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Now if Leonard can ever come back to what he was, we may have the best set of LBs in the league.

He looks like he’s either in a rock band or the WWE.

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Aren’t they swapping it out next season?

Agreed, but they need the TEs for protection, especially with the Rainman out.

Maybe not over Rivers, but close. Hopefully the Jags will have to gameplan for two QBs next week.

I still don’t understand why they didn’t go after a lame Stafford more. I know they were probably afraid of the depleted secondary giving up big plays. But they did that anyway.

“Pierce was getting separation” is going to upset some people here. not true!

@Indeee You lost me when you said Doyle sucks. Do you realize we’re still trying to find a TE who could do what he did? I understand your argument, you have a right to your opinion. I’ll leave it (and this thread) at that.

Way too early to make any conclusions.

Did he block for Peyton? That’s the only GOAT that played for the Colts recently that I know of.

You can run at Donald. You just have to always double him on passing downs. That being said, the Rams aren’t as bad as some think.

He was a full participant at practice, so it looks good. I think there’s another step in the process.

Very true. But the play where he probably got the concussion isn't likely to change. No one is going to slide when they think they can score. The hit in the endzone and it causing him to hit his head on the turf is what did it. Kind of hard to train a guy to kneel down once he's scored, but that's the only thing that may have prevented it.

Yes! Need to temper my expectations though. I have to remind myself that the Ravens went out of their way to lose that game. The team with the least f’ups usually wins. Got to keep in mind, AR’s continued progress (and health) is the most important thing.

Tongue solidly in cheek.

Lol! True by NFL standards. But he probably made about 30k. I’d take that for a few weeks work!

He was paid in the preseason, right?

I’m glad the players, teams, and the NFL are taking this seriously. Too many lives ruined already.

Very strange. I guess they were willing to pay to see if he could be effective and gave him time to show it.

I agree, it's way too early to give up on Pierce. But he definitely needs to develop a mean streak, ala Pittman. MJP is aggressive going for the ball, not waiting for it to come to him. Also, if you've watched Pittman's YouTube videos you know he hates it when people say he's not fast. He looked pretty fast outrunning a bunch of Jags in game 1. He's always doubled or bracketed. Hopefully Downs will start drawing more doubles, and we'll get our TEs more involved. But yeah, Pierce definitely has to up his game.

There's a lot of anti-OSU sentiment here. Some have said that no OSU QB is ever good in the NFL. Stroud may disprove that. And I'm not sure Fields is done, he's just on a really bad team. One poster (you know who you are!) said that they never want the Colts to draft any OSU players because they won't be good here. Yeah, the Bosa brothers, Zeke, Garrett Wilson, and dozens others would have tanked with the Colts... sure. BTW, Trey didn't look too bad for only being there a few days.

Yesterday was a prime example of “On any given Sunday”. The Colts will be one of those team, IMO, that could beat anyone or could lose to anyone. (And all the games are on Sunday, right?) Everyone might want to go back and redo their predictions for the final record.

He did have that one good catch earlier. He needs to be more aggressive. He’s supposed to be our deep threat, you have to fight if we’re counting on you for those 50-50 balls.

Bowen always says he’s no USC pretty boy WR. The guy is tough as nails. But he needs to get a helmet strap that works. Besides getting is hat torn off today, that chin strap ends up by the face mask on every catch.