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1 hour ago, Coltsfan0112 said:
Ballard says he LOVES players who have great leadership and background and so many people rave about him and his work ethic. He is a small school with coaching not being that great compared to the top college coaches or NFL. He literally has all the traits to a Franchise Qb. This kid killed it last year when he had some talent and his coaches from last year. This year he had new coaches and new players so his play is taking a dive. I'll say this. If Ballard does draft him he will sit a year like Mahomes did and develop and be ready for the 2021 season. Perfectly fine with that as well.
I hadn't read much about his intangibles, so that's great to hear. Agree with you about his physical traits. Also agree that sitting him will be the plan, if we select him.
One nitpick though - Mike Sanford is his offensive coordinator. He's a pretty darn good coach.
The offensive structure is vastly different from what he'll experience in the NFL, and his supporting cast isn't very good this year. I'd say that's the main reason for his drop in statistical production.
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34 minutes ago, jameszeigler834 said:
That guy sucks not any better than Brissett if you don't believe me go to Utah State's team page and look up his numbers for the season in 11 games just 61% completion rate around 2300 yards passing 14 touchdowns 15 INT's that is terrible.
Yeah. That's why Chris Ballard personally flew out to attend the game to watch him.
Because he sucks.
He's viewed as the next Patrick Mahomes in scouting circles. When Love had a better supporting cast last year, his stats were as follows:
64% completion percentage
32 TDs
6 INTs
3,567 yards
But, the stats aren't everything. All you have to do is watch his tape and look at the throws he makes. His willingness to throw the ball into tight windows and consistently push the ball downfield is the antithesis to Brissett's game.
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Ballard was at the Utah State game watching Jordan Love tonight.
Utah State is awful this year, but Love made some jaw-dropping throws, as per usual.
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2 hours ago, Douzer said:
OK, these are positions I feel the greatest sense of urgency to upgrade in the upcoming draft and FA period (today 2019 11-23): The exact order is a rough approximation and not wholly refined in my thoughts yet.
#1 NT (Rush)
#2 RT
#3 DE (Rush)
#4 WR-2
#5 UT (Rush)
#6 TE-1
#7 WR-3
#8 K
#9 QB-2
#10 LT-2
#11 SS-2
I like and agree with some of the top 4 (not necessarily in that order), but slotting a *kicker* above a QB1 when the Colts currently have a bottom 10 starter (Jacoby is #27) right now in terms of yards per attempt is just mind-boggling.
Like, with all due respect my man, that's some out-there, alternative thinking lol.
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38 minutes ago, Douzer said:
I have #1 QB ranked as about the 12th biggest need on the current roster.
I'm willing to entertain your reasoning for why the #1 most important position in the NFL, by far, is the 12th most important need on a Colts team that just had their franchise QB retire before the season.
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27 minutes ago, Sumo63 said:
No worries, and I'll definitely take the prayers. Thanks, but I have about 3 seasons left.
Just offering it as an example of how our lives dont change because dudes wearing our favorite laundry dont score more points than dudes wearing hated laundry.
Single parents still gotta go to work, autistic kids still struggle at school, I know a bunch of people who have chemo monday....... Pick any one, hell pick three, mix and match if you like. This football S#*% isnt real. We should try (and I'm admittedly terrible at it too) to keep it in petspective.
Lost on the road by three NBD.
You are 100% correct about that.
Hang in there. Really hope you can beat the odds. If the courage you displayed on here by sharing your situation is any indication, I’m betting on you!
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16 minutes ago, Maniac said:
Why are we running the ball MORE with Mack not playing?
Quite simply, because we cannot pass.
2 minutes ago, Sumo63 said:I'm upset, but whatever. I still wake up with stage 4
cancer.......perspective people.
I'm sorry to hear that. Prayers for you my friend.
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You can't have a passing performance like that against a secondary that was in absolute tatters.
I'll cheer for the Colts to win every game, but it doesn't matter if they make the playoffs or not this year, the passing game is virtually non-existent, and there is a large enough sample size now to know what the Colts have in Jacoby - a Tier 1 NFL backup.
