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18 hours ago, WifiGuy said:
If there is a decision between who to keep Hoyer or Kelly. Kelly will be gone.
Many of you dont realize that Hoyer was brought in to help mentor JB, help him prepare for games, give advice. Boggles me that most of you believe he was brought in to actually take snaps in anything other than an emergency
I don’t know. Hoyer was unable to fulfill his primary duty last year - guide us to a win in the starter’s absence. Against Miami’s terrible D, we weren’t able to get anything going at home. At one point Hoyer was 2 out of his last 10 in that game. A lot of water still to go under the old bridge, but Hoyer could be SOL pretty early next year if we have two other backup QBs showing anything at all... -
Love it - I actually have the same order of positions drafted with our first four selections. But I agree with others that it’s a little optimistic. I worry that Kinlaw will not be there at 13, and most mocks have all three of your 2nd rounders in the 1st..
But, I love your priorities, and I like Love more in the 2nd than @ 13, as many have it. I could stomach the pick much better after getting a DT, OT, and WR...
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Re-Sign: Castonzo, Haeg, Jonathan Williams
Sign: Jadeveon Clowney
Draft:
1) Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina. Never know how high to take SB risers. I first thought he was a Top-10 shoe it, but most mockers have him still available. When you look at the potential run on OTs ahead of us, maybe that’s right.
2) Prince Tega Wanogho, OT, Auburn. Castonzo can help train his replacement for a while, which I think he’d dig.
2) Van Jefferson, WR, Florida. Another SB riser. Reich likes to be multiple. What we don’t have is a young magician of a route runner.
3) Anthony Gordon, QB, Washington St. seeing lots of things saying SB proved him to be a 5th - 7th rounder with a weak arm. I see his slow velocity to be a function of his snap release. For now, I think we can get him in the 3rd but no later.
4) Jonah Jackson, OL, Ohio St. I thought our lack of OL depth would be our undoing last year, but no starter missed a start. Jackson has a Ballard story (as did Gordon), and he’d provide depth at OG and C.
5) McTelvin Agim, DT, Arkansas. Came down to him, S Jeremy Chinn, or a TE. Something went downhill with Autry this year, and Tyquan Lewis was often a healthy scratch. Something tells me we need a second athletic DT.
6) Steven Sullivan, TE, LSU.
6) Jared Madden, S, Alabama7) Jordan Johnson, C, Central Florida.
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On 1/25/2020 at 5:57 PM, HarryTheCat said:
I would rather endure another season of JB than invest a pick -- any pick -- in Love. Come to think of it, I'd rather get a root canal every week, without anesthetic, than see Love under center for the Colts.
Overstated but I agree based on his likely draft position. His upside is high, so I might have to rank him above some other QBs like Gordon, but when considering the opportunity cost of the draft pick, I’d MUCH rather have Gordon in the 3rd than Love at #13. I don’t EXPECT either QB to become a franchise QB, so I’d much rather use #13 on Kinlaw, Lamb, Austin Jackson, or someone else that fills a big need, and go into the 2020 TC with Brissett, Kelly, and Gordon (and Hoyer, lol) as our QB options...
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I tier them thusly:
Tier 1 (Franchise QB) - Burrow, Tua, Herbert
Tier 2 (potential solid starter) - Eason, Love, Gordon, Fromm
Tier 3 (Developmental) - Morgan, Montez, Hurts, Stanley, Huntley, etc.
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I’m getting pretty convinced about Herbert. He’s going to be good. I think Ballard would be more likely to trade up for Herbert than to sit at 13 or 34 and take Love (who will be vastly over drafted because of an upside that he likely won’t even come close to). Anyway, you can drive yourself nuts trying to figure out what teams are interested in what players, as many visits, rumors, and actions are orchestrated to confuse or deceive other teams. All you end up with is an unreliable guess...
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5 hours ago, Colts_Fan12 said:
so you hate on Love yet want the QB that has been the literal definition of trash at the very same senior bowl practices?
Okay, then. We gave up a bust of a 1st round WR for JB; I’m opposed to spending a 1st or 2nd rounder on a QB that I think will bust...
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2 hours ago, Chloe6124 said:
Kind of funny everyone trashing Jacoby this season but doesn’t want to take a QB at 13. We aren’t finding a franchise guy most likely after the first. The five QB who might be franchise QB will be gone at after the first most likely. So which is it. Do you want a new QB or not. The QB after the first aren’t looking to good.
Well, you never heard me trash JB. I personally still think that most on the board here will be sorely disappointed with how little we do to replace Brissett this year. The 2nd tier of QB in this draft is pretty crappy, and Love is fool’s gold IMO. Even as they were praising Love’s arm talent and athleticism at SB practices, Walterfootball called his lack of field vision a fatal weakness and indicated it wouldn’t be an easy fix. I really think that we build the lines, draft a 3rd tier QB with sleeper potential (Gordon, please), and try to run a running O with a QB that doesn’t make mistakes (unlike Love’s nearly 1:1 TD to Int ratio). Ballard probably likes JB in that kind of role, and he’ll hope Brissett looks more like his first 7 games...-
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I’ve been on the WR train for a while, since TY has been hurt the last two years and is over 30, no one else stepped up last year (with a heavy dose of the injury bug), and whatever QB we start in the future will need a #1 WR. However, I’m starting to identify Day 2 WRs that will help a lot, and this (Philly-style) O doesn’t require an alpha 1-on-1 dominator.
