Colin at SB does a nice job on the Bethea return. I think he’s too hard on Dom on the kickoff. I don’t think that’s as easy a decision (to let the kick go) as people are making it out to be.
In the interest of fairness, I will say this though: even the prototypical edge rush wasn’t working for the Colts last Sunday. For three quarters, Dwight Freeney was owned by Michael Roos in a way I’ve never seen Freeney owned before. It was ugly. On at least two obvious passing downs in the first half, a 3rd-and-13 with 9:36 left in Q2 and a 3rd-and-5 with 5:13 left in Q1, the Colts came with a standard four-man edge rush and failed to get anywhere near Kerry Collins because Freeney and Robert Mathis were stonewalled by the Titans‘ offensive tackles.
Until the Colts brought extra pressure in the fourth quarter, they didn’t lay a finger on Collins. And they really didn’t feel they could bring much extra pressure until Kenny Britt was injured.
This is what primarily concerns me about Saturday’s game. The Colts are going to worry so much about Braylon Edwards and Santonio Holmes that they likely will not bring much extra pressure against Mark Sanchez. As a result, if the four-man rush gets stonewalled like it did against the Titans, the Colts could be in big trouble. Since the Jets have a good, strong offensive line, I could see this as a very real possibility. And even when the Colts do bring pressure (heck, even when they don’t), they’re leaving the middle of the field wide open. Dustin Keller and LaDanian Tomlinson on release routes are going to eat that up.
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