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On 10/25/2023 at 4:34 AM, Knuckles79 said:
Of all the names you mentioned only 1 was after Manning. I clearly stated after letting Manning .
Luck was a stud. Even though he retired early. We also had a good year from RIvers and some will have a coniption fit but also Wentz.
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On 10/24/2023 at 9:59 PM, RollerColt said:
Still think Jones had the best spiral.
Any of them were better than wouned Duck Peyton lol.
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On 10/24/2023 at 8:03 PM, Knuckles79 said:
Is it me are have we been jinxed at the qb position since letting Manning go? We had a great player in Andrew Luck with a shorten career due to multiple injuries and Mentally a good player in Carson Wentz that collapsed mentally and now AR with Multiple injuries to begin his career! When will the Qb problems end. For the record I do believe AR could be the answer but dang it feels like we got our own Babe Ruth jinxs
Yeah, man we just were real fortunate. Most orgs have QB issues most of the time. We are just one of the hoi polloi now.
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2 hours ago, RollerColt said:
I have no way of proving this, but here's my harebrained speculation: Ballard grew to be very close friends with Reich over the years, and wanted to remain patient. Perhaps he was planning to let Frank go gracefully at the end of the season. And little by little, from the tie with the Texans to whatever was witnessed in Denver... to the blowout loss against New England Jim Irsay grew frustrated enough to step in.
Maybe man, but the Colts the season before were 9-6 after starting 1-4 through bad OLINE injuries. They were darkhorse SB contenders by some media and fans at that point. Then they were 1 overthrown reciever away from making the post after a tough start with a QB with 2 injured ankles.
Point is. Frank had earned some leash as his teams were usually good offensively and competive for the post season despite revolving door QBs.
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Just now, GoColts8818 said:
I’d say Dayo and Paye are both solid at what they do but for a first and second round pick you’d like to see more consistency from them.
Paye is very consistent. He's just not much of a pass rusher. He's a decent football player setting an edge and cleaning up the gargabe.
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8 minutes ago, Restinpeacesweetchloe said:
Why are we arguing about Dayo when he has had a pretty good year being a rotational piece.
I think it's because that is what the topic in this thread is about Chloe
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6 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:
Apparently, Dayo is living rent free inside your head. A picture of him nearly 3-years old still lingers in your mind. Why is another of those Doug Dew mysteries?
And Dayo wasn’t drafted to be a DT. He was drafted to be a DE who has versatility and can also play inside when needed. That’s different.
Thanks for those pleasentries NCF.
It makes for such an edifying Colts MB experience.
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29 minutes ago, DougDew said:
I remember seeing a pic of Dayo shortly after his surgery and he looked about 300 pounds. With his time off from football, he must of found somebody's Cheetos stash.
Great RAS and high ceiling is not the same thing as a player with demonstrated dedication to being a football player. Not saying Dayo isn't one...how would I know..., but that pic was kind of......hmmm......moment for me.
I knew he was a good player coming out of Vandy...then the injury came and I forgot about him. But he was listed at 280 there, and to me that speaks of a DT in the NFL 4-3. 3T perhaps....but we had already spent a pick 13 and $100M on ours. So I never understood the pick. Spend a 4th on Buck's backup, sure. But a good second? Dayo is not an edge and might be almost 20 pounds heavier than Lewis at playing weight.
I do think they wanted to have a fresh rotation and dominate on the DLine like SF had been doing at the time. And personally, I think this is a good strategy. A dominant front 4 can cover up a lot of ugly on the rest of the back 8.
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49 minutes ago, DougDew said:
There were two good players in recent Colts history that do the same things as Paye. Set a good edge, and pressure the QB but end up a step slow to get sacks. They tended to get clean-up type of sacks, or coverage sacks. A player that is good to have, but not really a pick #17 guy. Funny thing is, I don't think Paye's career so far has been anything different than what he showed in college or what his weaknesses were....not bendy or explosive to get around the OT. I guess there was some ceiling potential there...lol.
The two other guys that come to mind are Jabaal Sheard and Erik Walden.
