Originally Posted by rm1369 (Post 322777)

Anyone who didn’t realize that he was young, inexperienced, immature, and had bad mechanics is a fucking idiot.

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 322781)

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I like Jonathan Taylor, but his dropping the ball at the goal-line was the most infuriating single Colts play of the 2024 season for me. In fact, it's probably the single most infuriating Colts play since the fake-punt against the Patriots back in 2015 ...... that play is so infamous that it has its own Wikipedia page, and is known as The Colts Catastrophe.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colts_Catastrophe


I think that the ball barely crossed the plane of the goal-line before Taylor dropped it, but that isn't the point ...... players who have been eating, breathing, and sleeping football since they were in 5th grade are doing this shit at the highest level of the sport, and they deserve to ravaged about it for not learning from the more than one hundred times that it's happened since around the mid-1990's in both college and pro football. It probably happened a lot before then, but the refs didn't start calling it and reviewing it on a regular basis via a replay until about 25 or 30 years ago.

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Originally Posted by rm1369 (Post 322783)

Even minus that play I’m not really a JT fan. I prefer complete RBs. My all time favorite player is Edge. JT to me is simply a luxury RB. He may maximize the holes the lines gives him but he doesn’t create yardage when none is there, he’s not a power runner at the LOS, he can’t block, and can’t catch. He’s one dimensional. Ap is calling out ARs lack of improvement from yr 1 to yr 2 (which is valid), but I’d love to hear where the apparently great JT has improved. He’s got major holes in his game and I’ve seen zero improvement.

Originally Posted by Lov2fish (Post 322690)

The apologist will grasp any small nugget to hang onto. I said from day 1, wasted pick and 100% a bust. His previous tape prior to the draft shows who we were getting, and it was a spot on. He is not an NFL QB and that is a factual. A case of can't see the forest through the trees.

Originally Posted by omahacolt (Post 322815)

I mean, you could be right. You probably are right that he won't ever turn into a consistently good QB.


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Richardson has played very little ball ...... I have a hard time being that definitive about a guy with such a great skill set.

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 322726)

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Let’s pickup the subject that you seem not interested in ...... Bert Jones and Terry Bradshaw.

As I stated earlier, both Jones and Bradshaw were awful in the first 2 years ...... in fact, Bradshaw was bad for FOUR years between 1970 and 1973. In fact, he was bad enough that Chuck Noll started Joe Gilliam in the first 6 games of the 1974 season after Gilliam played better than Bradshaw in the pre-season. Even though Gilliam didn't play that badly, Noll had an instinct that Bradshaw was his man for the long-term, so he reinstated him as the starting QB in the 7th game of the 14-game season. In the first Super Bowl that the Steelers won, Bradshaw was not a factor, as it was all Franco Harris and the Steelers' defense that carried the day to beat the Vikings. But in the next 3 Super Bowls (1975, 1978, and 1979) Bradshaw shined, especially in the final 2 Super Bowls in which he won back-to-back MVP's.

So ...... how many Steelers fans were screaming to "throw in the damned towel" in regard to getting rid of Terr Bradshaw in those first 5 seasons between 1970 and 1974 ??? A lot. In fact, most of them. The fans didn't get their way, Noll made what HE THOUGHT were the right moves, and the rest is history.

Bert Jones had a similar story to Bradshaw with a an awful start to his career, except that he only had 2 very bad season in 1973 and 1974 before he started to shine in 1975, and then won the MVP of the league in 1976.



Ted Marchibroda didn't throw the towel in on Bert Jones after 2 bad seasons. Colts fans are glad that he didn't.

Chuck Noll didn't throw the towel in on Terry Bradshaw after 4 and-a-half bad seasons. All of the Steelers fans that were screaming for Bradshaw's head were glad that he didn't.

You want to throw the towel in on Anthony Richardson after his first full season in the NFL ...... I'm glad that you aren't making that decision.

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Originally Posted by apballin (Post 325812)

Ready to throw in that towel yet, Rocky ???

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 325815)

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No, I'm not ready to throw the towel in on a 22 year-old QB who just sustained another injury to his throwing arm.

Are you having fun gleefully celebrating the misfortune of a Colts player to show how prudent you are ???

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 325815)

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No, I'm not ready to throw the towel in on a 22 year-old QB who just sustained another injury to his throwing arm.

Are you having fun gleefully celebrating the misfortune of a Colts player to show how prudent you are ???

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Originally Posted by Racehorse (Post 325818)

It really is annoying when fans are gleeful about failures on the part of anything related to the team.