all 5, specially #5

Caldwell still needs more experience and he’s going to correct those issues as time goes by.

Balance is the key. The Colts dont need to come out and get 150 yards a game on the ground to make things work. They just need to have that option when its a couple of yards to go………

I really dont understand why they arent running more draw plays. Everyone is playing the pass 90% of the time. Maybe the coaches should go back to the Colts’ defense of the last few years so they can see how a draw play kills the pass rush.

1. - I think Coach Caldwell did a magnificent job overall, especially with the challenge on the fumble at the goal line (props to the guys upstairs for having him throw the flag). Here is the thing, that WR pass from Reggie was a good play and the mistake was on 87, not on Coach…I am sure that on a HB or WR Pass, they are told that if the other receiver is not wide open, throw the ball away. This is something that Reggie did not do, as he tried to force it into coverage (very good coverage I might add). IF this play had worked, everyone would have been praising the Colts coaching staff for being more aggressive and using trickery. I know they have Peyton Manning, but hey, why not make teams respect the other options as well..

As for going for it on 4th & 1…same thing, they make it, they are great, they fail, and they suck for taking the risk. Did we really want to give Houston that short of field? Their offense was moving it on us almost at will in the second half. So lets say the Colts went for it, didn’t convert and the Texans drive and get a field goal (they would need like 20-25 yards to be in field goal range), well then that kick by Kris Brown potentially becomes a game-winner as opposed to a game-tying field (given that all the occurrences remain the same in-between those 2 series of events).

I liked the choices…however, we need some guys back if we are going to win on this next stretch…but hey, a W over the Texans was big.

you have to also mention the awesome job he did with the challenge that basically won the game for them. ESPN has an article about it.

I’m not so sure that Caldwell was icing the kicker. He put a return man under the goalpost after the time out. It could be they had the wrong personnel on the field. You could blame Caldwell for that as well, and that’s fair. But there was no way for anyone to know whether Kris Brown was going to miss that kick. If he had made the first and missed the second Caldwell would be a genius today. I don’t think that play says much about Caldwell’s coaching at all. It was just bad luck.

Even if he did do it to ice the kicker, we should also note that he learned from his “mistake” because he didn’t call timeout to ice him at the end of the game.

As far as the other points, I agree with Z.Pain above. Overall, not much to criticize Caldwell for in this game. He looks to me like one of the best coaches in the league.

I think that was Tom Moore’s call because he’s the OC. It is true that it was a horrible call.

in the last few games especially on 3rd downs or in the redzone. garcon hasnt had much luck catching the football, although he caught 4 out of 6 yesterday, and has been shakey at best. collie couldnt get his hands on the ball much yesterday but when he did he caught it except for a very good play by the defense. missing a sure handed receiver has the offense forcing some plays on big downs.

One thing to add about things to like, the twelfth man factor yesterday. That crowd was electric. I was there, and I’m telling you, it was crazy. I’ve never heard that stadium, that loud. Awesome to be there.

I wish they would stop. How often does it really work?

I wonder how much of the HB/WR passing plays are just to give the opponents more stuff to prep for? And to set them up for a flea flicker?

It’s a run! Every body get Addai! No, it’s a HB pass, cover everyone within about 20 yards! No, it’s a flea-flicker and Garcon is now open 40 yards downfield! Shit!

I dunno, that kind of feint, feint, strike! always worked well for me in wrestling and now when I coach 7 year-old football. The Pats might be better than 7 year-olds, though….