Quenton Nelson talks about Wentz

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Luck4Reich

Ballard did a piss poor job addressing the line during the off-season

What? Every position was addressed.
* found a LT
* signed an extension with Smith
* signed several seasoned vets as backups

The problem is that everyone of the starters except Glowinski has miss camp time, practice time, and havent been healthy.

What more do you want? No one has 7 great linemen on their team. If the O line can get all 5 starters to practice for a solid week, we might see better play..

[Chromeburn]

Wentz has a high ankle sprain snd a moderate low ankle sprain. Both together will ensure he is out.

[Luck4Reich]

Originally Posted by JAFF

What? Every position was addressed.
* found a LT
* signed an extension with Smith
* signed several seasoned vets as backups

The problem is that everyone of the starters except Glowinski has miss camp time, practice time, and havent been healthy.

What more do you want? No one has 7 great linemen on their team. If the O line can get all 5 starters to practice for a solid week, we might see better play..

He could have added depth.. I have been as big of fan of Ballard as anyone but I wish he would have done better during the off-season... Nobody said anything about having 7 great lineman... But you don't have a bunch of shit as backups either... Tevi and Davenport were bad signings.

[Luck4Reich]

Originally Posted by Spike

He went to the 99 cent store and picked up trash. Davenport, Tevi and the other shithead I can't think of now (Holdin?) are disasters.

Yep those were Grigson type finds there....

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Luck4Reich

He could have added depth.. I have been as big of fan of Ballard as anyone but I wish he would have done better during the off-season... Nobody said anything about having 7 great lineman... But you don't have a bunch of shit as backups either... Tevi and Davenport were bad signings.

Who was available that we passed on?

[JAFF]

Originally Posted by Luck4Reich

He could have added depth.. I have been as big of fan of Ballard as anyone but I wish he would have done better during the off-season... Nobody said anything about having 7 great lineman... But you don't have a bunch of shit as backups either... Tevi and Davenport were bad signings.

The Colts have 5 sure starters. Anyone whos good enough to start isnt signing in Indy hoping to get PT. And money is getting tight with all the renegotiated contracts.

And the team still doesnt have a sure thing on the D for pash rush past Bruckner.

[MeSayDayo]

It is going to get very interesting to see what happens if Wentz misses an extended period of time. So much that, in a sense, we might even have to start making long term plans to rebuild our original rebuild, so to speak.

-If Wentz misses a lot of time, are we actually going to trot out Eason to cover the position? Eason likely flames out, and now going into next year we have a 4th round pick that we will cut loose and a very injury prone (but good when he plays) Wentz that is expected to be our QB1 for the next decade? I don't know about you, but I don't like that plan going forward.

-This would result in us having our first round (likely top 10) pick back in our pocket. Where the hell do we go with that? Likely not enough fire power to trade into the top 5, nor would Ballard do that. So are we shopping for another QB after next year and seeing what Carson can do with his final year of his contract with us?

-Qbs aside, we have benefitted from having all of the middling 2nd-3rd round picks on rookie contracts. None of them (Campbell, Turay, Banogu, Okereke, Lewis) are likely worth giving any decent money to, and some are even cut worthy. The only benefit of having these guys mainly sucks may be the ability to sign some of them to modest, prove it deals. But why bother? They havn't done shit so far, why keep our faith in a losing bet?

-That is where the rebuild comes into play. We either need to let them all walk and put our chips in a few good FA's (not likely based on Ballards TR), or find a way to draft their replacements. Either way, there has been way too many picks that havent panned out and it will hit us hard over the next two off seasons.

If anyone cant see the brewing storm for out franchise, you're blind. Ballard has built a team that is strong in all the wrong places and his foundation is very flimsy. I think he is a good GM who has a plan and acts on strong conviction, but wow, we have a lot of air in this roster, especially on D.

[Oldcolt]

Call me blind but I think we have built strength in exactly the right places, it is just with injuries and poor line coordination it isn't a strength right now, speaking of offensive line. Defensive line has a ton of athletes, now they need to learn to become football players. It will take time, something that is running out on some of them (looking at you Banogu, Lewis and Turay)

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Luck4Reich

Quenton Nelson on Carson Wentz: "His toughness, shoot — all the times he’s gotten hit, all the times he’s gotten up ??? It’s on a different level. He hasn’t complained once. We need to be better up front ...... if we give him more time, he can play even better."

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He's starting in an NFL game exactly 1 week after being diagnosed with 2 ankle sprains ......



Colts Plan to Start QB Carson Wentz vs. Titans

(By Jelani Scott)

https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-plan-...n-wentz-ankles

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[njcoltfan]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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He's starting in an NFL game exactly 1 week after being diagnosed with 2 ankle sprains ......



Colts Plan to Start QB Carson Wentz vs. Titans

(By Jelani Scott)

https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-plan-...n-wentz-ankles

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He might start, but he won't finish.