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He can just hire Reich 🤣

Yawn 🥱 She’s deliberately leaving out the biggest reason the colts have truly been mediocre the past couple years, regardless of how many times it’s been stated it’s still true that QB has been our downfall. When Ballard felt that we were close is 2019 and 2020 he took bigger swings in free agency and took a hug swing at Buckner. River’s took us to the playoffs and retired. Then Reich got his way and got his QB that he couldn’t fix and because of that we didn’t have a first round pick to spend on a QB. We also were bringing on his salary and the we ended up with Ryan. You can see what Ballard thinks the direction of the team is headed based off of his free agency activity if you pay attention (I fully anticipate him being very active this year). In the prior years it was clear he wasn’t as confident and this past year he made it clear he wanted you guys to play so evaluate. This is a very narrow sighted written article IMHO. Personally though my biggest gripe with Ballard will always be making the trade for Buckner and signing Rivers instead of trading up for Herbert. That single move would have changed the Colts beyond anything we can fathom. That was what I wanted then, not a hindsight look either.

Sitting at 15 I really like Franklin for WR. Has speed, agility, good route running and really like the way he attacks the ball. Reminds me of St. Brown. I think he could replace Pittman with upside if that's the route we decide on. Which brings me to the thought process of should we tag Pittman and trade him?

The last time the Steelers won a play off game? 2016 Last time the colts won a playoff game? 2018 food for thought

QB, QB, QB, and QB again. I think the Pats are such an incredible example at this. They have had arguably the best head coach for over 2 decades and an incredible amount of success, however once their HOF QB leaves they began to fall into the realm of irrelevancy. Some teams have gotten incredibly lucky like the Ravens, Packers and the Eagles where they went from good QB to good QB. Every GM has a load of bad picks, heck the 49ers wasted so much capital to take a QB whose not even on their roster any more. Recency biased is happening here, some teams that are winning a lot right now weren't 6 years ago.

YOU should be called out for being either such a troll or a positive energy black hole. EVERY Single one of your post is negative in some way shape or form and usually is never constructive, just negative for the sake of negative no matter the case. Why don't you just take that black box and allow yourself to be happy we got a player in the third round that if a redraft would happen he would be a first rounder.

JFC dude, I hope you at least laugh when you're typing stuff up like this

So we are all living with the excuse of lack of talent in the back end for 2024, but what about last year when we had guys like Gilmore, Rodgers, flowers and he got to bring in his own guys like Facsyon and Rodney Mcleod. It was a bad year in all but we watched teams do the exact same things to us. He will be the reason we will lose games going into this season IMHO.

I am kind of hoping that him getting injured this year was the best thing for him. He really needed to sit and get the game down mentally but he is far to talented to sit. So he got forced to sit but hopefully it will allow him to become more cerebral. He wasn't finishing reads early on so hopefully being around the offense all season will have him set up well for next year.

I was expecting 4 wins, was going to be estatic with 6. Felt like we had a low of holes and we were going into more of a rebuild/evaluation year. We didn’t bring in any huge FA signings aside from Gay and Ebukam and we let go players like Stephon Gilmore, Campbell, Okereke, and Yannick so it was clear this was the front offices view too. It should honestly shows how much coaching matters. A team with more solidified starters last year was a much worse team under Reich and then Saturday then what this team being manned by majority of last years back ups coached up by SS. Having to rely on Minshew would have gave this team every excuse to give up and tank for a better pick but they clawed their way to a winning season. If the most rigged game I’ve ever seen in my life had gone our way we would be going to the playoffs. Theres a few that did have some unrealistic expectations but the vast majority of the fan base didn’t expect this season to go this way, we can bring up old post that show that. If next year doesn’t result in us winning the south with a healthy Richardson I’ll be severely disappointed. But to have been a dropped ball on 4th and 2 away from achieving that this year all things considered shouldn’t be scoffed at. Some “fans” on here would be calling for heads if we would have went 16-1 though.

