2026 Off-Season Thread

[albany ed]

When it comes to signing Jones, you just need to be willing to offer a wee bit more than the competiton. What NFL team would be willing to offer big bucks to a ? QB? I really don't see any team offering much to get Jones.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by albany ed

When it comes to signing Jones, you just need to be willing to offer a wee bit more than the competition ...... what NFL team would be willing to offer big bucks to a questionable QB ??? I really don't see any team offering much to get Jones.

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I think that our biggest hope is that Daniel Jones needs the Colts just as much as the Colts need Daniel Jones.

Before coming to the Colts, there were questions as to whether or not Jones' biggest problem was that he had a bad team surrounding him in the first 6 seasons of his career (he did) ...... the first 10 games of the 2025 season prior to him breaking his fibula (which greatly affected his mobility) would tend to point towards the very real possibility that that may have been the case ...... but ultimately, it was only 10 games, and I think that Jones knows that it's important to try to prove that that 10-game stretch to start out the 2025 season was not a fluke. And I think that he also knows that he's probably going to be surrounded by a solid offensive line (which is imperative to almost all quarterbacks), and he also knows that he will be playing within a system and with coaches in which he is already familiar with ...... Daniel Jones' best chance at changing his legacy from the mediocre quarterback that he was with the Giants to a very good quarterback with another team is to stay right where he is, with the Indianapolis Colts.

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[Oldcolt]

Colts and Orioles. Mediocre was a poor choice of words. Even a mediocre NFL QB is a damn good QB. It would be better to have described him and the type of QB Ballard was talking about as mid tier.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

Colts and Orioles. Mediocre was a poor choice of words. Even a mediocre NFL QB is a damn good QB. It would be better to have described him and the type of QB Ballard was talking about as mid-tier.

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I don't think that he meant mid-tier, either.

He said not overly reliant on an all-world QB, such as Manning or Luck. To me, the inference was that he thought that he could win with a good (but not great) quarterback.

A mid-tier quarterback is a middle-of-the-pack quarterback, which would be a mediocre quarterback. I don't think that he was insinuating that he could win with Spencer Rattler, a Mac Jones, a Geno Smith, or a Davis Mills. I think that he was insinuating that he could win with a quarterback who was somewhere between the 5th and 10th best out of 32 in the league.

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[Puck]

https://x.com/HolderStephen/status/2...458098099?s=20

Stephen Holder
@HolderStephen
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7h
Regarding the negotiations w QB Daniel Jones and WR Alec Pierce, they weren’t close as of my last conversations. I would say the franchise tag AND transition tag are in play. Ballard tends to work on deadline, so this isn’t surprising IMO.

The market for Pierce is 📈

[sherck]

Originally Posted by Puck

https://x.com/HolderStephen/status/2...458098099?s=20

Stephen Holder
@HolderStephen
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7h
Regarding the negotiations w QB Daniel Jones and WR Alec Pierce, they weren’t close as of my last conversations. I would say the franchise tag AND transition tag are in play. Ballard tends to work on deadline, so this isn’t surprising IMO.

The market for Pierce is 📈

Worst Case Scenario, IMO, if we have to use the two tags on AP and DJ in order to keep them from free agency.

It drives up the negoiated price and/or ends up in a HUGE one year contract.

Pay AP market value.

Roll with Leonard, AR and draft the best QB choice in the 2nd round if DJ is trying to get all-world money. Let the young guns duke it out to see who wins the starting job.

We cannot overpay DJ just because he is the best choice out there. Look at Miami....they paid Tua top dollar for a non-Top Dollar QB and are in cap he!! because of it.

[Puck]

Originally Posted by sherck

Worst Case Scenario, IMO, if we have to use the two tags on AP and DJ in order to keep them from free agency.

It drives up the negoiated price and/or ends up in a HUGE one year contract.

Pay AP market value.

Roll with Leonard, AR and draft the best QB choice in the 2nd round if DJ is trying to get all-world money. Let the young guns duke it out to see who wins the starting job.

We cannot overpay DJ just because he is the best choice out there. Look at Miami....they paid Tua top dollar for a non-Top Dollar QB and are in cap he!! because of it.

For perspective. Have you always been against the DJ signing? Or is it after the injury?

[Puck]

https://x.com/esidery/status/2025925094942368005?s=20


Evan Sidery

@esidery
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4h
This week, the city of Indianapolis plans to make an official bid to host the NFL Draft as soon as 2030.

This year takes place in Pittsburgh, while the 2027 draft is in Washington, D.C.

Since 1987, Indianapolis has hosted the entire NFL each year for the Scouting Combine.

[Puck]

https://x.com/YahooSports/status/202...253953372?s=20


Yahoo Sports

@YahooSports
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1h
Daniel Jones and the Colts have begun discussions on a multi-year contract extension, per
@TomPelissero
.

Jones signed a one-year, $14 million deal with Indy last season and there’s mutual interest on both sides to finalize a new deal.

[Puck]

https://x.com/TheDestinAdams/status/...063650584?s=20

Destin Adams

@TheDestinAdams
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7m
The Colts can't afford to let Alec Pierce hit the open market.

Getting an extension done is the team's preference, but they can also franchise or transition tag him.

I explain both and what they would mean for the Colts here


https://atozsports.com/nfl/indianapo...-pickens-news/