Mort today on radio

[KoolAidDrinker]

If Harrison, Wayne and Clark can't get it going, then Addai isn't going to be carrying that team on his shoulders. Edge is a much better back than Addai.

Just my two cents, but I think Addai is VERY GOOD!

Obviously a lot can change by week 9, but the Colts offense is balanced and IMO nobody sells the play action better than Manning.

That having been said, I believe we have more depth on D to make a difference this time around. IMO the Thomas acquisition was, in part, designed to address the AFC championship loss. Having Rodney this time around should also help.

Also, it seems that our offense is "slightly" improved over last year.

I am likin' what I'm seeing so far !!

But for now, on to the Browns!

 

[JJDChE]

Just my two cents, but I think Addai is VERY GOOD!

Obviously a lot can change by week 9, but the Colts offense is balanced and IMO nobody sells the play action better than Manning.

Addai is fine, but he's not Edge. Addai looks good because the Colts passing game is so good. He's gets 2-3 yds downfield before anyone touches him. If he played on an average offense he would look bad. Swap him and Ronnie Brown and Addai is a bust.

Look at how many times Addai has been stoppped behind the line of scrimmage...3 stuffs in 84 carries. That's the second lowest percentage in the NFL for guys who have carried at least 5 times a game. The only guy ahead of Addai is Kenton Keith, the Colts backup RB. He has yet to be stopped behind the line in 23 carries this season. Defenses play pass 100% of the time against the Colts and Addai reaps the benefits.

 

[naclone]

Mort has a chat on ESPN.com at 11.

everyone should ask him if he realized the Pats were playing a 6-man front.

 

[patsox23]

The Patriots had a very simple game plan and, apparently, Mort never got the memo. New England was defending the run with only 6 players, and leaving the rest back in coverage. The players were talking about it on WEEI today.

Doing that, they still held the Bengals to less than 4 yards per rushing attempt. Like too many Patriots fans here, Mort failed to do his homework, so he finds big mountains where there are nothing but the tiniest of molehills.

Excellent point. It happens constantly. The degree of LAZINESS in journalism - especially sports journalism (and I use the term loosely, as do they) - is rivaled only by the bias toward sensationalizing. The media overall in sports does a terrible, TERRIBLE job. Worse than half-assed. Eighth-assed.

 

[Amnorix]

These guys don't know any more football than the average fan. All they have on us is people who DO know about football on their speed dials. To the extent they quote them or use their knowledge, then there not too far off base (although they can be fed false information, or are subject to the bias those people have).

To the extent they engage in their own assessments, then it's a joke, because they're Joe Fan and nothing more.

 

[naclone]

got him...


woody (NYC): Mort ? How can you cite the Bengal?s 57 rushing yards (3.8 YPC) against the Pats on Monday as justification for saying NE is not as impressive as Indy (who gave up 226 yards rushing, 6.1 YPC, to Denver on Sunday)? Do you even realize NE played a 6-man front to take 84 and 85 out of the game?

SportsNation Chris Mortensen: (11:22 AM ET ) yeah, when I said that on Mike Tirico's show Tuesday, I meant that with three or four receivers threatening the Pats - as the Colts can do, and as the Bengals could if Chris Henry were in the lineup - then I see vulnerabilities. It's nit-picking but I saw some weaknesses and I guarantee you Bill Belichick has pointed them out to his team. of course, with Rodney Harrison coming back this week and Richard Seymour later, we know the Patriots will be very tough to beat for anybody.

 

[Ring 6]

Idont rememebr the exact numbers, but at one point, when the game was in hand, Watson had a 16 yard run. That made him 11-44 for the game.
So, aside from one 16 yard run, when we had a large lead and didnt care if they ran, he was 10-28, for 2.8 a carry.

It seems like its expected that we stop teams for 20 carries for 15 yards, or we have run D problems.

 

[patsox23]

To be honest , he was a little flustered in the first quarter. How many times have you see him throw the ball at defenders feet in the first 3 games. He did that more than once in the first half.Iam not degrading his performance because any QB would get flustered when pressured but i dont think the stats completely indicate how the first quarter/half went for him.Just my 2 cents.

I agree. It's not some huge criticism, as some people here seem to be interpreting it, but Brady did look a little frustrated. You knew they'd figure out a way to get past it, and they did, so no big deal. But the way to combat B.S. like the stuff trotted out by Mortensen is NOT to pretend everything was perfect in the other direction. Balance, truth, honesty, accuracy and let the facts lead the way.

 

[patsox23]

got him...


woody (NYC): Mort ? How can you cite the Bengal?s 57 rushing yards (3.8 YPC) against the Pats on Monday as justification for saying NE is not as impressive as Indy (who gave up 226 yards rushing, 6.1 YPC, to Denver on Sunday)? Do you even realize NE played a 6-man front to take 84 and 85 out of the game?

SportsNation Chris Mortensen: (11:22 AM ET ) yeah, when I said that on Mike Tirico's show Tuesday, I meant that with three or four receivers threatening the Pats - as the Colts can do, and as the Bengals could if Chris Henry were in the lineup - then I see vulnerabilities. It's nit-picking but I saw some weaknesses and I guarantee you Bill Belichick has pointed them out to his team. of course, with Rodney Harrison coming back this week and Richard Seymour later, we know the Patriots will be very tough to beat for anybody.

LOL, what a feeble backpedal. Nice work, woody.

 

[spacecrime]

dont get me wrong...colts run D has always been like this except a few games and they still win. For them giving the opponents 100-150 yards is okay as long as their own offense scores TD.
For the pats if they give a 100 yard rusher its a huge deal for the defense.

Yeah, but the Pats only gave up 50-something yards. Since when was that a concern for any team? Colts gave up 150+. Since when was that NOT a concern for any team.