Thank you @MB-ColtsFan Browns brought in an old vet, who still hasn’t played 75% of the games. Go lay down you troll, you think you’re talking facts here but you’re to arrogant to look anything up. p.s just because you add a snarky GIF to a message doesn’t mean you’re right about anything

Give examples smart *

Have there been teams that go to the playoffs with a back up QB? Yea sure, how about when that back up QB plays 75% of the season? Absolutely not, I would have to do some serious digging but there isn’t a single one that comes to mind. Only ones where a QB was drafted and was supposed to sit and then got thrusted into the starting role and this clearly wasn’t the case. Heck you can look back at what Minshew did with the Jags when he was the starter..

Take CJ stroud out after week 4 and how do you think the Texans legitimately do?

Put down the booze and whatever your smoking if you think Steichen and Reich are in the same breath

2nd worst game Minshew has had this season. It showed Steichen had almost zero trust in him and good reason. He didn’t turn the ball over but he couldn’t throw a good ball. Lights turned off and showed he wasn’t big enough for the moment.

Still proud of the colts. All this with a severely limited back up QB. With AR no doubt we win this game and a couple more this past season. Next year will be a good year.

So I was messing around on PFF and looked back at our draft grade and was reading our player write up and something stuck out to me. Ballard drafted guys that excel at pressman coverage. Jones was the only player that played more zone but Brents and Rush were much more man CB's. Why would you be drafting long term players to play for a DC that wont utilize their strengths? I know Ballard has said positive things about Bradley but there is no way he is super thrilled with him. He may give praise for the sacks, but as seeing we don't blitz, or scheme stunts or twist for our D-line then how much credit can Bradley really receive that much credit for it? Bradley's scheme really only works against inexperienced QB's, veteran QB's pick us a part. We dog on the personnel but Bradley is trying to force a square peg through a round hole here. I didn't hate the decision to retain Bradley going into Steichen's first year so Shane could get his feet under him but moving forward I can see Shane being able to bring in who he wants. I think there is a massive probability that the team moves on this year and I feel Ballard has anticipated this move.

It was a joke I never thought the whole bald eagle thing was legit from the get go

Hmmmm thats exactly what someone who did kill a bald eagle would say......

Ever heard the saying, "The only thing prevent defense does is prevent you from winning"? I get they are trying to give large cushions so we don't give up any big plays over the top, but the chances of a offense getting to the end zone in 4 plays is significantly less then if we give them 15 plays to try and stop them.

Still plenty of examples of players who have done that with them and their Dr and it still causing negative drug test because of ingredients not disclosed. I’m not coming up with an excuse for any colts player in particular, but it’s not a open and shut case for every failed P.E.D drug test.

It happens all the time, I take it you’re probably not a person to work out or take any pre workout stuff. The list of ingredients on the banned list is very long and extensive and it’s not like it’s unbelievable for someone to gloss over 1 ingredient. https://www.nationalfootballpost.com/columns/features/nfl-banned-substance-list/ And it doesn’t help that since work out stuff isn’t typically screened by the FDA companies will use different names for ingredients. It’s not like oh hey this has steroids in it. There is a reason so many players get flagged for it every year.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39207197/colts-drew-ogletree-arrested-alleged-domestic-violence “The first officer on the scene wrote in a probable cause affidavit provided to ESPN that the woman was discovered in an upstairs bedroom in pain. The woman told police that Ogletree "body slammed" her to the ground during an argument. An ambulance was called and the woman was transported to the hospital, police said. The confrontation, according to the affidavit, happened while Ogletree's young son was in the home. After further investigation, an arrest warrant was issued Thursday and Ogletree turned himself in to the Hendricks County Jail on Friday.” yikes

Domestic battery* if a mod could change the title. Messed up, I’d say he’s gone. Kind of a let down from how hyped up he was going into this season.