Colts Likely To Promote Ollie Ogbu Or Ricardo Mathews From Practice Squad

by Brad Wells on Oct 4, 2011 3:04 PM EDT in 2011 Colts News

0-4 feels like someone kicking you in the nuts, repeatedly.

0-4 and watching your team crumble before your eyes because of injuries is like someone kicking you in the nuts, repeatedly, with flaming spikes on the tips of their shoes.

However, despite the numbing pain, there are silver linings. At 0-4, and the season effectively over, this gives the team a chance to look at younger players who, quite frankly, idiots like me were screaming should be more playing time.

Per Paul Kuharsky a ESPN, the Colts are likely to promote Ollie Ogbu and Ricardo Mathews from the practice squad. One or both would replace Eric Foster, whose terrible injury last night resulted in surgery today, which reportedly went well. Foster will likely land on I.R. soon.

Ogbu is a rookie DT from Penn State, and Mathews is a second-year DT from Cincinnati. Both had productive preseasons this year and, for me, one of them should have been part of the 53-man roster back in early September.

Another guy that would be nice to have right now: Tommie Harris.

Amazingly, with how well Antonio Johnson and the three Colts linebackers have been playing, I'm not too worried about the defensive tackle spot. As Matt Grecco pointed out earlier this morning in his Inside The Numbers article, the Colts have held up well against the run.

The issue is the secondary. It's bad. Really bad. Unfortunately, rather than acquiring decent corners, this front office seems more content to cut them for no reason whatsoever.

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I think Tryon got cut

because he made fun of Caldwell’s seventh-grade mustache.

by Ayrshire on Oct 4, 2011 3:34 PM EDT reply actions

yes our secondary is not good

and our coaching scheme is worse and the potential INT in the end zone in the first half would have been HUGE last night,, we could use TRYON

by OBGYNOSUPREME on Oct 4, 2011 3:36 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

Yeah secondary is VERY young

Saw two rookies out their playing last night…

Jerry Hughes FINALLY got a sack!

Go Blue!

Revenue - Expenses = Profit

by dezznutz1001 on Oct 4, 2011 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions

and it is the Colts fault they gave Kelvin too much money

if they had been reasonable he would still be here cause he wouldn’t have been cut due to money,, jsut like they messed up with Jake Scott ,, Ryan L., DeVan- sure could use him now

by OBGYNOSUPREME on Oct 4, 2011 3:38 PM EDT reply actions

have to go do a delivery

if I managed my labor pts like our coaching staff is managing these games I would lose my license

by OBGYNOSUPREME on Oct 4, 2011 4:19 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs

Oh the Secondary

It is so sh*tty. No joke, even in Madden, after the first season I used my first 4 picks on 3 CBs and a safety.

But in real life, the Colts secondary is worse. Let’s admit it, Jerraud Powers has been playing like crap this season. Either we are so much more focused on Lacey or we are turning a blind eye to Powers, the truth has to come out. Jerraud Powers isn’t even playing as well as Kelvin Hayden was last year. And yea, we got issues on the left corner since neither Terrence Johnson or Lacey have been mediocre, they’ve both been crap, Powers has been crap too. As is David Caldwell. There’s not too much they can do at this point but try starting Kevin Thomas or Chris Rucker. But here’s a wierd question: what happened ot Cornelius Brown? I thought he was decent last year and played better than Lacey that’s for sure, where is he? Did he get cut?

Pat McAfee for President 2016

by KBUnitz on Oct 4, 2011 4:25 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

cut

by coltsfoot85 on Oct 4, 2011 4:27 PM EDT reply actions

Finally, no more next man up bullshit

Always thought that the simple minded felt that was all good. We are finally seeing that the next man up is even worse than the guy there replacing i.e. Diem, Bullett, Lacey, etc., all whipping boys…4 years of shitty draft picks will set any franchise back to the bowels of the NFL. It’s no fun to be compared to the Chiefs, Bengals, Seahawks, Rams, etc. Is Chris Polian or Bill Polian in charge of the drafts because they have sucked ass for 4 straight years…

by PurdueBoiler1995 on Oct 4, 2011 4:50 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs