[Kevin Bowen] Gus Bradley today on the #Colts defensive issues: -“Starts with me as a play caller,” followed by some missed assignments, tackles -On Sunday’s 1st quarter: “About as poor as you can play.” -Asked about scheme evolving: “At times, it might be getting too cute.”
September 17, 2024
[Kevin Bowen] Gus Bradley today on the #Colts defensive issues: -“Starts with me as a play caller,” followed by some missed assignments, tackles -On Sunday’s 1st quarter: “About as poor as you can play.” -Asked about scheme evolving: “At times, it might be getting too cute.”
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“Too cute”?? Brother you don’t call anything, randomly selecting plays on a spinning wheel probably would have done better
I’m down for Ask Madden at this point.
“Felt cute, might get fired later”
That response sounds like a gambler who’s way down but doubling down on next hand nevertheless.
What’s “cute” about being steamrolled?
Going with the 85 Bears 46 defense and allowing a couple of bombs to go over your head after stonewalling their run game for the 1st quarter would have been “cute”. Soft zone cover three against that GB team was more like giving up.
“I had my head up my ass the whole game”
Brother I don’t think you’re being cute enough. I think that’s the problem. You need to iterate. The shit he calls is like 2 decades old. Teams understand how to beat it.
I’ll take it. It’s all we get. Still has overtones of staying the same.
He calls one play. One!
Tone deaf.
Smell that ladies and gents? Thats the smell of a fall guy
Yeah, unfortunately the same on offense with the poor execution, the drops have been very costly. I really think these things will get fixed, but hopefully sooner rather than later.
What the hell does he mean by “too cute”? We run arguably the most basic defense in the NFL. We virtually never mix up our looks, change our fronts, nothing.
If anything, I’d like to see Gus run something “cute”. At least give the defense a different look every once in a while.
A wise defensive mind once said “If you aren’t going to be good, you better be creative”.
This guy has zero idea what he’s doing. I could’ve called the defense and gotten similar or perhaps even better results
Cute? My brother in Christ it’s the same fucking shell defense you always goddamn run.
I agree the scheme is too cute. At least based upon opposing offense point of view. “oooh, they’re running a basic cover 3 and think they can stop us. Isn’t that cute?!?”
Too cute? Literally everyone thinks this guys scheme is basic af
Mr. Bradley, I know the season’s just getting underway, but I feel very confident that you are a lock for this year’s…
To be fair, the buck stops with Gus, but if you’re in our front seven and you’re not DeForest Buckner, you need to stop cosplaying as the Invisible Man. We can’t have Zaire making one or two plays a game. The fact that Cross has to tackle the rusher on most plays is sickening.
That’s not scheme, though. That’s execution.
We’re sucking at both.
My brother in Christ…do you even know what a normal, current defense looks like? Or have you just not studied the game at all and ride on the coattails of the Legion of Boom while you continue to cash your fatass paychecks as we all look on in disgust? Fucking jackass. At least give us a real answer, we deserve it at this point.
I saw nothing cute on Sunday
Gus Bradley got that JV playbook
Coaches fail up (or sideways) in the NFL constantly and Gus is a prime example.
Trying anything new or adjusting to current schemes is “getting cute.” Better just keep doing the same shit for 20 years and hope we go back to the 90’s
I would rather Ask Madden than Gus continue playcalling.
“It might be getting a little too cute”?
What the fuck? It’s not cute in the fucking slightest. It’s bland and predictable. What the fuck is cute about that?
I rewatched a bunch of the all-22 from Sunday.
Greenbay’s front 5+TE did an excellent job of maintaining running lanes through our front 4.
We were spread very wide with our front 4, often leaving massive space in the middle.
This puts the pressure on our LBs to hit the gaps and tackle. They often over committed, left assignments, and ended up on top of each other instead of in the gap.
Because of the way their front was blocking, their RB was 2-3 yards before first contact, and with momentum that yielded a 4-6 yd run.
