Colt's Roster

It has come to my attention, as a longtime Colts fan and native of Indiana, that the Colts roster has been absolutely decimated by injury through 5 weeks. Let me list the important ones:

• Bob Sanders (out forever and ever)
• Anthony Gonzales (valuable part of passing game, but replaceable)
• Donald Brown (good at picking up rushers)
• Joseph Addai (Questionable for week 6)
• Pierre Garcon (Should be good to go, not 100%)
• Antione Bethea (Also running at about 85%)
• Melvin Bullit (Out for the forseeable future)
  

You can see that the majority of those issues are on the offensive side of the ball, but they are not the injuries that I am worried about. I am very concerned with the injuries at safety. If you look around the National Football League, you can see that dynamic safeties make a big difference for any defense. Troy Polamalu, Laron Landry, Ed Reed, Bernard Pollard, Antoine Bethea, Louis Delmas (in a few years along with Jairus Bird) just to name a few.

As a GM, I don't see any feasible way that Bill Polian can address this issue during the regular season. The Colt's D, already suspect in so many ways, now may become suspect against the deep ball, and be even worse against the run with the potential loss of Bethea. As the leader of this team, I suppose the best a GM can do is hope for health and a stout front 7, which Indianapolis kind of has and kind of doesn't.

This coming off season, depth is definitely something that needs to be addressed in the secondary, both through the draft and through free agency, although free agents is not the Colts way. Here's hoping for another playoff year!