Bryce Boettcher

He didn't play a single snap.

He got out snapped by Bryce Boettcher, who played about a third of their snaps.

So your second round pick at linebacker, who, by the way, neither one of us really thought he could cover in space either.

your second round picket linebacker isn't playing your fourth round picket linebacker who's better in coverage is nobody can cover anyway including one of the corners that you just paid the other corner who you spent two first round picks on and a bunch of money like if you're if you're investing this much on defense and you can't do the one thing that your dc wants to do which is be able to man people up what do you got I don't know what the Colts can do about this if they just don't have anybody who can match up in space

And again, he's playing 42 snaps.

So looking ahead to week two, we'll get into this more in the midweek pod, but Bryce Boettcher starting for Jalen Carlisle almost seems like a must.

And I don't even, Akeem Davis Gaither led you in tackles.

I don't even remember,

Rookie A.J. Halsey, safety.

Bryce Boettcher, a linebacker.

I mean, they're very young on defense.

And I just don't know how good they are.

Round three, they got A.J. Halsey out of LSU, another player that I really liked.

Two fourth-round picks, guard Jalen Farmer out of Kentucky, and linebacker Bryce Boettcher out of Oregon.

And then round five, Edge George Gumbs Jr. out of Florida.

I always loved that one.

So the first guy ups will be the two veterans and Jalen Carlisle and Akeem Davis Gaither, the guys who had the longest time in the NFL.

They will probably get a slight majority of the snaps in this game, but we will see a little bit of C.J. Allen out there, Bryce Boettcher as well.

And something interesting about this defense is their green dot is not going to be a linebacker this season.

It's Cameron Bynum.

I know guys, like I had Oregon last week.

Bryce Boettcher was drafted in the NFL this year.

He was a big-time baseball player.

What did he decide to play? Football.

You guys know how much money is in baseball? For sure.

Bryce Boettcher wanted to play football because it's where the most athletically gifted players in the world

are competing.

Plus he couldn't hit the curveball.

Veteran Arden Key is going to be asked to play an outsized role while the Colts wait for slow-developing second-year player Jalen Tumalao to emerge." While the pass rush from the defensive line might be underwhelming, I do expect Lou Anarumo to figure out ways to make up for it with blitzes from the linebackers and the secondary, which is going to be easier to do with Sauce and Ward holding it down on the outside.

Look for guys like Hunter Wohler, Bryce Boettcher, and Austin Ajake to be used in blitzing roles on third down and to get more pressure on the opposing quarterback.

Now, there might not be as much of that this week as the Colts are probably going to dedicate a linebacker or extra defensive back to be the QB spy on Lamar, as you have to have someone who's got eyes on him at all times.

Then the ESPN research team gave a QB stat to know, and they talked about Jones being seventh in passing yards and fifth in yards per attempt at the time of his injury last year.