#12.

Ronnie Harrison put a cheap shot on some Colt in a game in Jax a few years ago, playing like he was "Rodney" Harrison.

For his first NFL action, he was fine. For you to get where you want to go, however, he must improve his accuracy considerably. That was known before he was drafted.

So far, I'm missing Bubba.

I didn't see any reason not to start him game 1.

Through one quarter, pretty much as advertised. Richardson has the skills but must improve his accuracy.

Pierce dropped his first TD from Ryan too.

It's preseason, but it will probably be conservative for much of this season. When Herbert was a rookie, Steichen told him the checkdown is your best friend.

I'm surprised. You usually seem to have an excellent sense of humor.

Parks Frazier still calling plays

Yeah, I thought NFL+ got you all out of market preseason games.

Are you in Indianapolis market?

That was ugly.

They thought they were getting veteran, smart football. They got just the opposite. Yes, Pinter and the O-line tried their best early on to end his life, but still. Overall, Wentz played smarter football.

You can probably get Bengals games free with an HD antenna, right? You might get a handful of Colts games that way, in the later window or at other times. If the Colts were good, you might get quite a few. The cheapest legal way for you to watch Colts games would be Game Pass, but you have to watch them after the fact, and if you're watching the Bengals game you will probably see the score. There's really no cheap and legal way to watch NFL games out of market. Find a friend with Sunday Ticket, that's about it.

Anything could happen in the next two years. As I said in another thread, I have no feel for where this is going. It might work. It might be a disaster. That said, Steichen strikes me as a guy who will just do whatever works. He's not married to anything. If the Philly/Hurts thing isn't working, he won't force it. He'll pivot to something else. Whoever we think Steichen is today, he might be someone different two years from now. Ballard? After the craziness of last season with Saturday and whatnot, he might not care if he's still here two years from now. So, could they draft another QB, might a new GM draft another QB? Sure.

The Taylor situation is just one part of it, but I have no feel for where this team is going, for where we might be headed in the Steichen/Richardson era. It might work or it could be the biggest disaster ever.

Looks like a cheap high school uniform worn by the worst team in the conference.

From top down, the organization, including Chuck, got as little out of Luck as they could. Yes, they did make an AFC Championship, but it was smoke and mirrors. Generally speaking, they beat up on a weak AFC South, then got destroyed by practically every top end team. Frank? Frank did about as well as he could with Brissett, old Phil, Wentz and Ryan after he fell off the cliff. With Luck, this team would have been competing year in and out. That said, the early years with Luck might be my favorite period of the Indianapolis era - a lot of hope, energy and excitement, crazy comeback after crazy comeback. Unfortunately, by year 4, it was quite apparent that Grigson and Chuck weren't up to the task.

When Belichick coached the Pro Bowl the year the Colts won the Super Bowl, Belichick told Manning he could ask him one question, only one. Manning asked him about that play.

Nothing gets past Brian Decker. I'm surprised the Secret Service isn't calling.

It's insane that, in 2022, it was still on DirecTV, and in 2023, there are still no smaller packages. You can stream any movie, anything. You should be able to just throw $10 down and watch a football game.

I wonder what kind of crazy bet he made at halftime of the Vikings game.

Overall, that might have been the best team they had, but 1994 was probably their best shot to win it, up 3-2 on the Knicks, after the Knicks choked in game 5. Had they closed it out, they would have beaten the Rockets that year. Those Pacers teams were fun, because given their comparative talent, they overachieved practically every year in the playoffs. Reggie wasn't playing with Shaq or other HOFers.

I don't know how much it will ever have in common with the Manning era. If it works, it will be something new. Physically, and even somewhat aesthetically with the way he moves, Richardson reminds me of an athlete from a different sport, Rafael Nadal. When you first saw Nadal play, you had never seen a tennis player look or play like Nadal. With Richardson at QB, it's a similar feeling. There is no QB who looks like this. Of course if he's 1/10th as successful a QB as Nadal has been a tennis player, you would take it every day of the week.

Thinking of elite/HOF QBs, most of them showed something fairly quickly, but a standard starter/franchise guy might take a little longer.