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7 hours ago, RollerColt said:
I was hoping for us to be like the Reds this past season and so far, mission accomplished! A team that’s super young but competitive!
That was my Orioles last year. Basically, a Truple A team playing in the Majors. This year, best record in the American League. Look out next year! Now I’m hopeful for my Colts to duplicate what the Os have done!
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1 hour ago, chad72 said:
Hey, since you bumped this from 3 months ago, just wanted to say I stand by what I said on September 6th (see above). 6-9 based on how a few close games went - Ravens, Titans road game went our way and here we are, on the cusp of 9.
I hope I eat my words for the bolded above because it is NOT OK, to not have double digit wins, now that I am tasting the cusp of playoff football, LOL
I really did think we might beat the (I thought lowly) Texans at home, and struggle to win a second game the entire season. Man am I glad to admit being WRONG!!!!!!
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6 hours ago, Nancy said:
Not my fav player but I always try to see what he is doing when the Titans play...is Nick Westbrook-Ikhine because he is married to my good friend's cousin! He played at I.U.
But I was one of those that wanted Will Levis here so I kind of follow him. He is a wild man! lol
I definitely wanted Levis here! (But I’m a Penn St fan and watched him there before he transferred). I believe that, in five years, he and AR will be the same good NFL QB, but for now- I see Levis as 2-3 yrs ahead of AR in development. Had the Colts drafted Levis, I believe we’d be challenging for the AFC South Title.
As to the Titans- our home is divided. I’ve been a Colts fan for more than 65 yrs! My Youngest and his Children are a Titans family. Lots of discussion when we play each other!
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On 12/6/2023 at 10:11 PM, NewColtsFan said:
I think Minshew returns to the Colts. I think he gets signed to a deal of roughly 2 years and 10-12 million TOTAL. $5-6 mill per.I also believe he realizes he survives because of Steichen’s playmaking. Gardner, left to his own, eventually gets figured out by NFL Defenses. He followed Steichen here, and I think he stays and realizes his niche is a really good Back-Up.
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On 11/15/2023 at 11:00 PM, Superman said:
Yeah I get it. I think the helmets are probably all really good these days.
Quite the advancement since I played H.S. In 69-71. Then the helmet was a piece of plastic with a rubber strip snapped in the front, back, and top. Passed down from year to year. As the Center, I pushed a fat kid onto the Guard next to me, and the Guard’s helmet broke in half.
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47 minutes ago, Dingus McGirt said:
One is in Ky the other in Germany. LOL
One is in Indiana, as well. 15 miles SE of Lafayette.
The joke is- how do you pronounce the Capitol of Ky- Lewisville, Louieville , or Luaville?
Frankfort…..
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1 hour ago, Dingus McGirt said:
Furt
Yep. Noticed that. Sorry I messed it up!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldstadion_(Frankfurt)
Frankfort is about the same Latitude as Calgary, Canada. Apparently their stadium does have a retractable roof. Will be interesting to see if it’s open or closed, since the forecast is 45 degrees and rain.
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8 hours ago, Thunderbolt said:
Belichek will win this one, appears to have our number. Besides, unless our defense step up again, b/c I just don't have the confidence in Minshew to pull this one out.
Patriots are #2 Defense against the run- our only strength. Weather supposed to be a high of 45 and showers. And Colts Passing Game is lacking…..
I Hate NE! But I don’t exactly have high hopes for my Colts this weekend….
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On 11/6/2023 at 4:53 PM, John Waylon said:
I wish deflategate had meant more, but they could have played that game with bowling balls and the result would have been the same. But still, it was yet another example of some of the shenanigans going on with that team.
The reason deflategate was important, was it happened between NE and Baltimore, not the Colts. NE used easier to catch “softer” balls in the Ravens game. The Ravens couldn’t catch balls in that weather, but somehow NE could? So the Ravens warned the Colts to watch for it.
Here’s the important part- had Baltimore hung on and beaten NE- (the Ravens were ahead until some ‘miracle catches’) the Championship game would have been the Ravens coming to Indy! The Colts would have been the Home Team.
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I have to go beyond 20 yrs:
Bert Jones- backed up Marty Domres. Until he started.
Unless we count Johnny Unitas backing up Earl Morral who was backing up Johnny Unitas.
Or Tom Matte- Emergency QB backing up Gary Cuozo who backed up Unitas. Matte became first to use the wristband, and QBed almost to the Championship Game
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46 minutes ago, Patrick Miller said:
I wonder why we don’t get our TEs more involved?
I don’t see the games, I hear them while I’m working. Are we keeping TE in to help Freeland block?
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16 minutes ago, RollerColt said:
And let the rookies cut their teeth. In a few years, they'll be battle hardened and experienced players.
