Pete Prisco is officially an idiot

[esoitl 0]

im sure this has been established ages ago but i always gave him the benefit of the doubt until now

 

i am certainly confident now that he doesnt even deserve to talk trash on a bored like this....

his latest article was about addressing the holes in each team, the full article is here(http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9417598/1) and i wont go through them all but.....

Indianapolis Colts

It remains the offensive line. Drafting Joseph Addai will take care of the loss of Edgerrin James, but they've done nothing to improve the offensive line. If they don't play better, this team will never make it to a Super Bowl.

ummmmm.......

isnt this the same line that had 3 pro-bowlers and let up only 20 sacks(lowest in the league) while paving the way for 1700 yards rushing?

 

unless i missed something drastic how can the Colts' main problem be their OL?

[Second Place Don't Pay 0]

im sure this has been established ages ago but i always gave him the benefit of the doubt until now

 

i am certainly confident now that he doesnt even deserve to talk trash on a bored like this....

his latest article was about addressing the holes in each team, the full article is here(http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9417598/1) and i wont go through them all but.....

 

ummmmm.......

isnt this the same line that had 3 pro-bowlers and let up only 20 sacks(lowest in the league) while paving the way for 1700 yards rushing?

 

unless i missed something drastic how can the Colts' main problem be their OL?

 

I thought the same thing when I read that. I think he's referring to the whuppin' Pitt's defense put on them in the playoffs, and how they couldn't stop Porter from getting to Peyton. So really, the hole they need to address is probably OL coaching, as they never adjusted their protection scheme.

[Sweetness_34 0]

The OL does suck....just ask Peyton Manning after the Steelers game

 

[mggoilers 0]

They are overrated, but Peyton helps them a lot by keeping D's off balance.

[crooklyn 0]

You had me at "Pete Prisco is an idiot."

 

Horrible, horrible NFL analyst. Horrible.

[gatorbait7391 0]

[kraziness 0]

Pitt tore into that OL. Now, the blame can be shared by the OL, the coaches and Manning himself- all of them have the authority to adjust schemes and none of them did it until it was too late.

 

That being said, they do have some good talent there, but I'm sure every team in the league will be looking at that Pitt. game tape.

[murf74 461]

The script to beat Indy's offensive line was written by San Diego late in the season. Pitt used that to develop a similar plan. If you have versatile LBs who can blitz from anywhere, that offensive line blocking scheme cannot compensate.

 

I am not sure if it individual players or coaching. But you must acknowledge that the offensive line got worse as the season progressed.

[Rye & Leaf 0]

The script to beat Indy's offensive line was written by San Diego late in the season. Pitt used that to develop a similar plan.

 

Right on, San Diego rediscovered the formula. The only way to beat the Colts is to knock Manning down consistently throughout a game. When this happens his accuracy is no better than that of rookie QB. Of course I have only seen 3 teams do this to him: steelers, chargers & patriots (maybe 4: the Jags at times)

This formula is the reason Houston took Mario Williams. You will not compete with the Colts in the South without a strong defensive front.

[murf74 461]

Right on, San Diego rediscovered the formula. The only way to beat the Colts is to knock Manning down consistently throughout a game. When this happens his accuracy is no better than that of rookie QB. Of course I have only seen 3 teams do this to him: steelers, chargers & patriots (maybe 4: the Jags at times)

This formula is the reason Houston took Mario Williams. You will not compete with the Colts in the South without a strong defensive front.

 

I was just telling my buddy at work that taking Mario over Bush is gonna help vs. Manning and vs. Vince Young. Texans didn't blow the Bush thing in my opinion. And I get sick of hearing that even if Mario has 20 sacks a year he won't be as good as what Bush can do. An effective pass rusher does not always get the sacks. Sometimes he draws double teams freeing up other pass rushers, sometimes he causes a QB to throw way to early or to flush the pocket and gain a measly 1 yard. Then there are tackles in the backfield, etc. Sometimes you force RBs to run mostly to one side of the field.

 

 

One note, the Steelers, Chargers and Pats all run a 3-4. And did anyone notice how well Cleveland held Indy in check in Indy's house? Cleveland also runs a 3-4.

[Franknbeans 46]

Right on, San Diego rediscovered the formula. The only way to beat the Colts is to knock Manning down consistently throughout a game. When this happens his accuracy is no better than that of rookie QB. Of course I have only seen 3 teams do this to him: steelers, chargers & patriots (maybe 4: the Jags at times)

This formula is the reason Houston took Mario Williams. You will not compete with the Colts in the South without a strong defensive front.

I don't know why teams all of a sudden decide to put pressure on the Qb and then there lauded as being genius. Every NFL QB doesn't respond well to pressure. It results in sacks and turnovers and at the very least, throws off the timing with their receivers. This isn't rocket science. The hardest part is actually being able to get to the QB. You'd think Indy would have figured this out and max protected against the Steelers. If they had, perhaps we'd be talking about them being the Superbowl champs.

[Erb047 0]

Right on, San Diego rediscovered the formula. The only way to beat the Colts is to knock Manning down consistently throughout a game. When this happens his accuracy is no better than that of rookie QB. Of course I have only seen 3 teams do this to him: steelers, chargers & patriots (maybe 4: the Jags at times)

This formula is the reason Houston took Mario Williams. You will not compete with the Colts in the South without a strong defensive front.

 

 

Agreed. The thing about the Steelers/Chargers/Pats is that they knew how to disrupt manning pre-snap. If you watch the tapes from the games, you can always see that the defenses were constantly in motion, trying to throw manning off, and the LBs and DBs would show blitz, and back off one time, then show the same and actually blitz the next. Manning is a great QB but if the defenses throw off his pre-snap reads then he is nothing. Manning will tear a simple tampa cover 2 apart, but these 3-4's and even 2-5s when NE ran them, are what drives Manning crazy. The Steelers/Chargers/Pats have great DLines as well, and that does help a bit.

[akareckas 0]

The Colts' scheme relies on having many receivers in pattern and having Manning make a quick decision in the face of pressure to find the open man (ie the 'hot read'). Pittsburgh (and SD to a lesser extent) have discovered that creative Blitz packages can confuse even Manning, causing him to either make the wrong read or take a sack.

 

When the Rams had this issue, they began mixing up their play calling and occasionally keeping Faulk in to block, which he is excellent at. In Indy, Mungro and Addai are both above average pass blockers (ok so Addai projects that way). I think they will move more to a max protect scheme in the coming season, mixing the 5 option pass plays in to keep D off their feet. I also expect to see them use more drop back plays to incorporate play action and misdirection.

 

Essentially they need to make the defences more reactive rather than aggressive.

 

Finally, my big beef with Colts has always been that they are too cocky or too stupid to adjust their gameplan either within a game or between games. I know they had a spectacular season last year, but they basically gave up their gameplan throughout the season then made no changes in the playoffs. That'll work when your talent is drastically better, but in a playoff atmosphere where every team is good, the coaches need to mix up their play calling, formations and personnel. Not doing so has been the end of the Eagles, Colts, Raiders (when TBay won the superbowl) and Packers in recent years. All of those teams have been very successful but have failed to close the deal because they wouldn't adjust down the stretch.

 

Sorry for the Rant!!