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Description: Evaluating the Colts' game plan, opting for a 60-yard field goal instead of a 4th and 3 play in a pivotal match. Philip Rivers gave Indianapolis a chance.

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Evaluating the Colts' game plan, opting for a 60-yard field goal instead of a 4th and 3 play in a pivotal match. Philip Rivers gave Indianapolis a chance.

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I'll start with this old man Rivers gave the Colts a chance, shot in the arm. The thing is, fuck 20. So that's my thing for, you know, the, hey, he gave him a chance. Well, they didn't take the training wheels off. Joe, that no, Joe, that's about how it's gonna look at 4 points. That's about how it's 4.4 yards per pass play. I mean dinking and dunking all the way to, to a victory. I think the difficult thing is the, so they had a so. They had a 3rd and 7th, right? And they ran it with Taylor, right? I think they're hoping maybe he busts it, but let's bleed clock. But it brings up a 4th and 3 with 47 seconds to go, and they kicked the field goal. And they made it. Now, it's a sixty-yard field goal. Like, that's not an easy field goal, but they made it. But did anybody think that Seattle wasn't going to get a field goal of their own? Yeah, I mean, why not? Your defense can't give you a stop. But OK, why is that on Rivers? Rivers, no, no, no, no, that's on Steketon. I think they should have gone for the 4th and 3. What would you have done? Gone for the 4th and 3. No, no, no, I know. Gone for the 4th and 3, but with a quarterback that, to your point, well, he's 4.4 in attempt, we only needed 3 yards. We're money. Oh, so a little pop pass, yeah, I mean little pop pass. But Joe, here's my thing, they kicked the field goal and lost, so that, that, that decision they did lose. People would say, Oh, if you just kick, no, it's a 60 yard again. And the chances of making the 60 yarder are not like 100%. So it's groupie, right? I, yeah, I mean, that's our boy. I it's got leg. I understand that it went in and they still lost. He had them in a position with 50 seconds left to win the game. Syke didn't put his team in a position, but the defense, I mean, big bad Sam Darn, if I would have, let me just ask you this. If I would have said before the game, hey, Colts score 16. Who do you think wins the game? Look, uh, uh, I'm just saying I, I, I know, but everybody, everybody said that Sam, uh, uh, Phil Rivers was gonna get smashed for a guy that hasn't played in 5 years to come off and put his team in a position, and I know Jonathan Taylor rushed it for 25 carries, right, 87 yards. I mean, come on, I mean. Uh, he shook off the ring rust and had this, they weren't gonna be in that position with Riley Leonard. I'm not sure. I, I'm, I'm not sure that I'm not, I'm not sure that's the case. Again, the Rivers numbers are nothing, and Riley Leonard is far more of a mobile threat. Obviously, that's what they believe. Here's my bigger thing, Joe. Colts projected wins update via the Joe Lecy calculator. OK. Early perception. They have to play the Niners at home, the Jags, and the Texans. Do you think this team wins the game? I think they could, I think they could catch on that. I'm still not. I like the Jags, and I, I think they can make a run this year, but, but again, they're still young enough to, uh, I mean, I, uh, on any given day they could lose. I just, I know they smashed the Jets, but my, I'm not, I'm not, you know, Texans too now what, what they have injuries, right? Chub and, and Mark's a little bit.

Colts' Strategic Decisions: A Game of Inches and Yards

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