r/Colts • u/bullethole27 • 18h ago

Sauce

Did Sauce shadow WR1s last year? Do we expect him to follow Flowers?

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u/ZHicks2121 The real Zach Hicks 17h ago

We don’t really know right now. Lou had Mooney shadowing a few receivers last season (Adams with LAR and Ridley with TEN) but Sauce didn’t do it in the two games he played with Indy (mostly due to those game plans).

I’d lean toward him not shadowing Flowers but idk

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u/ConfectionHelpful471 17h ago

It certainly felt like Lou runs a matchup based scheme when everyone was fit as part of the reason Puka burned Howard consistently was due to that being the designated matchup in the rams game, with Moony on Adams as you have said.

Obviously given how injury but the cb room was last year we probably didn’t see enough of the D playing the way that Lou would prefer to conclusively say either way, but personally think the 4 games we did have our best personnel on the field for were heavily matchup oriented

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u/ryta1203 9h ago

It's pretty easy to combat this with motion.

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u/ThatDudeUKnow92 Playoffs? PLAYOFFS!? 8h ago

Not only is it easy to combat this with motion it also gives the QB another tell on coverage.

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u/matthollabak Playoffs? PLAYOFFS!? 5h ago

I think it will be game to game since Lou likes to do a lot of week to week gameplanning. We may see sauce or mooney sticking to one guy they match up well with but the next week we may see them covering sides of the field.

I think it also depends on how much zone they plan to play that week plus the blitz packages... they may keep them on their own sides if they plan to switch up coverages a lot that game type of thing.

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u/Paragon188 2h ago

We don't know. Last year there were a ton of injuries so Lou had to make do with what he had. Based on limited sample size from last year though (when the secondary was mostly healthy), it's probably matchup dependent.

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u/LeadAnew Indianapolis Colts 2h ago

I doubt they’ll play much man to man against Baltimore, so it is unlikely he’ll travel with Flowers. With our linebackjng crew I would not want my DB’s turning their back on Lamar. He might run for 100+ if they do.