Overnight Thoughts - Week 1 Dolphins

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

Jones is just making the layups. AR was doing it in camp as well, but maybe sitting and learning behind a veteran will benefit him, and he'll have all season and all of next offseason to refine his mechanics.

For me, this. Jones is what AR should have had year one. The team played like a professional team and Jones was a big part of that. He is a nice, hard working middle of the pack QB who works his ass off. Easy to root for and perfect right now but most likely not going to take us to promised land. Starting to see something to root for, hopefully.

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

For me, this. Jones is what AR should have had year one. The team played like a professional team and Jones was a big part of that. He is a nice, hard working middle of the pack QB who works his ass off. Easy to root for and perfect right now but most likely not going to take us to promised land. Starting to see something to root for, hopefully.

Harbaugh?

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Harbaugh?

That would be great. Not going that far quite yet. It was the first total game on offense and defense I can remember the Colts playing in years. That alone was huge. For one game actually looking like a well coached team was very nice.

[Brylok]

The Dolphins were horrible, so I'm going to remain cautiously optimistic. That said, I was NOT expecting the Colts to play like that yesterday. They looked like a completely different team from last year. Especially on defense. Daniel Jones surprised me, but he cannot take hits like that one he took early in the first quarter. He will get injured. It probably would have hospitalized AR. I'm really excited to watch Warren. I usually hold my expectations on kids fresh out of college, but he looks like he's going to be very good/great. We haven't had a TE of that caliber since Dallas Clark. Anyway, that's enough for now. I was elated during and after the game. And the losing streak is OVER. Glad the site is back up!

[YDFL Commish]

[QUOTE=Brylok;327148]TThey looked like a completely different team from last year. Especially on defense./QUOTE]

No more Gus Bradley!

[ChoppedWood]

[QUOTE=YDFL Commish;327151]

Originally Posted by Brylok

TThey looked like a completely different team from last year. Especially on defense./QUOTE]

No more Gus Bradley!

To me, even if this proves to be fool's gold, the above is IT.

I have no idea how anyone inside the complex could justify that fucking dude being the DC last year. No fucking idea. Maybe the pics Ballard has are of him and Gus with the girls and Gus was holding out for some huge off the books severance???

Just seeing us do different things, attacking the receivers, pressing routes. Damn it was nice to see.

Denver did not look very good. Will be great to see if we can keep hot and not go flat while they try to bounce back. If so, I will feel a lot more confident that we are seeing the corner turn.

[IndyNorm]

Agree with almost everything said on the thread. For the most part Jones looked great. I'm guessing we'll find out that Miami's D is really bad this year, which had a lot to do w/ our success. But it still shouldn't take away that this was a promising start. Obviously hope Jones keeps up the high level of play!!

Loved seeing our attacking D as well. Again, time will tell how much of that was our D and how much was how bad the Phins are.

Something that we haven't discussed is teams now how some film on our O w/ Jones and D under Anarumo. We'll have to see if that makes an impact and how well we can adjust to their adjustments.

[albany ed]

Originally Posted by IndyNorm

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Something that we haven't discussed is teams now how some film on our O w/ Jones and D under Anarumo. We'll have to see if that makes an impact and how well we can adjust to their adjustments.

Very true. I've always admired how Andy Reid use to add 1 or 2 new plays each week to surprise the opponent. Couple that with Mahome's uncanny split second ability to improvise and turn a bad play into a huge gain or even a TD. It was always difficult to prepare for the Chiefs because of that.

Let's hope the Colts continue to succeed and be unpredictable too.