Hans Moleman
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No we don't because we traded Rayford for one. He was projected as a top 50 player. Due to his sickle cell he dropped. But can that condition cause you to be less of a football player? I doubt it.
From 1990 to 2010, 11 high school players with sickle-cell trait died during intense conditioning (as opposed to 62 dying from a brain injury sustained from football during the same time period).
It's something that, like heat-related deaths (there were 38), is easily avoidable if one is aware of the situation and monitors it accordingly. Cam knows how to handle it, and I'd like to think our coaches aren't single-digit IQ knuckleheads that would push players that close to the brink of death.
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Next year has an excellent 3-4 DE class at the top end. It's also time for us to think about finding a replacement for Mathis, who's 32, in case that guy isn't on the roster yet. So, I definitely wouldn't rule out drafting another OLB early. Front 7 is still the priority in this division where the RB's we face are MJD, CJ2K, and Foster/Tate. Our secondary can handle guys like Locker, Gabbert, and Schaub. Handle the division first, then focus on deep playoff runs.
As far as names go, it's way too early to know who's available when we pick and what the value will be. Guys like Tuitt, Mosley, Van Noy, and Trent Murphy look like solid first rounders now, but a lot can happen in a year.
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In our heyday with Peyton, we were perhaps the best in the league at not losing the games we were supposed to win. It's easy to take that for granted; this game against Oakland is a game where, honestly, we should blow them out if we're a playoff caliber squad. They're coming on the road with key injuries and a QB making his first regular season start and we've got a talent edge even if both teams are healthy.
We should tear these guys up, but there's a reason they play the game. We made the playoffs last year, but one of our losses was to Blaine Gabbert and the Jags.at home. We also got blown out by the Mark Sanchez-led Jets. It should be business as usual, but part of business as usual in the NFL is teams get upset all the time. Can't take the Raiders lightly.
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The other thing to keep in mind between Rayford and Johnson is that Johnson is coming to us 4 years younger. He's good enough for depth now, but if it takes him another year or two to really "get it", he'll be hitting his football and athletic prime at the same time for us.
And we all know what that equals.
Beast.
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I'm glad he manned up and apologized.
Truth is, the next fringe player who got caught doing something both illegal and stupid was going to be toast regardless of how sorry they were. Monopoly only has 2 get out of jail free cards, and who are we to upstage that? If Brazill and Lefeged weren't thanking their lucky stars before, they are now.
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I love JJ Watt and hate that we have to play him twice a year.
I don't watch most non-Colts games, but Watt's one of the players I will watch anyways. If he doesn't get injured, he's got All Time Great ability.
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It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the blackout was intentional. In my years as a sports fan and studying sports history, it'd hardly be the most unbelievable thing that actually happened anyways. Just take this offseason for example: An owner getting his Super Bowl ring from the one they got caught cheating in gets his ring jacked by the Russian president? That belongs in a Seinfeld episode, but lo and behold, Vlad's got a nice fat piece of Patriot ice in his collection now.
And that's speaking purely on weird things that've happened and ignoring the elephant in the room, which is that sports gambling is a multi-billion dollar industry (illegal estimates peg it much higher) and any other possible conspiracy theories about rigging. The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
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The good news: our veteran/rookie mentoring program is proving to be extremely effective.
The bad news: Boyett was taken under wing by Joe Lefeged.
Clearly, the program works. Now, let's just hope they're smart enough make sure Da'Rick is attached to Reggie and not Brazill.
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Well hey, there is one silver lining- at least it took 4 guys to bring him down.
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Any football fan knows how the PS works. Thanks anyway.
Again, that is not my point.
Harper is a return man too so that spot would not be tough to find - Reed.
We took the problem away from SF and put the monkey on our own back. Now we have 5 OLB's and 5 ILB's.
Ah, I gotcha now.
What can I say- Grigson really, really likes Johnson. Otherwise, Harper would've made more sense for the numbers breakdown. And, safe to say, it's an LB that's going to be on the chopping block.
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Fair enough. I can accept that explanation. But there are too many on this board who believe that just signing with Indy cures the ills of any young, troubled NFL player when the fact is that most lockerrooms and teams all have veteran leaders and most knuckleheads remain exactly that.
I'm out of likes for the day, but I do like and agree with your statement here. There's no magic fix for troubled players- otherwise, in true NFL style, information about it would leak and all 32 teams would be doing the same thing the next day.
Some players do turn it around, but ultimately, that choice lies with the knucklehead in question. I think being in Indy will help make that transition easier if Da'Rick wants to put his career back together, and we've got a positive atmosphere to encourage that. If he's not ready, we're going to be too concerned with winning football games to waste our time convincing him why he should change. That's got to come from within.
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I am kind of scratching my head as to why we would pick up Rogers over Chris Harper, who was obviously there for us as he fell all the way to the 49ers on waivers.
Maybe Harper really does suck and the 49ers picked him up to get some information from him. But they give up on a prospect like Cam Johnson (to make roster room) just to get some info? Bizarro World.
As Dustin mentioned, we would've had to clear up a roster spot for Harper and couldn't put him straight on the PS.
Also, the 49ers had 5 OLB's on the 53 man roster. I think using Johnson for trade bait was always a possibility for them.
