Can anyone explain the 4th quarter collapse of our D ?

[panthers55]

5 minutes ago, chknwing said:

its called playing not to lose and its all on the coaches.

And it has worked 7 times so far. Great job coaches!!!'mm

[tiger7_88]

Its called loosening up the defense in order to prevent the other team from scoring quickly (i.e. big plays).

Except for the fact that they DID score quickly because they were moving the ball in 20 yard chunks.

And this same story has cost us before and almost cost us again last night.

[SinaloaPaisa]

A number of reasons. 

1) Conservative D i.e. up mutilple scores late the D just plays not to lose. 

2) Offense laying an egg in the 4h

3) Due to #2 the D was on the field all quarter and was gassed. 

 

[Khyber53]

Our defense was on the field a lot last night, and the defensive line rotation wasn't at its most efficient because of injuries. On top of that, playing in the rain wears a body down, especially if you rely on a four-man rush for most of the game. Couple that with Luck playing like Luck in the fourth quarter and you've got a defense that was just completely gassed before the end of the game.

They did eventually hold together enough to stop Luck, though, and we shouldn't hold this against them. 

[Montsta]

I heard them say Luck had 31 4th quarter pass attempts. Is that right? Because Jesus Christ that's insane. Cam hardly throws it that many times in a whole game. 

[goodoleboy]

1 minute ago, SinaloaPaisa said:

A number of reasons. 

1) Conservative D i.e. up mutilple scores late the D just plays not to lose. 

2) Offense laying an egg in the 4h

3) Due to #2 the D was on the field all quarter and was gassed. 

 

I would not call what we did on D conservative. We couldn't get QB pressure without blitzing so we blitzed. That forced the secondary to man up and play press coverage. They made plays when it counted holding the colts to field goals. That wasn't prevent rushing 4 with soft zone behind it.

[Servant of Cthululelei]

Y'all are putting up way too much of a fuss about this.  Luck has been doing this all season.  He plays like a helluva a QB in the 4th quarter.   Had we executed a little bit better in the first 3 quarters, we would've been up by too much for the comeback, like a few other teams that the Colts have lost to this year were.  Our Defense was tired.  We were missing people in the D-Line rotation.  Thomas Davis had an off night.  The Refs were assisting the hell out of the Colts.

There's a myriad of reasons for that comeback last night, and none of them leave me particularly concerned going forward.

[Sloth]

It's hard to judge games like this because the weather affected so much. Guys wear out quicker, all we could do was run and pound the ball for a half, trying not to slip and tear some poo in your knee, etc. And as insecure people are about Luck around here, when he's on he's a good QB and he caught fire in the 4th. We also had every single call go the other way which was back-breaking.

Just be happy our team can fight through poo like this with a limited roster and actually win. It wasn't so long ago that we'd have lost this game at the end of regulation or after they scored first in OT.

I'm still blown fuging away that we're as good as we are. We'd be a monster if KB was healthy.

[Ricky Spanish]

1 minute ago, Montsta said:

I heard them say Luck had 31 4th quarter pass attempts. Is that right? Because Jesus Christ that's insane. Cam hardly throws it that many times in a whole game. 

That's why Luck's pass numbers are always so high. Not from production, but shear volume of attempts.

His rookie year he beat Cam's passing record by 300 yards. Took him 110 more pass attempts to get to that number too. 

[SinaloaPaisa]

1 minute ago, goodoleboy said:

I would not call what we did on D conservative. We couldn't get QB pressure without blitzing so we blitzed. That forced the secondary to man up and play press coverage. They made plays when it counted holding the colts to field goals. That wasn't prevent rushing 4 with soft zone behind it.

That was after they had already came back really late or after getting worked down the field seeing Colts shred our vanilla don't lose D. We certainly switched things up at the 11 minute mark in the 4th when everyone thought the game was over. 

[jfo89]

17 minutes ago, h0llywood said:

It's Andrew Luck. Sucks for 3 quarters then comes back and he's the greatest. Story of his career.

 

Lol. More like he sucks for 3 quarters then the defense plays soft because they're gassed and his receivers     commit uncalled pass interference in the end zone. Can you tell I'm still pissed about the officiating??

[Newtcase]

At 23-6 the Colts finally arrived at the "no pressure" junction of the game.  They reached a point where they had nothing to lose and everything to gain.  That's a dangerous place for any team on the "we do have something to lose" side, ask Seattle.  

We got conservative too soon on both offense and defense against a team that had four downs to play with the entire fourth quarter and didn't even need to actually catch passes.  The NFL wanted their narrative and they got it.

[KB_fan]

1 hour ago, uncfan888 said:

We couldn't get pressure on luck. Even with blitzes. I don't know if that's lack of execution, exhaustion, offensive holding..  Maybe a combination of all three. 

I do think last night was a wake up call that you can't let off the gas in this league at all. In years past, no way we win that game 

It was interesting to note that they started sending Bene in on blitzes, it seemed because our D line was so gassed for awhile in the 4th Q. 

[stankowalski]

I'm going to echo what others have mentioned.  Weren't Addison and Horton out?  As well as CJ obviously but he's been out.  D-line got tired, got little to no pressure, Luck had time to throw and he made plays.