Our DBs made some crazy mistakes, from giving massive cushion, to turning to sprint too early, to simply not going up for the ball when their receivers did.
He had to know after the first drive that what they were doing wasn’t going to work. It was the same play after play.
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“Too cute”?? Brother you don’t call anything, randomly selecting plays on a spinning wheel probably would have done better
I’m down for Ask Madden at this point.
“Felt cute, might get fired later”
That response sounds like a gambler who’s way down but doubling down on next hand nevertheless.
What’s “cute” about being steamrolled?
Going with the 85 Bears 46 defense and allowing a couple of bombs to go over your head after stonewalling their run game for the 1st quarter would have been “cute”. Soft zone cover three against that GB team was more like giving up.
“I had my head up my ass the whole game”
Brother I don’t think you’re being cute enough. I think that’s the problem. You need to iterate. The shit he calls is like 2 decades old. Teams understand how to beat it.
I’ll take it. It’s all we get. Still has overtones of staying the same.
He calls one play. One!
Tone deaf.
Smell that ladies and gents? Thats the smell of a fall guy
Yeah, unfortunately the same on offense with the poor execution, the drops have been very costly. I really think these things will get fixed, but hopefully sooner rather than later.
What the hell does he mean by “too cute”? We run arguably the most basic defense in the NFL. We virtually never mix up our looks, change our fronts, nothing.
If anything, I’d like to see Gus run something “cute”. At least give the defense a different look every once in a while.
A wise defensive mind once said “If you aren’t going to be good, you better be creative”.
This guy has zero idea what he’s doing. I could’ve called the defense and gotten similar or perhaps even better results
Cute? My brother in Christ it’s the same fucking shell defense you always goddamn run.
I agree the scheme is too cute. At least based upon opposing offense point of view. “oooh, they’re running a basic cover 3 and think they can stop us. Isn’t that cute?!?”
Too cute? Literally everyone thinks this guys scheme is basic af
Mr. Bradley, I know the season’s just getting underway, but I feel very confident that you are a lock for this year’s…
https://preview.redd.it/shem79yxkepd1.jpeg?width=533&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e061dd8126d6146bf7721395a8a6490dfa0af8ed
Too cute
To be fair, the buck stops with Gus, but if you’re in our front seven and you’re not DeForest Buckner, you need to stop cosplaying as the Invisible Man. We can’t have Zaire making one or two plays a game. The fact that Cross has to tackle the rusher on most plays is sickening.
That’s not scheme, though. That’s execution.
We’re sucking at both.
My brother in Christ…do you even know what a normal, current defense looks like? Or have you just not studied the game at all and ride on the coattails of the Legion of Boom while you continue to cash your fatass paychecks as we all look on in disgust? Fucking jackass. At least give us a real answer, we deserve it at this point.
I saw nothing cute on Sunday
Gus Bradley got that JV playbook
Coaches fail up (or sideways) in the NFL constantly and Gus is a prime example.
Trying anything new or adjusting to current schemes is “getting cute.” Better just keep doing the same shit for 20 years and hope we go back to the 90’s
I would rather Ask Madden than Gus continue playcalling.
“It might be getting a little too cute”?
What the fuck? It’s not cute in the fucking slightest. It’s bland and predictable. What the fuck is cute about that?
I rewatched a bunch of the all-22 from Sunday.
Greenbay’s front 5+TE did an excellent job of maintaining running lanes through our front 4.
We were spread very wide with our front 4, often leaving massive space in the middle.
This puts the pressure on our LBs to hit the gaps and tackle. They often over committed, left assignments, and ended up on top of each other instead of in the gap.
Because of the way their front was blocking, their RB was 2-3 yards before first contact, and with momentum that yielded a 4-6 yd run.
Our DBs made some crazy mistakes, from giving massive cushion, to turning to sprint too early, to simply not going up for the ball when their receivers did.
He had to know after the first drive that what they were doing wasn’t going to work. It was the same play after play.