Seems it is gonna be D Jones

[nate505]

Originally Posted by nate505

I'm a bit excited for this season.

And now that's been cut in half

Say what you want about AR, but he makes it interesting out there.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

On one of the afternoon shows today I think it was Agnes maybe, anyway, someone that has been connected to the Colts for quite a while, and I think it was on JMV's show. In any event, he was talking about how this team might have a completely different vibe to it right now if we went on to beat Houston in the opener last year. He reminded of how AR actually played well and we seemed to have the game in the bag. He then said something that REALLY pissed me off. He completely trashed Bradley and said something like "but then on 3rd and 4 we went with that incredibly stupid Bradley 7 yard cushion, easy 1st down, and a completely changed outlook for this team".

What pisses me off, is that he is 100% right- that stupid fucking Bradley cushion was a laughingstock of the NFL. Yet, this administration decided to trott his fucking ass out there every fucking week and do the same pathetic ass bullshit every fucking game. We could all see it, we were all calling for it to stop, and yet it did not. Just an indictment of the organization IMO- and a massive black mark on my perception of Steichen. Retaining Bradley through the end of last year has caused me to really think poorly of Steichen as a football guy.

It pisses me off that now, now that Gus is gone, you are willing to come out and blast it and calling it incredibly stupid. Why in the FUCK wasn't that level of revulsion expressed when it was actually happening?

A ton of discussion about whether Colts failed AR or AR failed Colts. Obviously tons of blame on both sides- we have done a bad job supporting him and he has clearly not done the work necessary to exhibit the full bag needed to be an NFL QB. So I started thinking about this quite a bit- you know who else failed AR- GUS FUCKING BRADLEY (which again spins up to Steichen).

Clearly AR needed, and definitely still desperately needs reps. Now think back to the game after game after game agony of the TOP being insanely out of alignment. Now, to be clear, AR carries some of that blame, his inaccuracy was a huge negative in terms of being able to stay on the field and effectively generate reps by way of his own play. However AR has no culpability for the fucking shitball Gus Bradley bend, bend, bend, arch your back even further, injure your spin you are bending so much, and finally BREAK fucking defense where QB's were completing 75%+ of their passes and drives were lasting 7+ minutes. That is completely on the bullshit style of fraidy cat defense we have played during AR's time.

This thing has been so terribly mismanaged it is incomprehensible! Sorry, yep, broken record but man you couldn't script a more disastrous collective story of failure than what has gone on with this QB situation. Yet, alas, Ballard still does Ballard.

FUCK!

[Butter]

Originally Posted by nate505

And now that's been cut in half

Say what you want about AR, but he makes it interesting out there.

I get why they are doing it, sort of, but how many more games does DJ realistically win us? 1 maybe 2, so still midling team drafting in a mid slot again. I doubt AR clicks and becomes an average passer, but if he were going to, being on the field is the only way it happens, not holding a clipboard for a failed QB.