Colts 2023 A Time To Change

[BankShot]

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-negative-stories-about-players-its-********/

Link isn't working.

 

[BankShot]

Link isn't working.

That's funny. It works in my reply though.

 

[Ingomike]

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-negative-stories-about-players-its-********/

 

[Ingomike]

That's funny. It works in my reply though.

Weird. I reposted it direct from the source and still same. I think it is something in the URL that INGO does not like. I shouldn’t even be a link, it should have been a graphic like the other post from the same site. Here is the text.



Every year, the days and weeks preceding the draft include a flurry of negative stories about certain players. This year, the guy who got the brunt of it was quarterback C.J. Stroud.

Last night, Colts G.M. Chris Ballard took a deliberate left turn from comments about his first-round selection, quarterback Anthony Richardson, to offer a “sidebar” about this dynamic.

“I get frustrated,” Ballard told reporters. “All the crap that comes out about these kids. It’s crap. Like, it’s ********. I’m sorry, but it’s ********. Like people that leak these stories, these negative stories on kids. I just don’t — I don’t agree with it. It’s ********.

“These guys work their ass off to get where they need to be, and then all week you’ve got to read . . . and then they’ve got to answer questions. So, anyway, not on Anthony it’s on some other kids int the draft that are good kids, and I thought had to take a little bit of a beating that they shouldn’t have had to take.”

Ballard didn’t name names, but Stroud is obviously the guy he was referring to. Someone wanted him to fall. Someone tried to make it happen, to knock the Texans wobbly at No. 2.

It didn’t work. But if the snowball had started to roll, who knows what would have happened? It could have continued, beyond five and 10 and who knows how far?

Good for Ballard to speak up. Too many scouts and coaches spread ******** in order to get a player they love to slide. Too many agents do it to get their client taken before someone else’s client. Too many media step right into the ******** bear trap without realizing they’re being used.

It will never end completely. The goal is to get people to understand why it happens, and to maybe get it to happen less often.

 

[manifest destiny]

First, I'll explain why my opinion is worthless. The year, 1998. I'm certain! Ryan Leaf is the best pick at QB. So, take this next quip with a grain of salt...

Every few years the NFL has an epiphany that "pocket passers" are antiquated. The future is a QB that can run. Then in short time, pocket passers are back in vogue. All that to say, I hope this AR15 kid can read a defense. Scrambling is fun to watch, but quickly processing a defense and making on-target throws seems to be the better way to winning long term. I was rooting for Will Levis- see disclaimer above.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I think it is something in the URL that INGO does not like.

Yep, those asterisks are in place of (sounds like bull spit).

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Richardson told reporters at his opening press conference that he’s going to wear #5.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Did I hear right that Levis didn't get picked by anyone in round 1?

 

[BankShot]

Did I hear right that Levis didn't get picked by anyone in round 1?

That is correct.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

That is correct.

Well that was unexpected!

 

[BankShot]

Well that was unexpected!

Yes it was. There were even some rumors that the Panthers would take him at number 1.

 

[BankShot]

The Titans just drafted Will Levis who could soon be the oldest starting QB in the AFC South.

He is older than Richardson, Stroud and Lawrence. Could be a really young group of QBs.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

CJ Stroud
Anthony Richardson
Trevor Lawrence
Will Levis

The AFC South is gonna be crazy lol

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Shockingly (sarcasm), the Colts trade down.

 

[foszoe]

Wrll we will get to see if Levis was better or not

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Wrll we will get to see if Levis was better or not

As much as I hate to say it, Tennessee is a good organization. He’s got as good a shot there as anywhere else.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Shockingly (sarcasm), the Colts trade down.

Colts trade down again

 

[rob63]

As much as I hate to say it, Tennessee is a good organization. He’s got as good a shot there as anywhere else.

Plus, he will always have a chip on his shoulder whenever they play the Colts.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

Plus, he will always have a chip on his shoulder whenever they play the Colts.

 

[ChristianPatriot]

CB Julius Brents. Good fit for the Gus Bradley defense.