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Isn't that the job of the media especially on the East Coast regarding sports? Something about eating their own or what not. No way I take the Colts bet and I'm a fan. Someone compared us to the Atlanta Braves of the 90's. That was the best description I've heard yet. Good team, good organization - can't close. I blame Trent oh wait Bill Polian
Isn't that the job of the media especially on the East Coast regarding sports? Something about eating their own or what not.
No way I take the Colts bet and I'm a fan. Someone compared us to the Atlanta Braves of the 90's. That was the best description I've heard yet. Good team, good organization - can't close. I blame Trent oh wait Bill Polian
I'm a little more forgiving on them, the way I see it football is not baseball or hockey. One bad game and you're done, there is not a series to help the best team show themselves. There are a number of examples where great teams have had a game where a couple bad plays were enough to sink an entire Bowl run and knock them out.
The Colts closed a number of games this season where I thought it was over. Too bad one of them was not the one that really counted.
Because of this difference, predictions are even more meaningless. Any team can lose a key game no matter how good they are.
I deal with this by ignoring the entire season until the playoffs. If the Colts are in I will watch them. If not I will continue to ignore football until the Super Bowl unless I need an excuse to drink beer more often.
The Colts could learn a lot From Detroit. That is the most consistent team in the NFL for the past 20 years. Just invert everything they do to go in the right direction.
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Prince of Fatness
Someone compared us to the Atlanta Braves of the 90's. That was the best description I've heard yet. Good team, good organization - can't close. I blame Trent oh wait Bill Polian
Last I checked you won a Super Bowl in recent years. It could be worse. Trust me.
There is a long dark road ahead of me.
The Colts could learn a lot From Detroit. That is the most consistent team in the NFL for the past 20 57 years. Just invert everything they do to go in the right direction.
1 playoff win since the first Eisenhower administration. Sadly Matt Millen is gone. Maybe Barry Sanders will re-sign with them now.
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Braves only won one WS in those years and got there 5 times. Don't get me wrong. I think the Colts are a great team and a great franchise. They can get to the party. They just have trouble closing for the trophy.
The Polian comment also referenced his efforts in Buffalo (they had trouble closing as well). If they get there again and win, 2/X is pretty damn good. I figure Manning is good for another 4 or 5 years and let's face it replacing him won't be easy and the ability to continue the sustained success is going to be friggin difficult. Look at what happened in Denver after Elway, Dallas after Aikman, Buffalo after Kelly and so on. Only the 49rs managed with Montana and Young but that was an outlier.
I understand the futulity in Philly - I'm a Cubs and ND fan.
I saw Sanders as part of the problem not the solution. He was all they had so he ran the team. You can't win (many) football games with a RB as the center of your team. Sure the guy was great but the reason he racked up so many yards was because 90% of their plays were "hand off to Sanders".
When they stop wasting draft picks and get a solid QB to build around, I'll pay attention to them again. Until the Tigers reinvented themselves Detroit was a depressing place to follow sports for a long time (Red Wings exempted).
Only the 49rs managed with Montana and Young but that was an outlier.
Aaron Rodgers is the highest rated QB in NFL history. Just sayin'.
No, of course he's not Steve Young yet. But he's gotta be pretty good to have that high of a passer rating. He's helped in that regard of course by doing his learning by sitting around behind Favre rather than being drilled to the turf like many young QBs.
Aaron Rodgers is the highest rated QB in NFL history. Just sayin'. No, of course he's not Steve Young yet. But he's gotta be pretty good to have that high of a passer rating. He's helped in that regard of course by doing his learning by sitting around behind Favre rather than being drilled to the turf like many young QBs.
Fair 'nough but no rings or sustained excellence. Other than the Kelly example that was my point. Packers lost some mojo after the SB loss. They are certainly on the upswing.
I do like Rogers. Solid QB.
He's helped in that regard of course by doing his learning by sitting around behind Favre rather than being drilled to the turf like many young QBs.
I don't necessarily think that it is required for a young QB to sit and watch. Maybe a year. Maybe not. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel sorry for these QB's coming in making lots of money, but it's not easy coming in with high expectations when you have no offensive line, the rest of the team blows, and all you are doing is running for your life and getting the crap beat out of you. No wonder so many are disappointments. The smart organizations get their QB then focus on the offensive line. They don't expect the QB to carry the team day 1.
Prime example: Mark Sanchez.
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that dude has one of the best O-lines in football though.
and the best running game and one of the best defenses
so he's anything but a prime example?
ok, prime example... that guy in Detroit who went to Georgia (I forget his name). THAT guy took a beating last season. It was kind of a sensless beating to. They should have played Culpepper in some of those games.
I don't necessarily think that it is required for a young QB to sit and watch. Maybe a year. Maybe not. Don't get me wrong .
I think its all about the team around you, but it does appear that the odds are better that a QB sits for a while (easy for me to say i'm not the one paying them 10 mill a year). Recent examples have been Rivers and Rodgers 2 of the best QB's in the league right now.
If you have a team around you, you can be successful though - Roethlisberger, Ryan, Flacco.
I actually think Stafford played fairly well considering the circumstances, obviously there were rookie-knucklehead moments but I give him credit he learned, he got better, and he played better than anyone else they had.
I just meant prime in terms of high-paid super-rookies who had no Brett Favre-type to watch and learn from. Whether he was routinely ground into the dirt, I thought, was a secondary point.
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