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9 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
You and I have butted heads over the years, but I at least acknowledge that Tom is the GOAT. I take my lists serious and factor in every measurable possible. There are like 10 different factors I use, and I always come up with the same Top 5 =
1. Tom Brady
2. Joe Montana
3. Peyton Manning
4. Pat Mahomes
5. Johnny Unitas
- Mahomes IMO needs to win another League MVP to pass Peyton or another SB win would do it. 3-2 in SB wins is a slim margin considering Peyton is 5-2 League MVP wise. Peyton getting that 2nd SB win with 2 different teams is still huge IMO. Only Brady has done that with 2 different teams.
Yeah, was waiting for you to turn this thread until MVP discussion ...
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15 hours ago, Restinpeacesweetchloe said:
Yeah no one was going to drop clear to the second round. Falcons should have taken jj McCarthy. At least him for 2 years would have been justified. What they did after signing cousins to that much was two silly.
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3 hours ago, King Colt said:
Change nothing except the numbers in the loss column. The horseshoe is to the Colts what the Statue of Liberty is to the United States of America.
Number on the Loss column does change from year to year, mostly
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On 4/29/2024 at 8:14 PM, King Colt said:
I thought it best as you have trouble comprehending the written word like here the source is different but you fail to grasp that.
Different sources do give some more info sometimes, especially on incidents like this as it happens, so nothing wrong about that..
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14 hours ago, DougDew said:
When you write...Only you have these views...that is singling out me from some group you have in mind. The word Only does that. Including the word VIEWS, it suggests that you are singling out my views from a group. That would be the consensus. It appears that you don't remember what you wrote.
I said that teams have their TOP 250 ranked Prospects pretty much the same, because the evaluation process uses the same inputs and metrics, give or take some weighting, and based upon if its the top 30 prospects or the last 220 to 250 prospects. I said their draft boards could be different, and gave an example of having their #12 ranked prospect, JJ McCarthy, ahead of their #3 ranked prospect MHJ on their draft boards. So what you said about draft boards...like anybody pays attention to you over 13 years...probably doesn't disagree with what I said either...so relax.
This comment seems full of itself. It doesn't read like a 50/50 disagreement of opinions. Approaching someone who has a different opinion by TELLING them its has gobs of flaws looks more like an 85/15. Sorry, but neither I nor many on this board are going to treat you like the 85/15 knowledgeable guy you want to be treated like (and some others here). You just haven't earned the chops.
Hmm. You "explained to me"...and so did others? There goes that 85/15 relationship you...and others...sort of demand. And you...and others...haven't earned. And BTW, you didn't even get my opinion right.
This thread should not be talking about opinions you think I've had the past two years...not sure why they are relevant. But you are not representing them correctly so they need to be corrected (I'm sure everybody cares to read it. LOL)
As far as Woods: I never said Ballard got lucky with Woods at 73. I said Ballard overvalued Woods relative to other teams at 53. Ballard's own words in his own draft day video showed him debating who to take at 53...AP or JW...and he finally says "lets go with the wide-out". And then Woods fell to 73, where Ballard stopped him from falling who knows how far by picking him. So him debating closely to take JW at 53 shows he strongly considered taking him at 53 when he did not have to strongly consider it.
As far as Raimann. I did not ignore the age thing that you..(and others?)...explained to me. I discarded it for being bad. Every GM E.V.E.R.Y one of them would have been glad to spend a first round pick on a 25 year old LT who is playing like a top 10 LT and have that player under a rookie contract for 5 years (except the GMs who already had an All-Pro at LT). EVERY GM who's team needed an LT as badly as the Colts needed an LT probably would have traded up from 53 to get him...if they knew what he would be this early. Being 25 is completely irrelevant. LTs have longevity, and teams still have to deal with a second contract if he was 22. They'll gladly take the top 10 play for the next 5 years (lets see) over the risk of what the situation will be 5 years from now. The same player evaluation process that prevails throughout the NFL failed Raimann, not an age bias. And Ballard got lucky that such a good player was able to be picked with his third pick of the draft.
Hmmm, as if NO ONE explained to me? Who would that be? Just another guy on the forum? Or the ones with 5 figure post counts and a decade of history that feel that their role is to explain stuff to others?
Saying Ballard got lucky is not negative nor is it belittling. Especially when I also say that ALL GMs get lucky, which I exampled by mentioning Polian/Mathis, Polian/Saturday, NE/Brady, and Lynch/Purdy...etc. They all get lucky. I'm sorry that you feel putting Ballard in the same Commoner bucket as all other GMs belittles his Majesty.
Which is what Ballard tended to support by his own words that said "nobody knows how this stuff (the draft day activities...rankings, draft board, and draft pick trades) will play out".
Sorry, but for what...7 years...you have been trying to sell this notion of Ballard being Smart and right...like there is a bright line separation between those GMs who are, what, dumb and wrong? Ballard has sort of deflated the idea that there is a bright line between GMs. BTW, the great John Lynch sure did mess up that Trey Lance trade up didn't he? Good thing he got lucky with Purdy pick to sort of bail him out of the important QB position issue.
