You may even be able to get him in the 3rd....the guy is a winner and may end up being a lot better than the "experts" say!

Russell Wilson, as an example

Russell Wilson is NOT in any way, shape, or form a good comparison to Stetson Bennett, primarily because Bennett will be 26 in his rookie year. The stigma on being 6'0"+ for QBs still existed in 2012 which is why Wilson didn't get drafted until Round 3. Jake Fromm is a much better comparison for Stetson Bennett.

i have not seen that anywhere


that would surprise me

gross


no way do i want that

qb winz



yay

He is short, has great feet, has an accurate arm. He does well with roll out pass plays to get vision. Older, smarter than most rookies. Nah,nothing like Wilson. BTW Wilson was 23 when drafted.

Freaks, I just do not want a short QB. No way now how. Have you seen the deep drops that Russell Wilson has to take to see the field? It worked with Brees because NO always invested heavily in G C G so that he could see the field without deep drops all the time.

If Bennett and Young even somehow grow to 6' I will be extremely surprised.

I do not want to design an offense around the limitations of our QB.

Brees had 172 wins in his career.

Wilson has 107

If ybou dont want a guy who wins games wtf do you want?

It was something from one of his entourage if I remember. Reddit, linked twitter or something else. I wouldn't blame him. He's a good 2 with potential we can't reach without a QB and coaching

Those three years are a massive difference when talking about a rookie QB.

More experience, not a bad thing.

Fran Tarkington and Joe Thiesmann were both 6 foot (allegedly)....Somebody will take him for sure, and I think he may do very well! I don't think we will, but if we decide to draft for another position with our #1, I say pick him!

Russell Wilson had more starting experience coming out of college.

Ballard doesn’t draft short guys.

Polian was able to draft whoever he wanted because he had Peyton Manning

My turn to play Ballard.

Don't be fucking ridiculous. Pryor will remain as our backup swing linemen and compete with Raimann for the starting LT position. He's just so versatile and has such great traits. Sure he didn't successfully block a single defender this entire season, but we're positive he'll get back to his old form where he played ok in 1 start at LT in '21.

As for the WR room, we really like what we have. Sure none of them outside of MPJ have produced much at this level, but they all have such great traits! If we end up trading MPJ then no doubt Pierce will easily transition to our WR1 and we're expecting him to triple his production.

Now that he's healthy Paris Campbell showed how good of a WR he can be. We'll definitely be re-signing and fully relying on him next year, b/c despite the fact that he got hurt every single time he stepped on the field his first 3 years in the league he proved last year that he's not injury prone and will never, ever get hurt again.

As for the rest of the group. I'm just going to assume that someone else is going to make the big leap from being a STer or healthy scratch to a full time WR3 without any problem. This has happened so many times for us in the past, how could it not happen again?

Also, let's not forget about the draft. I fully plan on using at least 1 if not 2 late round draft picks on a WR or 2 who didn't really produce much in college but have outstanding traits. I know this has yet to produce a WR who has really produced much on the field, but trust me it'll work this year.

Oh and BTW: since I'm having to spend so much time once again on the WR room the OL is still going to suck. Hope you media types are happy.

I think it was more that Polian (and Tobin) knew that there was more to being a good football player than height, arm span, and 40 times. And good thing they did b/c there were a lot of great players they drafted or signed as FAs/UDFAs that Ballard probably wouldn't have even considered such as:

Marvin Harrison - Too short
Jeff Saturday - Arms too short
Reggie Wayne - Probably too short, too slow of a 40 time
Dwight Freeney - Too short
Robert Mathis - Too short
Bob Sanders - Too short
Gary Brackett - Too short

I think the pick is Levis with the backup being Richardson. They might not be as ready now but in two years they could be as advanced as young with more survivable size. I would be afraid to draft Young after watching Tua this year. You get hit in this league and you get hurt, it’s inevitable. Looks like Stroud is staying unless he announces at the 11th hour.

Exactly!

And yet, a sizable portion of this board, for some reason, despite 6 years of fucking evidence, believes this guy is good and needs to be here for us to achieve success.

