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3 minutes ago, jameszeigler834 said:
While us fans are fed up with Brissett the coach and GM still thin this bum brissett is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
There also has to be a reason that he wasn't sent back to the PS.
I can tell you the reason - anyone on the practice squad can be signed to another team.
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With all of the injuries on this roster, I was very surprised that the Colts decided to eat up a precious roster spot by carrying a third QB (Kelly).
That tells us 1 of 2 things (or both):
1) Jacoby's injury was serious enough that they felt they needed a backup for Hoyer, if he had to play in Jacoby's absence.
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2) The Colts actually value Kelly's potential and wanted to give him an opportunity at some point, under the proper circumstances, to see what he offered (e.g., is he a quality backup?).
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Will Brees finish with less incompletions than Jacoby will have completions?
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I had a feeling this was coming after the Colts’ D made Winston look like Aaron Rodgers.
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Where’s that guy that was comparing Brees to Brissett?
He was spot on. I couldn’t tell the difference between the QBs if it weren’t for the jerseys (sarcasm).
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12 minutes ago, DougDew said:
That's because he was already throwing to someone else. LOL
Stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
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Hey guys, you think Doyle was open on this play?
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Pascal had an entire half of the field to himself.
Booger could’ve hit that throw.
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3 hours ago, EastStreet said:
Remove the Hoyer games as they're irrelevant. Sure you can blame AV for some of our woes, but lets be honest, we shouldn't have been in a situation where we had to have a FG to win, in a lot of these games against mediocre teams. Aside from just a few games vs very bad passing Ds, our passing O has been bad to mediocre all year.
Removing the Hoyer games and brushing aside the awful kicking is taking away real and substantial reasons the Colts lost games. If you have a good kicker in some of those games, they're not necessarily as close. It's a double-edged sword.
As much as I've been critical of Brissett in the past (and I'll continue to be a tough grader), I think that's taking it a bit too far to pin the team's performances/record on JB.
The SI author has some hit and miss points. When he sums Brissett up as a high-end game manager, I think that's pretty accurate. Functional mobility? Check. Underrated touch? The Pascal throw to the back of the end zone demonstrated this. However, the frozen rope laser beam to Doyle on 4th and 2 did not lol. The fact that we don't know how much the MCL injury has affected JB is another very reasonable and salient point.
I'm didn't buy everything this SI guy said, but he made some points that helped me snap back more toward the "middle ground" on Jacoby. That, plus really taking the time to watch more Love. He was pretty mediocre this year. Couple of wow throws per game, but a lot of really bad decision-making and throwing to a predetermined read. Looked like he had no interest in or ability to read defenses. I was guilty of wanting a relatively unknown quantity to be the answer/guy, but it's just not going to be that easy. There is no Mahomes where the Colts will be picking.
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Disclaimer: I still don't know if Brissett is the future at QB. But the more film I watch, the more Jordan Love looks like DeShone Kizer rather than Patrick Mahomes. With where the Colts will be picking, there are no "sure thing" QBs.
Regardless of what the Colts do this off-season, Brissett is likely to be the starting QB next year. It will be intriguing to see if the Colts can surround him with better skill talent and whether a full off-season to prepare like a starter helps him improve.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/12/08/nfl-week-14-preview-analysis
Excerpt:
Before the receiving corps deteriorated due to injury, the Colts were sitting at 5-2 and Brissett was on pace for 3,600 yards, 32 TD passes and a 99.3 passer rating. Now left with Zach Pascal and the Funky Bunch, Brissett would surely kill for the kind of talent Tom Brady has with the slumping Patriots at the moment.
Then there was the injury to Brissett himself, which has shaded this season. Had he not sprained his MCL in Pittsburgh and finished the de-pantsing of the Steelers rather than turning it over to Brian Hoyer to, well, turn it over for the remainder of that game as well as the next one (an upset loss to Miami), Indy would be sitting at 8-4 right now. If their kicking game hadn’t devolved at a stunning rate (if you project points-per-kick based on league-average rates from inside-50-yard attempts, 50-plus attempts and PATs, Adam Vinatieri is a league-worst -11.9 on the year while opposing kickers against the Colts are +7.4, fourth-best in the league), you could probably push that record to at least 9-3 (there were particularly egregious, arguably game-costing misses in losses to the Chargers in Week 1, and last week to Tennessee).
