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5 minutes ago, w87r said:
Crazy, took me almost 2 hours.
Probably should hop on the computer and do it but I just do it on my phone...
Youre tough man. Doing that from a phone is like a personal Chinese hell to me. I’m not good at phones.
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29 minutes ago, chad72 said:I still am upset over trading RYS for Ngakoue for a 1 year rental. When you hit on a draft pick and you have the principle of paying your draft picks, I would have Ballard rather pay RYS over Leonard, if I am being honest. He was playing well even at the time of the trade. It was like a self-inflicted wound, much like missing out on pass rushers in Turay, Banogu etc. that set us back to draft more of those kind in Paye and Dayo.
Ya sin had an ok year last year but he doesn’t play much for Balt. Mostly special teamer.
I get why they drafted RYS when they were doing a lot of T2 type concepts hoping he’d help with the run being a good wrestler and beating up receivers in press coverage with safety help in a mostly C2 based D. He might have been decent there but for whatever reason he played off the line most of the time iirc. W
I also get why we traded him for Ngakoue. We needed pass rush. But the dude just isn’t very good. Also we moved to C3 and Rock isn’t suited for press/Bail tech or able to run deep with speed guys off the los.
I don’t think much was gained or lost in the deal.
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5 hours ago, DougDew said:
Is it CAR's scheme/receivers, or the Colts great Corner play? Seems like the corner play is an outlier compared to most games.
Pass rushers were only Average. Disappointing.
Raimann and Ogletree continue to play well, consistently.
I think it was the two floaters Young threw to a wide open Kenny Moore lol.
The first one Kenny Moore breaks on and makes a nice play but the main deal was just a weak quail of a throw from lil Bryce giving Moore the chance to break on it. Not a NFL level throw. There’s a little pressure but he could have easily stepped to his left. He doesn’t seem to show an ability to stick it in there Sunday. Haven’t really watched Bryce but he made Minshew look like Dan Marino and Aroldis Chapmans love child.
The 2nd wasn’t really a play by Moore at all per se. Lil Bryce just floats it weakly over the receiver into Kenny’s waiting arms and he runs straight into the EZ.
It was another strange game and I don’t know what to make of it.
We didn’t really need to play offense against them. I wonder how the offense would have looked if it was needed.
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1 hour ago, jemack said:
I thought Jim sorgi was a good back up. He didn't have much playing time behind Manning but was reliable.
That’s precisely why Sorgi is my favorite back up QB. He didn’t play much lol.
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5 minutes ago, DougDew said:
Golly, that's a lot of diagnosis for just putting mayo in coffee. LOL
(which may even have simply been a joke)
Those aren’t original thoughts I posted. There is all kinds of stuff out there about his personality. IDK why being arrogant and cocky is a negative for A QB. Manning was both arrogant and cocky.
if he’s uncoachable that’s another thing but I never saw anything that said that.
im guessing not diagnosing but guessing that the dude has issues relating to common dummies like us.
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5 hours ago, DougDew said:
Yeah, he "puts mayo in his coffee". Does that seem like a real reason to not like him?
I think he might be on the spectrum. He’s exceptionally intelligent, an actual, not figurative, genius. He seems like he might be one of those genius type people that struggle with human relations. Rain man only totally functional.
Hes quirky. He may have been believed to have issues relating and leading other human beings or something.
But the size, strength, HOF arm talent falling to the 2nd round has to have some plausible explanation.
Being a genius doesn’t necessarily help one become a good Fb player though. Fitz magic is a genius and his main issue was playing stupid with turnovers.
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7 hours ago, Restinpeacesweetchloe said:
The only reason everyone is saying stroud is best is because we didn’t get to see Richardson more. Stroud looked phenomenal but Richardson looked really good too.
You don’t think it has anything to with his stat line? Hmm. Mmkay.
maybe the 14 TDs 1 int and 12 best QBR and 79 pff for a team that won 11 total games the last 3 seasons has something to do with why everyone is saying it.
maybe he’s clearly the best so far by a wide margin. Maybe it’s also because he’s had one of the best starts of any rookie QB that I can come up with.
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5 hours ago, BCMak24 said:
I never understood that....one test does not define who you are as a qb
They don’t take the smart dumb wunderkich anymore I believe.
the test you are referring to that was low was a processing speed test.
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1 hour ago, kymd82222 said:
My God. Some of you are so biased it's insane. In what world is 56% completion percentage, 0/1 a good game? If it was AR you would be trashing him.
Did you watch the game.
if you did you’d probably see his line was in shambles and he kept them in the game. In the first half he looked really good to me .
every one of tn st#rting. Linemen missed time that game. All 5 starters.
Hes a very accurate passer of the football with a lightening quick release. He must have some other issues or something.
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34 minutes ago, kymd82222 said:
Cam Newton didn't suck after his first few years. He won MVP in year 5.
That was about his last good season wasn’t it? Maybe one more.
He was good for 5 or 6 years then washed out. Not 10 or 12. A few years .
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6 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:
Why do you feel the need to decide a guys career based on half a season?Why do you feel the need to question his assessment on an open forum message board as if he’s done something wrong.
We get it NCF. He’s a rookie.
Ok you never need to make that point ever again.
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1 minute ago, RollerColt said:
I’ve noticed that when he throws, he kind of has to put his entire body into just to generate enough force to get it downfield. Almost like a baseball pitcher. That can’t be sustainable as a QB…
Yep. And even then it still isn’t an NFL looking throw.
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6 minutes ago, DougDew said:
They traded up right after stroud lit up the combine throwing iirc
And when young weighed 210 at 5’10”. That’s all he did for predraft workouts iirc.