That was supposed to be the plan last year when they said Sam would finish out the year. Jeff Saturday quashed that. In truth, Sam probably wasn’t going to be much anyway, but now it seems we’ll never know….
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5 minutes ago, RollerColt said:
I think Ballard is quietly and passively tanking. We all saw what happened with the Bengals. With just two bad seasons back to back they were able to right a lot of their wrongs and take off.
I see that a lot. I don’t believe today’s Colts can compare with the Bengals getting Burrow, and two really good receivers in a short time. Our record will probably put us in the top ten draft order, but the Bengals were #1. Too late to tank that bad. I doubt we can even get up high enough now for Marvin Harrison Jr, and that or someone like him is needed for sure!
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I’m a Penn St fan, so naturally I’d like to see if Castro-Fields could develop. He has fantastic speed and can cover tall receivers, but reports are he is way too inconsistent. His Combine report said he’d become a reliable backup/Special Teamer. 6’1”/197 runs 4.3 40. His best reason to take him is he’s young, and moldable. He was good enough in college to be a 6th round pick by SF. Now good enough to be on the Commanders PS, which I’m guessing is a tougher Defense than ours. Of course, in college he played with All Americans, and maybe his numbers were good because Joey Porter Jr covered the best receivers?
A J Green is still in the NFL?????? Tremendous Prospect- always just a millisecond behind….. (as is every CB on a PS)
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6 minutes ago, chrisfarley said:
RIP Bobby... With Knight, you never had to worry about getting upset by the teams you were supposed to beat. Out-coached everyone. Gene Keady had the best record against him if memory serves.
The unheard of Richmond Spiders knocked 1987 NCAA Champ IU out of the Tournament in 88.
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I met him at the Pocono Mtn Basketball Camp in 1968. He was coaching Army, and brought Mike (Now called Coach)K- his Team Captain. Coach Knight ‘voluntold’ me I was the guy he would use to demonstrate teaching Defense. He was an *. From what I hear he was Always an *, all Life Long. But he definitely taught me how to play Defense. In HS and Work Leagues after HS, no one got by me. He made you afraid to fail him., even when he was long gone. That’s Teaching…..
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On 10/18/2023 at 5:59 PM, NewColtsFan said:
The Colts had multiple opportunities to re-sign Darius, but for whatever reason elected not to. Makes me think the team was not happy with him beyond his performance in practice and pre-season games. Feels like if they really wanted to being DR back to Indy they had plenty of chances, yet didn’t.
That speaks loudly to me. The Colts talked him up a lot when they drafted him. Something doesn’t add up to me not re-claiming him. Hmmmm?!?
Brings me back to a PS question I asked in the Colts Forum. Can a PS Player refuse to sign if a team makes an offer? Maybe the Colts tried to get him after they cut him, and he didn’t want anything to do with the Colts after we cut him?
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1 minute ago, richard pallo said:
I’m surprised Ballard can’t find a corner on another team’s practice squad. There are 31 teams out there and some I would think would have some veteran help sitting there. But he continues to bring in players for workouts that are guys looking for work on the street. Same old same old.
I’ve wondered- do the PS players who are asked about have a choice as to come or stay? I have no idea- but it does seem strange….
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8 hours ago, Jared Cisneros said:
Yep. Colts and Bills are both in the AFC, so there's equal opportunity away from the Packers where they won't face him that much.
It came down to either Ballard wasn't interested (which is the most likely scenario), or he's just cheap (he didn't want to give up the 3rd (which means he didn't want to match the Bills or he gave a lowball offer or both)). I'm just a mixture of frustrated and disinterested and angry at this point. Something like this shouldn't be the boiling point for me, but it's a combination of an inept GM with his conservative ways combined with the fact that said GM can't make a decision whether to buy or sell. We get offers for Moss, but they aren't high enough so we hold on to him even though he's a FA at the end of the year. Rasul Douglas is available at a discount, but we aren't buyers so we aren't going to adapt to a buyers' market and fill a weakness. This team has no direction and no excitement, and Ballard can't make a decision either way. We're just stuck as a mediocre team until next year when we have to hope Richardson can develop again. Very frustrating.
It’s also possible the Packers did their player a favor and sent him to a better team for HIM, as we did sending Hines to Buffalo, or as many say we might do for Moss????? Or maybe someone on the Colts staff knows the kid and told Ballard to stay away? None of us were there in the office to know?????
It’s been posted on here that the Colts have been known to cooperate and help their players who were good to them in the past.
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4 minutes ago, Jared Cisneros said:
I wasn't there, but I know enough without seeing it firsthand.
