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The Indianapolis Colts have added a couple new faces to Frank Reich’s coaching staff today as announced by the team.Jason Michael has been hired as the Colts’ new tight ends coach and Chris Strausser as their new offensive line coach who will succeed Dave DeGuglielmo after being recently let go.Michael broke into the NFL as a quality control coach with the Oakland Raiders in 2005 http://www.indianapoliscoltsteamonline.com/nate-hairston-jersey , and has held various positions in the league ever since. Michael was most recently the tight ends coach for the Arizona Cardinals last season and even has some experience as an offensive coordinator with the Tennessee Titans from 2014-2015.Michael also overlapped a year (2013) in San Diego while Frank Reich was the Chargers’ quarterbacks coach.Strausser spent the last two seasons in Denver serving as the Broncos OL-Tackles coach and assistant line coach. Strausser spent most of his coaching time (28 years per the Colts’ press release) in the college game at various institutions, and different levels of competition.Frank Reich simply is getting the staff that he wants in order as the team heads into the offseason and prepares for Reich’s second year at the helm. After Josh McDaniels reneged on the position before Reich was hired, most of the hires for the 2018 season were done by McDaniels. Reich will now have his crew in order and hope to match, or improve on what the team did this season with what can only be characterized as an unlikely run to earn a playoff berth.3 takeaways from Colts 21-9 win over Redskins The Indianapolis Colts finally finished in the fourth quarter of a game en route to their first win of the season today. Last week the Colts gave one away that they should have won, and today they built a lead, played great defense and Luck was able to right a couple wrongs late in the game to seal a Colts victory. The Redskins were being given a real cushion with as 6-point home favorites in the gambling world, but they never really got anything going today and the Colts did enough topull out a win.Here are a few takeaways from the Colts 21-9 victory over the Redskins.Colts defense overwhelmed ‘Skins offense Authentic Quincy Wilson Jersey , especially earlyOne of the largest takeaways from this Colts defense thus far into the season is that they’re absolutely buying in to this new scheme and what it requires of them. Darius Leonard is going to be a tackling machine (15 solo tackles, a forced fumble and a sack), Margus Hunt has been much better — again — than anyone could have guessed, and Jabaal Sheard is beginning to find his groove as well.We also saw a big sack by Jihad Ward who was just brought up from the practice squad a couple days ago.We did see some mental penalties from the defensive line early in the game, but right now, it appears to be a mere side affect from being a much more aggressive unit. Pierre Desir had a really nice game as he nearly picked off a ball on the Skins’ first possession of the second half, and knocked away a sure touchdown catch in the back of the end zone a bit later. We saw flashes of it all day Womens Anthony Walker Jersey , from several individuals, but this defense is making up for any lack of overall top-end talent and inexperience with flat out playing harder than the other guy every play.Luck is too casual with the ball in high priority areas of the fieldAgain, Andrew Luck had a very nice game overall. And Luck did end a long, 13-play touchdown drive in the fourth quarter on a short pass to Hilton in the red zone. However, at one point (4:35 to go in third quarter) the Colts offense hadn’t put up more than 3 plays for four-straight drives — featuring three punts and an interception. More importantly, Luck hasn’t been all that careful with the ball this year when he’s backed up against his own goal line, or in the opponent’s red zone.The Colts’ defense managed to hold the Skins’ offense to 6 points through the first three quarters of the game. Luck has to help them out by being more security-minded in these areas of the field. Luck threw a pick inside the Bengals’ 20-yard line last week Authentic Darius Leonard Jersey , nearly caused a safety with a pass along the line of scrimmage to Nyheim Hines (may be on a bad play called as well), and threw a terrible interception when the Colts were backed up inside their own 30.We know Luck is a riskier quarterback, and we love him for that. But, honestly this isn’t calculus, he can’t be tossing out gifts like that just because the Colts have the lead. If the defense has a bad day, the Colts could get run out of the building with these sort of mistakes.Colts backfield is better as a RBBC groupThe Colts don’t have a go-to running back right now, even when Mack is in the lineup. The combination of Hines Authentic J'Marcus Webb Jersey , Mack and Wilkins looks to be a nice combination that remains fluid throughout the game.Today, for example, Wilkins was by far the best on the ground per run (6.1 YPC), Hines ended up being the one of the group to get into the end zone on a short run and lined up more as a slot receiver throughout the day. Mack, on the other hand, was more of the overall guy to take the lead-back reps in the backfield, but wasn’t really given more of a workload than the other two.Together they put together what a feature back would on a pretty solid day; 102 rushing yards on 24 carries and a touchdown. I mean www.indianapoliscoltsteamonline.com , this is the idea behind moneyball, right? It’s certainly not a dominant group by any stretch of the imagination, but they’re absolutely giving the Colts offense enough as a committee to get the job done.

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