Unofficial Colts vs. Bengals Pre-game thread

[YDFL Commish]

Starting offense was very disappointing. There was some plays by Alex Pierce though. The misses to Pittman , AD and Granson, just can't happen!

[Dewey 5]

Shrader just banged a 56 yarder right down Broadway. I'd have a very short leash on Matt Gay

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Dewey 5

Shrader just banged a 56 yarder right down Broadway. I'd have a very short leash on Matt Gay

Unfortunately, Ballard paid Gay a ton of money. Shrader does look pretty damn good though. Everything is right down the middle with him.

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by Dewey 5

Shrader just banged a 56 yarder right down Broadway. I'd have a very short leash on Matt Gay

And Shrader hits another from 41 that looked like it would have been good from 55+.

Unfortunately, Ballard paid Gay a ton of money. Shrader does look pretty damn good though. Everything is right down the middle with him.

Yeah, per OTC it would be a $9.9M cap hit, but since it would be a post June 1st cut I think $4m of that would be pushed to next year. Hopefully Gay quits sucking ass

[albany ed]

I was very disappointed in AR.

[CletusPyle]

I think most teams played their starters in game two rather than game three. To me that makes more sense, playing your starters against 2nd and third stringers and looking like shit is not much of a moral booster! Plus if you do well, you wonder if it was only because it wasn't against their starters. Anyway, 17 days until the first game is too long in my opinion, I'm not sure what to expect against Houston, but I will be surprised if all of a sudden we are really good when we haven't looked so great so far! Another wasted preseason, I'm not sure how much our starters benefitted from any of it?

[apballin]

From what I’m seeing this team is still gonna revolve around JT

[Hoopsdoc]

I suspect AR will do a lot more running in the regular season, which will change how the offense looks.

[albany ed]

He’s got a strong arm, but not a great arm. He’s very inconsistent, and doesn’t seem to be able to keep calm. I am not sure he has a good grasp on the routes that he’s throwing to.

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

ARs inconsistent accuracy is going to drive us nuts at times.

Game planning will help, but like that miss to Mitchell... That's a huge gain we left out there and it's going to be frustrating.

dude needs to get his feet right. not sure if he will ever fix it but yeah, he will probably always be annoying with inaccuracy

still I think he will be really fun to watch. McNabb was annoying with his accuracy but as fun to watch