Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts' Matt Ryan, Jonathan Taylor, Michael Pittman Jr. Underrated By Vegas?

Episode Date: July 19, 2022

Indianapolis Colts offensive stars Matt Ryan, Jonathan Taylor, and Michael Pittman Jr. might be underrated by sportsbooks in Las Vegas. Jake and Zach reveal the statistical over/under for Ryan, Taylor, and Pittman, and how they expect them to perform against them.Is Vegas thinking Ryan is closer to Philip Rivers rather than Andrew Luck? Can Taylor repeat his incredible second season? Does Pittman dominate the receiving targets once again in 2022?Find and follow Locked On Colts on your favorite podcast platforms:📺YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLdpxJspi1hMh5HL7ExpWOQ🎧 Apple https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1151621306🎧 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6meP450baAtjX4rTENZ5ij🎧 Audacy https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/locked-on-colts-daily-podcast-on-the-indianapolis-colts-21701🎧 Google https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vUFBZODk1ODUyODkyNQ🎧 Megaphone https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/lockedoncoltsFollow Jake and Zach's written work on HorseshoeHuddle.com, and give them a follow on Twitter @JakeArthurNFL, @ZachHicks2, and @LockedOnColts!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!DaveDownload the Dave app from the App store right now for an Extra Cash account and get up to 500 dollars instantly. For terms and conditions go to dave.com/legal. Instant transfer fees apply. Banking provided by Evolve. Member FDIC.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do we have some stats for you? Today on Locked on Colts, we tell you why Las Vegas may be underselling a few Colts stars on their stat projections and why you should take advantage of it. Let's get to it. You are Locked on Colts. Your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. Your team, every day.

All right, you beautiful Colts fans. Thank you so much for tuning in and making us your number one lesson of the day. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. I am Jake Arthur, joined as always by my partner, Zach Hicks. Today, Zach and I are going to take a look at Las Vegas' betting projections on the stats for Colts quarterback Matt Ryan, running back Jonathan Taylor, and wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. And what you may want to do about those from the betting perspective. Get your bets in now. Go ahead and capitalize on that six months from now by season's end.

So Zach will go ahead and dive in with Matt Ryan first up top at quarterback. Ryan's yardage has obviously been your favorite bet from BetOnline. I never look up. I keep forgetting to find a new one. I'm like, you know what? I'm so adamant about this one. I'm not lazy. I'm adamant. That's what it is. Exactly. No, it's yeah so all all these projections we're going to get are from of course our partners at bet online um but yeah of course if you hear zach all the time he mentions the the yardage for matt ryan uh so the over-unders they've got set for ryan are 3 850.5 passing yards 24 and a half passing touchdown, and 11 interceptions.

Zach, what say you? Yeah, I think those are all kind of – well, I mean, interceptions I think is a little high, but I can live with the interceptions being at 11 there. I think that's – you know, it's in the ballpark. You know, I would say somewhere between like 8 to 12, 7 to 12, somewhere in there for interceptions. So I could see it. I think touchdowns – yeah, I think touchdowns are a little low, but I could see a way.

Because, you know, it's weird. I always want to compare this Matt Ryan era that we're entering into right now to either Phillip Rivers or Andrew Luck. Andrew Luck was on the high end of touchdowns. I think he was like mid-30s, right? Or high 30s. I feel like he had... I have him right here.

He threw 39. Yeah, so that's a little high. I mean, if Matt Ryan gets close to that, we're feeling great. I think Phillip Rivers, for all the success he had, I think he was only like 27, I believe. Rivers was 24. 24, yes, or even lower than that. I think somewhere in the middle there is probably where I would go. You know, like 28, 29, maybe 30. Maybe he gets up there, but

you know, the Colts, they love to run it when they get it within the 10-yard line, so that's why Jonathan Taylor had so many touchdowns last year. So I could see 24 maybe for touchdowns, but those yards, those yards are terrible. Like, they have to be expecting the Colts to throw as much as they did last year. But like, they threw that little, that, you know, that few amount because down the stretch, they didn't trust Wentz.

