Richardson day to day with abdominal, oblique injuries

[crazycolt1]

4 hours ago, Boondoggle said:

Flacco requires run game balance.  As long as that is there, he can win you some games.  But if Richardson can go he needs to play.  

Till the game slows down for AR we still need wins. Flacco is that bridge. 

[throwing BBZ]

On 10/2/2024 at 12:29 AM, crazycolt1 said:

It's not about that.  It's about doing what it takes to win. AR is going to get his time. He still has to learn to protect himself.  It will come but keeping us in the hunt calls for Flacco at times. 

 

 The Colts should create a hour long "Protecting Yourself/ Sliding for Dummies" vid demonstrating other highly successful QB's doing it, and have ours watch it Daily until he has proven he understands. 

 AR definitely still doesn't get it. He has believed that he is a a Cam like Superman, and it needs to become clear to him that he is actually NFL Fragile. The kid can't take a open field hit. 

 Still picturing Hero 'LB' Luck getting jacked by two Broncos, Luck whirlybirding in the air, ending up with a lacerated kidney. One of dozens of bad decision hits he took.

 There wouldn't be anything wrong with AR sitting for awhile until he grows up.

 While he is contemplating his Issues, teach the kid to throw an out that doesn't sail 6' over his receivers head. NO amount of game experience will fix it. It's actually Quite pathetic watching him do it over and over. 

 And, trying to throw the ball downfield to AD is a loser. He is lost out there. Those plays should be called for Pierce, if you are actually playing to win.

[azcolt]

10 hours ago, GoColts8818 said:

I don’t get this questioning his toughness nonsense fans are starting to throw out.  Here are the injuries that knocked out of games.

 

He got hit hard in the Rams game and coaches admitted they took him out to protect him from himself given the situation in the game and it was almost over and he was being reckless trying to run.

 

he got a concussion vs the Texans, that had nothing to do with toughness.

 

he injured his shoulder to the point he needed surgery because a big guy fell on him.  Again that has nothing to do with toughness.

 

Then he got an injury that multiple people have sighted other athletes across sports missing weeks for and there is a chance he plays Sunday.  That seems to fly in the face of the theory he some how lacks toughness.

 

People want to argue he’s injury prone that argument I can listen too because there is a lot of evidence to back it up unfortunately but the lacking toughness is just pure nonsense.  None of these injuries look to be him milking something because he just can’t take it.  They are legit injuries.  That has nothing to do with if a player is tough or not.  

Obviously any NFL player is tougher than 99+% of the population. So of course AR is tough by that standard. He essentially said the same thing in his Oct 2 interview. But the question is whether he is tough enough to play through the hits that most of the other 31 qb’s would tolerate. The jury is out on that question and so far it’s not looking good.

[GoColts8818]

7 hours ago, crazycolt1 said:

Till the game slows down for AR we still need wins. Flacco is that bridge. 

The game isn’t going to slow down for him without playing.  Flacco was never brought here to start over AR.  He was brought here to be a backup.  Fans can call for whatever they want but if healthy AR is the starter and that’s not a question for the Colts.

[Jason_]

19 hours ago, azcolt said:

A man of mercifully few meaningless words.

 

you on the other hand, were full of meaningless words ;) 

 

 

[Jason_]

18 hours ago, ColtAndOrioles said:

I am a big AR proponent, I cannot stress that enough.  I think he has all of the talent in the world.  But I am not a fan at all of his last few comments to the media.

 

First about his "it's football, do I need to slide?  Not really.  If I get hurt I get hurt" comment.  I thought that was horrible.   I can see why SS benched him after those 2 plays.  He thought about himself.  Not the team. 

 

After what happened last year and now this year, it may have been the dumbest comment I have ever heard from a pro athlete.

 

 But this new one?  Is even dumber.    To compare yourself to the average fan is just stupid.  He gets paid $millions to play a sport.  A kids sport.  But a sport that brings in $billions in cash for the league, for sponsors, for gambling, and most importantly love from fans who make that all possible. 

 

To say that you can just get hurt playing a sport in such a laissez faire  way, as if no one depends on you to stay healthy? 

 

He seems to me to be the epitome of an athlete who is fine collecting his paycheck no matter if he plays or not.  And seeing how much he has 'been hurt' the past year and 4 games?  On hits that overall do not seem all that terrible?

 

It only makes be believe it more.  He needs to stop flopping like a fish when he gets an ouchie and just letting the ball go loose like it is a slippery banana. 

 

He needs to shut up and play.

 

I was totally on board with him being our QB for the next 10 years until the comments this week.  Now all I think is he is a weak weak man just looking to get paid.

A true warrior/athlete would not say what he did. 

 

damn dude, did you hurt yourself jumping to all those conclusions?

 

10 hours ago, crazycolt1 said:

Till the game slows down for AR we still need wins. Flacco is that bridge. 

 

YOU need wins.  Some of the fan base needs wins.  It seems pretty clear that the Colts FO is more concerned about AR's growth and progression than they are wins in 2024.  

[crazycolt1]

2 hours ago, Jason_ said:

 

damn dude, did you hurt yourself jumping to all those conclusions?

 

 

YOU need wins.  Some of the fan base needs wins.  It seems pretty clear that the Colts FO is more concerned about AR's growth and progression than they are wins in 2024.  

It is the team that needs wins to stay in the playoff hunt. There are millions of dollars that are connected to playoff games. 

AR does need the experience but there is nothing wrong with using Flacco. This is exactly why Flacco was signed. 

[krunk]

If AR healthy he needs to play.  It was ugly but he did get his first win. Let's stack another one and keep improving. We all know what Flacco is here for. That backup status. Nothing more, nothing less. Play a game or two, then sit it down!

[jvan1973]

Just now, krunk said:

If AR healthy he needs to play.  It was ugly but he did get his first win. Let's stack another one and keep improving. We all know what Flacco is here for. That backup status. Nothing more, nothing less. Play a game or two, then sit it down!

I'm pretty sure that is exactly what's happening 

[jvan1973]

30 minutes ago, crazycolt1 said:

It is the team that needs wins to stay in the playoff hunt. There are millions of dollars that are connected to playoff games. 

AR does need the experience but there is nothing wrong with using Flacco. This is exactly why Flacco was signed. 

Flacco was signed to play off AR is hurt.   If AR can play,  he is gonna play.  The end

[crazycolt1]

23 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:

Flacco was signed to play off AR is hurt.   If AR can play,  he is gonna play.  The end

Flacco was signed to win games when ask.  I don't understand the argumentative issue?

[jvan1973]

17 minutes ago, crazycolt1 said:

Flacco was signed to win games when ask.  I don't understand the argumentative issue?

He was signed to play if AR can't.   That's reality.   If AR is healthy. Joe is on the sideline

[crazycolt1]

2 hours ago, jvan1973 said:

He was signed to play if AR can't.   That's reality.   If AR is healthy. Joe is on the sideline

Evidently AR could have played in the 2nd half of the Steelers game but Shane decided to stay with Flacco.  It may not be as cut and dried as you suggest.