Colts coach Chuck Pagano was also pleased with the progress made in the two days of combined workouts. Yellow flags like Jack Mewhort getting beat by Pernell McPhee and surrendering a sack.
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It all comes down to Luck, and this team will still need him to play out of his shoes to make a run in the playoffs. And he knows they can’t have that.
– Never mind what I just said about the defense.
Now with an 0-2 preseason record, the Colts will go back to work this week and began to prepare to face the St. Louis Rams at the Edward Jones Dome Saturday night.
The Saints haven’t faced a respectable, Pro-ready Colts team since Super Bowl XLIV, and we all remember the outcome there.
Whisenhunt also has another reclamation project in second-round pick Dorial Green-Beckham, who hasn’t played football of any kind in 20 months thanks to bad behavior at Missouri. Eddie Goldman has a ways to go but I’m excited to see how he grows as a player. You can tune-in to the game locally on WXIN Fox 59 or catch the replay on NFL Network. He’s very smart. When I first got here, you would think he’s been in the league for 10-12 years.
Cornerback Tim Jennings added, “Andrew Luck is as good as you’ve got in the league”. “He’s a grown man. He’ll get better”. Chapman was on the field in the second half while the rest of the starting defensive players were on the sideline watching the rest of the game. These are different teams now, and that was years ago, however the Colts are fielding another burgeoning HoF QB in Luck, who is flanked by a deadly cast of receivers and an appreciable upgrade at RB.
“There are always some positives, but we’re going to have a tough time winning football games by beating ourselves”, said coach Chuck Pagano. Over the last two seasons, the Colts have faced the Broncos three times. And then this week, he only played 28 snaps, which again isn’t a huge sample size – but it raised concerns with his play. Here’s what you see.’ It’s just a great lesson for anybody in there that, even if you’re seeing something obvious, it’s good to talk about it. It’s good to know, here’s why. McPhee flashed explosiveness and converted speed to power with a touch-and-go move to win an inside rush lane and drop Luck for a sack.
People are quick to say, “Well, if Luck goes down, the season is over anyway, so a backup quarterback doesn’t matter”. “Obviously I didn’t hold up the way I wanted to”.
If the Colts are going to finally prove they can stop the run – 18th in the league in that category last season – it has to start in the middle of their defensive line. Fuller has struggled with coverage all throughout training camp, and now that is beginning to spill over onto the playing field. Here are a few things of note from Saturday’s game. Holmes has established himself as a reliable center after missing 11 games in 2014 because of inconsistent play and injuries.
I feel really lucky to be able to live in an environmentally conscious city like Minneapolis. “It’s like tightening the screws”. And the software works anywhere in the world: Whether you are in the United States or in Australia, enjoy thousands of satellite channels directly in your PC! “You can’t freak out”.
Make no mistake, Saints fans – that 62-7 trouncing was against a Curtis Painter/Dan Orlovsky Colts team.
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The Colts’ Andrew Luck was an enlightened choice. “There are some growing pains that come with that, but he definitely improved over last week [against the Dolphins]-not that last week’s performance was bad”.