And, you know, you could say this, even if you're the most avid Wentz fan from last year, you could watch the way that those games were called down the stretch. I mean, against the Patriots, he threw 12 passes, like just 12 passes. I know. Yeah. The Bills obviously was before that when they were rolling, but he didn't throw any passes in that because they're running so well. But even down the stretch, even more than that, you know, Jaguars game, they were trying to keep the ball in his hand. It's just they were not throwing the ball much down the stretch. I think there was points where it got up to like 65 35 split with running

the ball more that's not going to happen this year you know Matt Ryan even if he doesn't have the highs that Carson Wentz had last year he's going to be so much more consistent that you can always rely on him throwing the ball you know there will be games where it'll be 15 passes or 20 passes because the running game is so effective. But for the most part, the passing game is going to be a very consistent part of this offense in 2022. And I just don't see any way that he's under 4,000 yards outside of an injury or he really just is cooked. Like just shockingly, he forgot how to play quarterback. But yeah, again, 4,000 yards.

He's done that every single year since 2011 outside of last year uh and last year obviously he missed it by like 30 yards so yeah exactly 32 yards yeah yeah so he he's gonna go over 4 000 yards as long as he's healthy and he's fine like he's the matt ryan we expect 4 000 yards is a walk in the park. Honestly, I would put closer to 42 or 4,300 yards passing. It seems like Vegas is leaning more towards a mix of Phillip Rivers and Carson Wentz rather than, like you said, Phillip Rivers and Andrew Luck. That's exactly where I fall. It's just somewhere in the middle of that. A little more physically capable than Rivers, but obviously

Andrew Luck is a unicorn, basically. I could see him getting to 30 touchdowns, but I'd like to put it at about 28 maybe. I think in the modern NFL, that's honestly not much of a stretch anymore. That used to be a lot of touchdowns, but about 28 is about where I see it. I'll give him 11 interceptions, so that's fine. Again, that's another thing it seems like a lot, because you have guys like Aaron Rodgers who throw like five. But 11's not that bad.

Andrew Luck was a pretty regular 10 to 15 interception guy. You can live with it. It's fine. The yardage, definitely smashing the over on that. I think Phillip Rivers was at like 3,900 and Andrew Luck was 4,500. So anywhere in the middle, 42, like you said, is probably what we're looking at. But the reason being, I mean, of course, we don't know what to expect outside of Michael Pittman Jr. at receiver. But I think people look too singularly at the wide receiver group as the pass catchers but

you've got Mo Alleycox who I think Matt Ryan is going to be a pretty big fan of we don't know what the roles for Kylan Granson Jelani Woods will look like they're young tight ends so who knows but Jonathan Taylor and Iheem Hines that is a great group of pass catching running backs right there anything you get you, Ashton Doolin and Alec Pierce, both of those guys can stretch the field. I just think it's kind of, it's got a decent blend of flavor, I guess, from all the pass catchers. Like, someone like Matt Ryan can find a win just about anywhere. Like, he's going to have some downsides to him, but I don't know. I see pretty much all these numbers except for the interceptions being kind of low-balling him a little bit.

Yeah, I think these pass catchers, I think it's closer to 2018 with Andrew Love. You have your dominant guy. You have your T.Y. Hilton. You have your Michael Pittman Jr. where they're going to go for 1,200, 1,300, 1,400 yards, which we'll talk about more with Michael Pittman Jr. here coming up. They're going to go for that wide receiver one total. And then after that, you might get an Eric Ebron where an Allie Cox or a Jelani Woods goes off for a big number. But outside of that, nobody really had that many yards receiving.

Naeem Hines had 63 catches that year. I think Dontrell Inman came in late and had almost 500 yards. There was a lot of guys who had good numbers, but there was nobody who was like that guy at number two, you know, that, that number two target, but Andrew Luck still through for, you know, almost 4,500 yards or 4,500 yards. And that was T.Y. Hilton on zero ankles for like the last eight weeks of the season.

