How many wins for the Colts this season?

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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When you have a proverbial "Wildcard" quarterback (no pro experience, but talent and potential that is through the roof), the most important aspect of the team that is surrounding that Wildcard QB is the offensive line.


If Anthony Richardson gets the offensive line that was blocking for a 39 year-old, immobile Philip Rivers in 2020, he will have to work really hard to screw things up.


If Anthony Richardson gets the offensive line that was blocking for Matt Ryan in 2022 (ESPECIALLY in the first half of the season), it will very likely be a long, painful season for the team with the blue horseshoes on their helmets.

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Originally Posted by apballin

But I believe that he makes the lines job easier especially the designed QB runs and RPO’s that eliminate half the field immediately. These guys wanna be the aggressors the don’t wanna sit in sumo positions for 5-7 seconds. Get to a spot and pancake the mfer in the way. I believe the will excel with an athletic QB and JT together.

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Only to a certain extent ...... if the offensive line is God-awful, as it was for most of last year, the opponents will catch on quickly and focus on those designed runs. You have to have at least a modicum of a passing threat in order to make designed QB-runs effective on a regular basis.


Also, unless your quarterback has the strength of Jim Brown and Earl Campbell combined with the speed of Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis, the designed runs won't help if there are 3 or 4 defensive linemen/linebackers deep into the backfield less than 2 full seconds after the ball is snapped, as was the case for much of last year with Matt Ryan.

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