Let’s hope your son is prescient. If the lines and AR continue their development….

So you agree that me saying Stroud looks like a good QB has no correlation to me having emotional investment in his success? Just confirming.

I admit it: I fell asleep on the couch while watching the game...again. I'm turning into one of you old farts. Worse even, y'all stayed awake. Smh.

Fuck Taylor, Moss looks very capable !!

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I just now realized that the Colts are alone in 1st place in the AFC South.

It's only 3 games, but still ...... I'll bet that not too many Colts fans would have believed that if you told them that it would be so prior to the start of the season, especially if you had added the fact that our starting quarterback missed most of the game against the Texans and the entire game against the Ravens.

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I'm not sure we should say fuck Taylor yet.

Let's see how things play out, and maybe the Colts and Taylor can work something out. Moss and Taylor would make the Colts much more dangerous and help out AR immensely.

God forbid Moss getting hurt, then what do we have?

Not ready to drop the hammer on Taylor just yet.

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C.J. Stroud had a really good game GAME ...... whether or not he is a really good QB won't be known for at least a year or 2.

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More than a game. He's been pretty consistent through three weeks:

64%, 242, 0, 0

64%, 384, 2, 0

67%, 280, 2, 0

He wasn't as good as his stat line against us, but we saw what we're going to have to deal with for the forseeable future. I said after the JAX game that they aren't scary. Both IND and HOU can potentially surpass them a lot sooner than many people think.

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I wanted Stroud over Richardson in the 2023 draft. I think that there will be a very good chance that Stroud winds up being a very good, or even great NFL QB.

One game, or even 3 games is still too small of a sample-size to tell whether or not that fate will come to fruition.

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Look at his under pressure numbers compared to not. Night and day.

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Yes, that was pointed out about him when he played for Ohio State.


https://www.pff.com/news/draft-2023-...oud-ohio-state


There are numerous reasons why we need to wait more than 3 games to tell what kind of QB that Stroud will be in the NFL.

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You get those from PFF?

Enough about Stroud. He sucks because he is Houston’s piece of shit QB. Sing his praises somewhere else.

I don’t know anything about Hamilton but he got 3 sacks on literally the exact same play. Unblocked every time. It was bizarre. Almost like he was wearing something that made him invisible to Minshew.

That was more of a failure on the Colts part than great plays by Hamilton.

I agree to some extent, but Hamilton did time up his blitz very well. It is easy to see this from the commentary booth when you are not trying to look at the snap of the ball and all 10 of the other players. Should Minshew have done a better job, yeah, could we have provided some help from the RB, yes again. But you could see throughout the game that Will Fries was making the line calls and not Wesley French, so once he came out and Sills took his place, that probably mixed things up even further. Although i am giving this as a potential reason for this happening, from memory I suspect that the sacks may have happened prior to Fries coming out of the game with cramp issues, so shooting down my own argument!

Couple of things... On the Ravens' last TD drive (end of 3rd), after a TFL it's 2nd-and-12 and Moore was sent on a Nickel blitz. Agholor was left alone and Jackson just planted his leg and threw immediately. 11 yards easy. We need our QB/WR's to ID that pre-snap.

As for us... it's funny, this is like 5 (maybe 6) sacks that the OL are not responsible for this season. First drive, is some combination of play-call + QB + WR not accounting for the free rusher. He clearly shows he's coming, and QB/WR don't even look at each other.

Second drive is similar, but now it looks like Moss is supposed to pick him up and completely whiffs. Even still, Minshew and Downs don't even look at each other for a wide open completion.

And at the absolute very least, Minshew needs to launch the ball out of bounds.

I saw them on Twitter I think. It was for this season so far. It wasn’t pretty. But he’s a rookie so who knows. Pressure is definitely the best way to disrupt him though.

With all the injuries on the O line, I believe Nelson has the line calls. There wasnt anything Smith could do, he was head up on the LE. On the second sack, Minshew never looked to his right before the snap.

Put a TE out there, at least that blitzer wont have straight shot at the qb

Section 536. A few Colts fans but definitely not half, lol.

Where were you?

They were overload blitzes. Bringing more defenders than there are blockers. At that point Minshew just has to recognize the hot route.

Frankly, I will laugh manically if Lawrence turns out to be a bust. They already screwed up drafting Walker over Hutchingson, thank God, but if Lawrence turns out to be mediocre it will just be another jags being jags moment.

https://media.giphy.com/media/dfIQG68floQuY/giphy.gif

Hats off to Pittman

Helluva catch

Does anyone lose his lid more than him? It seems he wears a huge helmet or maybe he has a small head.

No matter, he’s a tuff sumbitch


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Ha, every play he makes seems like his chin strap is at least up to his nose.

It's a 3 game sample, but he's shown more in those 3 games than Lawrence has in 3 years.

Same for the guy the Colts beat on Sunday who many Colts fans wanted to trade for in the offseason. He seems pretty good overall.

Valid point.

Seems to be trending that way, happily.

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C.J. Stroud had a really good game GAME ...... whether or not he is a really good QB won't be known for at least a year or 2.

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It's a 3 game sample, but he's shown more in those 3 games than Lawrence has in 3 years.


Three games into their rookie seasons, Skip (Clueless) Bayless got on National TV and said the Colts made a HUGE MISTAKE drafting Andrew Luck instead of RGIII. At the time I thought "what a NinCOWpoop this asshole is.

YOU CANNOT LOOK AT A PLAYER'S FIRST 3 GAMES AND PRONOUNCE HIM A FUTURE HOFer.

Good QB =/= Future HOFer. Kirk Cousins is a good QB, he's not likely a future HOFer, for example.

Stroud is looking pretty good, if the Texans finish below the Colts (very likely) they will get Harrison Jr. and that combo should concern us all!

They traded their #1 this year to Arizona for last years 3rd pick. That’s how Houston got Anderson and Stroud. Will be an interesting draft this year as both Arizona and Chicago could have 2 top 5 (top 10 at least) picks.

I wonder whether either of those teams might dip back into the QB pool...

Would the bears give up on Justin Fields so fast? I guess how his season plays out this year will determine that.

Kyler Murray is only 2 seasons removed from being considered the next big thing but he wasn't great last year and now some writers (idiots, some may call them) are suggesting there could be a QB controversy in Arizona with Dobbs.

But my thinking is that it seems that a fair number of teams that will finish with bad seasons might not be looking for QBs this time around and that means other positions will be taken off the board sooner.

But there's more than one Round-1 quality receiver in the 2024 draft

Yep, I forgot about that....they do have Cleveland's first round pick in 2024, but I doubt that is going to be that early in the draft!

Chicago will absolutely give up on Fields. They should have after last year. He was historically bad then and he’s no better now.

Plus, ownership is going to clean house after they win one game this year and the next regime is going to start over.

well said, old

Question is will Caleb Williams want to go to a franchise that is historically bad when it comes to offense and developing QBs.

I think Fields is salvageable. You can change your OC and coach all the time and expect a guy to develop. I would stash him as a backup and try to develop him..