T.Y. Hilton's just built differently like the last eight weeks of the season. T.Y. Hilton's just built differently. That's what it was. Very different. But, yeah, no, I think it's closer to that. And I think it's something that Frank Wright can work with. And honestly, again, on top of having pass catchers who are kind of capable, even though they might be, you know, not as great as a lot of other teams, you have Frank Wright working with an elite running back. Life is so much easier when you have an elite running back because just the threat of that running back breaking off an 80-yard run is going to be enough to bring defenses up on play actions

or bring them up on over-the-middle throws or something. They're going to have more guys in the box, more linebackers on the field. And I know that a lot of people say, oh, play action is not indicative of play action or running game success is not indicative of play action success. But that's not how real football works. You know, I know you can look at all the numbers, but the threat of a run, the threat of a good runner is always going to be there for defenses. So when you have a Jonathan Taylor, you have a Derrick Henry, like with the Titans, you're going to have more success throwing the ball over the middle of play action or just over the middle in general because you're going to have more linebackers on the field for your passing game to exploit. So I think Matt

Ryan is going to have a very healthy yards per attempt, healthy passing yards, healthy pass touchdowns this year. I definitely think Vegas and BetOnline is kind of low balling here. I would definitely smash the over on those. Yeah, absolutely. And like you said with the play action, I'm glad you mentioned it because Frank wants the play action to work. He's been talking about it since 2018, and at the times where it's not clicking, he always kind of seems to find a way to bring it up. So definitely look for that. That'll breed big plays, touchdowns, yards, what have you. Yeah, absolutely. But now, guys, wes, yards, what have you. Yeah, absolutely.

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wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. There are a pair of Colts on there, so you'll definitely want to make sure you're checking that out. Zach and I gave our podcasts and on YouTube. There are a pair of Colts on there, so you'll definitely want to make sure you're checking that out. Zach and I gave our two cents on that. So I'll tell you everything you need to know. All right. So the next guy is someone who just filled the stat sheet.

God, he stats everything last year. So with the precedent he set, it's kind of hard to know what, you know, how is he going to repeat that? That, of course, is Jonathan Taylor. He was, you know, Offensive Player of the Year candidate, MVP candidate last year. He ran for over 1,800 yards, over 2,000 yards from scrimmage, led the league in pretty much everything, it seems like. This year, BetOnline has him at 1,400.5 rushing yards and 13 rushing touchdowns. This one's real interesting. You and I both had a lot of confidence saying to bet the overs on Matt Ryan. I will say I like the over on rushing touchdowns for Taylor at 13,

just because he's so effective in the red zone. Plus he's a home run hitter. He can score from 99 yards. He could score from the inch line. Like he's one of those players that can score from wherever. 1400 yards. That's real interesting because I think we both think the Colts are going to run the ball less. And I was looking at it.

I used my calculator because I don't math well. So 1,400.5 rushing yards. If you say his yards per carry is going to be somewhere in between his rookie year and last year. Let's just for the sake of low-balling him a little bit. He averaged 5 on the nose as a rookie in 5.5 last year. 5.5 is a lot. So I said, let's look at 5.3 yards per carry. Still a lot.

It is, but it's him. I think he could do it. No, no, I see it. I see it. That gives him 264 carries, which, again, would put him in between rookie year and last year. He had 332 last year. He may not

even hit 300 again this next year. So, 264 might be fair, which puts him at about 1,400. Eh, what do you think? That's tough, because ideally we want him around 1,400 yards rushing. We'd want him around 1,400 yards rushing.

We'd want him to get around 250 to 260 to 270 carries. We don't want him 330, 340, 350 because then you get into that Derrick Henry territory where it's like we're overfeeding this running back, and who knows what he's going to be by the time he gets to his mid to late 20s or early 30s or something like that. Ah, this is tough. I'm going to lean over, but slightly over. I could see 280 carries around 1,500 yards. I do think over on touchdowns is a good bet.

