Breaking: Jacoby Brissett named Starter

[TKnight24]

 

 

[Restored]

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!11111!

[The Fish]

At least it's not Tolzien. 

I'm not really excited for this though.. Dude is going to be very shaky.

[RockThatBlue]

Good. Even with a limited knowledge of the playbook, he couldn't do worse than Scott.

[Boiler_Colt]

Win or lose, this makes the game infinitely more watchable. 

[pgt_rob]

[PrincetonTiger]

TY CP and RC

[jameszeigler834]

3 minutes ago, The Fish said:

At least it's not Tolzien. 

I'm not really excited for this though.. Dude is going to be very shaky.

He has had almost two weeks to learn the playbook he will be fine couldn't be any worst than tolzien.

[TKnight24]

 

 

 

 

[pgt_rob]

5 minutes ago, The Fish said:

At least it's not Tolzien. 

I'm not really excited for this though.. Dude is going to be very shaky.

 

And Tolzein wasn't? lol

[BullsColtsFan1]

This makes me more excited to attend the game. We'll see what he's made of.  I believe he beat the Texans in a start last year, so at least he has a win under his belt?  I don't think it can get much worse than Tolzien.  Hopefully Brissett can make some plays down the field and use his athleticism. Hopefully no turnovers and hopefully the offense can stay on the field.

[The Fish]

Just now, jameszeigler834 said:

He has had almost two weeks to learn the playbook he will be fine couldn't be any worst than tolzien.

There's a pretty sizable gap between "being fine" and "not being any worse than Tolzien".

It's safe to assume he'll be a bit better, but I'm not thinking that a guy who showed up two weeks ago is going to put a cape on and save the day.. Seems like a stretch.

We'll see (hey I can state the obvious!!)..

[PrincetonTiger]

2 minutes ago, pgt_rob said:

 

And Tolzein wasn't? lol

IMO Shaky and indecisive 

[RollerColt]

[lollygagger8]

[RockThatBlue]

1 minute ago, lollygagger8 said:

Nice family guy reference lol

[ColtsAC]

Now I have a reason to watch the game - hope with JB  at qb.

[Gabriel Alexander Morillo]

Very telling that a guy who just now has learned every bodies name is starting over Tolzien. What a screwup that was

[deadman]

1 minute ago, Gabriel Alexander Morillo said:

Very telling that a guy who just now has learned every bodies name is starting over Tolzien. What a screwup that was

 

At least they are willing to admit they screwed up. That's probably the closest thing to a win we'll get for a while. 

[coltsfeva]

  Glad to see this. Driving out to the game from Delaware and hope to see an improvement from last week.

   Maybe we'll see a whole lot of runs, screens, etc

[Smonroe]

Remember 2011 when we were like 0-100 and they made the switch from Painter to Orlovsky?  Colts actually played decent ball and had to dump the last game in order to win the Luck sweepstakes.   

 

Brissett has the be as as good as Orlovsky, and Tolzien is worse than Painter.  

 

There's some correlation there, all things considered.  Addition by subtraction AND addition.   

[ColtsBlueFL]

16 minutes ago, The Fish said:

At least it's not Tolzien. 

I'm not really excited for this though.. Dude is going to be very shaky.

 

14 minutes ago, RockThatBlue said:

Good. Even with a limited knowledge of the playbook, he couldn't do worse than Scott.

 

No doubt the scout team looked at AZ tape, and what JB knows of the playbook.  they trim down the playbook to the plays that are deemed necessary vs the Cards, and further to those JB knows and can execute at a high level. I would not doubt we trim it to slightly smaller playlist, but run similar plays, but out of different 'looks'.

 

8 minutes ago, The Fish said:

There's a pretty sizable gap between "being fine" and "not being any worse than Tolzien".

It's safe to assume he'll be a bit better, but I'm not thinking that a guy who showed up two weeks ago is going to put a cape on and save the day.. Seems like a stretch.

We'll see (hey I can state the obvious!!)..

 

It's not fair to expect a top tier performance this quickly. OTOH, if the coaches do it right, they can get the most out of JB even with limited experience with the receivers and playbook.  What is certain, we must have a good ground game. If we do not, they have put JB in a position to fail.