That was the crux of my post. Just say “this is what I would have done”, or “I don’t get it why this wasn’t done”. In your posts, you said this HAD to have happened, or you guaranteed this. Comes across like you think you should be the Colts GM, and chases away readers of your posts. Nite, I’m late for bed….
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2 minutes ago, Jared Cisneros said:
One of those three things had to happen (lowball offer, no interest, not matching the bills offer). What am I missing here? Unless there's some animosity between Ballard and the Packers GM (which I would want proof on), those are the only three things that could explain why we didn't get Douglas. It could be as easy as no interest. That would be a mistake as nobody better is available for a reduced price in a buyers' market at the trade deadline. If we're lowballing, then Ballard is being cheap. Same if he didn't match the Bills offer. In any of those three cases. Ballard made a mistake. If you think there's another reason, I'd love to hear it. I covered every base here. If we match the Bills offer, he's ours as there's no reason the Packers would take the Bills 3rd rounder over ours. I explained the whole situation. I'm not wrong. You may not like the arrogant way I'm presenting the facts, but it's still true. I laid it out the right way.
Things like this add up, and I'm tired of Ballard's conservative nature. You don't want to sell, fine, then help the team. I can put two and two together, and when you can see how cheap he is to the point where he won't trade down from a 3rd to a 5th to get a solid CB to fill our biggest weakness for two years, then there deserves to be criticism. Ballard is a bad GM. That's my opinion and I hope people that are casuals figure this out very soon in the fanbase as soon as possible.
Besides the original arrogance (which is why I pointed it out), you can’t just assume that our Better Offer, or our probably finishing further up the draft order HAD to be accepted over some other teams offer. Yes, it probably would be as conventional wisdom- but it’s never guaranteed. I.E. my Wife and I recently went car shopping. I found what I thought was an interesting deal. She, on the other hand, would NOT buy the car from that salesman or dealer if it meant walking. Some GMs may not want to help Ballard or the Colts. Maybe some players would threaten to not play here? Your scenario sounds reasonable- but NEVER Assume or guarantee unless you were a witness….
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5 minutes ago, Jared Cisneros said:
If you're talking to me, I'm trying to cover all my bases and not leaving any possible loophole to defend Ballard in this situation. The Ballard defenders will find any excuse to pick me apart for being an armchair GM, so I have to present this perfectly. It was a mistake by Ballard, and he missed an opportunity. I don't think he should get a pass for it. Guaranteed opportunity to help fix the secondary and we passed on it.
I wasn’t picking on you because of Ballard. I was picking on you because you presented it as if things happened as you guaranteed they had- they HAD to happen as you presented, and the kid would now have to be a Colt. That’s nothing but supposition.
I don’t care either way. I just pointed out that you’re making it up…
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11 minutes ago, Jared Cisneros said:
The fact is Ballard either low-balled an offer, wasn't interested in Rasul Douglas, or didn't match the Bills offer (where we had a higher 3rd rounder). I'm not saying I know which one. I'm saying it was one of the three though. That's a fact. If it wasn't, we'd have Rasul Douglas on the Colts right now. It is a fact he was for trade as the Bills traded for him. It is a fact that the Bills traded a 3rd round pick for Rasul and a 5th round pick. It is a fact that the Colts are a worse team than the Bills and our third round pick is higher than theirs. Therefore, it's a fact that if we made the same offer, the Packers would have accepted our offer instead because they would have moved up around 10-12 extra spots in the third round for doing absolutely nothing besides choosing us over the Bills.
The bottom line is that this was a value trade we could have done. It was against the grain as we weren't competing. However, Douglas had 1 1/2 years left on his contract, and we didn't have to re-sign him immediately. Ballard missed the mark here and didn't fill a weakness at a good price.
I’d be fine with most of what you say here IF you presented it as what you believe you would do in that scenario. But it’s total B.S. when you add that the things you present happened as Fact. And you can’t prove that a ‘Better Deal’ would be accepted over a ‘worse deal’. Maybe there are other reasons, like personalities Or something?
Relax, come off the high horse and just post it as something you would have done, and move on. We’re all fans, we pretty much all want better players, but in the end- they get paid to do this, and we don’t. It’s entertainment, nothing more. We can guess what may happen behind the scenes, but none of us can guarantee things are Facts.
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NFL.com win total projection by Cynthia Frelund
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Born there in 1954. Raised 40 miles north in Pa, listening to Chuck Thompson do play by play on WSBA and WBAL. The night I got engaged, we went to Memorial Stadium and watched Jim Palmer beat the Rangers. Moved to Indiana in 1980. (My Wife is a Hoosier!) My Mom sent me the Sports Pages from Balt Sun, Balt News American, York Gazette, and York Daily Record. Colts followed me to Indiana in 1984.