The icing on that shit sandwich Ballard made is that Glow's cap hit this year is only 60% of Pryor's.

If your oline is bad your QB looks bad. Hard to know what we have when the guy is under duress all the time. Is he making mistakes? Yup. Is it his fault? Not entirely.

Example of why it's hard to grade Ryan:

I'm only on the second or third drive of the all 22. There's a particular play, Pittman runs a 12-15yd in-route and he's easily open in the middle of the field, and Ryan sees him the whole time, the line holds up except for Kelly who gets trashed by the nose so fast that Ryan has to bail.

Stuff like that is such a killer. You're watching a 15yd catch with room to run from a good YAC receiver just disappear. Ryan sees him and has no chance.

Jewell, the ILB, threatens to blitz and if he does Pryor takes him. That would allow Browning a free run at Ryan and it would be up to him to hit Lindsay out of the backfield.

But Jewell fakes the blitz, then covers Lindsay, so it looks like Pryor's responsibility is to slide out to Browning after Jewell is not a threat but he a little late/slow.

To be fair, this is not an easy play. But we still need a guy athletic enough to make it.

That was actually one of the better pass blocked plays of the night (smh).

Meh.
When we talk about the Colts offensive line, we mean a line that is "offensive".

https://twitter.com/JoelAErickson/st...30544818044933

https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/1580230720307724288

https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/1580231220298133504

https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/1580243578957070336

https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/1580243886831984640

I think whatever lineup they put out this week is what we'll stick with the remainder of the season barring injury. I don't think they alter Raimann, Nelson, and Kelly on the left.

But I'm very curious what the plan is with Smith, Pryor, Fries, and D. Kelly on the right.

o


In my rat's ass of an opinion, Reich ought to try something daring and challenging, such as the following ......

With the exception of the center, the other 4 offensive linemen should play the first 2 series of downs. Then, have the entire 2nd-string playing the next 2 series of downs. After that, go back to the 1st-string for the next 2 or 3 series of downs. Again, keep the same center, as he would likely have some type of rhythm when snapping the ball to the quarterback.

And while he's doing this, Reich can say to the entire 1st-string, l "Guys, if you can prove to me that you can block adequately on a regularly basis, then I will go back to keeping you in there for the entire game ...... until then, I will keeping giving you all breaks every few series of downs. Maybe you guys have been tired, and you need better conditioning. But until you can show that you are capable of at least being average in terms of blocking, then we will use this system."


For the record, I do not drink alcoholic beverages, and I don't do any drugs (marijuana, cocaine, etc) ...... I just occasionally come up with these ridiculous, insane ideas that are probably laughable in reality. When we first drafted Andrew Luck, I predicted that Case Keenum would have a longer and more distinguished NFL career than Andrew Luck ...... and while Keenum has indeed lasted longer than the retired Luck, he has not nearly come close to distinguishing himself as much as Luck did in his career.

o