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Originally Posted by Chromeburn
I’m glad the fans at the game got a show. That’s what they want and paid for. But that isn’t what I was talking about. Also there were a lot of empty seats out there. This is a small market team. They need a face for the franchise and a guy that gives them a shot year in and year out. Ultimately this game doesn’t help us at all except to cement Hines as our return man.
Now imagine if we had won that game and didn’t get that pick. How different would things be today? They almost did the same thing in 1998 and it was just a few plays I believe that got us the Manning pick. That would have been a colossal blunder. If the team had gotten Leaf instead of Manning, the Colts might not be in Indy today. Normally I wouldn’t care that much if it was a few spots. But these two wins may be the difference between nearly ten spots. From a bottom of the top ten to maybe picking in the late teens early twenties.
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My post was in regard to the fans' lukewarm reaction to the game today, compared with that of their more enthusiastic reaction in recent years during bad/dubious times. You opined that their sub-par/lukewarm enthusiasm today had to do with their acknowledgement of Brissett being an average-at-best quarterback, and that that did not bode helpful for the future.
The problem with not having a franchise QB is the future doesn’t look promising. I think the fanbase has concluded Brisset just isn’t good enough, and that is a death-knell for a teams outlook, fanbase enthusiasm, marketing, etc.
I countered that their reactions in the past had little to do with whether or not they were thinking in terms of future draft picks, as evidenced by their raucous enthusiasm to their late-season mini-rally.winning streak in the 2011 season, which almost took us out of the Andrew Luck sweepstakes ........ so, if they were cheering rabidly for a 1-13 team in a home game which almost took them out of the Andrew Luck draft pick by winning it, I find that to be a stark contrast to a not particularly enthusiastic crowd watching the game win a game handily when their record was 6-8.
The points that you are making about what would have happened if the Colts had lost out on 2 of their most important draft picks in the history of the franchise and that their winning this game could make a significant difference in their 2020 draft position are valid, but they don't belie what I was saying in the first place about the contrasting reactions of the Lucas Oil Stadium crowd to teams that are not/were not playoff-bound.
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