Norm Parker, but he's old and seems destined to stick it out at the college level.