Doyel: Reality is setting in on the Colts'

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by rm1369

It amazes me that people believe Reich suddenly forgot how to design / run an offense. Before this season Reich was either a HC or OC for 8 seasons. In 4 of them (50%) his teams were top 9 or better in pts scored. Yet you all believe the issue with the Colts offense is that it was Franks and not the cluster fuck of an OL coupled with a geriatric QB. Claim he had lost the team. Claim he couldn’t motivate them (although that’s a hell of an indictment on Ballard’s supposed culture focus). But claiming the offensive issues lie in the design instead of the OL and QB is fucking retarded.

And I’ll point out after the Raiders game the narrative was Saturday simplified the offense. It was discussed as how much smarter Saturday was than Reich. Now I’m seeing that’s not the case. It’s all back to being Reich - especially as the team is being called out for how simplistic its offense is.

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I agree that if you have an offensive line that allows the defensive front to be in the quarterback's face less than 2 seconds after the ball is snapped, the play-calling doesn't really matter much ...... and professing that because an offense that has the worst offensive line in the NFL therefore needs to have more QB roll-outs called is somewhat tantamount to saying that one ought to wear gloves when one works in a septic tank, so that they don't get as much shit on their hands than if they worked bare-handed.

And I'm not saying that calling more roll-outs with a horrible offensive line would not have been somewhat helpful, but it would have been like improving a C offense to a C+ offense, it wouldn't have improved a C offense to a B+ or an A- offense.

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