I think you've some bad angle of understanding in some matter, as in saying every team has same top 250 players or top 100 prospects... How will be that possible?
You also have some really good perspective, but that comes across as bad or negative, as in saying Ballard got lucky with BR or the examples of other GMs you pointed out...
Overall, you've an eccentric way of looking at things that make the discussion interesting.
It's nothing different than some saying Raimann fell to third round of the draft ONLY because of his age. Like how do they know that for sure? He could've have fallen just because some teams could've thought his development wouldn't amount him to be a starter one day.
Just like that, we all have our bad and good opinions. Or opinions that's not agreed by others. Or opinions that would be proven right or wrong later when we all would've have forgot to get back to this.. anyway, the difference in opinion is what makes the forum engaging.
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16 hours ago, Moosejawcolt said:
Where they were drafted would seem to support your view on the corner room. The teams seems high on them but if this failed, there needs to be accountability at the end of the season. I have seen this movie before and it didn't end well lol
Stop watching Tragedy movies
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15 minutes ago, DougDew said:
Exactly. I read that from a different source (but all reports may have originated from one source).
If the trade was made, that would again reshuffle the deck of players Ballard had to choose from, impacting on the quality of the draft to some player probably less than Latu. I bet Ballard had no clue that ATL would try to trade up but be rejected by another, like he had it all figured out. Has a guess, but no real working knowledge about what teams ahead of him will do.
Only Polian used to tell us he knew what other teams in front of him would do, an in every round. LOL.
There's a video of Jets GM himself talking in surprise to people around him in the draft room on draft day that Falcons tried to trade up to 10 again for Latu after picking Penix at 8. They didn't accept the offer. They accepted offer from Vikings to move down only one spot to let them take a QB.
So, yes, that information is as true as it could get.
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12 hours ago, chad72 said:
Antonio Pierce, their HC, is a good leader of men and he definitely gravitates towards good leaders. Shedeur seems to be the opposite of a good leader, he will have a hard time getting past the fact that he called an ex-teammate a nobody on twitter, and might need his Dad to go bat for him in public conferences. If he is smart, he will focus on playing QB and doing less tweeting. My opinion of Deion and his son have gone down lately after their public shenanigans on twitter.
Plus, teams may not want the baggage of signing "look at me" Shedeur as a high draft pick, with Deion going to bat for him, no different than teams not wanting unwanted press from signing Kaepernick or Tebow, even when they were somewhat good.
Maybe, Sanders Sr is still thinking of his youth, the type of attitude in that age worked out as it was seen as resilient and upbeat despite the odds, but if his son is thrashing former teammates and indulging in smearing on X and generally not building a high level of trust and comradery among his brothers, I guess he'll lay his own bed or couch.
NFL is still in need of lot of quality QBs though so they're gonna be hungry for top of the QB class.
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Here's a perspective on College WRs having had less than 2 career YPRR. Adonai Mitchell is one of them.
It's a long thread, so peruse all the tweets under. This year might be an exception (as explained in the Twitter thread) because of the COVID shortened high school and freshman years for many of the rookies.
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1 hour ago, Creekside said:
I believe the #2 running back is not yet on the roster. The Colts will make a trade for a veteran RB if they have to.
Yes, the back-up RBs aren't going to even move the chains consistently. They'll need to get a veteran in case of injury, as some RBs are always available during the season too. Getting someone earlier might not be bad idea, but that's up to FO.
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1 hour ago, Goatface Killah said:
Budda would be the ultimate cherry on top. He would fill that Earl Thomas role in this defense perfectly. Great idea.
I'm not sure it's right to keep comparing this defense to Legion of Boom, even fundamentally both defenses may not be similar apart from having similar formation.
For example, did Seattle have similar coverage scheme like the way Gus has been calling?
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8 hours ago, jvan1973 said:
The Colts offense scored the 10th most points last year with a journeyman QB. We just added deep threats and JT will start week one. I disagree they aren't dangerous. Hopefully the defense takes a step forward
In theory, yeah... But last year's results can only project. It is good to declare Colts as a great team after seeing them in action against this year's competition.
The toughest part in the NFL is to jump from being a good team to a great team, that you begin to expect to win week after week. We'll see if that leap happens.
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36 minutes ago, stitches said:
As always... I feel the best about Ballard right after the draft. I really do think he's a good drafter. I love a ton of what he does on draft day. I love his feel for the board, I love his trade backs(controversial take, I know), I love that he does have a thing for athleticism and I cannot understand people who dislike that(football is one of the most athleticism-dependent games out there... it's only natural to bet on athletic traits). And now I love that he's starting to diversify his approach a bit by making some exceptions to his rules.
If Ballard fails as a GM it will not be because of his overall draft acumen IMO. It will be the other stuff...
