Friction between Colts front office and head coach

Also....LOL. I think I found the Colts version of Kawakami, dude is spitting ether.

Monday night, Luck was outplayed by a dude from Harvard with a big beard and a small arm and no business outplaying Andrew Luck. But that's what journeyman Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick did. He outplayed Luck.

Nobody's good on this 2015 Indianapolis Colts offense – not the quarterback or the running backs or the receivers. Not the offensive line. Not the offensive coordinator, either.

Offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton is not very good.

He's very popular, I get that. But for years he has been riding Luck's coattails – you ask me, it started at Stanford – and now that Luck is struggling, let's be consistent and attach Hamilton to those muddy coattails too.

And then there's the whole Phillip Dorsett thing. No, Hamilton didn't draft the receiver. But Hamilton's the one who decided to work Dorsett into the offense in the preseason at every receiver position. To make him more versatile, or something. Dorsett is well-rounded, all right: He doesn't know what he's doing from any position. He and Luck aren't reading from the same page. Not sure they're reading from the same (play)book.

Dorsett is a more athletic Hakeem Nicks, meaning, he's clueless about where to go but at least he gets wherever he's not supposed to be quickly.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2015/09/22/doyel-andrew-luck-making-bad-team-worse/72407940/

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Also....LOL. I think I found the Colts version of Kawakami, dude is spitting ether.

Monday night, Luck was outplayed by a dude from Harvard with a big beard and a small arm and no business outplaying Andrew Luck. But that's what journeyman Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick did. He outplayed Luck.

Nobody's good on this 2015 Indianapolis Colts offense – not the quarterback or the running backs or the receivers. Not the offensive line. Not the offensive coordinator, either.

Offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton is not very good.

He's very popular, I get that. But for years he has been riding Luck's coattails – you ask me, it started at Stanford – and now that Luck is struggling, let's be consistent and attach Hamilton to those muddy coattails too.

And then there's the whole Phillip Dorsett thing. No, Hamilton didn't draft the receiver. But Hamilton's the one who decided to work Dorsett into the offense in the preseason at every receiver position. To make him more versatile, or something. Dorsett is well-rounded, all right: He doesn't know what he's doing from any position. He and Luck aren't reading from the same page. Not sure they're reading from the same (play)book.

Dorsett is a more athletic Hakeem Nicks, meaning, he's clueless about where to go but at least he gets wherever he's not supposed to be quickly.

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2015/09/22/doyel-andrew-luck-making-bad-team-worse/72407940/

Main difference I see btwn this guy and Kawakami is the Indy writer actually makes real football points about the Colts. TK just goes on these endless diatribes like he's trying to write some master thesis in psychoanalyzing what makes York/Baalke tick and what their thought processes are while assessing the blame entirely on them as to why or why not the 49ers are any good. Never mind looking at whether the players have anything to do with why they're underperforming or suck. BTW should I start Gore now that Luck is out today?

Maybe some would scoff at the very idea, but bad press can destroy a team, the same way it can destroy a career. Writers like Kawakami, Killion and the Cohns' were relentless about doom and gloom hovering over the 49ers franchise, even when the team was on the upswing and doing well. I had a twitter conversation with Ann Killion not too long ago and asked her why her articles and tweets seemed so personal. Her response, "It's not personal, I just believe that the team has made bad decisions of late, when they do something positive I will write about it." Yeah right, never has she ever written anything positive, even when the team was in the Superbowl. And she never will, because it is personal. The same reason Kawakami blocked so many 49ers fans from his twitter page and blogs. That's not professional, that's personal, and when you have that kind of venom in the media, any riff in the locker room, no matter how small or insignificant, these types of sensationalists will embellish it until other players and coaches are second guessing themselves. Lose a few games, more bad articles, and false rumors start spreading, disgruntled non starters or players on the decline start crying and shady writers go.. "Hey, here's my card give me whatever dirt you have and we'll get these guys" and so it is.

Luck is the lowest rated passer in the league... He is supposed to be the second coming of Peyton Manning. How many people are calling for his head?

Do New England ,Denver,or Seattle have any Kawakami type media fergerts that try to make their local team self conscious with lying rumors that turn into clusterfuvks?

New England does. His name is Dan Shaughnessy. All he does is try to cause disharmoney in all the sports in NE. No sports team does anything right. Even when they are winning World Series, Super Bowls, Stanley Cup, or NBA championships he finds something to complain about. Everyone here hates him and somehow he still has a job. I think news paper columnists like him do it on purpose and news paper editors love it.

Originally posted by TonyStarks:
Do New England ,Denver,or Seattle have any Kawakami type media fergerts that try to make their local team self conscious with lying rumors that turn into clusterfuvks?

Originally posted by TonyStarks:
Do New England ,Denver,or Seattle have any Kawakami type media fergerts that try to make their local team self conscious with lying rumors that turn into clusterfuvks?

I don't think anything compares to what we have here, except probably New York media.

Dilfer was on record saying the Bay Area has some really vindictive, hateful media personalities. The constant trashing of the team has gone way overboard. They've made it personal.

Last year was rough, and this one will be too, but people need to chill. The media is out to crucify people. It's football, you go through ups and downs.

Originally posted by SofaKing:

Originally posted by TonyStarks:

Do New England ,Denver,or Seattle have any Kawakami type media fergerts that try to make their local team self conscious with lying rumors that turn into clusterfuvks?

I don't think anything compares to what we have here, except probably New York media.

Dilfer was on record saying the Bay Area has some really vindictive, hateful media personalities. The constant trashing of the team has gone way overboard. They've made it personal.

Last year was rough, and this one will be too, but people need to chill. The media is out to crucify people. It's football, you go through ups and downs.

I remember having a crap team but Garce and T.O. were ripping teams up.

The media still stirred the pot causing drama and helped TO skip town.

That play with the game,nay,the season on the line,(the one with five recievers on one side and just two with the qb not even in shotgun)




HAS TO BE one of the most brainfart idiotic ideas ever.

Originally posted by TonyStarks:
That play with the game,nay,the season on the line,(the one with five recievers on one side and just two with the qb not even in shotgun)




HAS TO BE one of the most brainfart idiotic ideas ever.

you never thought you would see chris colllingsworth speechless. i was to

Originally posted by cciowa:

Originally posted by TonyStarks:

That play with the game,nay,the season on the line,(the one with five recievers on one side and just two with the qb not even in shotgun)




HAS TO BE one of the most brainfart idiotic ideas ever.

you never thought you would see chris colllingsworth speechless. i was to

Originally posted by TonyStarks:

This was Pagano trying to out-Belichick Belichick but Pagano is half the coach he is and thus the end result was a complete fail.

What were they even trying to accomplish? Drawing them offsides? Theres got to be abetter way than that. They just handed the game to the Pats. Ive never seen a team literally hand a game over before. It was so ridiculous.

That was the dumbest play in NFL history.

There has to have been some explanation by Pagano or his players/coaches as to what they were TRYING to accomplish there. Anyone seen a quote or anything?