Young might turn out okay. But the whole process was weird.
After young weighed in he went and took a leak as long as that Mackenzie brother put out that fire at Elsinore brewery.
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2 minutes ago, chad72 said:
I see Chad Pennington exactly when I see him, good comparisonPennington was a legit NFL starter for a while and had a couple of pretty good years, but he was great at reading and anticipation and I don’t know if you remember Hebert but he was the same way. Ultimately neither had the arm strength to keep playing.
And I haven’t seen anything like that reading/anticipation from young. He is arookie though and this was his strength I think according to scouting reports, so it could develop. But man that pick looks bad.
They need to pick a QB 1st next year but traded their 1st for young.
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1 minute ago, DougDew said:
I think teams were simply looking at whatever qb did the most mahomes things in college and ignored basic stuff
And he didn’t have to test. It’s like nobody even bothered to ask if he had the basic physicality to play
Yep. No combine lol.
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39 minutes ago, DougDew said:
Nope. Stetson Bennett does though.
I can’t for the life of me see in Young why anyone thought he was a big QB prospect. Yardage and TDs in college sometimes doesn’t matter and the number of guys who put up huge college stats but aren’t really NFL talent is prodigious.
But the kid is tiny. Doesn’t have any outstanding athletic talent for an NFL player.
and man he just isn’t able to throw very hard lol from what I’ve seen.
im guessing Chad Pennington/Bobby Hebert ceiling at the absolute most and that’s if he develops into a great reader/reacter. Both Pennington and Hebert were able to be decent for a while with arm strength that is less than the usual minimal threshold for NFL QBs.
young’s balls just take longer to get there than I’m used to seeing in the NFL. I do not understand how he was selected so high.
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I like Buckner on the edge in passing downs.
It doesn’t seem like young has the arm strength to be an NFL qb.
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Just now, DougDew said:
I'm saying that too much is made of the injury thing regarding running QBs. When they come into the NFL known as a running QB, they typically need a lot of development in the passing game. That's what carries the day in the NFL.
Running QBs do get beat up. But if they evolve as passers their injury history becomes moot because their passing skills can now sustain them. And that is the basis of their longevity.
Yes, a running QB that has to rely upon running to open up their passing game is going to have a shorter career. Heck, age alone begins to take the legs away from athletes beginning in their late 20s.
I’m just saying it’s only been recently we’re QBs take that many Carrie’s.
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9 minutes ago, NFLfan said:
I am not the one calling them running QBs. Folks called Mahomes a running QB. Luck was a pocket QB who ran for his life. Mahomes may run less because he does not have to.
He had a long career. I forgot about him. I forgot lots of people. Lots of pocket QBs had short careers too.
He had a longer career but he sucked after the first few years.
3 minutes ago, DougDew said:Started off as a running QB, had longevity as he became a better passer. Had injuries throughout his career but when his body got beat up and he could no longer run, his passing wasn't good enough to keep him in the NFL.
Is that a good summary?
Pretty good Doug. Sounds like Wilson only Wilson was better at avoiding hits, and was effective longer.
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Just now, NFLfan said:
I am not the one calling them running QBs. Folks called Mahomes a running QB. Luck was a pocket QB who ran for his life. Mahomes may run less because he does not have to.
Mahomes won a SB last year as an immobile QB.
Guys are taking 100-170 Carries from the QB spot now. Massively different than when Luck played. I’m not sure what Doug is saying exactly, but I’m guessing that as we go on, these high volume rushing QBs are gonna wash up quicker like RBs do.
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37 minutes ago, NFLfan said:
Lol. You had to throw that in. Never fails. Goodness gracious.
He was in the NFL for 7 years and played 6 years and would have played more.
Let's move on please.
What about Newton?
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40 minutes ago, NFLfan said:
He was called one by fans early on. Now that he has had success, he suddenly is not.
You said Luck wasn’t a running QB and was a prototypical pocket passer and he ran for more yards on average that Mahomes before the new craze of running QBs.
seems like you might be cherry picking to support your position.
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On 10/31/2023 at 2:24 PM, Superman said:
I do think we have as much a personnel problem as we have a scheme problem right now. And that's made worse by the injuries and Grover's suspension. There are no simple fixes. But as I said, I'm not a Bradley fan to begin with, so I don't see keeping him as being a step toward seeing improvement.
Like most things Colt that are not going well I think this issue is also a personnel issue. Dback wise I’m sure you’ve commented like almost every one else, we lost a lot with Gilmore and then the gambler and we were bound to struggle in the secondary.But we also should have known that we would struggle v the pass in the LB corps with or without Shaq. We had some false positivity at the start of the season, but our LB corps is weakness not a strength. The secondary is weak. The Dline is decent but not good enough to make up for the deficiencies of the other groups, and Stewart’s suspension hurts that group v the run.
As far as blitzing you seem to be saying why not? We suck any way playing the way we are allowing 153 on 3 catches. I get that .
But blitzing without guys that can man cover TEs and other quick routes out of the back field and from bunched or slanting wide players can get a lot worse.
I’m not against blitzing in theory but you’ve got to have personnel that can execute it. We don’t appear to have that but I guess why not try and see what happens at this point.
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11 minutes ago, coltsblue1844 said:
And is 12/17 for 153 yards at half time. For everyone on here that seemed to hate the guy, I know I still wish we had drafted him.
I loved his release and it was on full display that half. The Titans line is in shambles and he’s getting it done.
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Shoot man I grew up in the 70s and 80s. We still party way harder than these young whipper snappers lol.