Agreed, all these characteristics during the draft are good to have, he maintains the balance well on trading back and getting the players on his board.
He did try few options on elite players in free agency, so we start to see him being active in free agency (whether that resulted in bringing talents from other teams isn't entirely in his hands sometimes). Perhaps he'll do that more if Richardson grows into his role very well and when the team is primed to splurge on Elite talents to jump from being a good team to being a dangerous team, which currently Colts are not - that's fine pending knowing what we have in AR.
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2 minutes ago, NFLfan said:
From the Athletic, he was picked up by the Jets:
Maybe, He'd not work out with Flores and Vikings as the DC could be intense I guess and not exactly patient through any disciplinary issues or for the player who struggles through prescribed development process.
Jets don't shy away from such prospects and Saleh has been okay with such players too, I think.
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On 4/26/2024 at 5:00 AM, colts89 said:
There's plenty of active people on this forum in the last year or so that actively look to insult/berate people they don't agree with, especially towards Chloe and a few others. I've been on this forum since I was like 13 in 2009 and it's been pretty rough reading a thread now without some sort of squabble happening lol. Maybe it's a product of the social media age, but it's frankly annoying that some people aren't able to just ignore something they don't agree with, or at least attempt to make a response that isn't a cheap shot.
That's more accurate description, thank you.
I think every comment doesn't have to be seen as shot at Ballard (as in how @DynaMike had to explain in previous page unnecessarily, lol) and people don't have to delve deeper into such angle and based on the history of a poster's comments.
I say this because Chloe continues to say the same when she is nervous, so she stands no chance with the crowd who think they need to defend the team's decision or circumstances, etc., Best is to understand her tendencies and allow her to express, and ignore the urge to reply to every one of her comments, even if that seems redundant or non-sensical.
That's the essence - let everyone express in their way. That's not to say such comments shouldn't be disagreed with, but everyone needs to realize to take off the foot from gas pedal before it gets out of hand (depending on everyone's tendencies) and rather ignore such posts at that point.
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3 hours ago, Dr. T said:
Archer ... with a total of 5 points for nailing perfectly the Jaylon Carlies pick at #151.
Congrats!!
The only other person to perfectly hit on a player for 5 points was Solid84 for picking Tanor Bortolini at #117, but he was deducted a point for predicting a trade back, which was wrong. Ohhh nooo!!!
Other shout outs go to jvan1973 and PureLuck, who both got 2 players right, but in the wrong slots.
I think it was Latu that threw us all off. We never thought we would get him and I think it affected all the picks after that resulting in our worse predictions collectively for the past 25 years of the contest!
Oh well ... next year will be different because Chad72 has agreed to take over this contest (maybe for the next 25 years?) and I am going to retire!
Thanks everyone for doing this every year with me. LOVE YOU ALL and GO COLTS!!
Hope to see you competing with us from next year onwards
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50 minutes ago, chad72 said:
The only thing I’d change about @Dr. T contest is give the full credit for a round, whether Ballard moves up or down in a specific round, like from No.46 to No.52. This results in both you and @BlueStallion not getting the full points and only alternate round points.
To me, it adds to the strategy of choosing someone early Round 2 or later Round 2 thrown into the choices based on whether Ballard moves up or down. If it’s technically a round up or below, I understand not getting full points.
Agreed. Couple of years back, I conducted Dr. T's contest concept in Vikings forum and had changed one thing as you said. People loved it..
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11 hours ago, NFLfan said:
@IinD I also like good stories like Adidas Isaac. I did not know that he was a NY kid (Brooklyn). He cares for three of his siblings who are non-verbal. That is a good story. I'm rooting for him to have a good career.
Adidas Isaac is funny 🤣
4 minutes ago, NFLfan said:Ah okay. I will delete the one I did.
Won't you usually merge it, you'd probably have better title like ** no spoilers **
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4 minutes ago, NFLfan said:
Day 3 thread is ready and will be open to comments in about 40 minutes.
Somebody created a thread already, not sure..
why wait for 40 minutes? Draft starts in 90 minutes, right?
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@NFLfan I picked exact same position or same player in DN draft for Packers, they're following same logic..
My picks for GB:
Graham Barton
Edgerrin Cooper
Javon Bullard
GB picks so far:
Tyler Guyton
Edgerrin Cooper
Javon Bullard
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12 minutes ago, Scott Pennock said:
Wow.......you sound like you are miserable at a party.
calm down, take a joke, eat Snickers...
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1 minute ago, chad72 said:
Yep, work ethic and his diabetes affecting his attitude sometimesGood Ballard seems to be looking beyond these stuff...
Ballard now seems destined to draft talents irrespective of flags, medical or others...
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5 minutes ago, chad72 said:
Man, I wish they still had the Laugh emoji
I'm very sorry
I had this joke ready for Adonai Mitchell draft selection, for any team..
Tom Brady finally admits he knew about Deflategate...shocker..lol
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BTW... has anyone seen Latu's Tattoo?