Rivers was signed mainly due to his familiarity with reich and his system. One year contract for middle of the pack money (see above post), not top 5 money which also didnt really have any issues regarding our cap. The colts knew they couldnt trot brissett out there for another full season. Dont see why you are struggling with this.


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Rivers no longer has the arm strength to really utilize Hilton best, the deep throws. Thats a big part of the problem.

I guess what I'm struggling with is that even though it's one year, no one on the Colts has a higher cap hit. And, between Rivers and Brissette, the cap hit is 46 million. That tells me that we need help in evaluating QB talent, especially before throwing large sums of money on middle to low level talent players. Ballard has strengths in evaluating talent, but apparently, that does not include QB talent.

I really thought that when they signed Rivers for 25 million, they were sure of his arm strength. It's not my money, but it is my favorite team and after 5 games there is one certainty, Rivers has lost a lot of the skills he once had and management should have been able to know that before giving him "middle of the pack" millions.

I see it more that ballard hasnt found a QB that he wants to sink long term big cap hits into. I get the short term money for rivers. I get why they signed brissett at the time, but I think they gave him too much. I agree that 46M for the two is too much, but at least it doesnt extend beyond this season.

I know its rumormill churn, but I am starting to see "Dak to Colts" surface...

I agree short term for unsure things, but the QBs I mentioned before Bridgewater, Newton and Dalton were all signed short term for a pittance of what the Colts paid Rivers. The big price paid to Rivers made me think that they were reasonably sure that he was solid and that his arm was strong. If they weren't sure, don't give him 25 million unless he can prove it.

From what I can see, Rivers has not lost any arm strength, I've seen him make some decent throws outside the numbers that Brees would not even attempt, because of his weak arm and that Jackson doesn't attempt because he's not accurate enough.

Arm strength is overrated for deep balls, that's much more about seeing it early, timing and accuracy. Besides if TY catches that bomb at home, that he lost in the sun, we wouldn't even being having this conversation.

Say want you want about Rivers throwing motion, but it actually leads to a very quick release, which leads to less sacks, pressures etc.

Now if you want to critique Rivers decision making then, that's where the problems really have been noticeable. I believe some of that is losing Mack, Campbell and Pittman and not really having enough reps with everyone in this offense, especially TY.

Ugh, Dak would likely be an improvement but I still think he is a 10-15 qb in this league at best.

That's all this team would need.

I honestly think we should shoot higher. We thought our oline would be better than it has so far.


FYI ESPN thinks we should trade for Darnold.

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