I mean, he had like 20-something rushing touchdowns last year. It was insane. Or like 20 rushing touchdowns. Yeah, he had 18 rushing touchdowns and another two receiving. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's absurd how much work he gets in the goal line. He had by far and away the most carries within the 10-yard line and the most carries within the 5-yard line last year among all running backs.

So I think it's a safe bet to go over on 13. Again, barely, though, because I don't think he's going to get up to 18 or 20. But rushing yards is tough. Because ideally, if you go back to our Matt Ryan thing, we said Matt Ryan's going to throw 41, 42, maybe 4,300 yards passing. That doesn't leave that many. I mean, there's going to be a difference there, because that's almost 1,000 yards more than Carson Wentz.

So they could take away some, some numbers from, from Jonathan Taylor there. Man, I would, yeah, I think slightly over, I think around 1500 yards rushing and like 14, 15, 16 rushing touchdowns, which is still like offensive player of the year numbers. Like that, that's absurd numbers right there. But it does kind of feel like a letdown considering what we got last year but i do think yeah if say he comes under that 1400 yard rushing number maybe it's around 12 or 1300 yards rushing i think he will supplant that with with a lot more receiving yards you know we could see 300 400 maybe 500 yards receiving from him if

these receivers really don't step up uh because the the colts are gonna be throwing the ball more there's gonna be a lot more passes going to running backs. But yeah, I can see him getting around 300 yards receiving or so, 300, 350 and getting like 1300 yards rushing. So it's like, you know, 1650 total yards and around 18 to 20 touchdowns again. Like that's still, again, offensive player numbers again. Yeah. I think we're going to see another 1800 to 2000 yards from scrimmage again but it's just gonna probably be divvied up a little differently i gun to my head i do think it'll be just a little over 1400 probably like 1450 or something just because he he was so good last year like he it did it not seem like he had a big run or some sort of big play on like

every opening drive last year. He's still, he still can do that. Like he's just, he's so good. I don't want to bet against him. The rushing touchdowns at what I say was 13. I do think the Colts will pass more in the red zone just because Matt Ryan is so much more accurate and you can trust him to pass in the red zone more. I still think he goes over the 13, 14, but yeah, it won't be 18,

19, but I think I'll, I think I'll give him the slight over on both. What's weird about Taylor though, which he kind of has, it's kind of like a Jamal Charles type feel with him where his rookie year it was like okay for half the year he was kind of quiet but when he got going I mean it was about he got a thousand yards quickly you know that looks like he looked like Wisconsin Jonathan Taylor real quick right right and then last year too again

the first you know three or four games it kind of took him a minute you know i think i think he didn't have a hundred yard game through the first like four or five i know i think against miami had like a hundred yard game but it was like the first couple games he didn't have a hundred yards and then he had a hundred yards like pretty much every game until the last you know like two games because nobody performed well in those last two games but it's kind of like that that jamal charles where it's like oh he'll have a game where he barely gets over 100 or he gets just under 100 and you're like oh gosh maybe he's not this star guy and then he'll go for 200 or he'll go for 250 so it's weird like you kind of

are like is he going to have a season where like every game is over 100 yards or every game is is like a 100 or 150 because he's very capable of doing that. It's just, it's going to be sporadically, and when it happens, it's going to be huge numbers. So it's kind of hard to predict his end-of-the-year stuff because how often is it going to happen? But, I mean, we're at this point, like I said on Twitter a while back, you know, him, Nick Chubb, Derrick Henry, they're the top three backs in the game,

and they could easily, all three of them, go for 2,000 yards in a season if they get the carries. So I wouldn't doubt him by any means but I would ideally want to see him around 13 14 1500 yards rushing see him get more catches and more in the passing game because ideally you want the passing game to be more productive and more indicative of your success than your running game exactly perfect world he's 13, 1400 and it's an indicator that the passing game is working. Cause I, as much as, as much fun as it was to watch him dominate last year, it came, it came because the passing game was just so inconsistent. So I think we all would give up a little Jonathan Taylor productivity to see more from the passing game.