On topic. I always thought Dayo was going to be a DE/DT tweener that took Lewis' role. On draft day, I remember Ballard saying that Dayo was a first round talent that was only available at our second round pick because of the injury. He's now healthy, and I don't think anybody has yet seen first round talent with Dayo.
Absolutely on the comps. And I agree Paye is who he was in college. There are reasons why a guy with his size, unreal speed and strength go later in the draft. Good Edge Setter. Pretty good player. Not a first rounder. Stiff hips do not a pass rusher make usually. I think he is probably better playing 3T and 1T on passing downs. I always thought he'd be a good 4, 5 or 6T in an 3-4 .
Dayo, I've never been impressed. Sometimes Dlinemen take a while to develop. If he doens't improve drastically by the end of the season, he pretty much looks like a bust to me. 2nd on basically a back up linemen is not a good spend.
Paye is at the least a
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3 minutes ago, AwesomeAustin said:
Totally off topic but I was hoping they would shop Buckner before this past draft. If we could get a low 1st or top of 2nd to use on a weapon for AR, I would be all about it. Buckner is solid as can be and a good player, I agree he isn’t consistently a great player. He was acquired for the last DCs scheme and I’m saying this not knowing how import the 3T is in Bradley’s defense.
Yep me too. He had his best season in a while last year and probably would have returned something good in a trade.
I don't think his play and age warrants another big money contract from us., It will be interesting to see what we do there.
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1 hour ago, John Hammonds said:
I remember getting a little grouchy that draft. I had my eye on TE Pat Freiermuth. An impact player at a position of need. And when we drafted an injured player who wasn't going to make a difference his first year, and then Freiermuth gets taken by the Steelers the very next pick, well.... I can't remember what I threw at the TV, but I wasn't happy.
I've tried to support CB's choice, and root for Dayo. And celebrate when he has a big play. But I still can't forget the player that got away, and watch how well he is playing for the other team.
Yeah I don't watch much CFB and usually don't pay attention to the draft until it happens and then I look up the players we draft.
I do know there were several guys here who were disappionted we didn't take Darrisaw, but Paye instead.
Darrisaw is is good as it gets over there. Lot to like about Raimann, not complaining about him, but he and Darrisaw paired up would be a dream for NFL coaches and QBs alike.
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1 hour ago, AwesomeAustin said:
Ballard has used a lot of draft capital on the DL with average success. These are the times I miss watching film so I can see if scheme or the player is the cause. It is quite the commitment of free time and unfortunately I don’t have a lot of that anymore. It does seem that Ballard does a better job signing FA pass rush than drafting it. He nailed the middle of the line with Buckner and Stewart but it seems the two bookends always seem to be lacking.
Ditto on film watching. My son loves FB, and we got the All 22 last year, but after about this time last year it was no fun lol. It's a big commitment.
The front four has a ton of responsibility in the Bradley D. It is a D that relies on great play from the front 4. We don't get great play from this group. We get averagish play overall.
Buck is good but he's not the beast every year that he needs to be in order for his pay and trade capital to match his play. I don't think he does that consistently. He's paid to be like Donald, no one is but Buck is not playing great. He's playing alright. It's hard for some people to accept or understand the point, but when you pay a guy that much under a salary cap, he needs to play more like his first beastly year rather than since then. Last years' level would be OK, but this year he's not good enough to justify the spend.
I think Buckner's unspectacular play is part of the issue. He was hired to be a beast, not just a solid player.
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9 hours ago, jvan1973 said:
You are basing that on absolutely nothing. Do you really think Andy Reid knows absolutely everything that's happening on that sideline? No head coach does. That's why they have many coaches. Frank is a good football coach, that's not up for debate. Is he a great football coach, I guess we will see. Peyton Manning thinks he is. His one time underling Siranni thinks he is. Frank with good qb play was fine. Show me another coach that succeeded with a crappy qb. Look at Belichick now.
Hey we agree on something. I think Frank was a decent coach for us .
And I could t agree more about BB. The genius bloom is a bit of the rose. His record pre and post Tawmy ain’t good.
