It's a Bad thing....

by BIG JOHN D on Sep 19, 2011 4:41 PM EDT

It usually is a very bad thing when the opposing team agrees that the hardest hit of the game from your team came from your punter. Pat Mcafee's tackle of Cribbs to save the touchdown on the kickoff was indeed a monster hit, but it is sad that cribbs said that was the hardest he was hit all day. Now if all he did was return kicks, maybe, MAYBE, i could let that slide a little, but he is also a receiver and plays on the regular offense so he is in the game quite a bit and gets his fair share of touches. Our defense needs to step up and start hitting like our punter (now i put my head down in shame that i actually can make that statement with truth to it) and making tackles and stop letting receivers and rb's to carry them for an extra 4 or 5 yards every time they touch the ball. The touchdown run that Hillis had, should have been a 2 yard loss, instead, our defense allowed him to run over them and then away from them into the endzone. Even with Peyton Manning this was one of the problems we had and one we will continue to have until it is addressed. Please Polian, Caldwell,Irsay, somebody do something about it........ Give our offense a chance to be average and win games because without Manning thats all we will ever be right now.....

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This is what happens when you have a small defense. Needs more guys to bring guys down.

I think most fans aren’t in favor our our current D philosophy. Small and speedy guys in a Cover 2. Mathis and Freeney don’t seem to get the type of penetration to pressure the QB more often like they have in the past. I believe it’s a combo of losing a step and just below average DTs.

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by Bronn on May 17, 2011 4:56 PM EDT

by Sparhawk on Sep 19, 2011 4:55 PM EDT reply actions

This is what happens

When you have a bad ass punter.

Go McAfee.

by DeepThought on Sep 19, 2011 6:34 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

I disagree. Tackling was really pretty good sunday.

The run defense was stout all day, except for the 24 yard TD run. But even including that, we held them to 3.1 YPC. Sure there were a few broken tackles, but the RB was a 250 lb battering ram. Toughness/tackling wasn’t the problem yesterday.

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by zherebyonki on Sep 19, 2011 6:36 PM EDT reply actions

Agreed

Even Lacey made a couple of nice tackles..

by CharlestonColtsFan on Sep 20, 2011 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions

yep, he absorbed a couple serious crunchings, but got the man down

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. -- Eugene J. McCarthy

by zherebyonki on Sep 21, 2011 4:01 AM EDT up reply actions

What you are seeing

Are the side effects of Coyer’s defense. When Meeks was replaced by Coyer what we got was a defensive coordinator that wanted to make his defense into a hybrid of Cover-2 and a 4-3 defense. Which worked fine for the first year only. We went from DB’s that were primary zone defenders who could lay a big hit on the offensive player. To DB’s that could play both zone and man to man but neither very well and very little hitting power. Say what you want about Tim Jennings coverage skill and it was not good at all but he could play zone coverage and would lay hits on RB’s and WR’s now we have 4 corners that do not play zone as good as their predecessors and really can not play well man to man and do lay big hits. It is very hard to find a Defensive Back that can cover man to man, play good zone, coverage, and can play in a Cover-2 scheme and be able and willing to knock a RB, TE, or WR that enters their zone. Now we have a defense that can not play primarily man to man or primarily Cover-2.

by dave1251 on Sep 20, 2011 3:40 PM EDT reply actions