At this point in his career, Brissett is a high-end game manager. He has the potential to develop into much more. Since the last time we saw him, he's become a faster processor. The arm talent, underrated touch and functional mobility aren't going anywhere.
TRIVIA TIME
PLAYER A: 6.58 yards/attempt, 19 TD, 7 INT, while throwing to Pro Bowl slot receiver with three 1,000-yard seasons, veteran WR acquired for second-round pick, 2015 first-round pick, 2019 first-round pick who’s missed nine games, 28-year-old former All-Pro WR released after six games, veteran TE who’s missed six games
PLAYER B: 6.91 yards/attempt, 18 TD, 6 INT, while throwing to Pro Bowl WR who has missed six games, 2019 second-round WR who has missed six games, No. 1 TE who has missed two games, formerly undrafted TE whose never had a 700-yard season, three undrafted WRs (in second, third and fourth NFL seasons)
Can you match the player with his 2019 stats?
(Hint: Both of them have appeared in this post, and both aren't having great seasons)
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27 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Reich didn't sabotage anything but JB wanted to come back in during the Pit game was the OP's point. JB also said he was ready vs Miami. Reich just thought we could beat Miami without him as did many.
Frank watched the film of Jacoby practicing leading up to the Miami game and he didn't have full mobility/range of motion. Reich said he looked less than 100%.
On a side note, in the OP's original post, he literally said Frank sabotaged the season:
44 minutes ago, Smoke317 said:He better win with whomever it is because I just watched him sabotage this season when the AFC was open for the taking.
He wanted JB out and leapt at the opportunity when it was there. Unfortunately, all he did was sink our season...
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So, according to your theory, Reich sabotaged JB and the season (on his own) in order to run JB out of town?
Is it April Fool's Day already?
Jacoby's knee was hurt. Period.
The one incontrovertible fact that blows your theory out of the water: there are 3 QBs on the roster, and JB has been starting/playing.
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NFL's easiest schedules thus far (ranked by average DVOA of opponent):
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By halftime.
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I would normally say this sucks, but we haven’t ever really seen his potential because . . .
. . . shocker, he’s always hurt. The only thing he has proven is that he struggles mightily to make it through the violence and intensity of an NFL game.
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3 hours ago, EastStreet said:
I've seen so many swings on the WR situation.
From "we have nobody", and "we have ignored the position for years", to "we have two good ones in Pascal and Johnson".... The narrative seems to change every game.
This. I'm not going to overreact after playing one of the worst pass defenses in the entire league.
I think Pascal is an ideal #3, and Johnson a #4. With what I've seen from Hines in the punt return game, I think we can let Rogers walk.
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The Colts had 3 drives in the 4th quarter. They managed 14 plays and gained a total of 35 yards. Only 1 first down (excluding penalty yardage).
In the 4th, Brissett was 5-of-9 for a whopping 30 yards. Against one of the worst passing defenses in the NFL.
Brissett did some good things today, and he deserves credit for that, but when people say the loss isn’t on him, I disagree. It’s not totally on him, but irrespective of what the defense did, when there were plays that needed to be made late, Brissett and the offense as a whole, did not make them.
That gets you beat in the NFL.
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Historically bad defensive performance today:
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That’s what you deserve when playing that soft coverage between the 20s.
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Looks like Campbell is hurt again.
Is that his 5th injury of the year, including camp? Never seen anything like it.
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Brutal game for Blankenship tonight.
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You could've copied and pasted large swaths of that, claimed it was a 2019 scouting assessment of Brissett from a rival AFC scout, and everyone would've believed it.
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Jordan Love charged with possession of marijuana
in NFL Draft, Scouting, and Free Agent Talk
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Misdemeanor, but still, not good.
https://fox13now.com/2019/12/17/jordan-love-two-other-usu-football-players-charged-with-marijuana-possession/