Old man Phil

[Hoopsdoc]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

family came first.

Apparently the Colts had hoped to sign both Ehlinger AND Rivers. If that’s true, his decision to stay in Denver makes a little more sense.

He probably thought they wanted him to back up Rivers. He’s a back up in Denver and they like it there so why move?

If that’s true, it says a lot about what the Colts think of Leonard, that they were trying to bring two guys in to be ahead of him.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Brylok

You start Rypien. Next man up. l He was good enough to be placed in his position before, he should be starting now. l Sign a reasonable FA QB off the street. Don't bring back an old, famous name to create a show. Doing a circus act clown show because your season is fucked, regardless of whoever QB starts, is just a gross to me.

I've made my opinion clear and won't be posting about this anymore.

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He was good enough to be placed in that position before ??? What position is that ??? Rypien is a career 2nd-string/3rd-string/4th string NFL QB who hasn't taken a snap from center since the 2023 season. For his "career" he is 98-for-168 (58.3% Completion Rate) for 950 Yards Passing, 4 TD's, 9 INT's, and has a Passer Rating of 59.9.


If Rypien ever gets into a game for the Colts the season, I would love nothing more than for him to light it up and lead the team to a victory ...... but you are screaming about the franchise being a joke for signing Philip Rivers to the practice squad while simultaneously claiming that the right move right now would be to start a quarterback who hasn't been anywhere near adequate in the very brief time that he has played since entering the league in 2019 ...... I don't think that you really believe that, I think that you are just saying that because you don't want to admit that Kray was correct in asserting that you have no solution to the problem in which you are criticizing the Colts for because of the manner in which they are dealing with it. I don't have a solution either, but I'm also not asserting that the Colts should make an obvious move that is better than what they are doing, because there is no obvious alternate move.

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[CletusPyle]

All this tells me one thing, if the Colts don't make the playoffs both Ballard and Steichen are going to be fired. This is desperation from a guy (Ballard) that has already gambled our future on a fragile cornerback and knows what a fool he will look like if the Colts don't make the playoffs....again!

Riley looked better than Sam ever did with very limited preparation. Fat boy Rivers won't last an entire game, no way he is in game shape. These guys (Ballard and Steichen) are trying to save themselves, hopefully both are fired at the end of the season!

[sherck]

Originally Posted by CletusPyle

All this tells me one thing, if the Colts don't make the playoffs both Ballard and Steichen are going to be fired...These guys (Ballard and Steichen) are trying to save themselves...

I think this is 100% correct.

I think CIG is way hands on, sits in the player meetings and coaches meetings and listens to everyone and everything. I think she knows better than perhaps any other owner in the league what state the team is in.

You also cannot stand for "just good enough" in the NFL. You have to keep striving for better.

I am undecided as to if Ballard and SS need to go; the first half of the season showed that they have a winning team on their hands....when everything is going for them.

But, I agree that the Sauce trade and Rivers signings are SO FAR OUTSIDE THE BALLARD NORM that they indicate a desperation in team management that we have not seen before.

It will not surprise me to see them fired if we miss the playoffs. It will not surprise me to see them back next year.

What I do know, however, is that CIG is going to be very interested in how her (and her sisters) team is working day in and day out and will have a finger on the pulse like almost no other owner does.

And I hope that will great for us in the long run.

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by sherck

I think this is 100% correct.

I think CIG is way hands on, sits in the player meetings and coaches meetings and listens to everyone and everything. I think she knows better than perhaps any other owner in the league what state the team is in.

You also cannot stand for "just good enough" in the NFL. You have to keep striving for better.

I am undecided as to if Ballard and SS need to go; the first half of the season showed that they have a winning team on their hands....when everything is going for them.

But, I agree that the Sauce trade and Rivers signings are SO FAR OUTSIDE THE BALLARD NORM that they indicate a desperation in team management that we have not seen before.

It will not surprise me to see them fired if we miss the playoffs. It will not surprise me to see them back next year.

What I do know, however, is that CIG is going to be very interested in how her (and her sisters) team is working day in and day out and will have a finger on the pulse like almost no other owner does.

