but I agree w/PK. I had been watching #87 earlier in the game after telling my wife “wait for it, Wayne’s going to bust out a big one here”, and I saw him sandbag some plays where he knew (apparently) that the ball wasn’t coming his way.

He barely jogged off the line at the snap and made little effort to even gain his defender’s attention. Now I noticed that a couple times and told myself he was trying to goad his defender into relaxing on one and he’d burn right past him … but in hindsight, I’m not sure what was going on.

Reggie’s been so solid, so consistent, such a quality WR … I want to blame this on the knee somehow.

so I will never know.

Yep. We tend to be very chatty, and that probably won’t change for the offseason.

Of course, it’ll take several tries to properly ascertain Wayne’s effort, maybe even more…

though him just stopping the route once Porter was well past him about to pick the ball looked bad.

On the Colts last play the pass to him was catchable but not easy.

It’s at 1800 comments now, BBS. Yes, we are all beasts!!!

but I choose to believe it was the knee. Reggie has made alot of big plays for us and has earned my confidence.

I logged onto IndyStar to see the comments on Kravitz article, which was a pretty good one, and goodness gracious. People are such haters. In between Saints fans posting “Who Dat” like a million times, and other folks trying to drag politics into this (“Obama is Hitler, and so are the Colts” (?)) – I am so glad that StampedeBlue is around.

 Did anybody not notice the field wasn’t in great shape? They’d had rain, and the field was soft, and no one was cutting that well. If Reggie’s knee was even a bit sore or stiff, there is no surprise he didn’t cut that sharply. On a fast surface he probably would have been fine, but at the level these guys play even small factors like that can make a big difference.

After all the effort these guys have put in, isn’t it disgraceful that anyone listens when some idiot media starts to makeup a story about Reggie sulking.

I think it was just a miscommunication between Reggie and Peyton. Reggie wasn’t running a route that would result in a slant..it almost looked like he thought he was going to be the decoy. Collie was wide open across the middle by the way.

If anyone questions the 4th and goal play at the end of the game, Reggie didn’t even know what the play call was…he threw his hands up several times while the team was at the line and when the ball was snapped he just jogged towards the goal line because he didn’t know where he was supposed to be.

There were a lot of things that went wrong for the Colts last Sunday, but I can’t blame Reggie for the defeat.

This sort of rush and disorganized way reminds me of the Chargers loss last season when, with Manning pinned on his own 3 yard line, the entire offensive line didn’t stand up at the snap.

Maybe with Caldwell a little more experience will yield more creative plays. Also, witha new offensive coordinator will cause Manning to take more control of the plays.

So before I go too deep into this, let me emphasize that I’m working from memory, and a re-watching of it at a later time when such won’t cause me to vomit might lead me to change my mind. But for now, this is what I remember:

I recall seeing New Orlean’s deep cover all flow right. I recall Reggie cutting his route off with only Porter in the vicinity. What I think happened was that Wayne saw an opportunity when everyone else went right, improvised by cutting off his route, then froze because he was afraid his body cues would lead Manning to throw poorly since he (Wayne) was improvising. And despite all that thinking, all Porter ended up seeing was a receiver sitting on his route, which is an easy pick if you’re willing to gamble that it’s not a stop-and-go (which in this case, it wasn’t). Regardless of whether Wayne was “dogging it” or simply sitting to give his QB an easy throw, the fact remains that he stopped and squatted in his route. The only question is, what was his rationale? I can’t see him giving up on a play in the freakin’ Super Bowl, but dogging things suggests that he was certain that the pass would go elsewhere. If that were the case, why’d he stop and turn, especially right when the deep cover guys turned to their left (Indy’s right)?

Might I be overthinking this? Oh, heck yeah; it’s entirely possible. I’ll admit it. I might be wrong. But like I said, I’m working from memory here, and it’s my honest conclusion from what I recall.

And before Kuharsky dogs Wayne for “giving up”, let’s recall that damn near everybody else on the defense saw a cue that made them go to Indy’s right (their left). Could Wayne playing “dog” have been that cue? Again, maybe I’m overthinking things, but really, one way or another the deep safety, middle linebacker, and someone else playing cover headed towards Garçon and whoever else was over there (Clark?). Something made them do that. Porter gets full credit for an “island” play, but the bulk of the defense was indeed out of position to do anything about Wayne. That’s what I recall.

Check out around 11:50-11:30 in the 3rd. Its when we return the KO after the NO TD. and watch the total No call on the ‘legal’ block. didnt think you could block someone without the ball to the ground and then climb on them and continue blocking them
/Justsayin’
Refs blow the whistle and then repeatedly blow the whistle.