The Colts' Defense, 2024 Season

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Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

I don't know if you had a chance to watch the film, but he's mostly right. Whether he's throwing guys under the bus... I don't know, whatever. If he does coach-speak, we hate that. If he tells us what's what, we hate that, too.

-But Thomas's bomb was either Cross or Flowers (95% sure it was Flowers) not taking their deep-third and sitting on the out pattern. That's a mental fuck-up, not the call.

-Same with Kirk's bomb. If I remember right, Jones looked liked he had man but thought he had help over top. But Blackmon got caught looking at a crosser and and Kirk blew by.

-Both runs were fucking embarrassing. On the 19 yarder, which was set up by a 50-something yard punt return... JAX blocked it well, but Cross had a clean shot and tried to tackle him at the sternum and fell off, same thing with Womack, then Blackmon tried to help and whiffed or knocked Womack off.

-The long run, we had 9 in the fucking box. The front side gobbled up the fake to the full-back. The weakside, Cross crashed in and sealed the edge, so Bigsby had to cut upfield... Latu overpursues and slips a little, EJ Speed does the exact same thing... So now you have Cross, Latu, and Speed all stacked like dominos with one giant hole opened up. Bigsby stiff-arms the fuck out of Blackmon (another missed tackle) and he's gone.

-Final drive was also multiple missed tackles setting up the field goal. Plus there was zero pass rush all game and a couple more 20+ yard plays. Players complaining about how hot and humid it was.

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Here's the sense I'm getting with Bradley. I think his X's and O's are fine, but maybe he's got the nice guy thing going on like Reich did. And guys aren't uncomfortable enough when they fuck up. I hope not and it gets better.

The injuries suck, yes. And it will help a ton to get some of them back. But a lot of these fuck-ups are from your vet guys, too, not just backups.

One thing I liked about Eberflus was his "loafs" that he kept track of. No one wanted to get a "loaf", so effort was high. His defenses were also much better at tackling.