Doyel: Colts' 'plan' for QB Anthony Richardson includes letting him miss preseason g

[JAFF]

If I drove 80 miles, paid for parking, bought dinner in the stadium or a restaurant, I would have been disappointed, I suppose the younger fans even more not to see AR take some snaps. Disappointing fans is a poor business plan.

I will never bother with preseason games or camp ever again. I understand why they didnt play him, its their team. They could have been more forth coming about their plans. Disappointing young fans is a poor way to keep a fan base, and shelling out regular game prices for a glorified practice and not playing the starters for one series doesnt inspire trust with paying customers

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by JAFF

If I drove 80 miles, paid for parking, bought dinner in the stadium or a restaurant, I would have been disappointed, I suppose the younger fans even more not to see AR take some snaps. Disappointing fans is a poor business plan.

I will never bother with preseason games or camp ever again. I understand why they didnt play him, its their team. They could have been more forth coming about their plans. Disappointing young fans is a poor way to keep a fan base, and shelling out regular game prices for a glorified practice and not playing the starters for one series doesnt inspire trust with paying customers

I can see that. But pre-season you are taking your chances especially when one of the games is for evaluating backups because cut-downs are about to occur.

But if AR doesn’t work out, they can point to NasalGate as the reason. That missed day of practice.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

I can see that. But pre-season you are taking your chances especially when one of the games is for evaluating backups because cut-downs are about to occur.

I agree. Who goes to a preseason game to see quality football? Just people like Jaff, I guess.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

I agree. Who goes to a preseason game to see quality football? Just people like Jaff, I guess.

I’ve been a season ticket holder in both the Hoosier Dome and LOS. I wasnt always fortunate to afford those tickets, so I did go to Terra Haute to see the team at camp. All it cost was $5 for parking and the concession stand was manned by one of the local schools booster clubs. Home cooked dogs and burgers with fries for less than $8.

Who goes to preseason games, many of them are people who cant afford regular season games, and can find someone willing to sell their or donate tickets for less than face value. The concession stand prices are just as expensive as regular season. Parking is still expensive. Gas is still expensive.

What are their expectations? To see a good game, and see the stars.

Its Irsays team, he can do what he wants. The way this was handled makes me less inclinded to go to a game when I can watch it on tv.

[apballin]

Originally Posted by JAFF

I’ve been a season ticket holder in both the Hoosier Dome and LOS. I wasnt always fortunate to afford those tickets, so I did go to Terra Haute to see the team at camp. All it cost was $5 for parking and the concession stand was manned by one of the local schools booster clubs. Home cooked dogs and burgers with fries for less than $8.

Who goes to preseason games, many of them are people who cant afford regular season games, and can find someone willing to sell their or donate tickets for less than face value. The concession stand prices are just as expensive as regular season. Parking is still expensive. Gas is still expensive.

What are their expectations? To see a good game, and see the stars.

Its Irsays team, he can do what he wants. The way this was handled makes me less inclinded to go to a game when I can watch it on tv.

Cmon man tickets to camp are free, if fans can’t afford regular season tickets go to camp and get closer to AR then you would in any game.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by apballin

Cmon man tickets to camp are free, if fans can’t afford regular season tickets go to camp and get closer to AR then you would in any game.

I never claimed the charged money for camp. Rose/Hulman charged for parking. If they wanted to see AR last week at camp he wasnt available. He worked away from the team while the majority worked against the bears.

At R/H, you were close to the players at the practice area and when they had a live scrimmage at the R/H stadium you could hear EVERYTHING.

Things change not always for the better. Irsay and family have a good record with the fans. Since Jim took over, he has always put the fans first. The business Taylor and now AR is a departure from how they have communicated with the fans.

Its very odd that the Colts want to keep AR working without the rest of the starting offensive group

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by JAFF

I never claimed the charged money for camp. Rose/Hulman charged for parking. If they wanted to see AR last week at camp he wasnt available. He worked away from the team while the majority worked against the bears.

At R/H, you were close to the players at the practice area and when they had a live scrimmage at the R/H stadium you could hear EVERYTHING.

Things change not always for the better. Irsay and family have a good record with the fans. Since Jim took over, he has always put the fans first. The business Taylor and now AR is a departure from how they have communicated with the fans.

Its very odd that the Colts want to keep AR working without the rest of the starting offensive group

Where'd you see this? Here's what the RATS article said about the decision to sit AR in the preseason game:

The Colts ultimately decided to hold starting quarterback Anthony Richardson out of Saturday night’s 24-17 preseason win over the Chicago Bears because the coaching staff believed the rookie quarterback had gotten enough work in two joint practices earlier this week.

Richardson handled more than 70 first-team snaps against the Bears on Wednesday and Thursday.

Because of those snaps, the Bears and Colts decided to hold most of their starters out of the preseason game, and Richardson’s status as a rookie didn’t alter Indianapolis head coach Shane Steichen’s decision.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sport...s/70635133007/

Also, playing 1-2 series w/ backups and against backups in a preseason game isn't going to be this huge detriment to AR's development that you and Doyel seem to think it is.

[apballin]

Originally Posted by JAFF

I never claimed the charged money for camp. Rose/Hulman charged for parking. If they wanted to see AR last week at camp he wasnt available. He worked away from the team while the majority worked against the bears.

At R/H, you were close to the players at the practice area and when they had a live scrimmage at the R/H stadium you could hear EVERYTHING.

Things change not always for the better. Irsay and family have a good record with the fans. Since Jim took over, he has always put the fans first. The business Taylor and now AR is a departure from how they have communicated with the fans.

Its very odd that the Colts want to keep AR working without the rest of the starting offensive group

I’ve seen multiple reports that says Colts have to drag AR off the field because he tries to stay and sign every autograph

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by JAFF

I’ve been a season ticket holder in both the Hoosier Dome and LOS. I wasnt always fortunate to afford those tickets, so I did go to Terra Haute to see the team at camp. All it cost was $5 for parking and the concession stand was manned by one of the local schools booster clubs. Home cooked dogs and burgers with fries for less than $8.

Who goes to preseason games, many of them are people who cant afford regular season games, and can find someone willing to sell their or donate tickets for less than face value. The concession stand prices are just as expensive as regular season. Parking is still expensive. Gas is still expensive.

What are their expectations? To see a good game, and see the stars.

Its Irsays team, he can do what he wants. The way this was handled makes me less inclinded to go to a game when I can watch it on tv.

Get over yourself. Teams have always limited starters in preseason. Now that we have one less game and joint practices, most teams opt to get the starters reps in during the week, and play the ones fighting for a spot in the meaningless game.

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Get over yourself. Teams have always limited starters in preseason. Now that we have one less game and joint practices, most teams opt to get the starters reps in during the week, and play the ones fighting for a spot in the meaningless game.

Not the discussion. They name him the starter, and didnt start him. I doubt he will start in this last game. How this translates when the season starts will be interesting. The Colts could have been honest with the fans.