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Old 01-08-2025, 01:45 PM
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I think that, as much as anything, Anthony Richardson needs a clean pocket. He might never be a 70% passer, but with a clean pocket, he might get to 60. The bottom line is that any quarterback’s performance deteriorates when they see the kind of pressure Richardson often encountered.

I think that I’d pay Danny Pinter and Mark Glowinski to leave the country. If they never take another snap with the Colts, I’ll be a happy man. The Bronco game was an excruciating exercise in futility for both of those guys. Richardson‘s stat sheet took a hit simply because time after time, he had to get rid of the ball to avoid getting sacked.. Two of the reasons he was under such pressure was Danny Pinter and Mark Glowinski. Pinter A) was incapable of recognizing Denver’s pass rush schemes and making line adjustments, and B) kept committing penalties that put them in 3rd and long situations. On play after play, Glowinski was little more than a turnstile.

I think that there’s nothing wrong with running the ball 34 times a game, but giving Jonathan Taylor every one of those carries is simply untenable. We don’t need to add another Eric Dickerson, just a quality guy who runs well, can block, and doesn’t have hands of stone.

I think that part of Anthony Richardson‘s problems with accuracy stems from personnel. It’s easy to say that he needs to hit the easy layups; but, for most Quarterbacks, easy layups involve easy tosses to Running Backs and Tight Ends.

I think that the who of our next Defensive Coordinator isn’t as important as the philosophy he brings to the table. I want to see a more dynamic, creative approach, someone who doesn’t see stunts and blitzes as foreign concepts.

I think that Chris Ballard and, by extension, Jim Irsay need to take free agency a little more seriously. They don’t have to swing for the fences every year, but the have to do more than settle for bunt and sac flies.

I think that a strength of this year’s draft is at Corner and Safety, and that validates, to some extent, Chris Ballard’s decision to take a waiver on the position last year.

I think the fact that this isn’t a star studded, 6 player deep, Quarterback class spares them from having to ask difficult questions about Anthony Richardson’s viability.

I think that Pat McAfee’s right about one thing…this team has a lot of talent in place. I think that he’s wrong about the culture holding the team back. What’s holding the team back is lack of production at the most important position in the game.

I think that it’s blitheringly obvious that Ballard has got to go out and sign a high quality backup capable of stepping in if Richardson goes down. Nothing about Richardson screams that he’s an iron man type who takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
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I think after seeing Jim address the team that I have a healthier liver than him...honestly, I am done. I love 87, but fuck this whole thing.
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I think that Pat McAfee’s right about one thing…this team has a lot of talent in place. I think that he’s wrong about the culture holding the team back. What’s holding the team back is lack of production at the most important position in the game.
I'm not say that McAfee is wrong, so how many games do we think this 2024 team wins with PM at QB, in his prime? I'm going to say no less than 12. The reasoning is that PM's value goes way beyond his QB play.

I can tell you this, with PM at QB, there would be no tolerance for;

WR's dropping easy catches
A WR who short arms throws would not see the field
A RB who can't catch, can't block and has the situational awareness of a peewee player "Goddammit Jonathan!"
Podcasts would be null and void
Missing or being late to practice, meetings, treatment or any event that PM is hosting
No talk about Pro Bowls, while in season
No leaks in the building
No stupid gadget plays in the worst situations
No stupid clock management
Certainly no tapping out
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Old 01-08-2025, 07:42 PM
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AR is a lottery ticket in a particular way (because we're just going to see, I'm not sure you can develop or "unlock" this)...

AR will have to love football like his mother. The kind of detail type things he needs to work on will require him to DUUUUUUMP hours into it. I need John Candy from Cool Runnings to come in and have that pep-talk about how the other guys can go out to the bar, but the driver has to stay in the hotel room studying turns and corners.

I've said it a bunch (not that I'm special and came up with it)... "Accurate" by NFL standards is not the occasional bomb to Pierce, or the occasional pinpoint laser beam on that crosser to Dulin, or that dime he threw to Downs.

It's leading your receiver to the sideline on a 7-yard out EVERY time. Or putting the ball on the proper shoulder EVERY time so that your receiver doesn't have to contort and fall to catch it 2 yards short of the 1st down, but can instead turn upfield and keep the drive alive. Or TIMING your throws so that the ball and the defender don't both hit the WR at the same time and we call it a drop (there's enough legitimate drops as is).

If it's the most important thing in the world besides his family, he'll not only get tangibly better, but... The effect of that devotion would mean you rub off on everyone and almost certainly won't tolerate fucking around.