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5 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:
Let’s not forget that Dayo’s first year was wiped out by a torn Achilles.
And his second year was mostly about getting back into playing shape.
I personally think of this year as Dayo’s first full healthy year. And yet…. For reasons that I don’t understand, Dayo showed up this year weighing 286. That’s 3-tech weight and yet he plays mostly the pass rushing RDE which is NOT his best position. As I’ve written before, Dayo plays the spot because that’s where’s he’s needed, not because it’s his best position. He shares it with Ebukam who gets the majority of the snaps. So to me, Dayo plays out of position for the good of the team.
I hope Dayo plays better this year, but I think his situation is far more complicated than simply being a good pick or a bad pick. I also hope we’ll see an even better Dayo next season.
That’s enough delayed gratification for one player.
love that last line.
He and paye look like bad picks so far to me. Paye isn’t a bad player but he doesn’t bring anything a day 2 or 3 or mid tier FA would likely yield.
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Dayo is a huge meh so far. Not worth the draft slot.
Paye isn’t worth his slot and doesn’t appear to be more than a good edge setter. Not worth the slot. Coulda had superstar left tackle Darrisaw and many arm chair GMs here wanted that. Darrisaw and Raimann would make QBs feel all warm and fuzzy for the next decade.
IMO bad picks for this org so far and largely the reason our pass d is so bad. They were drafted to get to the qb.
I said when they were drafted that it would largely determine CBs fate. His fate is up to Jimmy and that dude is a live wire and unpredictable. But this D isn’t good.
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5 hours ago, husker61 said:
I do think pass interference penalties should be reviewed like baseball does. I think it has been great for baseball! Those penalties change a game more than any other and have to be correct.
I also think it was a huge mistake when the nfl got in bed with sports gambling! No sport should.they worry about the integrity of the game, but then get in bed with the people that could hurt the integrity just to make more money. The nfl doesn’t have any money issues that pushed them to do this, just greed.
I agree about it being good for baseball. The only issue husker is that you’d have to either change the rule to no contact whatsoever initiated by either player or there would still be subjective difference of opinion on PI calls. You’d have to do something like this or just correct the Uber obvious miscalls.
In baseball they changed several rules or called it by the letter around the time replay was implemented. They eliminated the “area” play on double play by requiring the relay man to actually touch the bag with possession of the ball. But in order to feasibly do this without going trough about a million middle infielders season they had to change the rule and require base runners to slide directly to the bag. This effectively made these scenarios objective with little to no room for interpretation. Same with swipe tags. No longer was it if the ball beat the runner but if he was actually tagged .
With PI, man you couldn’t go with a no contact rule. It just wouldn’t be football and then you’d have arguments about who initiated contact like the holding Sunday.
I think you can’t expect the NFL to be as exact as baseball. They have tech that can get most everything correct including balls and strikes and I wish they’d go to computer balls and strikes.
But in football I think the best you can do is clear and obvious errors like soccer. My point is that on most baseball calls we have tech that will demonstrate absolute correctness or correctness of calls. I don’t think that’s possible in FB but you could correct clear and obvious errors.
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20 minutes ago, csmopar said:
Win total, yea. But look at our other stats, pretty much every offensive stat has improved, despite AR being out
Despite, because of, or coincidentally? That’s to me not particularly clear.
According to PFF AR is slightly ahead of GM now at 52 to 48. Minshew was quite a bit higher before the 7-8 TOs the last two weeks. But ESPN still has Minshew well ahead in QBR 61 -46.
I personally think AR not playing still favors higher offensive out put overall. He is better at getting balls to receivers IMO at this point in their careers.
Astoundingly, GM has committed one third of his total TOS for his career the last two weeks. That’s almost incomprehensible.
me personally, I think he was great this week despite the strip sacks which were not his fault IMO.
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9 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:
Contrarian is to argue for the sake of arguing. You and Doug do it all the time then claim to be victims. It's ok. The majority here are starting to pick up on it
Yes I like argumentation and debate .