Team played hard tonight, and I'm proud of them for that.
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Just now, CurBeatElite said:
You mention in your next post we don't score on long/explosive plays. You're right.
That said, our two most explosive WRs (TY and Campbell) have been dealing with injuries for several weeks and our big body target (Funchess) who was supposed to take pressure off those guys (particularly TY) has been out all year.
If they all come back healthy, I won't be shocked if we see a little bit more explosiveness and deep play calling from the offense. I still think Reich will put strong emphasis on keeping the run game going and keeping the time of possession up, but frankly part of the reason we haven't really been explosive is likely due to the fact that we don't have a very good WR corps when 3 of our top 4 WRs are injured.
I wholeheartedly agree that the losses sustained by WR corps have significantly limited the ability for explosive passing plays.
That said, earlier in the year, when Hilton was still healthy and both Cain and Campbell were getting snaps, there wasn't much of anything going on vertically in the passing game. I believe Cain drew 2 long PI penalties, and that's about it.
Despite Jacoby's arm strength, I don't think the deep ball was working for him well earlier in the year, which probably led Frank to avoid relying on it. That's unfortunate, because as Frank gained trust in Jacoby, Jacoby started to lose the guys he'd be comfortable airing it out to.
The problem is, without that vertical component, teams started to play the Colts differently by bringing more defenders into the box to stop the running game. At some point, irrespective of the personnel available, the Colts need to establish some semblance of a downfield threat if they want the other, more-effective components of the offense to be efficient.
If that makes sense.
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10 minutes ago, Chloe6124 said:
You want to be a good red zone team no matter what.
Obviously. I'm saying it makes sense that the Colts score a lot of TDs in the red zone because they're not scoring on very many explosive (20+ yard passes) plays from outsize the red zone.
The Colts have 26 total TDs on the year.
24 of those TDs are red zone TDs.
Translation: The Colts don't score on many explosive plays.
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This stat makes a ton of sense when you consider that the Colts don't make very many long, explosive plays.
They have to be good in the red zone to be competitive.
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I'm gonna go ahead and give it a 10.
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4 hours ago, Smoke317 said:
They said Mack's injury isn't season ending.
Correct. I anticipate Mack will be ready for TEN.
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6 hours ago, Superman said:
I don't think I've been rude, but I hope you know it wasn't my intention to offend you.
1) I didn't imply that nothing was wrong. I said that blaming the Colts process or the turf is unreasonable, because there's no evidence, and certainly no proof, that there's anything wrong with either of those two elements. Is there evidence that I'm overlooking?
2) You posted a stat that shows the Colts have a lot of players miss a lot of games. And while that stat makes sense, it doesn't offer any theories about possible reasons for these injuries. It doesn't acknowledge the nature of the injuries suffered -- for instance, an ACL tear when a player is rolled up on is probably not related to either the turf or the training staff. And it doesn't specify where the injury happened -- for instance, a player getting hurt on a field other than LOS probably shouldn't be attributed to the turf at LOS, right?
I didn't respond directly to that stat because I don't see it as evidence that "there's something wrong" with the Colts process or playing surface.
The stat also has no bearing on the injuries that have happened this season, which we've been discussing, nor does it have any bearing on the rumors about Luck not being happy with the Colts staff. So, not specious, but I never said that stat was. I stand by my statement that rumors about Luck are specious (at best).
3) You did mentioned that players heal differently. Then you went on to compare the recovery of players with similar injuries and use them as examples, indicating that maybe something is wrong with how Funchess and Desir have recovered.
So my point is, why bring it up? Funchess and Foles had similar injuries. We don't know whether they had the same injury. We don't know what might have differed in the operations they had, or in their body composition that might affect their recovery timeframe. And since we're primarily talking about a bone healing, it seems obvious that there's nothing anyone can do to speed that process up.
Same with the Luck "smoke." It's entirely unsubstantiated, so why bring it up? I feel like it's something that people on the Internet have mused about, and then it gets repeated a few times, and now it's a "rumor." Pretty soon, it will be offered as fact, and it's anything but.
