by Kent Sterling The 2011 St. Louis Rams were terrible. They finished 2-14 with an oddly dominant win over the New Orleans Saints and a 13-12 squeaker in Cleveland. As a result, they earned the #2 overall pick just behind the equally horrific Indianapolis Colts. The Colts were committed to Andrew Luck, and with Sam […]
by Kent Sterling Jay Cutler is not a bad quarterback, and the Chicago Bears didn’t lose to the Green Bay Packers yesterday because of his play. But the Bears don’t win enough with Cutler to justify a pricey extension that will prevent the Bears from using their money to bolster other areas of need (like […]
by Kent Sterling Assessing what the Colts need to do to beat a team like the Jacksonville Jaguars isn’t brain surgery. Getting the players to execute a game plan design to cause those results is the tough part, and Chick Pagano’s players have become apt pupils the last three Sundays. The Colts 30-10 pasting of […]
by Kent Sterling If the Colts could choose their Week 17 opponent as they gear up for the postseason and fight for a higher seed – perhaps even a first round bye – the decision would be a no-brainer. They choose the Jacksonville Jaguars. With due respect to the putrid football being played by the […]
by Kent Sterling First things first – if you are going to fire a coach, the owner or general manager should have a strong idea who they are going to hire as a replacement. The worst scenario possible is to fire a guy of whom you thought highly enough to hire a few years ago […]
by Kent Sterling The media coverage of the NFL regular season’s final day is just phenomenal. The run up to the final regular season Sunday beats the hell out of the playoffs by any measure. Almost every team plays for something, many teams play for their lives, and many players are fighting for their careers. […]
by Kent Sterling Forget Sean Payton. Forget Ron Rivera. Forget Pete Carroll. Forget Bill Belichick. Chuck Pagano has done a flat out incredible job of maximizing a mediocre Colts roster for a second straight year. They weren’t that great when camp broke, and injuries ravaging skill positions on the offensive side of the ball have […]
Kent Sterling studied the Chiefs and Colts matchup, predicted the Colts win, although by a smaller margin, and identified five keys for a Colts victory. The NFL isn’t calculus, so predicting winning the turnover margin as a benchmark for winning isn’t worthy of a gold star from a fifth grade teacher, much less wild applause […]
by Kent Sterling This is a weird game because in two weeks these two teams could be playing again in a playoff game in Indianapolis. Neither the Colts nor Chiefs will be holding anything back on Sunday, but it’s damn tough to beat a good team twice in 14 days. That means Sunday’s loser might […]
by Kent Sterling Dallas Cowboys is one of the five worst owners in professional sports because he’s unaware that his general manager is an idiot, and as a result refuses to blame him for the entrenched mediocrity in which his franchise is mired. That the GM and the owner are both the same guy makes […]