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David87 · Nov 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM

JoshIsMediocre said:

Should have known it was an eagle if David posted it

JoshIsMediocre · Nov 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM

Randall Mentzos · Nov 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM

whitenblue88 said:

I don’t think I’m quoting the right Randall post, but now that I’m back to not wanting to work, coming back to address this with too long of a post.

There has not been a game this season where someone has stopped both the Colts’ run game and the play-action pass game when there was a legitimate threat of leaning on the run game. Like, to the point of having historically good points per drive going into last week’s game.

The nuance to date is more - “the play-action pass game had been SO successful so far, in part because they’ve been in positive and neutral game scripts for a good part of the early portions of their games and teams need to simultaneously respect the run and pass options. What happens when they're not in a positive or neutral game script?”

Which, on the one hand, is a valid concern and the Pittsburgh game (which they still somehow only lost by 7 even after 6 turnovers!) was not a good or even okay outcome, but if Daniel Jones can even be a league average QB and not commit a career high of turnovers attributed to him when that inevitably happens again, shouldn’t tank their season too much in the hopefully rare instances where it does happen for the rest of the season

On the other hand, it doesn’t really change my opinion about them as a playoff contender - if they get down by 3+ scores in a playoff game, the season’s probably over anyways. That’s one of the benefits of having a super human QB that this team does not have. But, a decent playoff run is almost certainly predicated on not playing your worst game or first half of football in the playoffs, so I’m more interested in - can anyone stop the Colts’ play action game and run game simultaneously in anything remotely resembling a neutral game script?

I think the whole last sentence is still “can anyone stop the run” because play action is like “hey, blitz me! You’ll probably get a sack!” If the run isn’t working lol. If play action is your primary way of generating explosives and then not being able to run absolutely would hamper your offense imo. But I have seen Daniel throw deep from the pocket more than he ever did as a Giant, to be fair.

but stopping JT is a big IF, not taking any credit away from that, he’s ridiculous. And if he’s even medium successful that’s enough for play action to fool defenses (unless they have a DC who loves to blitz and doesn’t mind the risk)

Randall Mentzos · Nov 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM

I’m not banking on Jags stopping him. We’ve been great against the run so far but JT is a very tough challenge

We did hold the only great RB we faced, CMC, to 49 yards and 2.9 yards per carry… and Ashton Jeanty had tough sledding vs us as well. here’s hoping we get Devin Lloyd back and Travon Walker full strength by the time we play Indy.

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