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He looked good as a rookie. He had a little hiccup midway through. He had the compartment syndrome in his leg. Bounced back to start all 17 games last year. Led the team far and away in everything receiving. He had eight receptions, 1,082 yards, and six receiving touchdowns. I've written it before, but he led the team by almost 70 targets, 50 receptions, a bunch more yards. It wasn't even close. So with that in mind, the Colts really haven't

done anything to threaten his spot or threaten his targets for the most part. They still have the young nucleus of guys they had before, they've added alex smith or alex pierce who is a rookie so you kind of have to keep that in mind he's still very much the top dog in the pecking order and with that that online has set his over under 85 and a half receptions 1025.5 receiving yards and six and a half receiving touchdowns. What say you, Zach? I like receptions around that. I think receptions are fine. Touchdowns are volatile.

So I don't really, it's hard to say a or nine on 6.5 touchdowns because it really could go either way. I think yards are very low though. And I think it might, that might go hand in hand with what we're saying about Matt Ryan. But I don't see him taking a step back and receiving yards this year. I don't. Like, yes, the targets were insane last year to him.

Again, it was like 26% of the targets in offense to him last year. Like, it was absurd how many targets went his way. But even if the targets come down, you've got to think the efficiency is going to go up this year. He's going to have more receptions. He's going to have a higher catch percentage on targets coming his way because there'll be more catchable balls going to him. And also the offense is going to be opened up a little bit more just because, again, you have a more efficient quarterback. You're going to be opened up a little bit more just because again you have a more efficient quarterback you're going to have more consistent quarterback you're not going to

have games where you know even if the passing offense uh is is kind of having a slow game it's still going to be an effective offense and there were games last year with zero passing offense so michael jr was having you know 10 year games at times or something like that you know it's kind of inconsistent because the passing game was inconsistent. With a more consistent passing game, with a couple more – I'm not going to say the other threats in this offense are better than last year, but they're more explosive. They're a little more – you have to count –

Jelani Woods is more explosive than Jack Doyle. Alec Pierce is more – Sure. Yeah. Alec Pierce is more explosive than Zach Paschal. You have more explosive weapons that defense had to account for, which lets Michael Pittman Jr. operate in that intermediate-type game. I just think he's going to be so much more efficient this year.

I think you're going to see the yards per catch kind of go up. You're going to see more efficient targets to him. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm just too high on him but i really see like a 12 13 maybe 1400 yard receiving season for him like i i don't know maybe maybe it's just us that are super high on him but like from everything i saw last year you know he's a big bodied guy with smooth feet that can beat press that can win down the field and he wins his contested catches like i i think he has everything capable to be a wide receiver one,

to be one day maybe a top 15 receiver in the league or a top 10 receiver in the league. Now he's got a quarterback that can better utilize him. I really think 12, 13, 1400 yards is very capable for him. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I actually wrote about this the other day and it caught a lot of, uh, it caught a lot of traffic just because people, you know, that's, that's something that a

lot of people seem to be passionate about is him taking a dip in production just doesn't seem very realistic. The receptions is really close. Like he's just a couple off of last year um but i i would i would put him closer to 90 i think uh that's not a that's not much of a stretch anymore with how much more passing there is um plus even though carson wentz that that was the guy that carson clicked with the most matt ryan is more accurate and then so carson targeted him a lot but it wasn't always accurate matt ryan is more accurate what were pitman juniors him a lot, but it wasn't always accurate. Matt Ryan is more accurate. What were Pittman Jr.'s targets last year? Wasn't it like 130 or like high 120s?

Yeah, 129 I think. So 129 you caught, what was it? 88 passes last year? I already closed it, but it's like 85-88. One of the two. That's so inefficient.

