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Channeling...... Rest all of our starters for the remaining 10 weeks

Ya think?

Not going to be popular, however I think the Colts should think about trading Pittman. Pittman is a good WR2, and he's been a good Colt. I just don't think he is worth the contract he might command even though the Colts are truly void of receiver talent, except for maybe Downs. With the Colts in their current state, I think it's worth a look see on what Pitt could bring back.

The mustache has been in the league since 2019. He's now with his 3rd team. He wasn't brought here to be a starter. He was brought here to mentor a familiar system and a familiar league to a rook, and maybe hold the fort for a couple games in a season should the rook get injured or concussed. At this point there is nothing to prove. Some games he will suck. Some games he will be great. Mostly he will be in the middle. Root all you want. Just temper your expectations, especially because this team is noooo where near competing for a title even in a terrible division once again where the jags should be running away but have yet to. Don't get fooled here. WE NEED a top 6 pick next year more than we need a mid-road record.

No, of course not, however it is what it is. I really think the focus now should be on.... ... I'm kidding. It does suck

Seriously what is going on here with everybody? We did not want to win many games this year. This year was supposed to be hopefully seeing a rook QB progress. This team wasn't going to compete for a championship even if AR didn't get hurt. Now we have a rook QB with an injured throwing shoulder. Instead of griping about losing to the jags or sulking because we may not win many games moving forward, which we should not want to do anyway, we need to pray the QB is able to throw before April and is healthy or pray the Colts are smart enough to draft another QB if he is not.

Friendos... I have been called out for saying that AP was a wasted 2022 2nd round pick. Let's see if I turn out to be right. This is a running weekly tab on how many games the real ghost, aka Alec Pierce, disappears. Week one: CHECK Week two: CHECK Week Three: Partial CHECK ( 3 for 7 is better or aka a little Boo ) Week Four: CHECK Week Five: CHECK Week 6: CHECK Week 7:

Good chance Pierce has missed every game so far this season...

I pasted it. Rappaport

Sorry. Didn't know this was posted elsewhere. You can merge or lock

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports Anthony Richardson (shoulder) is “strongly considering” season-ending surgery. And there it is. The biggest fear. At least mine.

If his 5th year is fully paid and the Colts want to give up a late rounder just to see if the remaining part of the year can be a different vibe for Jeudy all the way around and if not, they can let him walk in FA, then take the chance. But if this is a high pick and an extension, hard pass, and this is coming from the we need a receiver guy!

Problem is Jeudy can't stay healthy. At this point he's a bigger bust than Pierce. Go get Adams and call it a day.

**Unpopular take ahead probably** <Sorry This really could be a serious issue for this team. Here's why. This QB already has accuracy issues. That is fact. It doesn't matter if he was or was not getting better with that. If this is a season ender on his throwing shoulder (surgery), how can this team afford to wait to see if this injury hinders his already skeptical passing mechanics, unless it's healed, and he is throwing well before next spring. To me they won't be able to just wait until camp, however they most assuredly will sit back and wait, and it sets this team back even further if they guess wrong. I think this is a total disaster if it's a surgery situation. Fingers crossed it's not that or the writing will be on the wall imho. They HAVE to draft another QB if this injury ends his season and it's not determined how it affects his throwing before the draft in April.

and it's his throwing shoulder...

Friendos... I have been called out for saying that AP was a wasted 2022 2nd round pick. Let's see if I turn out to be right. This is a running weekly tab on how many games the real ghost, aka Alec Pierce, disappears. Week one: CHECK Week two: CHECK Week Three: Partial CHECK ( 3 for 7 is better or aka a little Boo ) Week Four: CHECK Week Five: CHECK Week 6:

I'm surprised no one has bashed Steichen's going for it on fourth down instead of having Matt kick the FG mid fourth. If he makes it in that spot based on all else, it never goes to OT, and we win.