Since the Colts and Pats now have similar offenses, why is it not a cause for concern for the Colts to give up 150, but it is a cause for concern for the Pats to give up 50?

What is the difference?

 

[Oswlek]

It just DID cut the mustard against a top-flight team like Indy. We're talking offense here. Cincy's as close as it comes. They got 13 points.

Cincy's offense isn't close to Indy's. Peyton is muche better than Palmer, but even beyond that, Indy has better WRs beyond the top 2, better TEs and will have a better RB than Cincy did. Cover TJ and Chad and Cincy has nothing. Indy has a lot more options.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Okay,

here's what jumps out at me. Every time an opponent gets into the red zome, they score a touch down against us. That bothers me. Now, so far it hasn't been a big deal, because there have only been 6 times in the 4 games when that has happened. If we keep the opponent out of the red zone, they at most get a field gola, and not often that.

However, that ain't gonna cut the mustard against a top-flight team like Indy. Somehow, that area needs to be addressed, and that right soon, because if not, at some point that's gonna come back and bite us. You can bet that other teams will start to game-plan to just get inside the 20, knowing that, if they do, odds are they will score.

Respects,

Actually, it's now officially 6 of 7 since Asante's interception came on a play where the ball was spotted at the 20.

See, BB told us the Patriots could improve.

 

[Lampshade]

Mort was clearly looking for a reason to put the Colts ahead of the Pats.

How Cinci not moving the ball on the Patriots is good enough basis for thinking the Colts will move it is beyond me.

He's lying in order to get noticed. That is unless he honestly expects people to believe that until the Pats played the Bengals he didn't realise the Colts had a 3rd WR.

 

[SVN]

Yeah, but the Pats only gave up 50-something yards. Since when was that a concern for any team? Colts gave up 150+. Since when was that NOT a concern for any team.

Since the Colts and Pats now have similar offenses, why is it not a cause for concern for the Colts to give up 150, but it is a cause for concern for the Pats to give up 50?

What is the difference?

concern is in the way the teams are built. Pats have an explosive offense but only 4 games so far. Indy has been doing it for 4 yrs , so their defense is built to play from ahead and to keep opposing teams out of the endzone. They know and have been proven so far that they can win with that kinda of a defense.Sure they would like to have a better run D but their team isnt built around defense. Thats why they keep losing defensive starters every year to other teams because their offensive players remain in tact most of the time.
Our team is built on defense and offense. So if someone rushes over 100 on us its a concern. iam not talking about 50 yards.
Just the way i see it.
They have been successful albeit their run defense over all these yrs. Sure they have won only 1 SB but they lost to ultimate SB champions which can happen to anyone. It wasnt like they didnt make the playoffs at all. So there must be something which is working for them inspite of all the 100-200 yards rushing by opponents.

 

[godef]

Well his thinking was the manning and addai will finish the drives which the bengals couldnt..That is partially true if we play the same style of defense against the colts.

But we still won by 21 points. So perhaps the Colts finish some of the drives and score 14 more points, it'sd just a closer game. Mort's not be very logical.

 

[skspikex2]

got him...


woody (NYC): Mort ? How can you cite the Bengal?s 57 rushing yards (3.8 YPC) against the Pats on Monday as justification for saying NE is not as impressive as Indy (who gave up 226 yards rushing, 6.1 YPC, to Denver on Sunday)? Do you even realize NE played a 6-man front to take 84 and 85 out of the game?

SportsNation Chris Mortensen: (11:22 AM ET ) yeah, when I said that on Mike Tirico's show Tuesday, I meant that with three or four receivers threatening the Pats - as the Colts can do, and as the Bengals could if Chris Henry were in the lineup - then I see vulnerabilities. It's nit-picking but I saw some weaknesses and I guarantee you Bill Belichick has pointed them out to his team. of course, with Rodney Harrison coming back this week and Richard Seymour later, we know the Patriots will be very tough to beat for anybody.

This is very stupid of Mort, do he really think a defense playbook will be the same week in and week out? This is BB not Norv Turner.......

BB coach his team on whoever opponent is up next. He know the Bengals will have a hard time if we slow them 2 WR down. He know Rudi isn't playing. So he adjust his team D to fit the criteria.

It's annoying of how these so called NFL analysts call themselve professionals, if anything, they just play favoritism.

 

[goz421]

i think he forgot to factor the impact of Seymour and Harrison. One negates the run the other imtimidates all recievers.

 

[Ring 6]

Patriots runs D 69.8 yards per game, 3.4 yards per carry
Colts run D 127.5 per game, 4.5 per carry

Right Mort, the Colts are better because Kenny watson ran for 52 yards against the Pats while everyone else was only running for 127.5 against the Colts.

Other D #s

#1 in total D
#1 in 3rd down conversions
#4 in ppg (4 points in 4 games behind #1)
#1 in yards per play allowed.

 

[Solaris]

Wow...a qb being frustrated at being pressured. Holy crap...that is definately ground breaking stuff right there folks .

And I think the Patriots are better because Peyton gets happy feet and is not as decisive when getting pressure up the middle....oh, and he gets frustrated too. :bricks:

 

[He Ban Me]

Brady was frustrated when pressured?

His completion percentage was 78% with three td's and one truly bad throw for an INT.

If you are frustrated during a game from pressure, the stats would reflect it.

More incompletions......more sacks.........

One INT and one pass pressure from the blind side that lead to the ball being knocked out of his hands while passing. Such frustration.

What am I missing?

Mort is part of ESPN's pro-Dungy/Manning anti-Belichick faction.

They ballwash Indy so bad.

I think he had a couple of others thrown in the dirt on the first few drives. 4 incs. his first 3-4 drives (only missed what, 7 all night) with a punt and an INT thrown in. Cincy played well early (at least on D).