If football, for him, is just a job he has for a few years... well, then that's that.
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I'm not say that McAfee is wrong, so how many games do we think this 2024 team wins with PM at QB, in his prime? I'm going to say no less than 12. The reasoning is that PM's value goes way beyond his QB play.



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I believe that this team would have gone 13-4 with a prime Peyton Manning at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 12-5 with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 11-6 with Josh Allen at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 10-7 with a very good (but not great) quarterback.



If a prime Peyton Manning were the quarterback, I believe that the Colts would have beaten the Vikings by at least 12 points with the way that the Colts' defense played in that game (it was one of their better ones.)

Then there were games when the offense played well, but the defense was terrible (the first Jaguars game, and the Giants game.)

I think that Manning would have found a way to beat the Texans twice, also.

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I'm not say that McAfee is wrong, so how many games do we think this 2024 team wins with PM at QB, in his prime? I'm going to say no less than 12. The reasoning is that PM's value goes way beyond his QB play.

I can tell you this, with PM at QB, there would be no tolerance for;

WR's dropping easy catches
A WR who short arms throws would not see the field
A RB who can't catch, can't block and has the situational awareness of a peewee player "Goddammit Jonathan!"
Podcasts would be null and void
Missing or being late to practice, meetings, treatment or any event that PM is hosting
No talk about Pro Bowls, while in season
No leaks in the building
No stupid gadget plays in the worst situations
No stupid clock management
Certainly no tapping out
Great post. Helps to contextualize just how dysfunctional all this shit is. Peyton would have driven a bunch of motherfuckers from this assembly of turds to the unemployment line.

It is a disgrace that a post like this exists and Chris Flat Bill Fucko is still the GM. Shameful!
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I believe that this team would have gone 13-4 with a prime Peyton Manning at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 12-5 with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 11-6 with Josh Allen at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 10-7 with a very good (but not great) quarterback.



If a prime Peyton Manning were the quarterback, I believe that the Colts would have beaten the Vikings by at least 12 points with the way that the Colts' defense played in that game (it was one of their better ones.)

Then there were games when the offense played well, but the defense was terrible (the first Jaguars game, and the Giants game.)

I think that Manning would have found a way to beat the Texans twice, also.

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This team with prime Peyton is fighting the Chiefs for the #1 seed. The only teams on the schedule that would've even been a challenge for this team with prime Peyton were the Bills and Lions.
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This team with prime Peyton is fighting the Chiefs for the #1 seed. The only teams on the schedule that would've even been a challenge for this team with prime Peyton were the Bills and Lions.
Nope. A bunch of these losers would have just folded like the weak willed fucks they are.
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I said he was a bust day one (Richardson) I said as a homer I hoped I would have to gladly eat some crow. So far there has not even been a picture of a crow put on the menu. You guys that clammer he made progress are related to Stevie Wonder. I don't care if he can hit a 60 yard bomb when he can't hit a wide open 5 yard slant or pass in the flat. Even when he is not under pressure.
This is the same stuff we saw in college. Not one remote stride in progression. He is just not an NFL QB. Y'all can wish all ya want, or see a glimmer of hope when he hits one precise pass out of 20, but reality is, he is exactly what they drafted. If they roll with him next year unchallenged you will be here again next year vomiting this same BS.
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I believe that this team would have gone 13-4 with a prime Peyton Manning at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 12-5 with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 11-6 with Josh Allen at quarterback.

I believe that they would have gone 10-7 with a very good (but not great) quarterback.



If a prime Peyton Manning were the quarterback, I believe that the Colts would have beaten the Vikings by at least 12 points with the way that the Colts' defense played in that game (it was one of their better ones.)

Then there were games when the offense played well, but the defense was terrible (the first Jaguars game, and the Giants game.)

I think that Manning would have found a way to beat the Texans twice, also.

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Bit conservative on Manning, I think (as a homer). Prime Manning would have torched this version of the league. Old, broken Manning only got to play 3 seasons under the 2011 changes... 17 game averages: 5264yds, 46tds, 13int.

Mahomes/Allen sweep HOU, GB, MIN and probably DEN. Defense earned JAX and NYG, so keep them. That's 12-13 wins

Good QB would have at least split with HOU, scored 17 on GB, which is already a division championship. Good QB probably would've beaten MIN that night. Hell, probably DEN, too.

Mishew level QB would've had us at 9-8 again.
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