Nickster

Best way of putting it that I've seen so far.

Because that is the media's job. It has nothing to do with want IMO and I'm guessing Supe feels the same. It's the job of the media to ask those questions. If not they are pretty much worthless. If there is no response, then fine. But if the media is nothing more than a corporate shill then they should be paid as public relations agents for that corporation IMO. Don't you agree with that NCF? Pure journalism is on life support, but is it completely dead?

That's what I figured should have happened. This to me is the real point of media. The rest is entertainment.

NCF, I think the question should be asked a couple of times. If not, what is the media for? To me it is to inform people who are interested in Colts FB who all want to hear an answer to this seemingly obvious question.

Nothing is important in Grand Scheme I guess since the Sun will envelop the Earth in 5 billion years. But theoretical philosophy aside, what could be a more relevant question to ask a Colts' reporter right now?

Wow. That's ridiculous. I get not beating people over the head, but someone should ask that directly.

I don't follow media pretty much at all. Colts.com is pretty much my clearing house for all things Colts. I am not into talking heads at all anymore. But are you saying, no one ever asked SS about it? That seems odd, conspiratorial, and pretty much a dereliction of media duty. I "figured" the question was asked and met by no comment type of responses and the media realized it was a futile endeavor. Has this question never been publicly asked to CB, SS, or JI? That's pretty sad actually if it hasn't. I think media is ugly at times, but ugliness is sometimes their job and if no one has asked this obvious question, then something is wrong or someone's getting paid.

It seems like AR "should" play if he's going to start QB. BUT. We shouldn't be competitive pretty much at all this year. I doubt anyone on the sidelines and in the FO thinks we will be. I am concerned with load management for this young guy who is going to take a ton of carries and a ton of hits in this offense. That has to be the logic here I would think. Load management. Don't let your QB get touched until the season starts. Otherwise I'm failing to see a point of keeping him out of the entire preseason. We are certainly doing the ole Frank Sinatra "my Way" thing these last two seasons though.

I tend to think he is healthy, and I also think he is going to be forced to prove that running the ball for the Colts this year. If not, we should never touch him with a 10 foot pole as far as another contract goes IMO. If he ain't healthy yet from that procedure he had, by all medical accounts I've seen, it's not good. That was supposed to be simple.

Nice ad hominem.

I still see a benefit of opening it up despite the issues. It was way to much leaning in one political direction which is potential disastrous for both parties and the unaffiliated. it added to the potentially catastrophic polarization that is happening. IMO despite the ugliness, it’s better that it is either open and ugly rather than biased and cleaner, and it’s also better if it becomes irrelevant rather than being biased and clean. The damage of all the polar media is profound and we haven’t begun to see the worst of its affects IMO. Not a huge Musk fan but I think he’s sacrificing a bunch of his own money and doing the world a favor overall. I share your profession and have witnessed the horrendous affects of biased leaning social media like Twitter. you have to open up the wound. It’s gonna stink and be nasty but at least it won’t rot us from the inside undetected as much.

I’ve got some ocean front property in Air A Zone A . . . From my front porch you can see the sea. . Lol

Completely agree. Taylor’s home run threat on every play along with Hills home run threat on every play along with Waddles home run threat on every play would have D coordinators chain smoking Camel non filters and spiking their coffee with Angels envy and biting their nails to the quick that week watching film and prepping though. But if any team would be interested in giving anything of value it’s them. He’s not much of a trade asset though seemingly. Plus they wouldn’t be bidding against anyone.

That’s the proverbial vote of confidence, kiss of death thing. This means JT is definitely being traded to Miami lol.

Couldn’t agree more with every word you said.

I totally agree. My response a couple posts up indicate that too.

Oh I would too if I was the FO. And I couldn't agree more about the money. I think a big part of the issue with this org is overpaying their own. But I DO understand if Taylor feels like that's a pretty hard pill to swallow. The language used with Taylor has been radically different than that used with Nelson and Leonard, neither of whom are coming close to playing up to their deals.

That is definitely true, but that doesn't really detract from the fact, that both Nelson and Leonard, both of whom also play non-premium positions and both of whom were signed a year before their deals were up, had both been inured most of the year before their deals, and were both coming off surgeries. I'm pretty sure JT and his camp have looked at this and pointed it out the FO.

Yes he was Moose. He had been injured all year.

Yep. I was a young guy who had put his body through quite a bit of reckless activity when Manning came into the league in 1998, and used to think it was unmanly for Manning to curl up in the fetal position like he did, but that evolved lol as I started feeling the damage lol. It's dumb to take those hits. It's not good for the team and kind of selfish from a certain perspective.

You are misinformed. Both of those players were coming off injury. Nelson had been nicked on several occasions and missed 4 games (one was Covid though). He had recurring back issues and a high ankle sprain in 2021. He was coming off a string of injuries the most concerning to me and many others at the time was the back stuff. It appears to me that his back has been part of his fall from excellence on the field. Here is Leonard's injury history BEFORE the contract in JUST 2021 "Nelson’s 2021 season was dominated by injury — two offseason surgeries he’s declined to reveal, a training camp surgery to remove a loose piece of bone from his foot, a badly sprained ankle that cost him three games, another game lost to COVID-19 — and his play suffered a bit. For the first time in his career, Nelson was named second-team All-Pro, rather than first team, as he played with an enormous brace on his ankle." Here is part of Leonard's injury history before the contract. "Leonard's ankle bothered him during the 2020 season, but he didn't have surgery until June 2021" Note before the contract signed in August.

Yeah I'm coming around to the possibility that the reason to start AR right away is to make a quick decision on whether or not he's the future. I hope they cut ties quick if it becomes obvious that he's likely not to be a legit NFL type starter. One issue that might contaminate the experiment is this offensive line. Kelly is interesting. He's really not been very good. Then we have the RG. We are hoping Raimann works out. We need Nelson to earn most of his salary.

yup

Maybe man, but the reality is that he wasn't playing that well before the tragedy and regardless of why the man is playing less than average level football, it's bad for the Colts to have a replacement level player being paid like a top, elite, All PRO player.