Braden Smith Appreciation thread

[JediXMan]

His replacements today were bad. He’s a solid player.

[CR91]

Le'raven Clark should never be on an NFL team

[Fluke_33]

I hope he’s back even with a club for a hand 

[John Hammonds]

Don't nobody say we have good depth on the OL.  Uh....  Think again.

[Archangel]

was not even aware Smith was hurt

 

[NewColtsFan]

3 minutes ago, John Hammonds said:

Don't nobody say we have good depth on the OL.  Uh....  Think again.

This isn’t something unique to the Colts.  This is what the vast majority of teams struggle with.

 

I think the only OL who didn’t get flagged today was AC.   Otherwise, Q, Kelly and Glow earned plenty of laundry.   It wasn’t just Clark and Green.   Just saying. 

[coltsfansince65]

Is Smith the one who got stitches in his hand this week from practice?

[John Hammonds]

2 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:

This isn’t something unique to the Colts.  This is what the vast majority of teams struggle with.

 

I think the only OL who didn’t get flagged today was AC.   Otherwise, Q, Kelly and Glow earned plenty of laundry.   It wasn’t just Clark and Green.   Just saying. 

Maybe we should have our OL guys wear gloves the same color of the opposing jerseys every week.  Might cut down on the holding calls?

[holeymoley99]

At this point if he is out again we should start Pinter and we should bring carter O Donnell up from p.s. regardless..no way he is as bad as Clarke or Green.

[csmopar]

4 minutes ago, coltsfansince65 said:

Is Smith the one who got stitches in his hand this week from practice?

Did something during practice but I did hear what. He did end up having minor surgery from what they said in the pregame

[coltsfansince65]

1 minute ago, csmopar said:

Did something during practice but I did hear what. He did end up having minor surgery from what they said in the pregame

I hope it's not something that will cause him to miss multiple games. He was sorely missed today.

[cbear]

Got to watch the replay now that I've fully recovered from that game. I didn't think Green was so bad, but that could have been a delusion. 

[cbear]

1 minute ago, coltsfansince65 said:

I hope it's not something that will cause him to miss multiple games. He was sorely missed today.

 

He was only questionable yesterday, so unless something really crazy happened overnight, he should be back next week I would think. 

[Colts1324]

3 minutes ago, cbear said:

 

He was only questionable yesterday, so unless something really crazy happened overnight, he should be back next week I would think. 

I'm guessing they want the stitches to fully close up the wound, and they usually are fine within 5-10 days.

 

so, i would assume so

[csmopar]

6 minutes ago, cbear said:

Got to watch the replay now that I've fully recovered from that game. I didn't think Green was so bad, but that could have been a delusion. 

If I’m not mistaken, Green had one holding call early on and that was it. He played ok. Not great but ok. Clarke sucks.  The rest of the OL looked way out of sync tonight

[bestQBever]

To me, Green wasn't that bad. I still don't know how laraven clark is still in the NFL

[coltfaninnewyork]

Absolutely, our depth needs improvement specifically at tackle next year 

[1959Colts]

I thought Chaz Green played well

[AZColt11]

Really really good OL are hard to find these days.  I think about every team in the NFL would like to have more depth at OL.  Heck, most would just like to have 5 legit starting OL.  At least we have that.

[GoColts8818]

45 minutes ago, cbear said:

Got to watch the replay now that I've fully recovered from that game. I didn't think Green was so bad, but that could have been a delusion. 

There were a couple of plays where the Packers defender just pushed him over.

[Restinpeacesweetchloe]

All in all we still had 140 rushing yards. Rivers was pressured more but Green Bay has some guys that are good at that. I don’t want to see either again. I thought green played better though.

[Valpo2004]

14 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:

This isn’t something unique to the Colts.  This is what the vast majority of teams struggle with.

 

I think the only OL who didn’t get flagged today was AC.   Otherwise, Q, Kelly and Glow earned plenty of laundry.   It wasn’t just Clark and Green.   Just saying. 

 

OL are not like Running backs or even Wide Receivers where solid depth isn't actually that hard to come by.  That's why a major part of our OL being dominate is that our starters don't miss too many games.  

[carmelcolt]

so I'm surprised Pinter never got a shot there. didn't he play some RT at Ball State?

[NannyMcafee]

Any good depth leaves for starting roles 

[BProland85]

Hoping Smith is back at RT against the Titans. Does anyone know his status going forward?

[Defjamz26]

15 hours ago, CR91 said:

Le'raven Clark should never be on an NFL team

Remember how everyone kept saying that he just needed time lol? People thought LT wasn’t it but he’d be fine at RT...well that didn’t work either. Should’ve kept Haeg tbh

[tweezy32]

Green played absolutely amazing! If he played decent or okay, in my book that is amazing! We didn’t need him to play great he’s a backup.. we just needed him to play decently good, Which he did! As long as he wasn’t playing like Clark did during Cleveland he did a great job! A decent job for green is all we were looking for which makes it absolutely amazing !! 

[Freenyfan102]

All I can say is use the 1st round pick on the online  because dang I don't trust the backups

[Four2itus]

10 minutes ago, Freenyfan102 said:

All I can say is use the 1st round pick on the online  because dang I don't trust the backups

If we use our first pick on a tackle, it will be to replace AC, not for depth....just my

[Thunderbolt]

What's up with that, Q of all the Oline got flagged 3 or 4 times, not good for pro bowler.

[jbaron04]

Clark and the other guy didn’t get many reps thru the week smith was injured on Thursday and the ref was ridiculous with the holding calls Nelson got called for 2 or 3 of the 9 or so holding calls 

[Freenyfan102]

38 minutes ago, Four2itus said:

If we use our first pick on a tackle, it will be to replace AC, not for depth....just my

That what I was saying because I know AC one a one year contract.

[Jackie Daytona]

8 hours ago, Defjamz26 said:

Remember how everyone kept saying that he just needed time lol? People thought LT wasn’t it but he’d be fine at RT...well that didn’t work either. Should’ve kept Haeg tbh

Haeg didn't want to sign here, he was told hed have a better shot at starting in Tampa....

[will426]

11 hours ago, Defjamz26 said:

Remember how everyone kept saying that he just needed time lol? People thought LT wasn’t it but he’d be fine at RT...well that didn’t work either. Should’ve kept Haeg tbh

I Def remember this

[Defjamz26]

12 hours ago, Shafty138 said:

Haeg didn't want to sign here, he was told hed have a better shot at starting in Tampa....

I didn’t know that was the case. I would’ve offered him a bit more money to stay.