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Honestly, I thought Minshew gave us a better chance to win now, but AR is better than I thought, so I'd stick with him as the starter. But depending on the game and if he's struggling, I'd pull him and go with Minshew to finish the particular game. Contender is a possibility with this team. I wouldn't want to risk a win to get AR experience.

Big time props. The guy just doesn't go down. Amazing.

In a worse case scenario, if things go sideways and he gets released, the cap hit would be the 26 million guaranteed money or is it the whole 42 million?

It may be buried in one of the JT threads, but I can't find anything anywhere regarding how his practice session went today.

If he has a good season (much less one like 2021) imp, the Colts offer him top dollar, and hard feelings or not, he'll be back with this team

Yep. PR gave him a script possibly, but he stuck beautifully to it. You can tell this guy is smart.

About what I expected. He wasn't going to say I hate the Colts and am doing this so I can be paid, or my agent is an * and I'm thinking of firing him. He managed the media perfectly. Putting my former journalism hat on, the questions were asked in a way that were easy to dodge. You have to ask a question in a way that makes a dodge trickier, or that the dodge itself might give a clue. They should have asked him: 1. Are you more prone to injuring this ankle again? 2. Did the docs tell you why it took so long to heal? 3. Could you see yourself playing for another team next year? 4. Could you see yourself playing for the Colts next year? 5. Have you spoken to Chris or Jim in the past week or two? Still, he wasn't sullen or grouchy. He seemed genuinely excited. I took that as a positive.

He throws from all types of arm angles. Very similar to Mahones in that sense.

Any idea what Groves issue was?

Is or was Stewart playing hurt in the Rams game?

Yes, you scheme around what your players can do now. Who knows what it will look like later, but if Steichen was trying to use AR like Stroud today, I think it would hamper his progress and wouldn't utilize what he does well now.

Iirc, the majority of this board was hoping Stroud would fall to us and also that AR was the least favored one, even below Levis. I would still pick Stroud today and my magic ball still favors him to be the better QB when all is said and done. But AR is showing signs that he could be a really good one as well and I'm feeling much better about him today then when we picked him.

Lol. I was noticing that as well!

Ditto. Almost click bait worthy.

Strange how it seems every year, fans need someone to beat up on. And after two whole games, it seems this year's selection is Pierce. Too bad the Oline is playing well. One of them would have probably edged him out.

If Pierce is still getting so few looks as the season goes on, I'll be right there with you. But until AR grows, the guy who's supposed to get his plays more down the field won't get as much of an opportunity as guys who run short crosses and slants.

Wow, did not know that about Woods or Ogeltree. Good to know.

WR is the hardest position to evaluate as a fan because we only see them taking off for the LOS. Can anyone say objectively that they aren't open? To me this is more on AR or Steichen. Pierce is our supposed big play WR. As such, it's going to be harder for him to get big numbers with such an inexperienced QB.

NCF, how proficient are the others in blocking? They all seem more the pass catcher types.

Except for the keeping Woods on season IR, I agree with the rest of your post. Line those capable as a WR. Like Woods.

Yep. I don't know what he was thinking, but it seemed like he sort of relaxed a bit as he was about to cross the goal line. Like he expected the defender to pull up possibly. Bet he never does that again.

Oline looked good again today in pass protection. And yes, that means I thought they looked good last week as well. Run blocking much better. Could actually see holes developing even watching the game in real speed.

Imo, this game was a perfect example of stats lying sometimes.

Missed the last few minutes, but it seemed to me the oline was solid in pass protection. The sacks seemed to be more of AR not being able to find anybody. Run blocking was bad though obviously, but if they can protect AR like this game, I'd be happy.

So is his back and nerve issue fully healed as well? Or is he still "progressing."