The Daniel Jones effect is difficult to quantify

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Originally Posted by Dam8610

If AR doesn't play against Houston in 2023, the Colts lose. Yes, he left early, but he left with a 14-0 lead in a game that ended 31-20. Regardless, he's in his age 23 season this year, there's still a lot of time for him to become a good QB.

You beat me to it. Also, he left the Tits game w/ ~4 minutes left in the 1st half and with a 10-6 lead. Not that Minshew didn't do a good job in relief and deserves a Save, but I don't think you take away the win from AR there either.

Some other thoughts on the discussions in the thread:

Jones was definitely much better in week 1 than I thought he'd be, and I'll eat that crow. Hope he can keep this level of play up. We'll see how he does against a better D where there's now some game film on how Steichen wants to use him.

I'd be shocked if we trade AR, and I don't think we should at this point. We'd only save ~$4M in cap space. Now if Jones proves this year that he should be our guy and we decide to move on from AR in the offseason then so be it (this will save us ~$5M in cap space for '26).

Something else with trading AR is that we'd probably bring in a 3rd QB for emergency QB duties. Not seeing where Bean signed anywhere, so I guess we could just bring him back to at least the PS.