Bright Side

[Roy P]

Originally Posted by KJ3

it took sage to melt down for everyone to realize schaub was on fire last week? weird. did anyone else think schaub's sickness came with a heavy dose of the "winks"?

I could buy into that conspiracy theory, sort of. Maybe Matt was sick of losing and wanted Sage to give it a shot. I'm not accusing Schaub of malingering, but perhaps he was a victim of a psychosomatic illness. It can happen. When my first daughter was born she spent a long time in the NICU and it placed a lot of stress on me. In fact, when I was with her I broke out in hives. At first, I thought I had an allergy to something at the hospital. When I went to work and concentrated on my job, the hives went away. When I got into my car and started on the way home, I started itching again. That's when I realized it was the stress of having Special Needs child that was causing my symptoms. At that point, it seemed like I had a problem in which I had no control over. When the hives formed, I could at least put on Calamine lotion.


Anyway, that's not the reason why I was going to post. What I wanted to talk about was the Indy defense. Not only was Bob Sanders out of the picture this week, but the DTs on their roster were small. Keyunta Dawson (who?) is only 6'3" 254lbs and played for Texas Tech. Eric Foster (a player I considered drafting to play DE) is only 6'2" 265lbs. I am bewildered that we could not do more in the running game. Essentially, they played with 7 LBs in their front 7 along with Bullitt. We averaged 4.9 yards per rush. Slaton averaged 5.8 yards/rush. Green averaged 3.9 yards/rush. However, when we needed to ice the game away, we simply couldn't run the ball. Rosenfels had to throw on 3rd down.