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February 1

23 hours ago, Defjamz26 said:

Day 2 for Mitchell. And mind you, he’s supposed to be a zone/off man corner. Some have said he’s the best player at the senior bowl.

FWIW his PFF grade is absolutely insane. 2023 overall is a 91.5, a dip from his 22 season from 92.5.... for 2023 Coverage grade is 91.6, man coverage 88.7 zone coverage is 85.9. His competition isn't great so this week is huge for him.

some other grades of guys at CB

Cooper Dejean 2023 overall 77.4, coverage 76.8 man coverage 63.7 zone is 73.1

Nate Wiggins overall 81.6, coverage 82.9, man coverage 78.5, zone is 74

Terrion Arnold overall 88.3, coverage 84.9, man coverage 61.2 zone is 81.9

Kool-aid McKinstry overall 88.8, coverage 87.8, man coverage 74.7 zone is 83.8

Ennis Rakestraw overall is 80.7 coverage 78.7, man coverage 56.6 zone is 85.2

PFF is to be taken with a grain of salt still but that's insane for Mitchell to be graded that high.

February 1

I saw this the other day and have been pondering it. Pierce is asked to do the dirty work to open up the rest of the field for everyone else. He runs more vertical routes then anyone else in the league so DB's are likely keying up on that and anticipating a deep route. So he is open about 3 times a game for a deep bomb so that does still validate peoples thought of him being open frequently. All while keeping his DB and a safety away, allowing more space for everyone else.

January 25

Man having Richardson really did open things up for Steichen. You can see how the safety's actually had to respect the deep ball

January 23

14 hours ago, Defjamz26 said:

His tape is definitely good. Theres no denying that. But the same was said about Pitts. And that’s not to say Pitts still can’t be good, but he also played in the SEC and made defenses look silly. He put up 120 yards and a TD against Alabama in his final season in 2020. He also put a 100 up against Tennessee and Ole Miss. Not saying that its exactly the same situation, but there is a precedent here.

I think TEs struggle transitioning to the league sometimes because of athletic limitations and skill set. They’re basically bigger but slower receivers, who run a limited route tree. Unless you have a truly elite skill set and elite athleticism, it’s hard to flourish. And again, you need a scheme that makes use of the TE like the old Patriots teams where Gronk and Hernandez gave people fits.

I’ll have to watch more Browers tape. But I also wonder if he is that good, does he fit in a Steichen offense? I would think an elite WR1 would be more valued in a Steichen offense that wants to push the ball vertically with explosives.

Pitts is a weird case. He was always used as basically just a big WR in college and that is kind of all he is. He's not really a blocker, has a slender build and not overly physical. I'm not sure that he was drafted as a TE as more of a playmaker, he is still an insane match up in the pass game against a LB or a slot CB but all other TE duties he leaves plenty to be desired.

I think Bowers comps closer to T.J Hockenson with more upside personally. T.J was probably the most complete guy, albeit with the lowest ceiling, out of any other 1st round guy. Although the Lions traded him away his yards and TD's are still great for a TE

January 23

15 hours ago, Matabix said:

We could already have Bowers on our team in Mallory.

I like Mallory, but he is just a vertical threat. His blocking is pretty bad and he's not a physical player at all where as Bowers is.

January 22

He's probably the only blue chip player that could fall to us in the draft and that's just due to position. Super well rounded guy and for sure a difference maker.

January 21

He can just hire Reich 🤣

January 19

3 hours ago, Indeee said:

This girl really gets what a lot of us non-Ballard apologists have been saying for years now.

Enjoy the read:

The General Manager for the Indianapolis Colts, Chris Ballard, has been extremely conservative during his tenure at the helm. The lessons of being disciplined, love your draft picks, short term deals, bargain bin free agents, build in the trenches, and financial flexibility have all been preached. Those lessons have netted the Colts a total of zero division titles and one playoff win. With an extension last year, Ballard has found something that is extremely rare in professional sports, a new lease on life after producing few results. He has to take advantage of that by changing his ways.

