09-14-2015, 11:54 PM
(09-14-2015, 11:21 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Look, the Colts allowed fewer sacks per pass play than the Bengals. Their defense ranked 11th and had 40 sacks last year, with 23.5 coming from their d-line.
People think that because they can't name players on their o-line and defense, that they must suck. They don't, period.
The facts back me up. They played well in almost every facet last year. The o-line was good. The defense played great. The run game was weak, but they added Gore.
That line gave up sooooo many pressures and hits last year, Luck did his best to get the ball out when he could, make no mistake, the line was worse, way worse, than what a sack to pass ratio could say.
64 times Luck dropped back to pass but didn't throw, some of them could be attributed to good coverage but most of them had to do with terrible protection.
Pass rush was good but run defense was still an issue, mainly with the interior, bottom half of the league in ypc and yards per game allowed an no Dlineman with a positive run defense PFF grade (except Josh Chapman who was a rotational guy).
As for newly acquired weapons, it remains to be seen if the two former Hurricanes have anything left but a shell of their former selves. Not judging them by one game against a good defense, but it's possible age really slows them down this year.
