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Frank Reich made it clear from the moment he accepted the Indianapolis Colts coaching job that he wanted to build around a strong ground game.He might finally have the foundation.Since returning from a lingering hamstring injury Youth Justin Houston Jersey , Marlon Mack has turned heads, piled up numbers and given the Colts' offense a more balanced look. He helped Indy snap a four-game losing streak Sunday and if he keeps it up, Mack could help the Colts win more games this season."He's explosive. He turns a 5-yard run into a 15 or 20-yard run," Reich said after Sunday's 37-5 rout of Buffalo. "(He's) an excellent inside and outside runner, so (we are) really glad to have him back in the mix."The Colts (2-5) envisioned Mack fitting perfectly into this role.They drafted him in the fourth round in 2017, believing South Florida's career rushing leader would eventually start after spending one season as the understudy to Frank Gore, the NFL's No. 4 career rusher.At training camp this summer, team owner Jim Irsay projected Mack could run for 1,500 yards this season — a feat only one NFL player achieved over the past three seasons and an astoundingly high number in the era of rotating running backs.But Mack showed everyone what he could do the past two weeks.After missing four of Indy's first five games, he returned against the New York Jets and ran 12 times for 89 yards just 2 short of his career high. On Sunday against the Bills defense, ranked No. 3 overall at the time, he had 19 carries for 126 yards and one touchdown while catching two passes for 33 yards and another score.Suddenly, he and the Colts looked as if they could start alleviating the heavy early season workload on Andrew Luck's repaired right shoulder."The middle three guys were definitely moving some people and when that happens, you get gaps in there and Marlon was setting up guys pretty well Justin Houston Jersey Stitched ," longtime left tackle Anthony Castonzo said Tuesday. "The good thing is it wasn't perfect so we can still get better."Mack is still getting on the same page with a relatively young offensive line.Center Ryan Kelly was Indy's first-round pick in 2016 and has returned to his rookie form after missing most of last season because of injuries. The Colts (2-5) have seen left guard Quenton Nelson, the No. 6 overall pick, settle into his new gig and believe he can emerge as a perennial Pro Bowler if he stays healthy.Braden Smith, a second-round pick this spring, took advantage of injuries to crack the starting lineup sooner than anticipated and appears to have found a home at right tackle. Castonzo, a first-round pick in 2011, just turned 30 in August and 26-year-old Mark Glowinski has filled in admirably at right guard since Matt Slauson went down with a season-ending back injury in Week 5.The result: Luck has only been sacked once in his past 125 attempts and the offensive line is increasingly creating creases Mack can burst through."Marlon, he is patient and he's able to predict where guys end up based on the structure of the defense," offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni said. "Marlon just has a unique vision quality and he can really hit it when it's time to hit it. It's like he's patient setting up the block, but he has that acceleration to hit the hole before they can get off on him."Right now, it looks as if it's a perfect combination.Mack already has flirted with back-to-back 100-yard games, something the Colts haven't achieved since October and November 2007 when Joseph Addai went for 100 and 112 yards against Carolina and New England.This week, against the Raiders' No. 27-ranked run defense, Mack hopes to add his name to the list."It's just something to build upon. The offensive line and us coming together and working hard Indianapolis Colts Gerri Green Jersey ," Mack said after Sunday's game. "It (a 100-yard game) is a great thing as a running back that you want to have for your career."Impact Plays: Colts vs Bengals week 1 film breakdown Each week, I will look to break down two of the best or worst plays from the previous game, but I’ll need your help deciding what plays should be given a closer look as I hope to explain what happened in greater detail than the broadcasters can. Often you’ll hear “how did that guy get so open?” and I hope to be able to answer that question for Colts fans this season.The poll this week had a big winner getting 37% of the votes going to A.J. Green and his safety splitting touchdown that came with 4:18 to go in the 3rd quarter. Our second place play, with 16% of the vote, came by way of either of Margus Hunt’s two sacks. We will take a look at our second place finisher, first. I watched both of Hunt’s sacks and this is the more interesting play for a few reasons, both had the same result and Hunt wins for the same reason (although on the other sack he went outside instead of dipping inside). Hunt’s First Sack:The coverage the Colts are running is interesting. I’m fairly certain they’re in quarters coverage, also known as cover four. Quarters is a really diverse coverage in that it can cover almost anything, provides good run support and is tough to beat over the top. It’s also tough for me to pick out when watching film. Ultimately it’s a pattern matching zone, but it looks like man until it definitely looks like zone. Like I said it’s diverse and if you want a better understanding this is a great look at the basics of quarters coverage. Based on what I’ve seen so far, understanding this coverage is going to be important to understand the Colts defense. The Endzone Look:Something interesting to note is what Al Woods does on this play. The Colts end up only rushing three on this play because Woods bails out to get a hand on Joe Mixon as he leaves the backfield. Margus Hunt beats the right tackle inside and proceeds to throw Andy Dalton like a bag of dirty laundry. I wish I could tell you this is a new Margus Hunt. I wish I could tell you we could expect big things from him this season, but based on what I saw in this game, I don’t think I can tell you that for sure. Could he produce at a high level this season? Absolutely, but this game doesn’t show us much of anything. Here’s what I had to say about the right side of the Bengals offensive line in my week one scouting report:Margus Hunt’s production against Bobby Hart isn’t a sign of anything Womens Gerri Green 2019 Jersey , really. It should have been expected. Hopefully Margus Hunt reads this article and goes on a warpath to prove some internet blogger wrong. That would be great, but I don’t see it happening. Our big winner of this weeks poll, A.J. Green’s touchdown catch between two Colts defenders. The TV announcer declared that Malik Hooker was beaten by Green’s sneaky speed. Yeah, that’s not how it happened. Once again the Colts appear to be in quarters coverage, meaning that the field is split into four deep zones. Malik Hooker should have help toward the middle of the field. Instead, Clayton Geathers took the Bengals bait and bit on the underneath route. As soon as Dalton saw Geathers sit, he knew Green would be open and for all the crap I gave Andy Dalton in my scouting report he threw an absolutely perfect ball to A.J. Green for the touchdown. I can’t blame Geathers too much for sitting down on that route. Obviously you would have liked to have him deep to defend against Green, but Geathers was Dalton’s read on this play. It was designed by the Bengals to stress him. If he drops deep, Dalton is hitting the underneath receiver, and we all saw what happened when Geathers picked the underneath receiver. It was a mistake, but an understandable and fixable mistake.Malik Hooker didn’t misjudge anyone’s speed, at least that’s not what made this touchdown possible.