my first thought was he was lying about being hurt there so people wouldn't call him a pussy but his lie was way worse. he looked hurt to me. but who knows

AR has his own QB coach as well

Yeah that was my line of thinking as well - aggregated the injury and knew it would get him pulled. Lied about it and the lie makes him looking even worse. Bad look either way. He only ran like 10 yds on that run, I believe just getting back to the LOS. The most significant thing was bearing the weight of another 250+ lbs player trying to drag him down.

Yeah I think he was hurt and I think his first reaction to any pain is to immediately freak out. I think he realized it wasn't anything serious and was ready to go right back in. That's a thing he can't keep doing. Fucking football man, if the ball is around you, you are more than likely going to get fucking hit and it's going to hurt somewhere. Not every pain is some major game / season ending thing. Unfortunately starting to worry he is too soft for this shit.

there was definitely some of that. where he hit his back drop and should let it go but had to move in the pocket making the throw late. that's kind of how football works. problem is we aren't doing anything easy so the problems just compound

His play in the second half of the last two games has been significantly better than his play in both first halfs. Not great, but definitely better. Is that play calling from Steichen? Or is that AR settling in? I don’t have the data to say for sure but my eyeballs tell me it’s Stechein’s play calling. I remember very little from the first half of either of those games that seemed like he was trying to make it easy on AR - the one screen they ran in either game being the only possible exception.

Not really quite true.

If we cut him before 2025 (next season), then the dead cap would be $20.087m which is bit hard, not not impossible to get around.

His dead cap in 2026 is only his salary/prorated bonus of $10.816m. With an estimated team cap hit around $265m, $10m is very, very doable.

So, I think he will be here in 2025 and I think that is the correct decision. With his injury history, giving him a 3rd season to sink or swim is the right thing to do with a 1st round QB.

But, if he has not progressed in 2025, I think it is very, very possible that the Colts might head in a new direction at QB (cough....Arch Manning....cough) ! :)

Okay, JMV show- apparently in Steichen's presser they indicated he said that EVERYTHING is being re-evaluated---- including the STARTING QB POSITION!

Further, and I could not keep listening further, so I can't tell if JMV was relaying what was said by Steichen, or if this was JMV speculating, but he was talking about the 3rd down INT being an AR audible. He was saying some shit about how there is no way they could be that trusting with this guy that had 2 connections out of 15 attempts.

On that note, they came out in 5 wide- which I had forgotten that little detail which just further cements my belief that Steichen is a trash dumpster of a coach. So maybe it was called as a QB keeper and AR decided to go rogue? Don't know, just know that was a catastrophe of incomprehensible dumb fuckery!

Now back to the re-evaluation. To me, that's Steichen saying he has seen enough and believes they can't win with AR as the QB. So, if that is the case, if they make the change back to Flacco- the AR era is fucking over, period, you can't return to him after that!

And, I will add this, if they pull the plug on AR, then it should be an immediate termination of the fucking straight bill loser fuck! Get him the fuck out of here as a massive statement to the rest of the org- we aren't tolerating this malaise of suck any longer!

In the end, we are basically fucked at this point.

I’ll be f****g PISSED if they give up on Richardson after 12 freaking games.

100% agree, and to me, the ONLY way you can throw in the towel now is to announce Flacco is QB1 and straight bill loser fuck is gone. You HAVE to pin this on Ballard, it's an absolute must. Everyone has been in agreement, Ballard's future is tied to AR's and if you are saying AR has no future, then neither does the pompous for absolutely NO REASON 8 years of doing jack fucking shit loser!