Commish's Take
 

JT's best game of the year

TY is snake bitten, especially with the zebras, had a TD an 2 catches taken way from him today

The zebras called everything against us today

I hate the slow starts by the defense. How can this be fixed? Is it really a Darius Leonard
thing?

Patmon and Fountain inactive? Maybe they are not that good?

Blackmon has so outplayed Hooker, it's crazy

I guess we can throw away the dump Rivers rhetoric for 2 weeks

I might like to see AJ Green on this team, if we're going to make a SB push this year. It's just a one year rental

Okereke is playing damn good football

Don't know what Ya-sin was doing on that deep ball, but you should always follow a WR down the sideline

Special teams as always were great today

Patmon was drafted as a project. I didn't expect him to play much this year.

I think Patmon impressed the Colts during the abbreviated camp - supposedly he reported to camp in phenomenal shape. The beat writers also indicated that he started to make plays towards the end of camp and "forced" his way onto the roster. But I think the shortened camp really hurt the development of a few members of this year's rookie class. Not just writing about the Colts rookie class - but league wide.

Good to see Tyquan Lewis contributing finally. Team desperately needs Turay back though. They go through to many long stretches with no pressure.

Yes. Justin Houston was invisible all day long. What did they have, 1 sack against the worst line in the league in terms of sacks. Seemed like the Bengals were winning at the LOS all day long.

That fumble by Doyle on the 2nd play may be the weirdest play I’ve ever seen. He just flat out dropped it, without being touched. When that happened I thought, well, it’s gonna be one of those days.

I thought Reich messed up by not running more once they got the lead. They should have been pounding it with Taylor and they just kept chucking it. And it almost came back to bite them in the ass when Rivers threw the pick.

Okereke and Blackmon are studs. Okereke is always going to be overshadowed by Leonard, but it is interesting how little attention he gets by fans and the media. Blackmon has been simply outstanding for a rookie who cam in off an injury.

The lack of pressure on Burrow was the biggest surprise/disappointment for me. As you mentioned the Bungles have given up the most sacks in the league (at least going into today) and from what I've heard/read Burrow has been under a ton of pressure every week up until now.

That is troubling, it frankly goes back to my dislike of Eberflus. He sucks.

I hope you aren't basing Taylors 5 ypc as the reason for his "best game". He had a couple big runs Other than that he was very below average. His 5 ypc is very misleading

I suppose you would prefer Mack, but Taylor is going to be just fine.

I have been really disappointed with Ben Banogu, has he done anything this year? Lewis had a decent game, but some of his splash plays were not necessarily where he won his match up, he was left to roam free.

At least we tried to use the middle of the field a little more with Burton and Doyle this week.

Hilton just appears to be really struggling, although to be fair the officials really allowed both sets of DB's to play quite physical football.

Who is this Harris kid, No. 12. He had a good game. Surprised he made the active roster ahead of both Fountain and Patmon. What happens to our WR's once Pittman and Campbell are back? Hilton, Pascal and Johnson surely are locks with their reputations/play this season. We would have those 3, plus Pittman, Campbell, Dulin, Harris, Fountain and Patmon....no chance you can keep everyone???

At the present time, DeMichael Harris isn't permanently on the active roster. With the modified COVID-19 roster rules, teams can elevate two practice squad players to the game day roster to increase the game day roster to 55, but those two players revert back to the practice squad the day after the game.

If everybody gets healthy, I would assume that Fountain would be cut and they would hope that they could sign him back to the practice squad.

Nope, he was seeing the holes better today.

I had totally forget about Banogu. He has 6 total tackles (2 solo), 0 sacks, and 0 QB hits. So no, he really hasn't done anything this year. Maybe he's only been playing ST?

Banogu has played on defense. He has been typically receiving about 10 - 12 snaps on defense a game or about 15 - 20% of the available snaps.

He has also received snaps on Special Teams in the games against Minnesota, Chicago and Cleveland.

They should sign David Irving. Who gives a shit if he gets fined for smoking weed. He pressures the QB.

Not at all, I am a fan of JT. Just think everyone is jumping the gun. Mack got the same treatment on this board his rookie yr. He hit a few big runs and everyone wanted him to replace Gore. His ypc was also high because of a couple of big runs so it was also misleading.
But Mack in his rookie year was a lot like JT this yr. He doesnt have the vision yet and hes learning the system.

He'll get there. I have no doubt, but he's not there yet. Mack was a terrible loss for this team.
Just saying besides the two big runs his ypc was below 2 yards per carry without doing the math.

Mack was a huge loss. I feel the game plan was to go with Mack, give Taylor some reps and let him develop. Rookies who carry a full load in the first year usually hit a wall in game 13. I think Reich wanted to keep Taylor fresh all year.

He ran fine. This line is not opening up consistent holes. He got what he could imo

Jonathan Taylor: 94.1% catch %! He's not a being receiving threat out of the backfield?

And the other teams have decided to stop the run and force Rivers to beat them. Not the worst idea. The running game gets better when the Offense stops turning Over the ball and falling behind

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Jack Doyle's fumble on the Colts' first possession of the game set the tone for the overall team disaster of a 1st quarter.

Doyle would eventually wind up catching 2 additional passes, including an amazing TD reception that I don't think he would have dropped if somebody were pointing a gun at his head and threatening to kill him ...... Doyle was absolutely determined to make that catch.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgUu2QgG1es


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I noticed Taylor hit a cutback lane pretty hard in the last game. Seemed pretty natural doing it. Anyone consider maybe he is being coached to hit the hole instead of the cutback regardless?

I’m just guessing, how many times did he cut back in college? You press the hole, and go. He has run behind good lines in college, and now. But the run D, will be better now.

He attacks hard, runs hard. Give him some time. With little preseason, he is running on instinct. It’s not like he’s running around in the backfield like a chicken with his head cut off and doesn’t know where to go. He runs down hill, hard. Rathman will get him sorted out.

Jim will always be the owner...
Jerry will tell you why...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-CVzii...UJQ6c9eym8nEpE

I did. I remember edge saying back in the day that he was supposed to run the play and get what he can within the play. Something like that.

Edge could fall out of bed and get 3 yards. Thats why Polian traded Faulk. He would run around and take a 5 yd loss and give the O 2nd and 15.

If Edge ever took a big loss, I dont remember it. He would stretch the D and then run down hill. Even after the ACL, he made the D commit to him and then Manning would hit Marvin on play action.