4) Sometimes people say things that are absolutely ridiculous, and I don't think it's over the line to identify them as ridiculous.
In this case, I wasn't specifically saying you're being ridiculous, but I can understand why you took my earlier post personally.
There's been this idea for several years now that the Colts turf is causing players to be injured, that the training staff sucks, the practice schedule is bad, they should hit more in practice, they should hit less in practice, etc., etc. And I think people find patterns where none really exist, because then we can find a way to blame someone or something for it, and it can easily be fixed.
The Colts have had random and weird injuries for a long time. They pre-date the present coaching staff, front office, training staff, and players... And for those who think the building was placed on top of an ancient burial site and is now cursed, these weird injuries pre-date the building as well.
Yes, the Colts have had a lot of injuries, and although the FO stat says they've been hit worst than most for two years in a row (and probably three, given how this season has gone; and if you adjust it to include Luck, who retired due to injury, it's even worse), there's a very random nature to many of the injuries suffered. I've already mentioned examples. Where's the common thread? Not location, not type of injury, not soft tissue vs bone, not upper body vs lower body, etc.
I hope the Colts are looking at the injury situation from every angle possible, and if there's anything that can reasonably be done to improve in this area, I hope they figure it out and implement it. But realistically, what it comes down to is that football players get hurt, and since they're still human they recover at different rates.
No hard feelings at all. No offense taken. I think it was just a misunderstanding, and my post that contained the musings about various player meandered into more speculative things. It was kind of a hard detour on my part, but I tried to be upfront about the fact that I was asking questions as opposed to proffering my own conclusions. I should've made that clearer.
There are a lot of spurious, off-the-wall claims out there regarding Luck's injury history, and I erroneously assumed you were putting my comments in that basket. One thing is for sure, irrespective of any specific claims or rumors that are out there, the Colts' narrative re: Luck's lower leg injury was kind of wonky, and as that saga drew to a close, Luck became more isolated from the team, and some of the things that Frank said to the media turned out to be flat-out false (Bowen did good investigative reporting on that front).
With respect to the other guys I brought up, I was curious about their injuries and rehabilitation programs, but wasn't trying to necessarily use their cases to prove my point.
At the end of the day, you're right about the fact that it's going to be very hard, if not impossible, to prove any one thing as the proximate cause for the Colts' perennial injury woes. And it's even harder to pinpoint when we only get snippets of what the Colts do or don't do from guys like Carroll and other NFL injury gurus. The Colts organization itself pales in comparison to an organization like the Chiefs when it comes to injury transparency.
The Chiefs routinely have a representative from their training staff give briefings to the media re: player injuries. They also occasionally peel back the curtain with videos like this:
https://www.chiefs.com/video/tour-of-stadium-player-health-and-safety-procedures
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2 hours ago, Imgrandojji said:
Wilkins isn't bad, but we've been looking for him to emerge as a change of pace back to allow Reich to have the confidence not to put all the rushing burden on Mack, and that kind of just never quite happened. Williams came in in 1 game and suddenly was that guy.
it says something when Reich would rather give rushing carries to a depth RB and even to Chester Rogers than to Wilkins. I dunno what but there's something going on there.
You realize Wilkins was hurt yesterday?
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On 11/15/2019 at 12:18 AM, zibby43 said:
I haven't looked at the data for 2019 yet, and I wouldn't pin it all on the playing surface at LOS, but in 2018, the Colts were second-to-last/31st (almost the very worst in the league) in terms of Adjusted Games Lost to injuries, per Pro Football Outsiders.
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2019/2018-adjusted-games-lost-part-i
They were not quite as bad (26th) in 2017, but definitely not good.
Every team deals with injuries, but it seems the Colts consistently deal with a multitude of injuries to critical players with extended absences.
On 11/15/2019 at 10:09 AM, Superman said:I'm not denying that the Colts have dealt with a lot of injuries. I'm challenging the idea that there's something/someone to blame for it, other than just the game of football.