He sucks!

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Tarkenton and Theismann are both unrestricted free agents ...... I wouldn't mind seeing either one of them play QB for the Colts next season.

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Not only do they think he's good, they link he's one of the top GMs in the league.

To be fair I don't think he outright sucks. He does mostly draft well, but his roster building philosophy sucks. He relies way too much on current players or draft picks seamlessly stepping in and producing well (even at super critical positions), and what's worse is that he never hedges these decisions. Also, he prioritizes physical traits over production on the field too much.

https://twitter.com/cj7stroud/status...iqXlQRMiCWGdKg

Dammy gets his wish and Stroud heads to the Draft.

But can they get an off campus pass from their nursing homes on Sundays?

Good. If nothing else that improves the chances of us getting a QB we like at 4 and also probably lowers the price on trading up to get one if needed.

Hey Dam. I'm curious. What would you rather have the Colts do: trade up for Stroud or go back in time to 2021 and trade up for Mac Jones?

Honestly didn't expect it. I was reading rumors of $12m NIL.

This is good for the Colts. Whether they end up drafting him or not... more QB choices is better. I suppose it helps in the bidding war department as well when teams start trying to move places.

Go back through this board and pick up everyone he was sure was "The Man" and he would hit about 20% of his picks

That's a tough one. I'd grade Stroud better than Jones, but I feel like it would have been much cheaper to go up for Jones, like no future 1s involved in getting to 14 that year. Obviously Belicheat has done no favors for Jones's development, but I feel like the Colts offense would've been a better fit for him. I'd probably ultimately go with Stroud because he's the better talent of the two. He will cost more but in the long run it won't be noticeable.

I don't do Dane Brugler style rankings, and I don't post my opinions on every available player, so this would be nearly impossible to do. I would place your 20% estimate as low, however. I'm actually interested in tracking this if anyone has a way to do it. Maybe an instant redraft of who I would've drafted instead? Still hard to do, because we can never know what trades would be available, so it would be hard to argue taking Tremaine Edmunds and Derwin James instead of Quenton Nelson, for example, because we don't KNOW the Bills would have traded 12 and 22 for 6 that year.

The next OSU Qb failure.

Thanks and nice response. I'm on the fence on Stroud, but FWIW I think we'd be in a hell of a lot better shape if we had traded up for Jones instead of traded for Wentz.

I still think Levis is the best pro prospect!

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/video/...in-ryans-mock/

A little more Levis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxMSijJ-Do

I think you meant better instead of later, and I would agree with that assessment. I also think Jones's best abilities align well with the skillsets of the Colts receiving corps. Pittman and Pierce are both really good at catching a well thrown fade

I did lol, and I was on my laptop so I can't even blame it on auto-correct :eek:

I think this is a fair assessment, the turnovers worry me a little, but he has the tools, I would be willing to bet he can overcome it! I disagree he will be a #10 pick, in fact if the Colts don't trade up I think Houston will take him!

Of the top 4 QB's in this draft he is my pick. His mechanics can be fixed faster than a small fragile QB who will get broken, or one who has issues in the 8" between the ears. Don't need a 2-3 year project. I still think Richardson is the most gifted athlete of any of them, but man he just screams bust. If we draft him of course I hope I am wrong, if someone else does, well, you know. lol

Increasing noise, including Lamar's tweet this morning, that he is out of Baltimore.

Worth the trade?

Lamar is a great player, but I can't see him as a Colt, not sure how successful he would be here. I wonder if Brady will go to Vegas to play for McDumbass? Maybe that is why they are wanting to move Derek Carr?

We can only hope to be so lucky that the ghost of Jack Easterby will rise up and make them do something so colossally stupid as to draft Will Levis when one of CJ Stroud and Bryce Young is on the board available to them. That would almost be as good as the Jaguars botching the Lawrence pick.

As long as there's a franchise tag, he doesn't exactly get to make that decision.

I think the Colts are probably the best equipped team outside of Baltimore in the NFL to implement the style of offense that he's been successful in.