Luke Links: Labor Day Edition
by KingRichard on Sep 7, 2009 2:19 PM EDT
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This is BBS' gig but I figured I'd give him the day off, it is Labor Day after all. I hope you don't mind big guy.
- Columnist Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune claims Merriman's days are numbered in a Chargers uniform. He states the recent incident involving Tila Tequila has no bearing on his chance to re-sign with the Chargers. I find that hard to believe for a few reasons. 1) Despite my loathing of Merriman, he's a good LB. 2) Their defense obviously struggled without him last season, but sadly was good enough to beat the freakin Colts (wwhwhhyyy?!). 3) The Chargers are seriously stupid if they just let someone like Merriman walk. If the Chargers FO has already planned to get rid of him at seasons end, why not trade him now and get something out of it ala Bill Belichick? I would think Merriman is worth at least a first round pick, wouldn't you? And speaking of Belichick, I'm sure he is watching this like a hawk; Merriman lighting up his radar like a christmas tree.
- Tedy Bruschi just sold his soul to the devil. It was only a matter of time before ESPN offered him a job. I hope he gets fired.
- Have you ever wondered how much it must suck to be a Jaguars player? Well look no further than Tony Pashos. He refused a pay cut and change of position and decided to go on the free agent market all the while knowing he'd be making even less money than what the Jaguars were offering. I can't say I blame him.
- Richard Seymour doesn't seem to happy about being traded to the Raiders. In fact, there's a possiblity that the trade could end up a bust. Mike Florio explains.
- Lions coach Jim Schwartz officially announced that Mathew Stafford will be the starting quarterback. Good for him, I wish him luck, because he's gonna need it.
- Mangina also refuses to announce who the Brown's QB will be.
- If you thought Manning was obsessed with preparation, he aint got nothing on Coach Caldwell. Here's a quote:
"I have every talk, every meeting that every head coach I've ever worked for has ever given in my presence," said Jim Caldwell, who succeeded Tony Dungy as Colts coach in January and will make his regular-season debut Sunday against Jacksonville at Lucas Oil Stadium. "Bill McCartney, Joe Paterno, Howard Schnellenberger, Dennis Green. I have them all. Every one that Tony ever made."
Caldwell has about 50 notebooks from his eight years under Dungy, one at Tampa Bay, 2002-08 with the Colts. They are stored in Caldwell's office. The rest fill box on box in a storage facility near his North Carolina home.
They contain the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of six head coaches and 31 years. Hear it, see it. Write it, read it.
"That's how I remember," Caldwell said. "If I write it down, chances of me forgetting it are very slim."
- Bob Kravitz states the obvious: the Colts will win 12 games for the 7th season in a row. But he goes farther than that. He makes the bold claim that the Colts will not lose a division game all season. I find that hard to believe, but as Kevin Garnett showed us all two years ago: AAAANNYYYTTTHINNGG IS POSSSIBBBBBLLLLEEEEEEEE!!
- John Oesher follows suit in stating the obvious by stating five things the Colts must do to win the AFC South.
- ESPN's AFC South blogger Paul Kuharsky provides us with a chart depicting the average age of each team. To no one's surprise the Colts are the second youngest team in the league.
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Happy Labor Day everyone
I suppose that a career as a football analyst would be logical for someone like Bruschi. Only time will tell if he’s any good at it. And even though ESPN is heavily biased, not all of their programs are horrible, e.g. Jim Rome is Burning, PTI, etc.
Also, Mangini’s decision to keep his starting QB a secret is just plain stupid. Maybe he thinks it will surprise the Vikings week 1. I can easily see the Browns at the bottom of their division this year.
Let me get this straight
We sweep the division but we only go 6-4 against Miami, Arizona, Seattle, St. Louis, San Francisco, New England, Baltimore, Denver, Buffalo, and the Jets?
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obviously
The Cards made the Super Bowl last year so everyone forgot that they actually suck. There’s one loss. Media love affair with Parcells, ignoring their historically easy schedule and injury luck, so Miami is another easy loss. New England is going undefeated again, so there’s 3, and Baltimore and their 2nd year QB are super scary too so there’s 4.
I feel bad about this year now, because I’m pretty sure that that pick from Kravitz just jinxed it.
Don't be silly
1) Kravitz is such a numbnuts nonentity that the football gods use his unread colunmns for toilet paper.
2) He couldn’t jinx the Colts if he dyed his poodle blue, had a giant blue horseshoe tattooed on his ass and walked cross-country naked to show it off, then legally changed his name to the “Chad Johnson bad Spanish equivalent” of “19-0, bite me all ye chowdahead Pats fans.”