I enjoy other people who do too. There are plenty on here that don’t get all wadded up when someone disagrees with them too. That’s why I spend time here.
But I don’t make stuff up. These are my actual opinions. And my success rate on opinion having here is astounding. That’s the real issue IMo.
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Just now, jvan1973 said:
Contrarian is to argue for the sake of arguing. You and Doug do it all the time then claim to be victims. It's ok. The majority here are starting to pick up on it
I’ve never lied about where I live or dirt tracking or anything else on here.
I doesn’t matter to me if you believe me or not (Im not allowed to type your name.)
Doug and I are not the same person. I don’t know what he believes.
I don’t feel like a victim. That’s a loser mentality lol.
1 minute ago, jvan1973 said:Ok. My apologies. I let my kids win until they were old enough to actually compete. I still send layups into the neighbors yard at times
Apology accepted.
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Just now, jvan1973 said:
What in the hell does letting grandma win at scrabble have to do with wanting your favorite football team to win?
Dunk said he has a hard time letting his kids win as a Dad. That wasn’t addressed to you. it was something I said to him lol.
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2 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:
You also love being a contrarion for the sake of being a contrarion.
I am a natural skeptic. I can tell you this. I’ve never knowingly posted something here I didn’t think at the time. So I don’t know what you think contrarian means but I think it implies dishonesty in my book.
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Just now, 2006Coltsbestever said:
It would be boring if everyone agreed in here. I can even usually see both sides of most opinions unless I think an opinion is just ridiculous. Look I am not always right and never claimed to be, but I do hold myself to a high regard in having pretty good football knowledge, so sometimes I do get assertive in here. After watching sports for 47 years (I am 52) = football, basketball, and baseball, + I played competitively in High School, I will argue my points until the Cows come home
. There have been many times where I have been wrong though. I thought Joey Bosa would be a bust coming out and I look like a fool for saying so, that is just one example. When it comes to the Colts, I am usually good at predicting how good we will be going into a season. Last season I looked like a fool, I thought Matt Ryan would be good and we would stroll to a Division Title 
. At least I did nail the Rivers prediction, I had us going 11-5 in 2020 (making the playoffs) and thought he would be very good, so I am 1-1 in that regard 
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Luck sit us back 5 years, that is my opinion, now we are in year 5 without him. AR needs to stay healthy in 2024, if he does I think our team can be really entertaining and be a true contender. I like Shane already and I think he will improve.
I hope AR pans out. Definitely have mixed feelings about the kid.but one thing I feel pretty strongly about is that he won’t be very good unless he’s a LJ, JH, JA type of running QB ie. 120 to 170 carries a year.
Some here want him to be a pocket QB. That’s borderline absurd to me. I have a hard time envisioning him being successful that way.
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2 hours ago, csmopar said:
I think we play hard, I think we’re competitive and I think we will get better as we go throughout the year. We’re already miles ahead of where we were last season. And we’re the only team that has scored a minimum of 20 points every game. When last year I think we hit that mark like twice.
all that said, I think we still lack the QB to get us more than maybe 3-4 more wins at the most. And I think that’s asking a lot.
so I marked competive but lose out. Not saying we will be tanking, cause I’m not advocating for that. But more what I expect to happen. And yes, we sure could use a shot at a top ten pick.
We are actually a half game behind where we were last season at this point before Jimmy started Sammy E then hired his golf buddy to come coach.
I do think we will win more than one more game though lol. I agree. I see 3-4 more wins. The schedule appears weak and the oline is pretty good again. Not great but perdy good.
I’ve never been high on this D though. They just don’t really have it in the most important area which is pass defense, both rushing and covering.
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4 hours ago, cdgacoltsfan said:
Then apply for the job
The ole appeal to authority lol.
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. At least I did nail the Rivers prediction, I had us going 11-5 in 2020 (making the playoffs) and thought he would be very good, so I am 1-1 in that regard 
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I was a Bears Fan growing up, and my poor baby brother followed in my footbsteps and has been suffereing as a Bears fan for a long time. They just can't get a QB. I don't know if it was you said it, but it's true. Sid Luckman lol.