Colts sign Vet tackle to replace AC
 

http://www.coltfreaks.com/forum/show...264#post181264

I know most of you don't read the rest of the forum so here it is

Thank you. This guy seems to have it figured out - he sits out most of the regular season and then signs with a playoff caliber team at the end of the season. No season-long wear and tear on his body and he can collect those playoff bonus checks too.

BTW - that is one huge picture of him on the link you posted.

Wonder why the Nelson at tackle experiment was dropped? Seemed like he did alright.

Fuuuuuuck. Well I guess he is better than any of our backups at this point. Think I know what our first round pick will be if we don’t go QB. Sad a guy off the street a few days before a game will probably be better than our backups. Such a hard position to play.

I think Nelson would be damn good at any position on the O-line. The guy is a freak. He's a bad ass!

He isn't as good at LT as he is at LG. He still performed adequately, but I thought he wasn't quite as agile as you'd like your LT to be. He seemed to have some trouble kick sliding on the outside.

Yea it is. No idea why it always shows like that in that thread

Chrome, I think he is an older guy that can still play but didnt want to play with just anyone and waste his time. He want to win, find a contender and roll with it. We were the first that caught his interest (getting to play along side of the best guard in the game)

Don't know much about him, and maybe he isn't very good, But the options are slim.

I want Nelson to stay at guard. Kinda agree with Dam but I also think his ability to pull as a guard is probably top 5 in the NFL. Maybe the best Keep him at guard.

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Presuming that the Colts will make the playoffs.

I think that they will.

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I wouldn’t rule him out playing it yet.

Who says he isnt playing LT. The Colts needed a replacement, some who has played LT. Ok, they got someone. Does that mean they are starting?

As I said on the other thread, two of Nelsons incredible abilities would be of much less use at tackle. His instincts and ability to help out others on the line (his pickups on pass protection are amazing) and his pulling ability would be of much less use at tackle. I think the offense would really miss that.

Agree. Not having a LT, who can hold off the RDE, or hold the corner, make having a good LG, irrelevant. Colts won a SB with Jake Scott. Its easier to find a jake scott, than an anthony Castonzo

They started Green(I think) at tackle last week and they still show him as primary backup on the depth chart.

Unfortunately this moron is right

Would any one here be shocked if Nelson winds up at LT before the end of tomorrows game. Since the Colts go through them like gatoraid, they may have Leonard on the line before the 4th quarter

I always liked Veldheer.

He came out of very, very small Hillsdale College (1,200 enrollment), was drafted in the 3rd by the Raiders and grabbed their starting LT spot as a rookie after having become their top backup in training camp.

Started 11 of 16 games as a rookie in 2010 and then started the next 37 games until injury cut short his 2013 campaign after only 5 games.

He signed a veteran free agent contract with Arizona in 2014 and started 40 games for them at LT until injury cut short his 2016 season after 8 games.

After that, he never played more than 13 games a season (13 in 2017, 12 in 2018, 2 in 2019) and zero in 2020 so far.

While not a high end starter anymore, assuming he is in shape, he will be better than anyone else we could run out there not named Castonzo.

I felt old when I thought "he was a 3rd round pick fairly recently" then read he was the 69th pick in the 2010 NFL draft.

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It's relative ...... if you're a 17 year-old Colts fan who is a senior in high school, then 2010 is not fairly recently. If you're a 55 year-old Colts fan who started rooting for the team when Earl Morrall and Johnny Unitas were taking turns at QB based on which one was less injured than the other, then 2010 is fairly recently.

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