I realize that it was I who inserted the per game average in the first place, so it is on me for missing 1 catch per game, however... So, what if I said 1.5 instead of 2.5. You're seriously going to hang your hat on 1 more catch per game average? From a pass catching standpoint that is still terrible. It's putrid. You are a nitpicker and borderline petty. You seem to go out your way most times to prove your own worth to everyone here instead of realizing that both sides on here are normally equally correct or at very least close in their assertions of players. It's one thing to be a stickler for getting the info right, but it's another to believe that the said info is the only factor in the story telling, because it's not. The eye or smell test does hold a lot of weight most times with everything in life. Pierce, if released tomorrow, may not turn out to be a true bust and might have great success with another team, however that wouldn't take away from him being a bust with this team. Isn't that what we all are ultimately aways talking about here? This team. My point has always been that these players that I feel are busts are only busts IMO from the sense that they are not consistent impact players. We can differ on what we consider a bust to be all day. It does not take away from the fact that the two players used in these examples were not impact players on a consistent basis for this team. Doyle was most certainly not and Pierce at this point most certainly is not. You can give any reason you want to as to why but that doesn't change the fact that Pierce has no impact on the game from a "catching the ball" phase and neither did Doyle, consistently week in and week out. Do players like Doyle and Pierce occasionally make plays that might impact a game in the moment? Absolutely, however that is not what this team or fan base should be ultimately looking for. The Colts need consistency from their players. So, the moments can stop being habitually loathed and become more habitually celebrated. You are also overlooking the fact that I have stated all along that I am hoping I am wrong about Pierce as an impactful player as me being wrong about him would ultimately be helping a team that I root for who is in desperate need of impact players at the skill positions or at very least players who can get consistently open and put themselves in position to help a young QB so that said young QB doesn't have to think he has to run to make plays every drop back because there's nobody open. This we should at least agree with. Pierce has yet to do this. Based on what I have seen so far, without giving consideration to any little reason to as to why he has yet to show up consistently, it doesn't take the smartest guy in the room to figure out something just isn't quite right here in regards to the player and to me, it's that little shred of intuition of something missing that put this guy originally in the boom or bust category coming out of college from those who actually studied his game much more than you or I. This is why I'm more apt to believe he is going to bust then boom, although I'm hoping I'm wrong. On to week 5

With all respect to you and anyone right now, do you even know what you said? You honestly believe the Colts have been trying to find a TE who could do what Doyle did? The Colts haven't had a true playmaking TE since Dallas Clark. So, you truly believe the Colts have been trying to find a TE to replace a guy who averaged 1.5 catches a game. Seriously? Or do you mean from an overall position where blocking was more of his thing. A utility guy who went out there and was a good soldier for the team because that is not relevant to my position. I don't think any of the people who seem to want to argue with me even reads what I write. I even bolded it. I said Doyle sucks from a position of catching passes. Meaning he was not a productive pass catcher unless you believe catching 1.5 passes a game is productive. He wasn't in the gameplan from a pass catching standpoint. He was always a true last resort or late read most of the time. I don't care about what else Doyle did for the team. My argument lies that he was not a productive skill position player. I don't care if he was an above average blocker or whatever, that's not what I'm talking about. Same goes for Pierce. He's a JAG. He makes no impact on the game with where he stands right now. Zero. Impact. That is my point. Pierce is the equivalent to getting to round 6 of your fantasy draft and realizing you haven't focused on your Wr's so you just take best available. Sometimes it might work out, most times it doesn't. If your focused on WR's more, Pierce doesn't even enter into your zip code other than a late round flier with no expectation. This guy was taken in the 3rd. Coming out most had Pierce as a boom or bust prospect. At this point he is a total bust. What Impact has he truly had on this team. Where is the boom aside from the implosion of disappointment. <Facts! This team needs impact players. Not more years of hoping a bunch of bums get better. I get where some want to still give chances and wait sees as that's all we have so why not. I mean yea, at this moment he's all we have. It's one thing to hope, and also realize that the player just isn't that good, but you got people like @NewColtsFan who want to continuously make excuses and preach innuendos for a bunch of bums and a GM instead of just saying yea, I hope he gets better, but he's looking like the lights might be too bright for him. <This is a more realistic sense of the situation, but the above-mentioned forum member gets off on having everyone believe he's the smartest guy in the room and he's far from it. He will never be realistic from a fan point of view because then his whole narrative is exposed as a leaky boat and that would mean his whole foundational arguments don't hold water and he'd end up sinking down here with the rest of us. God forbid that ever happens. If Pierce gets better and I'm wrong, so be it. I will gladly be wrong, but all signs are pointing away from that. The bust meter is filling up and the Colts making plays for receivers tells you that. I think most get upset with me because I'm a quick trigger on some players. I get that is not a good look sometimes but it's right on point with this guy and yes, I knew it on draft night. He's a bust until proven otherwise.

