[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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I wouldn't necessarily be so presumptuous about that. Remember that when Andrew Luck first retired and the Colts had to roll with Jacoby Brissett, the Colts were designated to mediocrity for a grand total of one year ...... they went 7-9 for that one season in 2019, and then after signing a past-his-prime, immobile Philip Rivers at quarterback they went 11-6 the very next season and took the Bills right down to the wire in the playoffs on their home field.

Also, remember how unpredictable the entire 2021 season was for a whole bunch of teams, including the Colts ??? When the 49ers got dominated by the Colts and fell to a record of 2-4 overall, who would have guessed that Jimmy Garoppolo and company wound wind up going to the NFC Championship game and taking the eventual world-champion Rams right down to the wire ??? And after the Colts started the season at 0-3, I'll bet that the vast majority of Colts fans would have been surprised if somebody had told them that they would go 9-3 over their next 12 games and would be be sitting pretty in terms of a playoff berth prior to the final 2 games of the season. Plus, there were tons of individual-game examples, especially in the AFC. When Derrick Henry went down with an injury in the middle of the season, the Titans had the eventual world-champion Rams in their very next game. The Rams had just acquired Von Miller in a trade, and their overall record at that time was 7-1. It was supposed to be a blowout in favor of the Rams. It was indeed a blowout, but it went the other way. The Derrick Henry-less Titans stomped on the Rams that night. The score of the game was 28-10 late in the 4th quarter before the Rams added a cosmetic touchdown with only 24 seconds left to play in the game.


I'm not saying that your fear of the Colts falling into a state of mediocrity for a long period of time won't come to fruition, because it might ....... I'm only saying that I have seen far too much unexpected shit go down over the last few years to presume anything for almost any team, including the Colts.

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Originally Posted by njcoltfan

The Colts are already in a state of mediocrity, if every year they are wondering who their next QB is going to be !!!

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Maybe ...... but the other side of that same coin is that a team that has been in quarterback limbo since the abrupt retirement of Andrew Luck in 2018 has somehow managed to have back-to-back winning seasons in 2020 and 2021 in spite of it ...... the antithesis of teams that were extremely quarterback-dependent during the majority of Peyton Manning's and Andrew Luck's careers.

So while we are all bemoaning the failures of Carson Wentz this past season (especially in the final 2 games against the Raiders and the Jaguars), Chris Ballard is apparently doing what he said that he claimed that he would do ...... building a complete team that wouldn't necessarily necessarily fall to pieces without their starting quarterback, like the 2011 Colts did without Peyton Manning when they went 2-14.

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