Brown has barely even touched the ball. If you think Addai is overrated you obviously don't pay much attention to Colt football not to mention Addai is arguably one of the BEST blocking RB in the league...No runningback would flourish on the Colts they are not built for that. Not a single RB the Pats have would be considered above average if even average on the colts.
Brown barely touches the ball because he sucks. He is a first round pick. It isn't like they haven't given him a shot. He just sucks.
Addai is a third down back. Saying he is one of the best pass blockers only helps enforce that. Ever since he played the Pats in 2007, the guy has lost something and has been a shell of himself.
No RB flourishes on the Colts? I'm sure that will be the opening line in Marshall Faulk's Hall of Fame speech. Edgerrin James might disagree too. Even Joseph Addai was a potential OROY candidate and then fell apart his second year. And you claim I don't watch the Colts too much.
I bet BJGE would do just fine in Indy. He might not be a star, but he would be better than Addai or Brown. Up until 2007, the Colts have always had a dominant running game. They wasted two first round picks to get it back.
Yes Tamma is a product of Manning but I would not look at his stats this year to judge him...he could also be a product of a decent qb if they had one...that is like saying Collie isn't good when he is probably the 2nd best slot reciever in the league definetly top 5 slot reciever..check last year I think Manning had a perfect passer ratings when targeting him or close to it. Yes it is partly Manning but that is absolutely insane almost perfect.
Jacob Tamme is in his fourth year in the NFL and he has had exactly one good year. He had 3 catches for 12 yards in 2008, 3 catches for 35 yards in 2009, and 67 catches for 671 yards last year. Last year is shaping up to be the fluke year, not this year.
I think Collie is too injury prone and inconsistent to be considered the second best slot WR in the league. He is good, but not great. He is a product of Manning.
Mathis has almost identical stats to Freeney just less sacks I believe. He is a FF MACHINE.
Sacks is what get you into the HOF. Mathis isn't going. He is a great DE in the Colts' system, but he clearly will never get into Canton.
Judging there talent is weird though only because I look at it as if Brady got to play with them. Every offense player I mentioned would be AMAZING with Brady as they are with Manning.
They have better recievers, rb's, not tight ends only because the patriots TE's are amazing...but they have 2 above average pass catching tight ends. O-line to the media is far worse then the Patriot's...me im not buying it.. proof...with Brady they all make probowl and are considered the best in the league...with Cassell they were dead last. Mostly because teams wouldn't blitz Brady. As for the defense they have 2 D-LINEMAN as talented as Wilfork(Freeney even better) on their d-line. LB's Patriots have more talent NOW. Patriots also get the edge with CB's because of Mccourty but Powers is extremely talented. Safeties Bethea>Chung and other suck on both teams.
Again, the Colts do not have better RBs. Just because you believe that Donald Brown is a stud pretending to be a first round bust doesn't change the fact he is a bust.
The Colts have three defensive players I would definitely take on this team and I don't think the Pats defense is all that talented. Freeney, Mathis, and Bethea. I still think Angerer is a statistical anomality and the rest of the defense isn't good.
Other than Welker, I would take the Colts' WRs, but that is because the Pats' WR sucks past Branch and he isn't really good enough to be the #1 outside receiver.
Colts have SO MUCH talent and I dont think Caldwell is a bad coach but there team simply can not win without a SOLID QB.. it's what theyre built for. Their backups qb's being absolutely horrible says something about Manning. He's still amazing but no way anyone playing behind Manning should be this bad.
The Colts don't have so much talent. If they did, they wouldn't be 0-11 right now. They are devoid of talent and that is why they fell apart without Manning. Again, their defense and running game sucked WITH MANNING last year. That had nothing to do with Curtis painter.
I disagree with you about Caldwell too. He sucks. A better coach would have gotten at least a couple of wins and the Colts didn't start sucking for Luck for a while.
My honest opinion is that Manning career may be over and he's definetly near the end atleast..they know it and want Luck.....which I can't blame them for hopefully Manning does come back.
The Colts did not go into the season Sucking for Luck. They honestly thought they could be somewhat competitive with Kerry Collins. Polian didn't give Collins $4 million because he wanted to tank the season.
As for 2-9 with an average QB..NO...they have been in I think 5 or 6 1 score games they win most of those and who knows what else with a Cassell back there
The Colts have three games where they lost by 7 points or less. There were two more where they lost by 8 points. One of those (Panthers) were ahead 24-12 until the Colts scored a TD just outside the two minute warning (the Panthers got a field goal at the end of the game). In the other, Cleveland were leading 27-12 and the Colts got a garbage time TD with 2:35 left in the game to make it 27-19. The Colts were far less competitive than you actually are making them. Based on the final scores, the Colts would be 3-8 at best with an average QB.