2023's great signing was a kicker. Yes, Matt Gay was good, but that can’t be your big splash. I know the Colts were coming off a low point last year, but signing a kicker is the best move? Ballard holds on to cap space and draft picks like they are the only things that mean anything. Meanwhile, I see team after team acquiring good talent for fourth or fifth round picks and being pressed up to the cap. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, but I also see a lot of instances when it does.

Do you know what doesn’t work out? Being so conservative. Trading back eight times a draft to pick five times in the fifth round. Having one of the top four cap space situations year after year after year. Not paying for premium positions like wide receiver. Paying a guard like a defensive end. Signing twenty free agents every year to one-year deals so you have to start the process all over again. You know how I know it doesn’t work out? Because it hasn’t. Results are results, and there haven’t been any to date.

It is time to go for it. If you believe you have your Haliburton on the roster in Anthony Richardson, it is time to go and get him a few rare, more talented players. I can’t imagine his job is safe much longer if results do not materialize, so take a swing. I am not saying burn the place down on the way out, but make a trade, trade up in the draft, and/or sign some bigger name free agents. Like the fan-favorite meme that goes around every offseason of the character with the stick saying, “Do Something”, I implore and beg you, Chris Ballard, to do something this offseason.

**The above is an excerpt taken from a written piece by Kellie Wilkenson

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.

January 17

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?

January 16

The last time the Steelers won a play off game? 2016

Last time the colts won a playoff game? 2018

food for thought

January 16

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.

January 16

2 minutes ago, DougDew said:

Why retort with such a baiting post? You should get called out for it.

You choose:

Everybody, including you, thinks a black box contains a nice glass vase worth $100. So you let 78 other boxes get chosen. Then then you choose that black box and you find out it has a crystal vase worth $500.

Which is the better word to describe that. Steal. Or luck. ?

A steal would be when you knew the black box had the $500 vase AND you knew that nobody else knew what you knew, so you let 78 other boxes get chosen first.

Doesn't happen that way when drafting players. Sorry to burst irrational bubbles of positivity.

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.

January 16

23 minutes ago, DougDew said:

It might be a steal, but why credit a GM for that? He just picked the guy that was sitting there available. Did LAR think Puca was going to be as good as he is, and the GM knew that no other GM knew what he knew so he let him drop? It doesn't work like that.

The way it works is this. IND needed a LT. LAR needed a WR. They both drafted a guy that NOBODY forecasted to be a top 10 anything. If they would have thought that each would have been top 10 early....,they would also figure that other GMs knew that (or else they are tremendously egotistical and conceited)..and they would have drafted each player with their first round pick (or at least before Jelani Woods and Alec Pierce). That's what the NFL does with LTs they think will be top 10 LTs and top 10 WRs early...they draft them in the first round so nobody else drafts them..

The fact that LAR and IND did not do that shows that they knew nothing substantially more than any other GM about how the player would turn out....they may all have thought they were good developmental players. The reason they were picked is because the the team needs aligned with the each players availability and forecast. (After we picked AP and Woods before Raimann,,LOL)

If you want to equate GM stealing a player with a GM getting lucky, I'll agree to that, but I doubt that's the way most see it.

I think Ballard would have looked more astute if he picked Raimann ahead of AP and Woods....and not have passed on him twice like every other GM did.

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

January 14

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.

January 11

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.

January 7

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.

January 7

1 hour ago, Mick J. said:

Browns and Steelers this season.

Thank you @MB-ColtsFan

1 hour ago, MB-ColtsFan said:

Wait...what QB has played 75 % of the snaps for the Steelers? Was it Rudolph or Trubiski (3 games each)?

Have they made the playoffs?

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 haha haha

January 7

1 minute ago, Mick J. said:

More than you want to believe, but this sounds like either denial or just more excuses for Ballard type of conversation. lol

Give examples smart *

January 7

4 minutes ago, Mick J. said:

Do teams with a supposedly solid roster make the playoffs, without a quality starter?

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..

January 7

4 minutes ago, Mick J. said:

When the Texans make the playoffs one year after being a dumpster fire, it's hard to argue. And there are people saying the roster is very good.

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

January 7

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

January 7

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.

January 7

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.

January 3

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.

January 3

1 hour ago, jvan1973 said:

If he killed a bald eagle it would be public knowledge by now. What they were punished for was in house thing. We probably will never know

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

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