ho fatto lo stesso ragionamento di kravitz. vabbè, solo l'impassibile e imperturbabile caldwell non ci arriva
Think about this: They let Jaguars quarterback David Garrard and that normally anemic offense take the ball at the 23-yard line, with just 42 seconds and one timeout remaining, and move it into long-range field-goal position.
With, it should be noted, an assist from the normally flawless Caldwell.
When the drive began, it appeared the Jags were fine with playing for overtime, running Maurice Jones-Drew up the middle. If he'd been stopped for a minimal gain, the timeout would have made perfect sense. But he gained 8 yards. The timeout should have gone back in Caldwell's hip pocket. The Colts' charity gave Jacksonville second thoughts and a second chance, and they took full advantage.
I asked Caldwell what he was thinking when he called that timeout.
"The big thing was, if they wanted to milk the clock in that situation, we weren't going to allow it because we had all three timeouts to make them punt it to us,'' he said. "That was the idea.''
And if you had a chance to do it over again?
"Same thing,'' Caldwell said.
Hm-m-m.
"I thought they were going (for overtime),'' Dwight Freeney said. "Then all of a sudden they started hurrying up and they changed their game plan.''
The Colts are not where they wanted to be at the quarter pole, not where anybody expected them to be. This is going to be a very different kind of season after all those regular-season pleasure cruises. That much is painfully clear.
The overarching problem is glaring: This defense is somewhere between bad and terrible. And there's no real solid explanation for it. They returned all 11 starters from last year's rock-solid group. They are playing their second year under defensive coordinator Larry Coyer. They've had some injuries -- they lost Melvin Bullitt to a shoulder injury Sunday -- but in the past, they've always been able to plug holes, find a way, make a play.
Not this year: They got run over by Houston. They got passed over by Denver and survived. And they got worked over on the ground and in the air by a Jacksonville team coming off back-to-back 25-point losses, a team that managed just 184 yards of offense last week at home against Philadelphia.
Worse yet, they gave Manning and the offense just eight possessions. That's not nearly enough.
"It's still early, still early, still early,'' Session said. "We'll pick it up. We'll get it together. It's still early. We'll get it together.''
