11. Over all the Colts have 3 excellent WR's in Johnson, Hilton, and Moncreif, plus 2 better than average TE's and I thought the Pats secondary played decent coverage on them, especially when you figure how much zone the Pats played last night.
12. I had one pet peeve last night and that was the coverage by NBC. I was FURIOUS by the pregame coverage. It was like listening to Felger. Everything was either about Indy and Luck's injury, and anything about the Pats had to do with deflategate or revenge. I wanted to put my fist through the screen and rip Bob Costas' throat out. I probably only ended up listening to about 20 minutes of it, and every time I came back to it, I ended up only being able to stand about 5 minutes more before I had to change the channel
Once again they made it seem to me that the only reason Brady played the first 4 games was a Federal Judge got him off on a technicality. They seemed to ignore that Brady was framed by the league in a sting started by the Colts, and framed the narrative more as a power issue between the League and the PA.
These people know everything that we know. They KNOW that nothing happened that night. They KNOW that Brady didn't do anything, and they KNOW the information that started the entire fiasco was false and REMAINED false on purpose. So when they continue to portray it like an issue with 2 legitimate opposing viewpoints it drives me nuts.
13. .....And then the game started and I reached a level of infuriation that I didn't think it was possible for me to reach. For the next 3 hours I spent theevening yelling things like "you motherfu*ker" or F**K you" incessantly at either Collingsworth or Michaels for various asinine remarks they would make.
They never stopped making excuses for Luck for virtually everything bad he did, or good the Pats did. They incessantly talked up the job the Colts did on the OL, while remaining virtually silent that the Pats were starting 3 rookies and had lost 2 starting LT's and ended up having to play a kid who was on the PS on Monday. Evidently every team can overcome those conditions put up 34 points and over 420 yds of offense, but let me tell you more about what a great job the Colts have done over the last 3 games.
Those 2 assholes also continued the constant "revenge" talk and "deflategate" harangue for most of the night. It was almost like they were opening rooting for the Colts. Collingworth failed to comment after the replay showed the PI on McCourty was more than worth commentary, yet on multiple occasions opined that plays where Pats rushers were being tackled they were somehow complicit in the foul.
In the end I spent most of the night just irritated at the broadcast. I couldn't wait for the game could end before I could turn them off. I didn't watch a second of the post game. If you saw the post game presser that Brady gave, and saw how pissed off he seemed, THAT's how I felt.
14. Yes it sucks that Denver won another game they could and should have lost. But on one hand I envy them the fact that over the first 6 games of the season, Denver has been forced to play through some very close games. When you play in a lot of close games like that you develop a kind of mental toughness that become invaluable during tough times of the season, especially the playoffs.
I hope we never have to play a close game the rest of the season, but I will gladly sacrifice a few of my nerves for the experience of winning a couple of nail biters over the course of the season.
15. And its Jets week. I'm trying to figure out which I hate worse. The fact that the Jets are a 4-1 team with and excellent defense and a well balanced and competent offense, or the fact that they seem like a well organized, quiet team led by a HC I can respect. I miss the Rex/Jets combination. There was so much to hate
I'm not sure what our OL will look like next week, but this will be its severest test to date. Of course this will be the the Jets biggest offensive test. Unfortunately I'm not exactly if we will be able to show the Jets our best offensive effort given how many adjustments we are going to have to make to protect our OL.
This will kick off a great week of football discussion. It's going to be strange that most of the discussion is going to focus on football for a change. I'll be first and start the discussion that while Fitzpatrick isn't close to an elite NFL QB, he is perfectly capable to perform what the Jets need him to do with the talent they have around him, to have plenty enough offense to support that defense.
16. I'm not sure how much of the success the Colts had on shutting down Gronk was due to how the Colts were covering him, or how much was due to the limits on the offense that were caused by the loss of Solder in during the original game planning, and then what they had to do after losing Cannon in the first period. But I think it bears watching. Josh is going to have to be creative this week in thinking ways to get him open.
17, Akeem Hicks popped a couple of times, at least to me on some running plays. Maybe it was the fact that he was wearing #72 which you oldtimers will remember was Larry Eisenhower's number on defense before it became more familiar as Matt Lights' number. Anyway, anyone else notice him? D. Easley also popped a couple of time tonight, but not enough as I'd like. Again the snap counts this week will be interesting.
18. I am officially on the "I worried about Jerrad Mayo" list. I find it troubling that in a game without Hightower playing he wasn't credited with a single tackle. I'm not sure that he's fully back from his knee, or if he CAN come back from his knee, but prior to the injury the man was a tackling machine. Now he's barely getting on the stat sheet.
19. Jamie Collins is starting to garner the notice nationally that he's already getting locally. He really can be spectacular.
Pardons for the many editorial mistakes I made on this, it's almost 3am and I'm too damned tired to go back and correct them. I'll do it in the morning.
(actually I didn't make as many grammar mistakes as I usually do, but I did make 3 mistakes in the sentence telly you I will correct my mistakes)
