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Umh... he's ... athletic? Is he good? Eh... needs coaching. Had tough Senior Bowl... but killed the combine.

Blake Freeland... OT... another RAS monster

Ringo gone...

Colts on the clock....

Where is everybody? Am I alone here?

Trades have already started... wonder who they traded up for.

Facyson was nowhere near as agile and nowhere near as explosive though... and he was a bit smaller too.

The thing is... the 40 time is pretty much the only one that is not elite. Everything else is 90th+ percentile. Both the explosiveness and agility numbers are elite... the size too...

I just thought it if they were really worried they would have taken a LB relatively early. Especially because this draft is not very deep with LBs.

For people wondering about why Dawand Jones is falling. This is info from Bryan Broaddus... seems like he might be medically flagged by a lot of teams - "2 concussions, multiple stingers since 2020, left wrist fracture, left knee MCL, right ankle issues, toe sprain... the stinger thing seems to be the biggest issue"... + issues with his weight

That's his rank in the nation for the year for the position per their grading system. On their draft board he was no. 38 for the draft... still very high... high-second range.

I think he was being lighthearted and joking around with the media when he said that(it was at the combine). He also said in that same interview just a minute or two earlier that "you cannot muscle every throw in" and he was talking about what he's been working on with his mechanics.

Agreed again... I think his accuracy is an issue. I do NOT think the 53.8% completion% is representative of how bad his accuracy is. I did this exercise earlier this month in the no.4 pick thread - I tried to normalize his completion % by accounting for drops and throwaways, both of which he had much more than average of. In general if you bring the drops to about average for the SEC and his throwaways to about average to the SEC it brings his completion% to about 58-59%. NOT great... and still an issue, but far away from the outlier it is now at 54%.

Yep. Agreed... he looks uncomfortable throwing with touch. He looks awkward when he needs to take something off the power of his throw. I think he even said something to the effect in one of his interviews - he said that when he tries to throw a slow ball it affects his accuracy. Lets see what our coaches can do with him.

I just wanted to give credit where credit is due... Look at this: https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-2023-nfl-mock-draft-4-0 Daniel Jeremiah got the EXACT trade the Texans made and he got both their picks right in his last mock from the day before the draft. WOW! Good on him...

In general there is nothing wrong with the Air Coryell offense we were running early in Luck's career. The reason they decided to run it was because Luck was from day 1 ready to make full field progression reads and to orchestrate a successful attack and chunk plays are very valuable indeed, The thing I think the Colts did wrong was - they completely failed to take into account the state of our offensive line. You can run deep field attacking offense... but you need the pass-protection to hold much better than ours was able to. And Chuck and the offensive coaching staff never stopped and thought to themselves - is this the right approach when we cannot protect the QB for long enough in order to let him execute that offense? And then Grigson never succeeded in adding good enough pieces to the OL. So Luck stayed there and was running for his life trying to execute an offense our roster was not built for. I agree that Reich unlocked and showed off some of Luck's best abilities in the final year. I think Luck had even another gear in him in that offense and he was just starting to get comfortable in it by the end of the season. Too bad it was indeed the final year

As one of AR's biggest proponents I will say this - his accuracy was THE biggest question in his game. There is no question that he has accuracy issues. They are there for all to see on his film and he IF he doesn't improve significantly, especially with his short-range accuracy he will bust. His dynamic athleticism and ability to run can help a lot and mask some of those issues in the beginning, and it can buy him time in developing his passing game... but ultimately when the time comes for us to decide whether this experiment is going well or we need another reset, it will be decided by how much his accuracy has improved. But at the same time, I believe his accuracy issues are fixable and the main reason I think that is because his throwing motion from the waist up seems very solid and everything I've read and watched as analysis videos on his mechanics seem to point to his accuracy issues being linked mainly to inconsistent footwork, which seems to be the thing NFL coaches think they can fix. I also think he hasn't had the greatest of coaching so far and I think where most NFL prospects have had the chance to come back after their first year starting and have a try at improving their game in general(including accuracy), Richardson never got this chance. His chance to improve will be directly in the NFL. And while some mind find this scary, IMO he will get much better coaching in the NFL than in a college program that didn't even think necessary to give him a designated QB coach. Also, while the list of QBs being successful after coming into the league with this type of accuracy issues is not long(Michael Vick and Josh Allen?), IMO this list suffers a serious selection bias - i.e. usually QBs with this little experience don't come out of college after having a 54% completion year... and the only ones that have come out with that type of accuracy issues have been players that have exhausted their eligibility(i.e. they've already had the chance to improve and have not been able to). With Richardson this is not the case. He is still very young(youngest QB in this draft and in most drafts) and he is very inexperienced(he hasn't had the chance to improve after a year of starting). So yeah... it's by no means a certainty that he will improve. He still need to put in the work and our coaching staff still needs to handle him right and guide him towards success, but I see no reason why he won't improve if he indeed is as committed to his craft as he seems from the outside and as the trust Ballard has put in him by drafting him this high suggests.

Goodnight all...

Tre Tucker ahead of Tyler Scott, what the hell?

The Utah slot is still on the board too. He's not long enough for Ballard but he can be a good player.

Moody in the 3d or Gay in FA?

Ringo and Rush are still on the board... so weird.

The linebackers are all gone... the Colts must be feeling good about Leonard.