Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts Melt Down in Loss to Philadelphia Eagles

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Indianapolis Colts are going through growing pains, and on Sunday it resulted in them squandering the game and losing at home to the Philadelphia Eagles 17-16. We'll tell you all about it on today's show. 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. Hey, what's up, guys? Thank you all for tuning in and making us your first listen of the day. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Today's show is presented by PrizePix. PrizePix is daily fantasy made easy.

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Starting point is 00:01:39 on it and want to make the show better for you guys moving forward. So just trying to get some things cleared up. Please hang in there with us. We will get better, I promise. But on today's show, hopefully flawlessly, we'll dive into the Colts' 17-16 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles here at Lucas Oil Stadium. As you can see, my beautiful background here. I'm in the press box. The Colts are now 4-6-1 in Jeff Saturday's second game. They got the win last week against the Las Vegas Raiders, of course. And honestly, they should have won today against the Eagles. They controlled it throughout most of the game. But of course, ultimately at the end, they just kind of gave it away. Won too many mistakes. I think that's going

Starting point is 00:02:25 to be the trend this is who they are uh they're going to be a little closer to average now rather than the bad football team that we've seen them be a lot of time this season uh they should win advantageous matchups like last week against the raiders and then probably show some youth and be unable to close out against some of these really good teams like today with the Eagles, who honestly, again, like I mentioned, the Colts should have won, but the Eagles just, they're one of those really good teams. They're going to take advantage of mistakes that the Colts make. And, you know, it was still a good showing.

Starting point is 00:02:59 Nonetheless, I, if you're taking moral victories today, it was a moral victory for the Colts. But nonetheless, in a one score game like this, every mistake matters. Unfortunately, the Colts aren't quite good enough yet to overcome that. They were one of two in the red zone. They got three field goals overall. The offense tapered off after the first drive. They got their first points on an opening drive since last Christmas.

Starting point is 00:03:23 So not only just of this season, but since last year, almost a full calendar year, because it's almost Christmas season now. Of course, they got Jonathan Taylor running, running really strong on that first drive, 49 yards on seven carries in the touchdown. And then after that, things just kind of clunked away, three straight drives that ended in punts and then they finally got a field goal again at the end of the first half so you know they they had a decent first uh first 15 and then you know it was odd so they they ran the ball very well early on and then their second drive was a three and out with three straight passes so not really sure what they hoped to accomplish on that but it just

Starting point is 00:04:11 that one net turnovers were a big factor they had one of them on on the drive that looked like it might have ended in points uh jonathan taylor had a really impressive run was driving the pile pushing it forward in hindsight probably should have just gave up gone down because he got the ball stripped as fun as it was to see him keep the play alive and keep driving, that's ultimately what allowed the Eagles to themselves keep ripping at the ball and get it loose and recover it. Defensively, the Colts did hold Philly to 17 points. The Eagles have been a really good offense all year, but Jalen Hurts just killed them with his legs he had 86 yards on the ground which led the whole both teams the whole game and you know there were just too

Starting point is 00:04:51 many times when he had all day to throw so especially late I thought the Colts pass rush was better in the first half but late it just seemed like he's already a guy that can buy time with his legs he just sat there in the pocket and had forever to scan the field. Obviously, against a guy like that who's an MVP frontrunner, that's just not going to cut it. We'll move on here in a moment and talk to you about the offense more specifically. But first, today's episode is brought to you by Total Wine & More. This holiday season, find what you love at Total Wine & More.

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Starting point is 00:06:32 offense specifically, only 284 yards total. There were five of 15 on third down, which is just 33%. That's one thing that kind of tells the tale of the tape you know again every mistake matters in this and they just were not clutch they didn't come through on those drives especially again in the second half the eagles knew they were going to be able to blitz successfully they just kind of sent pressure and it worked again colts were one to two in the red zone just didn't get it done settling for field goals and they got. And they got two bonus drives based on takeaways that the defense gave them. Something that's been a theme pretty much all year is the defense just being put in tough spots because the offense is doing them no favors.

Starting point is 00:07:18 And I think the offense was quite as ugly as it has been earlier in the year, but it felt a little different. But still, just six points, which, sure, that's great that they got points off of those turnovers, but six points isn't enough, again, especially. One score game, 17-16. The Colts had a missed field goal that, in hindsight, makes a huge difference, 50-yarder. That's a difficult one to make, but still three points.

Starting point is 00:07:48 That would have been the game. The Colts play calling-wise, I thought, got away from some things that were working. Jonathan Taylor, of course, rolling early on 49 yards just on the first drive. And they abandoned the run a little bit. And then when they came back to it, I just thought like, I thought a lot of their stuff was just kind of unimaginative, right up the gut, long developing carries and handoffs, you know,

Starting point is 00:08:13 a lot of counters and stuff like that. John, the Taylor's fast. I'd love to see them try to get him the ball and stretch plays or like just outside, just running up. The gut is just not always going to be the way to do it and as you guys remember when naheem hines was here too he probably would have had a couple carries up the gut as well it's just it's something they've got to learn to change like it's just not always going to be the case that philly they they sensed it was coming and they were they were