They had to drop somebody when they picked up Harper, and there's a good chance that person was going to be Johnson just because of the numbers game. So, they shopped Johnson for what they could get instead of cutting him for nothing. Hopefully this means we got a good deal on him since they 49ers were what we'd call "motivated sellers".
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After looking at his wiki page he has some size 6'3 268 lbs.
From a size and athleticism combo, he's practically a clone of Werner. He's not the all-around player Bjoern is now and needs to add some strength, but that's the perfect kind of player to bring in cheaply and develop. He's already off to a good start having been in SF, and he'll be in the right place to keep improving here. I like the move.
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I think Lamar Woodley is around 265 lbs, so you can play 3-4 OLB at that weight if you are athletic enough, IMO.
True. I don't think we'd have to trim him down much, just closer to 260 than 270.
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What will it take to get you to go back to your old avatar?
3 more days. Once opening day hits, the Moleman returns.
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Granted, it was preseason, but he was beasting it. Kinda like their version of Caesar Rayford and a classic upside play. Good athlete for a 4-3 end but he could stand to be a little stronger. I wonder if we'll have him trim down to play LB or bulk up for the 4 man front....
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Please. The Colts are not that different from any other team in the league.
We're not night and day different from every other single NFL team, but every team has it's own unique locker room culture and leadership in place, and that has a big impact on on-field performance. If I were drafting a young WR, I'd feel a lot better having Reggie Wayne to mentor him than having Stevie Johnson do the job.
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Caesar was definitely my biggest surprise. Glad to see he made it, though- we can never have enough rangy pass rushers, especially given our lack of depth for the role.
My biggest disappointment from a personnel standpoint was the pre-season injuries to Holmes and Thornton. I thought with a full, healthy offseason that both could've won opening day starter jobs. Now, their development is a little behind where it could be and it's looking like McGlynn and Satele will keep their starting roles. The competition would've done all parties some good.
From an overall team standpoint, my biggest disappointment and concern is still not converting enough redzone trips into TD's.
My biggest surprise from that perspective is that the defense is playing much better, even with injuries. This is the deepest defense we've had in years, especially if our rookies step up.
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That's probably going to be a horror film for all the wrong reasons...
There better be at least 5 inches of cleavage in that film, and I'm not talkin' bout Bruce Vilanch, either
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No risk, high possible reward. I like the move. We've got the right locker room and leadership in place to help Rogers develop if he's ready to turn his career around.
If not, no biggie for us and best of luck to Da'Rick and whoever takes the next chance on him. Hopefully he realizes it's in his (and the Colts) best interest to seize the opportunity now; he doesn't have a ton of them left.
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why in the heck did they cut chandler harnish from the team? why didnt we cut matt hasselback, he has no reason to put on colts jersey. it is not right. chandler was with his dream team. can someone please help me understand this??
Chandler's still a Colt. He'll have one more year on the practice squad, and if he doesn't improve by next year, he's toast.
Not a bad deal for a guy who was the last pick of the draft- many 7th round QB's don't get 2 full seasons and 3 offseasons to develop.
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Redzone TD efficiency, bar none. We need to turn red zone scoring opportunities into TD's instead of settling for FG's.
Runner-up is fixing the turnover imbalance. We were historically bad at creating turnovers last year and gave up too many.
If we don't improve those two areas, we won't make the playoffs. We can't count on most of the breaks falling our way again.
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Hans, why do you insist on using an avatar of Justin Beiber without a shirt?
Lost an avatar bet. Once opening day hits, it's back to the Moleman.
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I agree. The problem began in HS and College, but the impact in the NFL is to a much greater degree than HS and College. So I have no problem with the NFL shouldering the load from a top-down mentality. I mean the NFL does set the standards for a great deal of things for college down to little league, including safety regs. Think of it this way - If you drove your car for 30 MPH for an hour and then drove another hour at 60 MPH, you wouldn't expect the distance traveled to be the same for each hour. In the same line of thinking, the damage done in the first 10 years of football from, say, Jr. High through College, will not be as extensive as the damage done to the player's body for the next 10 years in the NFL.
First off, thanks again for all your insight on the thread.
The research I've done on the issue from the medical side of things shows that hits accumulated in children, due to the brain still growing and developing and the neck not being strong enough to avoid "bobblehead" type scenarios are devastating. Nobody really talks about it, but it's to the point where I'm seeing middle schoolers with permanent concussion issues and dead high schoolers having CTE. From 1990 to 2010, 62 high schoolers flat out died from brain injuries sustained in football.
I'd wager you'll never see the NFL use the line of defense that all those brain injuries happened before players got to the NFL. Long term, that defense would cause far, far more damage than them just taking the blame themselves. It'd be winning the battle while conceding the war.
Let's not forget, the primary reason they fought the research of Dr. Cantu and others is because they were concerned about the damage to its marketing and youth football pipeline of talent. Retired players had a case in the first place because the NFL still wanted to market the game as safe for families and kids- the league hired doctors to publicly deny the risks everyone already knew about. The league still won't admit football causes anything because they plan to continue playing both sides of the fence. The last thing they're going to do is admit that playing football at the lower levels causes brain damage before the NFL gets their hands on them- even though it's the truth.
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The concussions got him, which is a shame. Session was fun to watch.