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16 hours ago, bluebombers87 said:
Never said we should replace him. I was merely pointing out that we shouldn’t be exuberant claiming he’s back. We said the same thing in game 3. He’s still having issues. Kickings only gonna get harder as the year goes on. Maybe he struggles, maybe he doesn’t. Point is he’s inconsistent. And an inconsistent kicker is a liability in this league. Apparently this is tantamount to saying he’s garbage. I dunno.
I just don't like Vinny being labeled a "liability" because he is still winning games for us, but I can see where you're coming from.
Maybe I just need to understand your perspective better.
Only making 75% of his kicks is obviously not ideal. At what rate would you no longer consider him a liability? 80%? 90%? What if he makes all his kicks the rest of the year and ends up above 90%, but misses a game-winner in the first playoff game? (basically the opposite of what we have right now: consistent, but not clutch)
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2 hours ago, SteelCityColt said:
Just on the TD:INT Ratio... would you say Minshew/Bridgewater are better QBs?
Maybe better at some things. I've only seen Minshew play once, so I can't really say.
I think JB has a better arm (strength-wise) than Bridgewater, but Bridgewater seems a little more "polished" as a passer. They both probably have a better release than JB, but I think JB is safer with the ball.
You could probably lump them all in the same tier of QB for now. I just don't really know.
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21 minutes ago, SteelCityColt said:
It's just the extremists are noisier.
I hope I don't seem like an extremist, but I tend to respond to posts that I think are extremely critical, so I probably come off as the other end of the extreme (sunshine and rainbows homer). That's the whole reason I created an account and started posting in the first place years ago, because I saw some posts that were just ridiculous and felt the need to chime in. I had spent years on the sideline up to that point just enjoying the football discussions that make this forum the best on the internet.
For the most part, I'm just silently nodding along with all the reasonable posts most people have on here. I think I'm pretty level-headed and middle-of-the-road, opinion-wise (although I tend to lead toward being a homer
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As far as this topic, I think the TD:INT ratio is a great stat for JB to have on his resume (maybe the most important stat a QB can have on their resume), but it obviously doesn't paint the entire picture, and anyone watching the games should realize that.
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2 minutes ago, MikeCurtis said:
I KNEW that you would come around on JB.......
I think he is a first ballot HOF
(And he is a worth a SECOND round pick!!!) HA
That's funny.
Obviously Ballards' asking price will have gone way up because JB is our starter now. But I wonder what another team would be willing to give up to trade for JB at this point.
The people saying he was worth a 2nd before probably think he's worth at least a 1st now. And Ballard might agree, who knows.
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23 minutes ago, Clem-Dog said:
Not before a football game in which you're an employee making millions.
How about Kaep or any other activist march in the streets of the roughest most oppressed neighborhoods in America? Why not march in front of police stations, or in Washington DC? Why have none of these so called activists ever addressed eliminating domestic criminals such as drug dealers and murderers residing in and spreading terror throughout oppressed neighborhoods? Why? Because it would actually require a little bit of courage to do so.
Some of them actually have.
But you know why you didn't hear or read about it?
Because it wasn't before a football game on national television.
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On 10/7/2019 at 12:58 PM, BleedBlu8792 said:
I don't think there is any way ND makes the playoffs.
On 10/12/2019 at 4:09 PM, NFLfan said:If ND wins out the rest of the way, can they make the playoffs?
On 10/13/2019 at 2:09 AM, GoColts8818 said:that leaves ND on the outside looking in even if they run the table.
Welp... it's all a moot point now, anyway. My Irish got absolutely embarrassed in Ann Arbor last Saturday.
Only pride to play for the rest of the way.
It will be interesting to see how Brian Kelly finishes the season. There's talk of replacing him with Urban Meyer in the offseason...
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27 minutes ago, AZColt11 said:
We should run it like 35 times. 3 yards and a cloud of dust. Old time football.
Against the Steelers front-7? Are you serious? More like 1 yard of dust and three-n-out.
I think we're going to see a similar gameplan to what Reich did against the Texans.
Spread 'em out, find mismatches against LBs in coverage, and dink-n-dunk our way down the field to control TOP.
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12 hours ago, BloodyChamp said:
It’s almost like this place is an internet message board where that type of thing is common
This is obviously the best message board on the internet.
Take you for example: You're a Favre/Packers fan, yet you're a contributing member of a Colts forum, who has averaged 2 posts per day for the last 5 years.
How many other teams' message boards do you post on twice a day?
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11 hours ago, BloodyChamp said:
Sound like something the Colts doctors would do if you go by recent history
How so?
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Just now, Introspect said:
I guess with that mentality we keep the status quo and never look to make the team better. No position on this team is a top 3 player. So we just stick with the players we got...HMMMM
Just always looking to make the Shoe better... But I think the team is better than one player... Just a medical guy who is a fan of this team. Just my thoughts...
What? Ballard has been improving the team since day 1. You're getting into left field here... we're talking about kickers. And Vinny has been a top-3 kicker for years, but isn't now. And Vanderjagt was before Vinny. Now that we have an average (but still clutch) kicker, we see what the other 31 teams have to deal with on a yearly basis.
So what top-3 kicker do we replace Vinny with? In your medical opinion...
Also, I'd say Nelson, Kelly, Smith, Hooker, Leonard, and Moore are arguably top-3 at their positions. But like I said, improving the team is Ballards' job, not mine or yours, and he's been doing a pretty good job so far.
