When it comes to playoff games

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by sherck

My son made an observation....

The Patriots got a good young QB from their top 5 pick....

The Colts got....not a good QB from their top 5 pick....

What would the Colts record be this season if they had Drake Maye instead of whom we had (even when Daniel Jones was killing it)?

What would the Colts fans outlook be if our top five young QB looked like Drake Maye instead of Anthony Richardson?

My guess is that virtually no one would be wanted Ballard's head.

2025:

4,394 yards / 72.0% completion / 31 TD / 08 INT - Maye

4,085 yards / 65.8% completion / 25 TD / 14 INT - Jones/Rivers/Leonard

Ballard has drafted and signed a lot of really, really good players.

He just cannot evaluate, draft or sign a QB or a dominate Pass Rusher.

The only problem with this is Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, and Drake Maye weren't in the 2023 draft. Probably not a coincidence that the #1, #2, and #3 QBs went in that order to the first three teams in the draft.

Good QB-evaluating teams, I guess.

Meanwhile, the Top-3 in 2023 were Bryce Young, CJ Stroud, and Anthony Richardson. Bryce Young and AR have more-or-less been bummers...

...and CJ Stroud has been 2-years of mediocre before melting down in the playoffs and now they're contemplating if he'll be around after his rookie deal.

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If Carolina, Houston, and Indianapolis had the opportunity to draft Williams, Daniels, and Maye they would have.

And if Chicago, Washington, and New England were drafting in 2023, they would have drafted Young, Stroud, and Richardson.