For instance, how do the trainers or the turf figure into JB's knee injury? Last year, who's to blame for Doyle's hip injury (that happened in Washington, not Indy), or his kidney injury? How do you prevent Deon Cain's torn ACL, or Devin Funchess' broken collarbone?
People continue to perpetuate this idea that 'something must be wrong' because the Colts have a lot of injuries, and have latched on to the concept that the turf must be problematic, or the training staff isn't good. I don't think there's any proof that either of those things are true.
3 hours ago, Superman said:I'm responding to this late, but I just want to say that I find this rather sensational.
First, there was no "real" smoke about Luck not being happy with the way the Colts handled his injury. If there is, I'd like to see something other than unsubstantiated whispers from unverifiable sources.
Second, regarding Funchess, as you said, different players and different injuries heal at different rates. It's unreasonable to even try to compare one person's injury to another, especially when it's an injury with a wide range of recovery time. We haven't seen the scans, we don't know the severity of the breaks, and ultimately, we're probably talking about a 2-3 week difference in recovery time, which isn't even worthy of discussion because everyone heals differently.
A few years ago, a bunch of Bucs players came down with MRSA infections. You'd have a point if something like that were happening.
Same thing with Desir. Actually, it's the opposite, because while you're suggesting that the Colts did something to prevent Funchess from coming back sooner, you're saying they did the opposite with Desir and brought him back before he was ready. And you're talking about a hamstring injury, which is something that's known to linger and reoccur.
It's not my intention to claim that there's nothing wrong with the Colts' injury/recovery process, or their medical operation from top to bottom. I'm also not claiming that the playing surface at LOS is the best and is above reproach. But I do find it pretty ridiculous when people make connections based on specious claims, and then promote them around the Internet. Show me something legitimate. Otherwise, it's just complaining about injuries in the NFL, which seems silly to me.
First, you absolutely implied that there was nothing wrong with either the Colts injury/recovery process or the turf, in the post of yours I included above (bold text).
Second of all, you had that response after I showed you objective data that disputed that claim. Accordingly, I would argue I did show you something legitimate. See the post I included above, where the Colts were near the bottom of the league in Adjusted Games Lost to injuries for 2 consecutive years.
I'm going to make a not-so-bold prediction and forecast the Colts will hit the 3-consecutive years mark at the end of 2019. 3 years is a trend. That's not specious (respectfully).
The Luck smoke talk is exactly what I said it was: smoke. I didn't use the world "real." Everything you said about all collarbone breaks being different, I already acknowledged in my post, which makes me question if you even read it, or else why waste time on that?
Finally, implying anything I said was ridiculous is taking it a little too far. I try to keep it respectful on here, and although I may disagree with someone's comments, I try to never make statements like that. I think you, of all people, know that's probably going a bit over the line.
Enjoy your posts man, and I agree with you most of the time, but you've been all over the place on this one, and kind of rude to me for no reason.
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I'm just hoping Fuller doesn't make it back in time for us on Thursday, especially with how banged up our secondary is.
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4 hours ago, EastStreet said:
Wilkins is faster than Williams. Wilkins is 4.5 will Williams is 4.59.
Williams just hits the hole better. Wilkins is more of a dancer or finesse runner.
Wilkins is also averaging 6.1 per attempt, and the league-leading number is held by Lamar Jackson at 6.6.
Wilkins is incredibly efficient with his usage, to the point he deserves more touches. Durability seems to be an issue.
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Jordan Wilkins is averaging 6.1 yards per attempt.
Lamar Jackson is leading the league at 6.6 yards per attempt.
Wilkins is an absolute stud. I don't understand why you are underwhelmed with his performance, but I agree that Williams looked good today.
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8 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:
I think the Colts take a WR on Day 2. We've got 3 picks to find one we like. As we all know, this is a very good WR class coming up. I'd be beyond stunned if we didn't draft a WR in Rounds 2 or 3. Seems like a natural fit of need and opportunity. It's a love connection.