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21 hours ago, Introspect said:
Some men you just can't reach Blue.... They can't look at the situation without the fanboy glasses. Vinny is not up to snuff NOW in his career PERIOD
Name a kicker besides Justin Tucker that is "up to snuff".
Name the other kickers that can be credited with winning 5 games for their team this year.
Now name the kickers that have lost their team at least one game.
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2 minutes ago, bluebombers87 said:
Would you be ok with the 22nd out of 32 in the league running backs just because they scored a go-ahead touchdown for the win? Would you be as complacent with any player who was ranked 22/32 in the league?
Yes. Because of the bolded.
Remember Jerome Bettis at the end of his career when he didn't get many carries or yards? All he did was score TDs to win games for the Steelers.
The ranking of players means diddly squat if the team is winning. And Vinny has won us 5x more games than he lost for us this year. So for the umpteenth time, he is not a liability as long as he keeps winning games for us. If we lose the next three games because Vinny misses more kicks, or if we lose a playoff game because he misses the game-winner, then we can talk about him being a liability, but by then it will be a moot point.
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3 minutes ago, bluebombers87 said:
A kicker who is only making 75% of their kicks is a liability.
A kicker who wins you 5 out of every 6 games is not a liability.
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6 minutes ago, bluebombers87 said:
Ah ok so it’s his fault when we win but when I cite a playoff loss, which was his last game prior to this season, it’s not. Yep, makes sense
He didn't lose that game.
Had he made all his kicks, we still would have lost.
If anything, Luck, the OLine, and the defense were liabilities in that game.
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1 minute ago, bluebombers87 said:
Like the playoff game last year where he missed kicks?
Now you're reaching. Those kicks didn't lose us that game. And they have nothing to do with our current record, either.
You can blame one loss on Vinny. One. That's it. And he deserves criticism for that loss, but that's not a liability.
He gets credit for 5 wins, including his two game-winners.
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2 minutes ago, bluebombers87 said:
Could’ve been 6-1
Well why do you care if I call him a liability then?
Because if you are going to blame him for the loss to the Chargers and call him a liability, then he also won us 5 games this year and deserves credit for being clutch.
5 beats 1, especially when the one was the first game of the year and not a playoff loss.
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2 minutes ago, bluebombers87 said:
So are you saying he is not allowed to be criticized?
Did I say that?
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1 minute ago, bluebombers87 said:
If you don’t know what game is gonna be good and bad, that’s a liability.
Along with 30 other kickers.
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11 minutes ago, Myles said:
Because I think he "could" not "would". He would also be the worst kicker in the league for 5 years.
So @ricker182 and others wouldn't be wrong to still think he's the GOAT?
Cuz that's not what came across with your "Nope" reply.
Maybe explain your opinion a little more next time instead of just "Nope"...
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18 minutes ago, Myles said:
He could still be thought of as the best of all time.
Then why'd you say "Nope" when someone else made this same statement?
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11 minutes ago, bluebombers87 said:
Can’t compare different positions. It’s not an accurate comparison. That’s why players are compared to other players in their position, but other positions on their team.
Ok, fine. Let's compare him to others at his position.
There is only one kicker in the NFL that hasn't missed a single FG or PAT this year, and his name is Justin Tucker, who is the best kicker in the game right now.
So every other kicker in the NFL is "inconsistent" to a certain degree. There is literally only one kicker that you can claim MIGHT not be a liability come playoff time.
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4 minutes ago, bluebombers87 said:
Can’t compare different positions. It’s not an accurate comparison. That’s why players are compared to other players in their position, but other positions on their team.
You said Vinny is a liability because of his inconsistent play.
Would an inconsistent DB not be a liability in pass coverage?
Would an inconsistent OL not be a liability in pass protection?
Would an inconsistent QB not be a liability when dropping back to pass?
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These types of threads crack me up. You can't please everyone. Winning is supposed to cure everything, but even when we're winning, we're not winning good enough.
If we don't run "enough" like we did against the Texans, then Mack needs to get more carries. If we don't get "enough" chunk plays, Hines should catch more passes and JB should take more shots downfield. If their stats aren't good enough, then Ebron, Doyle, TY, Cain, etc. should get more targets...
Does everyone realize how much of a catch-22 this all is? There's simply not enough balls/stats to go around for every player on offense. With the ball-control offense that Reich likes to run, we're not going to have games where JB throws for 400 yds and 4 TDs, while Mack has 150 yds and 2 TDs, and TY, Ebron, Doyle, Cain, etc. all get targets, catches, yds, and TDs.
We might win every remaining game, but never score more than 30 points, and every player on offense will have very average stats by the end of the year. And that's OK.
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7 hours ago, King Colt said:
So you are saying both locker rooms are the same after a game???!!!
No, they're saying different sides of the person will come out depending on a win or a loss. One locker room will be happy, the other won't.
Being happy because of a win doesn't change who a person is, just their mood.
Baker obviously wasn't happy after a loss, and was in a bad mood during his press conference.
Baker Mayfield gets into it with reporters and walks off
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You presume wrong.
And what's with the personal attack? I was just making a comment about this forum being awesome. You wouldn't be a part of this community and posting on here twice a day if you thought otherwise.
I didn't even watch the Browns-Pats game, so my comment had nothing to with Baker and everyones' reaction, just your comment about our forum.