What an awful, miserable game. Good thing it's over. What is the post-game press conference going to be like though?
"Well, Peyton, your defense is awful and you personally played a miserable game, but due to gross incompetence by your opponents and suspect officiating, you pulled it out. How do you feel?"
What an awful, miserable game. Good thing it's over. What is the post-game press conference going to be like though?
"Well, Peyton, your defense is awful and you personally played a miserable game, but due to gross incompetence by your opponents and suspect officiating, you pulled it out? How do you feel?"
I will say this and maybe its obvious but Bob Sanders impact on that defense is undeniable. It is amazing how different that defense looks when he is actually playing!
The rampant, blatant holding that went uncalled, largely on the Colts. They get away with it every game though, so I understand how you could miss it, it just blends into all the other bias towards the Colts the league has.
I will say this and maybe its obvious but Bob Sanders impact on that defense is undeniable. It is amazing how different that defense looks when he is actually playing!
More like it's unbelievable the impact Herm Edwards has on the opposing defense when he allows his team to continuously run directly into 8 and 9 man fronts. Bob Sanders had a nice game, but the Chiefs' inability to run was due to playing directly into the Colts' hands, not some miraculous defensive effort.
The rampant, blatant holding that went uncalled, largely on the Colts. They get away with it every game though, so I understand how you could miss it, it just blends into all the other bias towards the Colts the league has.
More like it's unbelievable the impact Herm Edwards has on the opposing defense when he allows his team to continuously run directly into 8 and 9 man fronts. Bob Sanders had a nice game, but the Chiefs' inability to run was due to playing directly into the Colts' hands, not some miraculous defensive effort.
Well, when the Center is grabbing two handfuls of jersey on a DT that is about to steamroll Manning and twists him to the ground, I'd say it affects the play. Or when an edge rusher gets the corner, and you suddenly see his outside shoulder twist back mysteriously and his head jerk with it, it probably affected the play. The Colts have gotten away with it for years, ever since the "royalty" of the NFL took up residence there. Worst I've ever seen, worse even than some of those Broncos teams of the late nineties.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why did Herm Edwards keep running Larry Johnson up the middle? Almost no counters, no cutbacks, and nothing wide. It looked to me like the Colts defense was expecting runs up the middle with three or four guys waiting there but they could have had some one on one matchups if they went wide more often.
The other thing I don't understand is why the entire NFL feels they can never blitz Manning. The guy is not mobile and it seems like her really, really does not like being hit at all.
Playing into the Colts' hands. That was the worst game I've ever seen BB coach in his tenure here. That deep pass early in the game for a pick by Brady may be the most boneheaded play I've seen our QB make, as well. Considering the circumstances of that game, with Manning playing his best ever against the Patriots, Brady playing awful, the entire offense dropping and tipping balls directly to the Colts, a terrible offensive scheme which failed to even try to exploit the Colts' run defense past the first quarter and all around awful coaching by the normally great Pats' staff, it's a minor miracle the Pats only lost by 7. It could have been far worse, and doesn't speak well to the success of the Colts.
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