Chris Ballard has personally watched Chase Claypool 2x this year.
Claypool is tearing it up this year. 117 yards and 4 TDs today. He can run every route: drive route, sideline route, vertical, fade. Extremely physical. High-points the football.
An absolute stud gunner on special teams. I will literally do a backflip if the Colts land Claypool.
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6 hours ago, jvan1973 said:
For years? The current turf was installed last year
Just reporting the facts. Perhaps "new" turf was from the same supplier, and was of the same style/variety as the previous surface.
Don't shoot the messenger lol. It's his argument; not mine.
4 hours ago, Superman said:I'm not denying that the Colts have dealt with a lot of injuries. I'm challenging the idea that there's something/someone to blame for it, other than just the game of football.
For instance, how do the trainers or the turf figure into JB's knee injury? Last year, who's to blame for Doyle's hip injury (that happened in Washington, not Indy), or his kidney injury? How do you prevent Deon Cain's torn ACL, or Devin Funchess' broken collarbone?
People continue to perpetuate this idea that 'something must be wrong' because the Colts have a lot of injuries, and have latched on to the concept that the turf must be problematic, or the training staff isn't good. I don't think there's any proof that either of those things are true.
There's a detailed study out there on all the playing surfaces and which ones have produced the most injuries.
That said, even with Carroll, I don't think he has ever claimed that the turf is solely to blame.
I think with Carroll, his argument has been that the Colts' problem is systemic: from the training staff to the stadium playing surface, and everything in between. All of these things are cumulative. To look at it any other way would be irrational.
Furthermore, I don't think it's always the proximate causes of the injuries that he's complaining about, but the way they're handled after being sustained.
There was a lot of smoke that one of the reasons Luck retired this year was because he was not happy with how the Colts were dealing with his most recent leg/ankle injury.
Here's an example of something that interests me: It doesn't look like Funchess is close to returning from his collarbone injury. Foles suffered his injury the same week and is playing against us.
Meanwhile, ND had 2 players (Cole Kmet and Michael Young) return from collarbone injuries in 4-6 weeks (both w/ surgery) during the season and played at a high level.
Now, I know that everyone heals differently, and not all collarbone breaks are created equal, but did the Colts treat Funchess' injury correctly, with the correct procedure? He has been one of the slowest returning collarbone cases in the NCAA/NFL this year.
Desir's hamstring is another example. Did the Colts blow it by playing him too soon? It's lingered throughout the entirety of the season.
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4 hours ago, Superman said:
The turf at LOS didn't hurt Parris Campbell's hand, or Funchess' collarbone (in LA), or Jacoby's knee, etc.
Other teams have just as many injuries.
I haven't looked at the data for 2019 yet, and I wouldn't pin it all on the playing surface at LOS, but in 2018, the Colts were second-to-last/31st (almost the very worst in the league) in terms of Adjusted Games Lost to injuries, per Pro Football Outsiders.
https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2019/2018-adjusted-games-lost-part-i
They were not quite as bad (26th) in 2017, but definitely not good.
Every team deals with injuries, but it seems the Colts consistently deal with a multitude of injuries to critical players with extended absences.
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Will Carroll has claimed for years that the turf/field at Lucas Oil Stadium is the worst in the league. He's argued that it's the hardest field in the NFL and the turf is very sticky.
Some of the highest injury rates for both Colts and opposing players.
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Ballard was at the Utah State game tonight (watching Jordan Love)
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You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but you're way off base here.
I could entertain you saying that he's good, but there are a few other prospects you like better, and read your explanation as to why you like the others more. To say Love is "horrible" is so out of touch with reality that it comes across as trolling.
I say this with all due respect, but it may be best to admit you don't know very much about Love as a prospect, or how to evaluate QBs. If you took that approach, I think you'd find that there are a lot of really intelligent, passionate fans on here that would walk you through why so many scouts, GMs, and members here are excited about Love.
Nothing to be ashamed about. I'm learning stuff every day. Alternatively, if you derive more enjoyment from just flippantly throwing out baseless one-liners, more power to you.