Like, I'm not saying it's like a horrible year by any means or anything like that. But you want to see more of those. If you're going to get 130 targets or close to 130 targets, you'd want to see your receiver get over 100 catches in that instance. You know, being where he was at the end of the year when he was, I mean, he was getting, you know, not Cooper Cup targets, but he was getting, you know, Stefan Diggs type targets and stuff like that to finish in the 80s I'm not saying it's all Carson Wentz's fault by any means but it is kind of indicative of the

inconsistency in this offense I just with a more consistent passer and more consistent passing game overall I just see the efficiency being better so So even if the targets dropped to like 110, it'll probably still be in the 80s in terms of catches. Yeah, absolutely. Touchdowns, like you said, is a wash. We've seen guys with like 110, 120 catches have five, four or five touchdowns. You just never know how that's going to pan out. In the red zone, you have Jonathan Taylor getting carries. You have a bunch of other tall guys in the receiving game that can catch balls.

So you just don't know what that's going to look like. Receiving yard zone, very confidently hammering me over on that. That's an average for him of like 60 yards a game. And he's a bona fide, unquestquestioned top receiver top pass catching threat on his team like naheem hines isn't going to threaten it um mo ellen cox isn't going to threaten it like he is the pass catcher on the team yeah so he'll hammer that i think you know you mentioned like 1300 yards seems pretty appropriate um i wouldn't be surprised to see 1,400. But I can confidently say he'll have more than 1,025 yards.

Yeah, I think the thing for me with looking at that, because I actually did an article I think a couple weeks ago about Michael Pittman Jr. and just why he was so good last year and why he was so productive. And the thing is, while he does a lot of good things down the field, he beats press, he wins the contested catches, he does all those things. At the end of the day, Frank Reich knows he's the number one guy, and he creates plays that go to Michael Pittman Jr.

And they're not even all downfield shots either. You know, it'll be a mesh route where he's going to be singled up with a linebacker. It'll be, you know, a legal pick play or whatever, where you're just going to have a guy pick his defender so he can get open across the middle. It'll be a you know a legal pick play or whatever where you're just going to have a guy pick his defender so he can get open across the middle it'll be a quick screen to the outside it'll be a reverse in the backfield or something like that you know Frank Reich wants to get the ball in Michael Pittman Jr.'s hands because he knows good things happen when he does that so for him to you know have a decrease in numbers or same numbers as it was last year.

I just don't see that happening. Yeah, there you have it, guys. You know which bets to make now. You're definitely going to want to go to the bank and absolutely go over on Matt Ryan and Michael Pittman Jr. especially. Well, I think that is it for us again, guys. Again, leave a review. Let us know how you felt about it.

Leave a comment somewhere. We will be back with you tomorrow but before we sign off here today it it feels you know just very appropriate to acknowledge uh the incident that happened at the greenwood park mall on i think sunday afternoon sunday evening of course uh you know, someone opened fire in the mall and unfortunately three people lost their lives. And that's, you know, Zach, you're, you're in Virginia, but guys, I'm, I'm here in Indy. You know, I'm, I'm very familiar with the Greenwood park mall. I'm like, I'm on the West side. I'm like 30, 35 minutes away. I think, you know, most of us out there listening, you probably have some connection to the south side of India and Greenwood So this really hit close to home

But it was Pedro Pineda His wife Rosa Miriam Rivera de Pineda And Victor Gomez Our thoughts are obviously with their loved ones And their families. It's just an unfortunate – unfortunately happens far too often, and now it's kind of happened here in central Indiana. So didn't want to sign off for the night without us acknowledging that.

It's definitely something that's kind of been at the forefront of our thoughts for the last 24 hours. So with that note, again, we'll be back with you guys tomorrow. Zach and I are each going to pick a player from the three other AFC South teams that we would like to steal on behalf of the Colts for the 2022 season only. So, of course, you might want someone like Trevor Lawrence for their career, but this is just 2022. So you'll want to join us tomorrow for that.

And, you know, how are the Colts going to make the Super Bowl run with those guys? We'll tell you.