[TKnight24]

 

 

 

[krunk]

Good!   Glad my gut was wrong.

[Cynjin]

5 minutes ago, TKnight24 said:

 

 

 

 

If Brissett was told on Monday, then the statement that the QBs were going to split reps was nonsense.  They're not going to share reps with two QBs if they had made up their mind on the starter.

[GoDeep]

[PrincetonTiger]

11 minutes ago, ColtsBlueFL said:

 

 

No doubt the scout team looked at AZ tape, and what JB knows of the playbook.  they trim down the playbook to the plays that are deemed necessary vs the Cards, and further to those JB knows and can execute at a high level. I would not doubt we trim it to slightly smaller playlist, but run similar plays, but out of different 'looks'.

 

 

It's not fair to expect a top tier performance this quickly. OTOH, if the coaches do it right, they can get the most out of JB even with limited experience with the receivers and playbook.  What is certain, we must have a good ground game. If we do not, they have put JB in a position to fail.

Nicely put

[OHColtfan]

Not sure if we are going to be remarkably better, but at least there is some hope. He does seem to bring a few new things to the table, particularly to push the ball down field some more.

Git r' done JB!

[csmopar]

37 minutes ago, TKnight24 said:

 

 

chuck may have just saved his job

[ukcolt12]

no way they could start Tolzien, no way.

Brissett has something about him I reckon, might surprise us.

 

Ludicrous if he has actually had to split the reps this week, especially if decision was made on Monday!

[MTC]

Not surprising one bit. You just can't have Tolzien out there again with the same offense and expect different results. Brissett brought a lot of energy towards the offense as he was able to throw the ball with a stronger arm and accuracy. 

[PrincetonTiger]

Do not expect JB to run the full playbook 

 The few times that I had to play someone as an emergency QB we only ran the plays the kid could run/knew

[Reboot]

I still have a problem with all this.  To me this means Tolzien is not ever going to be part of the plan.  So why leave him on he roster at all? If you're admitting you blew the decision to start with, which they're doing by giving him one chance one start in 2017, what happens if Brissett gets hurt?  You can't turn back to Tolzien now.  You've just told him, and everyone else, he isn't worth trying to fix, improve, work with. I'm surprised there wasn't a Tolzien cut, Morrris signing.  

[RockThatBlue]

3 minutes ago, csmopar said:

chuck may have just saved his job

Not sure I'd go that far lol. He should do better than Tolzein, but its far from a given that we will win.

[JColts72]

3 minutes ago, csmopar said:

chuck may have just saved his job

Chuckwood has to do more then name him as QB to save his job.

[ColtsArmy84]

Yes!!!!!!!!! Love this! Tolzien should never be allowed to step on the field in a colts uniform ever again. He was always a backup at best, was never starting caliber.

 

We should be more competitive in this next game. Brissett has a much better arm, can push the ball down the field and can take the ball himself if needed.

 

Excited to see what he can do! Lets go JB!!! Lets go ColtsNation!!!!

[PrincetonTiger]

I have a feeling CP and RC played some head games with Ari. over this

[PrincetonTiger]

1 minute ago, Dirty Mudflaps said:

I still have a problem with all this.  To me this means Tolzien is not ever going to be part of the plan.  So why leave him on he roster at all? If you're admitting you blew the decision to start with, which they're doing by giving him one chance one start in 2017, what happens if Brissett gets hurt?  You can't turn back to Tolzien now.  You've just told him, and everyone else, he isn't worth trying to fix, improve, work with. I'm surprised there wasn't a Tolzien cut, Morrris signing.  

As I have said before it appears ST is much better in the locker room/film room than SM 

[Indy500]

Good news, at least its worth watching the game now.

 

Be interesting to see how he does behind a patchwork line, will also be good to see if he uses his legs effectively after what Watson did last night it shows the value of a QB that can run. 

[PrincetonTiger]

5 minutes ago, MTC said:

Not surprising one bit. You just can't have Tolzien out there again with the same offense and expect different results. Brissett brought a lot of energy towards the offense as he was able to throw the ball with a stronger arm and accuracy. 

So true