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
If we sweep the division I guarantee we go no worse than 14-2
Dun nuh nuh nuhhhh!!!! Super Mathis
by hoosier in sodak on Sep 7, 2009 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I agree that if we go 6-0 in the divison that we will be at least 14-2 if not more likely 15-1.
I see us going 13-3 and getting the No. 2 seed behind Pittsburgh; who I see going 14-2 b/c the team remains largely intact, especially on Defense, Roethlisberger should only get better, and they can’t suffer as many injuries to the RB position as they did last year.
I see us starting the season 11-0 and going 4-2 in the disvision. I think we will lose to Tenessee and Jacksonville simply b/c Tennesse will have to win to remain in the playoff hunt and Jacksonville always seems to give us problems during at least one of our matchups. I finally see us losing a meaningless game against Buffalo in what likely will be a game played in a snow storm.
I then think we’ll proceed to win the Super Bowl as Caldwell will accomplish something Dungy never did, have the Colts ready to play in the playoffs after a bye week.
"Pressure is something you feel if you don't know what the hell you're doing."-Peyton Manning
Perfectly reasonable
Without looking at the sked, I find a 11-0 start unlikely, but the rest of the logic holds up. If reasonably healthy 13-3 is more likely than 11-5.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
I've always wondered why the Chargers gave the Colts fits
Our offense was 22nd last year and we still put up over 800 yards against them in two games. We also had zero problems with their RB’s and held Sproles to 15 yards on 11 carries in the playoff game. Scifres also seemed much less effective against us. It could have been the fact that it was snowing in both games, though.
My opinion is that you aren’t able to push them around much or establish your running game. Is this possibly the cause of your struggles with them?
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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I think you answered your own question
It was in Pittsburgh, in the cold, in the snow.
They are from Sunny San Diego. We play in a Dome. They can run their offense the way they want to. Friendly fieldturf, controlled or favorable climate, etc. I think we’ve established that in general, running success is not as important as the mainstream fan assumes.
I also wish I had time and motivation to blog at Speed Blue Nation
Hey, stop rubbing salt in the wounds, okay?
Our lack of ease inhandling a generally inferior Charger team goes back 5 seasons at least and I think Sodak has a point about the weather.
2004—Manning’s titanic QB season—we needed OT to beat them at home (and his 49th TD pass to boot). With NO D played by either side, it was one of our typical shootouts.
2006—The 13-0 Colts get beaten for the first time all season—it was generally a draw despite them roughing us up, except for LT getting hurt on a zero yard runo on 1st and 10, and then Michael Turner getting 80 yds and a TD on 2nd and 10. Merriman had 2 sacks of Manning, maybe more. They could have won by more if they were actually good.
2007— In rain in SD, the entire OL got injured, Plus Freeney lost for the year, and we had the 2nd, 4th, and 5th WRs playing, Manning throws a career high 6 picks, we allow two return TDs to Sproles, and we still only lose by 2 because Vinatieri shanks a 28 yard FG attempt. Pretty flukey. ANY ONE of those events fails to happen and we win it.
2007/2008 Past two playoff losses—close, including OT with 3 or four penalties against the Colts on the Chargers OT TD drive. And Mike Scifres “greatest game ever by a punter.” VERY flukey. In 2008, any one of those events fails to happen, and we win it.
These were all basically ties, but the Colts had incredibly shitty luck in almost all of them. I think it’s largely like the Colts/Pats rivalry of the early-mid 00’s, in which we didn’t see them regularly as division foes, and so were not very familiar with them, and their personnel and scheme matched up well against us. Add in crappy officiating and injury luck, and, well, you have a history of difficulties. It’s just been incredibly flukey. Hey, they were missing Merriman last year—maybe with him they beat both of our teams. Who knows? Because of weather, Colts have less HFA than outdoor teams over the Chargers, that’s for sure.
I’m just hoping to put an end to the WTF flukey happenings string.
I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.
Mangini
Cons – His choices are as follows: Suck or suck.
Pros – They’re playing the Viks, so it’s safe to say that no one will be talking about Quinn or Anderson.
by Addai Another Aday on Sep 7, 2009 6:10 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Colts will win 12 games
but I wouldn’t care if they only won 8 or 9 games as long as they win they big one
Shit doesn't just happen, arseholes cause it!
PC
On colts.com, Caldwell mention that keeping the 2 kickers was to help AV on his kick off duties. Will Andrus honestly stay on the roster, or was that just something nice to say until AV is 100%.
Andrus stays.
"It's the greatest job in the world until Peyton comes off the field and you think his thumb might be broken and there's three minutes left in the AFC Championship Game and you're down by three to New England and you haven't taken a snap all year. Yeah, it's a great job until that point." - Jim Sorgi
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