Starting point is 00:08:41 ready for it michael pittman jr getting a lot of balls over the middle uh in stride with with room to get yards after the catch i think that's money for them it's something i would continue to lean on uh he had i think 84 yards today and a lot of that was picked up on plays like that giving him opportunities to to create yards on the ground afterwards. Both Pitt and Paris Campbell, great today. Six for 75 for Pitt and five for 67 for Campbell. Campbell's been on a hot streak, of course. Personally, I would love to see Kylan Granson involved more. He had just one catch for 16 yards. He had another one that would have been a first down that was wiped out by a penalty. We'll get to the stuff about penalties here in a minute. So the offensive line, I thought

Starting point is 00:09:32 the veterans did fine today. You know, Quentin Nelson, Ryan Kelly, Braden Smith. But the problem positions, which has been an issue all year, left tackle Bernard Ryman and right guard Will Fries. Now I'll start by saying I think they are the right guys for the job. I think the Colts do have their correct starting five right now. But this was one of those days where those young guys just really took their lumps. It was a growing pains day, like I mentioned at the top. Both players, I think, had at least two penalties. Fries might have had three. And Bernard Ryman gave up at least two sacks, and some of them at the worst time.

Starting point is 00:10:13 He had one each in the Colts' final two drives. There was one where the Colts were just knocking at the door down here at Philly's five-yard line. I think it was on third down. Hassan Reddick just came through and blew Matt Ryan up. And he made a nice move, but he got right past Ryman. And then on the Colts' final drive with under a minute remaining on third down, Brandon Graham just bullied Bernard Ryman back into Matt Ryan and got him again. So luckily Ryman is one of those guys. He's going to study the tape. He's going to do everything he can to get better.

Starting point is 00:10:48 But this was definitely one of those, those games he's going to need to learn from fries. Physically. I didn't feel like he had like a terrible game in his matchups. It was just really the penalties, you know, that stuff's always going to kill you. And it was,

Starting point is 00:11:02 it was on both sides. I'm not going to mention like the the refereeing was fine the colts only had one more penalty than the eagles the eagles got called a bunch in the first half so as far as all that goes that was called pretty evenly so uh with that said before we move on to the defense let me tell you about our pals over at prize picks looking at monday night football for monday night 49ers running back christian let me tell you about our pals over at Prize Picks. Looking at Monday Night Football for Monday night, 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey is currently set at 65.5 rushing yards and 35.5 receiving yards. With Elijah Mitchell coming back in the lineup off of IR,

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Starting point is 00:12:59 Colts defense, I didn't really have any big gripes about them. They held the Eagles to 17 points. That's great. They did have a couple. So they had some big issues that wound up playing a significant role down the stretch. Number one, Jalen Hurts, you know, rushing for about 85 yards. He had some really untimely runs for the Colts defense. Had a 28-yarder at one point. And he scored the go-ahead touchdown near the end of the game. I don't know what the Eagles saw. They must have known it was coming on the Colts, but they opened just a wide hole right up the middle. There was no Colts anywhere in sight, and he just strolled right in. He could have literally rolled in sight and he just strolled right in he could have literally rolled in so he really

Starting point is 00:13:46 commanded things there and that's that's always kind of backbreaking when the quarterback you're playing can pick up yardage like that it's it's always tough but again I mentioned earlier that he had a lot of time to throw as well especially in the second half so no matter how many points you hold him to it's that's always going to be hard to lose or hard to win. And no surprise, defensively, DeForest Buckner and Grover Stewart were awesome. They were all over the place making plays behind the line of scrimmage. Outside of Hurts, I thought the Colts did well against the run. Miles Sanders wasn't much of a factor.

Starting point is 00:14:19 And if it weren't for their quarterback having some wide open lanes to run on the outside and stuff, if it was a traditional running game, I think the Colts did well. This was Yannick Ngakwe's biggest performance so far. I mentioned in my postgame piece that he kind of he'd gotten really quietly to five sacks on the season. I think a lot of us had expected more or at least more consistency to this point. He had one and a half sacks today against the Eagles. I thought he was consistently in the backfield, you know, flushing Jalen Hurts either up or out of the pocket. You know, he affected the pocket multiple times.

Starting point is 00:15:00 Dio the dang bow was out there a bit. I saw some nice things from him. He still needs the developmental snaps. He's not ready to be a starter yet, of course, but, you know, we've said all year that he's just one of those guys that needs to continue getting those snaps in order to develop. I thought the Eagles did a good job of pulling the Colts linebackers away from the middle of the field, you know, particularly on that Hur hurts touchdown run late in the game you know there was no one there to be found you know none of the linebackers were there um the linebackers played fast but again the eagles had a good game plan to counter how the

Starting point is 00:15:37 colts linebackers play and just kind of space the the whole field out and give hurts room to run uh one guy that's taken his lumps throughout the year, you know, we've talked, we've had some things to say about him lately. Brandon Faison, I actually thought he did pretty well. There was a play where Jalen Hurts first downfield shot the game. He went deep down the right side to Devontae Smith, Smith who was much faster than Faison. But Faison just kind of kept him to the boundary like he

Starting point is 00:16:07 should have and just out-positioned him for it and just kept Smith away from the ball. And that's really all you can ask from a guy like that. Well, I think that is it for us. Zach will be back with us soon, hopefully. Check back with us this week as we tackle the topics that all you guys are talking about. You guys hit us up on Twitter, of course. We know what you guys want to hear. And we'll get ready for this Monday Night Football Game against the Pittsburgh Steelers next week. Follow Locked on Colts at JakeArthurNFL and at ZachHicks2 on Twitter. Also subscribe to both shows on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts. We love

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Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts Melt Down in Loss to Philadelphia Eagles

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