It’s hard to relate how disappointed I am today about yesterdays Colts performance. While I can’t honestly say they were as flat as a pancake, there were certainly enough errors to make this look like a preseason game.
The Colts lose to Jacksonville 27-24 on a 53 yard “Lester” Scobee FG with 38 seconds remaining. The Colts had one last chance but never really threatened to score at the end. The loss moves the Colts a half game in back of Jacksonville in the AFC South. But essentially they are tied since JAX has not had their bye week. In fact the Colts really hold the advantage having beaten JAX by 7 in their other matchup.
What has to be questioned is whether or not the Colts can rebound from what happened. Next week is KC at Arrowhead. The Chiefs scored 56 yesterday. If the Colt D plays like it did yesterday they might score 156.
On to the game. The Colts D as I said was awful. In fact if you help up a piece of Swiss cheese you couldn’t tell the difference between it and the D. Big play after big play. No stop on crucial third downs, no pressure on Leftwich and crappy coverage. You know, it stands to reason that if you are not pressuring the QB that the coverage should be better. For us, that just doesn’t happen. What boggles my mind even more is why we didn’t pressure Leftwich. Here’s a guy on a bad ankle who isn’t mobile anyway and we let him have all day to throw. Sure we had 3 sacks, but we should have had more.
Fred Taylor rambled for 107 yards on just 20 carries. I’m surprised it wasn’t more. The Colts did get one pick on the day. Jason David came up with one. His second in as many games. But the D only forced JAX to punt once.
Lest you think this was all on the D it wasn’t. The Colts were penalized 12 times in this one. False starts, holdings. Illegal touches. They did it all. Sure the O looked great on a few drives, but on the others they just shot themselves on the foot.
Two turnovers at midfield were back breakers. Dallas fumbled on without even being touched. Stokes got hit hard but you have to hang on to the ball. To Brandon’s credit he did take some other hard hits without dropping it later in the game.
Then there was the special team play. Defensively the Colts did okay on coverage. Maybe gave up a little too much yardage, but the real downfall was the way they played the ball on kicks. Once Rock took it from in the end zone and once Mungro picked up a ball that was going out of bounds. Both of these pinned the Colts back deep in their own territory. Rhodes was at the end of the game when we needed field position and time. The boobery was incessant!
Oh well! What is done is done. And even though I feel like crap about it today the sun came up, work was still here and the wheels are still on my car. They just can’t this become a pattern or it will be a long season. Having said that I don’t think they will. Maybe we dropped out of that top 3, but we are definitely in the second group and we are better than JAX regardless of yesterday’s score.
The Colts lose to Jacksonville 27-24 on a 53 yard “Lester” Scobee FG with 38 seconds remaining. The Colts had one last chance but never really threatened to score at the end. The loss moves the Colts a half game in back of Jacksonville in the AFC South. But essentially they are tied since JAX has not had their bye week. In fact the Colts really hold the advantage having beaten JAX by 7 in their other matchup.
What has to be questioned is whether or not the Colts can rebound from what happened. Next week is KC at Arrowhead. The Chiefs scored 56 yesterday. If the Colt D plays like it did yesterday they might score 156.
On to the game. The Colts D as I said was awful. In fact if you help up a piece of Swiss cheese you couldn’t tell the difference between it and the D. Big play after big play. No stop on crucial third downs, no pressure on Leftwich and crappy coverage. You know, it stands to reason that if you are not pressuring the QB that the coverage should be better. For us, that just doesn’t happen. What boggles my mind even more is why we didn’t pressure Leftwich. Here’s a guy on a bad ankle who isn’t mobile anyway and we let him have all day to throw. Sure we had 3 sacks, but we should have had more.
Fred Taylor rambled for 107 yards on just 20 carries. I’m surprised it wasn’t more. The Colts did get one pick on the day. Jason David came up with one. His second in as many games. But the D only forced JAX to punt once.
Lest you think this was all on the D it wasn’t. The Colts were penalized 12 times in this one. False starts, holdings. Illegal touches. They did it all. Sure the O looked great on a few drives, but on the others they just shot themselves on the foot.
Two turnovers at midfield were back breakers. Dallas fumbled on without even being touched. Stokes got hit hard but you have to hang on to the ball. To Brandon’s credit he did take some other hard hits without dropping it later in the game.
Then there was the special team play. Defensively the Colts did okay on coverage. Maybe gave up a little too much yardage, but the real downfall was the way they played the ball on kicks. Once Rock took it from in the end zone and once Mungro picked up a ball that was going out of bounds. Both of these pinned the Colts back deep in their own territory. Rhodes was at the end of the game when we needed field position and time. The boobery was incessant!
Oh well! What is done is done. And even though I feel like crap about it today the sun came up, work was still here and the wheels are still on my car. They just can’t this become a pattern or it will be a long season. Having said that I don’t think they will. Maybe we dropped out of that top 3, but we are definitely in the second group and we are better than JAX regardless of yesterday’s score.
posted by mm at Monday, October 25, 2004
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