He keeps on churning out great content.
First, he looks at the percentage of runs that went for a loss. The Colts were 2nd worst in the league.
Aaron Schatz of Football Outsiders said he wasn’t surprised to see how this chart looked and hit on the two points you’d expect.
“It generally tells us two things: the style of the running back, and the quality of the offensive line,” he said. “In general, better offensive lines will allow fewer negative rushes. We know that the Colts had massive run-blocking problems last year, especially when Jeff Saturday was injured, and it isn’t a surprise to see them so high.
Then he moved on to quotes by Manning
“So when you see you’re playing Jacksonville in the opener, sure, you have their preseason to study, but you realize they are going to have some things that they did not show in the preseason,” Manning said. “They are going to have some things they work on every day in practice and their minicamps and OTAs that they probably did not reveal in the preseason. So, in a lot of cases there is some unfamiliarity there.
“Even though they have the same players it is a new scheme. They have a new defensive coordinator and it’s some different looks you’re seeing on film. It’s a little bit of preparing for what you see on film, but also preparing for the unexpected and being prepared to adjust to that during the course of the game.”
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