So, Ballard likes to build from the lines first - there are still some definite chinks there. Castonzo, even if he does return as I suspect he will, is a short-timer. And CB spent some energy last year searching for a 2nd NT, and Autry and Lewis didn’t impress anyone at the undertackle position.
I think we’re going to be after the best available NT or OT at #13. That would be either Kinlaw or Derrick Brown, if either falls there. If not, I’m starting to get intrigued by Mekhi Becton. At 6’8”, 369, he’s supposed to be freakishly nimble and mobile for his size, and he has massive length. Draft him, start him at RT this year, move Braden Smith to RG and Glowinski to the bench, and flop him to LT when Castonzo retires. All the while, slim him down to 340 or so...
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6 minutes ago, Defjamz26 said:
The guy I’m looking at for the Colts is Pittman Jr. I think he’s what we wanted with Funchess. He’s big but has quick feet and runs excellent routes.
I’m starting to set my eyes on two SB risers: Van Jefferson and Denzel Mims...
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Funny, I believe it was walterfootball that reported that Anthony Gordon looked like a big work in progress... but PFF ranked him as his team’s top rated player at 77.4. Not sure what to believe...
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I believe he’s unmarried, and last I heard, living in an apartment with a dog. His family is his parents and sisters, so I’m not sure the “spending time with the family” motivation for retirement kicks in. My point is: the Colts and the OL are largely his band of brothers, and he’s finally on a high-performing line. Gotta be fun for him. I bet we can talk him into coming back for one year and mentoring his replacement...(wanogho?)
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I like your priorities... I’d be happy with something like this.
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Yeah, I almost see this as a positive also, helping him fall to us. The Raiders are snagging him one pick ahead of us in a lot of mocks that have him falling a little - Vegas, gotta scare them off a bit. Raiders seem to do their own thing too (Carlin Ferrell). Maybe they take Ruggs in homage to Al Davis. Seems like we have a pretty good locker room and coach to screw a partier’s head on right...
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For those who think of Ceedee Lamb as a possible faller to snatch at 13, there’s this from Walter football.com:
“Oklahoma wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is known to be a good kid, according to NFL scouts and to sources around the Sooners program. They all say he is a really nice person and a good teammate. With that being said, Lamb has developed the reputation for being a huge partier, and team sources feel that is going to be a challenge for him in maintaining focus depending on where he goes.
"[Lamb] definitely shouldn't go to a place like Miami, or Tampa Bay. That could be Michael Clayton all over again," said one scout. "I'll put it to you this way. He would be awesome in Green Bay."
Lamb is probably going to get get hit with a lot of questions about this during the combine and pre-draft interviews. Teams like him as a person, but depending on which team drafts him, it may want a plan in place to keep him focused on not partying too much in his down time.” -
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2 hours ago, Stephen said:
Gordon will probably go in round 2 at latest especially if he has good senior bowl practice
I got that same thing in the back of my mind too...
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1 hour ago, stitches said:
I kind of think of drafting a QB in round 3-4-5 as the worst possible option.
Yeah, I’ve got Gordon in the third right now. Watch the EWS this weekend - there’s a riser named James Morgan at Florida Int’l that’s getting some head turns at practice. 6’4”, 213. Unimpressive college stats, but seemed to be a running O. Captain Morgan...hmmmm...those letters could start coming from sea...-
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55 minutes ago, stitches said:
If we don't, we are likely not going to get a QB in this draft.
Point well taken. But that only refers to Round 1. If CB likes someone a little later in the draft, it’s doable without a trade... -
I’m very far into the lennyMoore camp on all these QBs (though I really don’t know what to think of Fromm). I think that Gordon is slowly rising as the draftniks review these QBs’ tape. Those mock draft apps are starting to have him gone sometimes before our 4th round pick, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Ballard will have to decide if he’s worthy of a 2nd round pick by the time the draft comes.
His throwing motion is trippy - you can only describe it as a snap. No wind up, no warning, it’s just out as soon as he decides to throw it. It’s probably why some scouting reports say he doesn’t have good arm strength - his normal motion on the short to medium throws doesn’t allow him to put much power behind it...-
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4 hours ago, zibby43 said:We've discussed the positives with Love: mobility, arm talent, size, etc.Need to discuss the negatives, too. And there are plenty of big red flags on his 2019 tape that transcend the lack of talent around him. Two of those red flags that keep popping up are: 1) inadequate processing/understanding of coverages (something that will get substantially tougher at the NFL level) and 2) locking onto his first read (something Jacoby suffers from).
This perfectly states what I feel about Love. His upside is going to bid him up too far, and there may be a winner’s curse...-
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21 minutes ago, MPStack said:
Anyways, I seriously doubt Ballard doesn’t address the QB position by either drafting a QB early, signing a good veteran or combination of both.
Yeah, I think there are just two separate opinions on Love and Eason at this draft. I’d be all for drafting JB’s successor if the right guy was available to us. I just don’t like them as a decent value at #34, much less #13. I don’t see CB forcing things if the value’s not there. And I don’t see a franchise coming to us in FA. JB showed enough pre-injury that I’d rather give him another shot than bring in a washed up veteran like Rivers or Brady. We forget that it’s hard to find a franchise QB if we don’t have one, and missing on a bold move can hamstring a team for three years or more. A bold move might be what it takes, but I just don’t think Love or Eason are the guy... -
Just now, Chloe6124 said:
So was Mahomes taken to high because he had to sit a year.
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Chad “Swag” Kelly
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This is my exact belief about the QB position this off-season. Kelly and 3rd rounder are the future as soon as Brissett proves they are better options...