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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
Eh. From my experience you don't show that kind of emotion, both the disappointment and the happiness, just b/c you're able to follow orders. Not saying that Jim wasn't supportive, but AR was a Ballard (at least a pre-'24 Ballard) and Morocco Brown pick through and through. Totally tracks w/ his picks in prior years as well: traits first, production in CFB a distant 2nd (or even 3rd).
I do agree that there's no way Bill Polian would have taken AR. AR's accuracy issues would have been much too big of a red flag for Bill.
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But was that emotion (both disappointment and happiness) related to being able to draft a new QB1 in general or specifically AR?
Midway through the 2022 season, the Colts went into tank mode to try to get the highest draft pick as possible. That pick turned out to be #4. There were 3 QB's (Stroud, Young and Richardson) that many thought would be worth to draft at #4. All of those QB's had weaknesses in their profile / game so the Colts decided to stay put at #4 and (hopefully) pick the leftover from that group...assuming that they didn't get drafted at #1, #2 and #3.
Just think...if another team would have swooped in and drafted Richardson at #3...that would have
really screwed up Ballard's weekend. What was their backup plan? Reach and draft Levis at #4? Trade back and accumulate more picks and hope to pick up Levis later in the first round? Draft BPA at #4 and hope to pick up Levis later (even though they spent 2 months tanking to draft a QB)