The Facts:
The NFL is the ultimate copycat league. And for a team that went 2-14 last season, it’s important to find a successful franchise to emulate. Colts HC Chuck Pagano, who while coordinating the defense in Baltimore witnessed first hand the challenges of dealing with the two top-end tight ends on the Patriots roster, hopes to put together a similar attack in Indianapolis. “It is a match-up nightmare,” Pagano said Saturday, via comments circulated by the team. “Coming off of the AFC Championship game, nobody knew better than the Ravens going into that game with the two guys [Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez] that [the Patriots] have. It is across the league. You can see it more and more every year."
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
In fact, we'll see some of it in Indianapolis this year with incoming rookies, Coby Fleener and Dwayne Allen, seeing significant action. “We feel like the two guys that we added, and Dominique [Jones] is a physical presence, that guy is 260 pounds and moving around really well," Pagano explained. "It is a match-up nightmare for any defense.” Andrew Luck is on board with the approach. “With three tight ends, do you put an extra safety in [the box] and try to stop the run or do you leave your regular defense in?” Luck said. “How do you match-up with those guys? Do you put a linebacker on them to cover them when they split out wide? So I think it creates mismatches.” No doubt about the mismatches. Execution will be the next step.
Profile
Home
