Colts Practice Squad Signings

[IndyNorm]

It's not a given, but could be. Even if so, you have to ask, by what margin would/could these mid-round guys be better than Fries? It's zero-sum, so they would have had to pass on one of the guys they actually took. They clearly felt it wasn't enough of an improvement over our guys to warrant passing on the guys they took.

Who was such an egregious pick after Freeland that we shouldn't have picked them and instead should have drafted one of the IOL?

No real egregious pick as in a vacuum they for the most part seem to be good picks. Even Rush who didn't make the team. Just the overall lack of commitment on the offensive side of the ball other than QB this offseason. Ballard just picked hopefully our future franchise QB, who is going to need a lot of development. You would think he would want to surround him with as much talent within reason to help w/ that development. But he didn't do that. We're super thin at WR, have questions on our starting OL, and other than Freeland have no real depth along the OL. None of that is good for a rookie QB.

Edit: Forgot to mention that RATS had an article discussing this today that Jaff posted.

One pick that does stick out is Adebawore as there was a decent run of IOL taken after we picked him. In a vacuum he seems like a good pick, but he's not going to help your rookie QB develop. I would have liked to have seen us pick Zavala or an OG there. Even if they couldn't have beaten out Fries they in all likelihood would be better depth than what we have, which we'll desperately need when someone gets hurt.

I always caveat that PFF grades are not Gospel. The point, though, is that the eyeball test and tape review can tell a much different story than the numbers.

Since the Eagles are regarded as top-dogs, I reference them a lot... they're 22nd in sacks and 13th in YPC. Contrary to those numbers, they're clearly not middle-of-the-pack.

Yeah, sometimes stats can be misleading. Typically though they're at least directionally correct. I also think PFF grades can be misleading. For example Chromeburn posted that our OL was ranked 25th over the first half of the season, which doesn't pass the stats or the eye test. There were several games (@ Jax, vs. KC, @ Den, @ NE come to mind) where our OL was dominated so bad that it looked like they weren't even trying to block our opponents DL.

And not just Taylor, but yes. There was so much goofy shit going on last year (more than I've ever seen by a mile) that I don't know how you can look at the stats and learn much.

I'm big on numbers, they just require context.

I suppose that's fair. Last year was such a giant what the fuck is going on cluster fuck across the board that nothing really made sense.