AR benched - Flacco to start next game
 

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Well, not shocked. Mediocrity here we come. I hope they run the fucking ball with JT and not turn Flacco into 40 passes a game QB. As much as AR is a bust, keeping him in only strengthens our draft position.

F it

Big mistake in my opinion. There’s no going back now.

Feels like this has Jim’s fingerprints all over it.

That said, I was surprised by Ryan Kelly’s comments. He tore into AR pretty good. Maybe AR lost the locker room?

I questioned whether he got hurt and didn't want to admit it. Even admitting to being tired post-game could've possibly still been lip service.

But the fact that both Steichen, who never says anything at pressers, and Ryan Kelly both opened up about sitting dude down and ripping his ass... that's proof enough and it's not like they were the only two on the team that had an issue.

I think this was done to save the locker room. The veterans all know that Flacco gives them a better chance to win. I believe they would have kicked the Texan's ass if Flacco played. I feel bad for AR, he's young and has almost no real experience. Maybe sitting him down and letting him figure this out will help him, maybe not. If not, well then we are in QB hell again. We'll probably win 8 or 9 games and our draft position will suck for another QB coming out of college again. It's been damn hard being a Colts fan the past few years, but I'm here for the long haul no matter how painful it gets.

This is professional football, not nursery school. AR is just one member of a 55 person squad. Flacco gives the other 53 players a better chance to win. I'm not concerned about AR's fragile confidence level. He's been playing like his hair is on fire. Sit his ass on the bench, have the QB coach sit next to him and comment on every play and what went right or what went wrong. If he can learn to keep his head when there is bedlam around him, he just might make a good QB after all. Have him work in practice on all the mechanics, teach him how to read the defense, make him understand that he's supposed to be the leader and the one who inspires the others. In baseball, a young player with enormous potential gets sent down to work out the deficiencies and then brought back up. In the NFL, there is no minor leagues, so the player is either sat down or you let him fail and fail and fail. These failings are very unfair to the rest of the team. I watch every game hoping they win, and right now, the chances of that happening are better with Flacco under center.

If he has, indeed, lost the veterans in the locker room due to him pulling himself out of the game, then that is hard come back from regardless on his skill on the field.

Yeah, this might just be the beginning of the end of the AR experiement in Indy.

If it is lets hope it’s the end of the Ballard experiment as well.

Then don’t draft a raw fucking QB and make him your starter from day one.And they certainly haven’t taken this fucking stance on other positions have they? It was ok to throw a bunch of shit youngsters at the secondary. It’s my biggest complaint about Ballard - always relying on youth, never trying to win now.but now all of a sudden is the time to care? Waste 8 games of the season to decide nah let’s care now.The organization from top to bottom has no fucking plan. If they had set AR until he ways ready then there would be no complaint. All I hope is that this means Ballard is done. The team needs real direction and leadership.