The bolded applies to each of us. Heck, it applies to anyone's opinion. I think honestly what gets lost on you, like many others here is just the common sense of it in simple terms. It's the Jack Doyle argument. There are a lot on here that believes Jack Doyle was a great player. The obvious is that Jack Doyle is a very good player or else he would not have played in the NFL at all. Same applies to Pierce, but that's as far as it goes. That is what should be an obvious given. With that said though, Jack Doyle still sucks. Did he make a catch every once in a blue moon that kept a drive alive or aided in a team positive progression in a clutch moment? Yes. But at the end of that day, he had a 3 target or less per game average over the lifespan of his career. That means he was NEVER really in the gameplan from the point of catching the ball. He might have been an awesome blocker, but that's irrelevant where my argument has always laid. Players that are viewed or trusted to make plays always get larger roles in the gameplan. This is where AP comes in. Is he sometimes used as a decoy? Who cares. He shouldn't be because every coach in the league knows he sucks and he doesn't scare you, but I digress. Is he a good blocker? Who knows. Who cares. This team has a major need at skill positions who make plays that lead to points, especially WRs and Alec Pierce should know this. Meaning that he's had, and he's currently got an excellent chance of filling that void, yet he is a no show and when he has been given the opportunity THIS YEAR, to date, he has been terrible. <Facts But tying Pierce together with Jack Doyle, it's not, as you say, AR getting accustomed to reading defenses that's been Pierce's problem. That is total garbage. But Pierce's problem does fall right into your own words regarding Reggie Wayne, and I quote. Wayne admitted that the Colts need to get Pierce more opportunities. <<<Hello?? Obvious alert!! Alec Pierce is not a part of the gameplan. Hence why he needs more opportunities and yet if Alec pierce was such an awesome player with so much promise and ceiling, wouldn't you believe that those opportunities would've already been given from a HOF WR himself? or is it just Pierce is so great that he's getting double and triple teamed while no one is really looking. You think Ballard and Steichen think there is a WR issue with this team currently? I know I do, have been saying it for years, but do you think they do? You for one are always quick to believe the press junk, so it seems that the Colts were wanting to upgrade the WR room doesn't it, while trying to trade JT? You know Waddle and Watson or is the press junk only correct when it applies to an argument you are trying to win? How many 4 receiver sets have you seen the Colts run lately? . Seriously. How many? Come on old self-proclaimed guru of knowing what the Colts front office wants to do. What's the answer? Is it that their secret plan is to run 4 receiver sets but can't without a 4th receiver? So, let's just play devil's advocate and say the Colts did make a trade and got Watson from the Packers for JT. You think it was going to be Watson, Pierce, and Downs or Mackensie? Or maybe Watson, Pittman, and Pierce was going to play the slot. Come on. Who's the odd man out here? Pierce is a bust and they know it. Heck, everybody knows it except of course the all-knowing California guy who loves to throw out facts and chastise all who doesn't use facts all while never seeing real facts right in front of his face. Yeah, and what I've been saying is nonsense...

He Is A Bust. I don't care how you want to continue to spin it. Take your hogwash to another time zone. I don't know who you keep trying to convince here, but I think I know. You need some Either that or you just like to hear yourself pretend like you know what you're talking about. I don't care if Reggie Waynes grandmother says to get him the ball, he's a BUST that won't be in canton. Mister "he's the beat you over the top with speed guy" can't gain separation. Mister out here to "win the contest/go up and get the ball over the defender guy" can't even secure a pass that was perfectly in his hands in a crucial part of the game against the rams. He's not good. Move on. Take your little ghost that could and go haunt another house!

I truly believe that the Colts should attempt to strike a deal with the Bears for Claypool. I'm not sure he's damaged goods. If all is true, I think the dude just wants to be a featured part of a gameplan and lord knows we need receivers. I say it's worth a look sees. Just my

Friendos... I have been called out for saying that AP was a wasted 2022 2nd round pick. Let's see if I turn out to be right. This is a running weekly tab on how many games the real ghost, aka Alec Pierce, disappears. Week one: CHECK Week two: CHECK Week Three: Partial CHECK ( 3 for 7 is better or aka a little Boo ) Week Four: CHECK Week Five:

Or... Alec, I'll take getting not upset if another team took you off our hands for $1000 worth of 's.

I actually believe Pierce will not be on this team past his rook contract. I hope I'm wrong because we need receivers in the worst way, however I have never thought Pierce was a high ceiling player. The one trick pony non-sense some label him as "his thing" is very misleading considering this guy never seems to truly beat anybody on the long ball with speed. Wasted pick and I'm standing pat until proven otherwise.