….yesterday shouldn’t be any indicator of the passing game. When you don’t need to throw any passes they usually end up not looking that good when you do.

If you want to see us go away from the run game. The last couple drives of that game were excellent. We weren’t able to run at all but KC and B. Jones were able to hook up multiple times in the end. I think in the final drive we didn’t run once. I doubt we’ll see any better defense than the Ravens this year and we proved our passing game can handle business when they need to. That being said I think our O-line is good enough that we’ll always be able to run a little.

..that they have been the most consistent team in football. That says a lot in a year that has been marked by inconsitency.

… the Colts were the team caught “looking ahead”.

Noone can name a game where we couldn’t pass the ball. The fact is that we haven’t needed to. Steve Smith is a wide receiver of course he’s going to say we need to pass more. Jeff Fisher wont pass just to pass. He wont throw it just to make people happy. Like Danno said it’s all about matchups and our run game pretty much always matches up well against our opponents. Of our remaining opponents I can only think of a couple defenses that may force us to really pass: The Bears and the Steelers.

Oh,wait…..

Is the worst part of our team from what I can see, and if I could wave a magic fan wand and improve one area of the team, it would be that one and not the passing offense.

And I think we already played the team (ravens) where we needed the passing game to work the most. Colts aren’t as good against the run as those guys are. Packers have a pretty good secondary – I think our run game is going to need to work at least decently to beat those guys in their home field. We’ve still got a game against the Jags too – we’ll need to pass respectably well in that one.

The passing game looks like a C+ to me. That’s not bad. If we had an A passing game with the rest of the team as good as it is, we’d have one of the best teams to ever take the field, period,

If there’s one lesson the last three years have taught us, it’s that you can run all over the Colts. You have to have the threat obviously, but our O-Line just makes pounding the rock through their small defensive players all too easy.

Whenyou are running well, you’re also doing a few other things that are very, very good:
1. Winning time of possession.
2. Tiring out the other team’s defense.
3. Allowing fewer opportunities for turnovers.
4. Imposing your will on the other team.
5. Keeping the opposing Offense off the field.

These are all things that are good. When you can run it successfully even when they are expecting the run, usually that means you are not just winning, you are dominating.

You know Fisher’s got something up his sleeve.

And you are right—I was thinking that they wouldn’t show anything special against the Chiefs.

Fisher has outcoached Dungy before and I don’t see that changing next week.

Think about the Ravens game. They set up stuff for the later quarters by running specific things early in the game.

If there’s gonna be a VY Package, I would look for a few vanilla looks early in the game and then some kind of wacko variant later. That said, if the running game is working without gadget plays, then I wouldn’t look for anything tricky.

But I hope Peyton is prepared to feel Haynesworth’s weight lying on top of him when he gets sacked about 8 times.

this is going to be a good week :-)

Did I confuse the Colts fans with someone else the past several years?

it was his face, and more of a stomp than a kick. call him some 9yr old insult to his face and he might be willing to demonstrate the difference between the two for you.

Peyton Manhumping completes a long pass to Marvin Harryballsackson. see how easy that is? (please don’t shoot me marvin!!!!!)

First, you seem to have misinterpreted the statement. It was not a summary of what has been said, but rather, a prediction of what will be said, specifically by the media, should we lose to Colts on Monday. Though especially for the third one, “an exposing of the Titans” I fail to see how you can claim it is unwarranted given the statements being made over at Stampede Blue about how the Titans are not as good as their record indicates. I’ll grab some quotes if you really want me to.

As far as coming over to poke us in the ribs about our response to our start, I’m not sure what you were expecting. We’re undefeated and justifiably proud of that fact. If our knees are not exactly shaking with terror at the Colts approach, perhaps it is because we regularly played closely contested games against the significantly better Indy teams of recent memory; not only that, we did it with markedly less talent on the field than the Titans currently possess.

Finally, no, we don’t think Albert Haynesworth cares what you say about him. That still doesn’t explain why you feel it’s okay to come over to our blog and call him names.