And I hope that will great for us in the long run.

Well this also is my hope for the team. It will be fascinating to see how she and her sisters handle this whole thing. From what we read she was all in on Sauce. This will be a very telling offseason. So just watch Rivers lead us into an improbable run and throw everything into a scramble

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

Yeah, but he’s never going to play there. Here he would have had a really good shot at playing. A LOT.

That’s crazy to me. I’m sure practice squad guys have refused an active roster spot with another team before but I’m willing to bet it rarely happens.

I wonder what his reasoning was?

The mere fact that the shade of Sam Ehlinger has entered our conversation shows how dire the situation has become. Ehlinger is a fringe, practice squad denizen, the kind of guy you pray never takes the field. If he does, your season has gone so far off the tracks, so sideways that you’re adrift at sea, clinging to what’s left of a dining room table, like a survivor of the Titanic.

Phillip Rivers, in a wheelchair, his right arm in a cast, gives you a better chance of winning than Sam Ehlinger.

Well, maybe not.

But, Rivers does bring a little to the table. He’s smart, with a wealth of experience. He’s accurate, he probably has enough of an arm left to run some truncated version of Shane Steichen’s Offense, and he can probably do a splendid job of handing the ball off to Jonathan Taylor.

At this point, we can’t realistically as for more.

[Hoopsdoc]

Originally Posted by CletusPyle

All this tells me one thing, if the Colts don't make the playoffs both Ballard and Steichen are going to be fired. This is desperation from a guy (Ballard) that has already gambled our future on a fragile cornerback and knows what a fool he will look like if the Colts don't make the playoffs....again!

Riley looked better than Sam ever did with very limited preparation. Fat boy Rivers won't last an entire game, no way he is in game shape. These guys (Ballard and Steichen) are trying to save themselves, hopefully both are fired at the end of the season!

Steichen and Ballard aren’t getting fired after this season. I’d bet quite a bit on that.

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by CletusPyle

All this tells me one thing, if the Colts don't make the playoffs both Ballard and Steichen are going to be fired. This is desperation from a guy (Ballard) that has already gambled our future on a fragile cornerback and knows what a fool he will look like if the Colts don't make the playoffs....again!

Riley looked better than Sam ever did with very limited preparation. Fat boy Rivers won't last an entire game, no way he is in game shape. These guys (Ballard and Steichen) are trying to save themselves, hopefully both are fired at the end of the season!

Firing Steichen and Ballard would make us the laughing stock of the NFL. you don’t fire people because they can’t win with a practice squad Quarterback.

You don’t fire people because you can’t win with Riley Leonard.

When they drafted Leonard, only one person on this board didn’t rip the move, and his…UK Colt’s…reaction was that we should wait and see. The consensus was that he brings nothing to the table. Now, 7 months later, we’re ready to fire people if Leonard doesn’t pull a rabbit out of his hat?

Sheesh.

[apballin]

Leonard is a competitor he’s gonna go out there and shock the world in Seattle

[CletusPyle]

Originally Posted by Kray007

Firing Steichen and Ballard would make us the laughing stock of the NFL. you don’t fire people because they can’t win with a practice squad Quarterback.

You don’t fire people because you can’t win with Riley Leonard.

When they drafted Leonard, only one person on this board didn’t rip the move, and his…UK Colt’s…reaction was that we should wait and see. The consensus was that he brings nothing to the table. Now, 7 months later, we’re ready to fire people if Leonard doesn’t pull a rabbit out of his hat?

Sheesh.

Did Leonard lose to the Steelers, Chiefs, and Texans.....we are already the laughing stock of the league! Using your theory, Jones ruptured achilles is the best thing that could have happened for Ballard, because the team was losing to better teams before that happened. Ballard has had 8 years and it is the same shit every year and the same excuse makers defend him every season.

I'll throw this in to, if Leonard wasn't good enough to backup an injured Jones, why didn't they upgrade the position early on? Stroud goes down for 3 games and Davis Mills steps in and wins all 3 games, that is a prepared team!