On top of the fact that he's a moronic racist who ranks players by the color of their skin (or melanin count as he'd say) he's also making a foolish statement about "winz". The Texans have played the Chiefs and Panthers, two teams that probably are in the playoffs this year, the Bucs have played the Titans and Saints, two teams that will be in the hunt for the overall first pick in the draft. You simply can't compare the two.
I'm not 100% sure they will. Luck is having some of the same problems that Mallett is with a terrible O line, very little run game, and WR's that drop the ball even when you hit them in the hands. In addition to that, the Colts' defense is really bad. I'm sure when T Y Hilton gets back at full strength it'll help things out a lot because they only have Donte Moncrief as a competent WR at the moment, but I'm not sure that'll be enough to fully turn things around for the Colts. They'll win games for sure, but they aren't any more a "contender" than the Texans are, as sad as that sounds.
A few weeks ago, you were mocking dumbass KC fans for thinking they were better than us. New information, I guess? Except Indy has had those issues the last several years too. That's the difference between having Andrew Luck and Ryan Mallett.
Absolutely new information, the lack of performance from Peyton Manning makes that division easily winnable. The Chiefs aren't any better than I thought they were, but they have a stout defense and that division should be winnable. As to Indy, they haven't had the problems on the level they are having them this year until this year. They still had issues in the past, but they are worse now. As of this year, the difference between having Andrew Luck and Ryan Mallett is that if you have Ryan Mallett you turn the ball over a lot less.
I have a regular church gig. For the past year, they've been letting the Orchestra go right before the sermon starts which gives me enough time to go get Whataburger and be home in time for kickoff. But on Sunday, they want us to play for 30 seconds at the end of the service. So we can't leave and I'll probably miss all of the first quarter if not part of the second.
DVR...and dont check phone or text messages from friends. Put your blinders on until you get home. You'll be all caught up in real time by halftime.
Eh... Indy's head coach disagrees with you. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pagano on Luck and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/colts?src=hash">#colts</a> leaky O-line: 'Been the case for 3 years now, has it not? Should be more than comfortable dealing with (it).'</p>— Mike Chappell (@mchappell51) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchappell51/status/646185789261398017">September 22, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Bill Barnwell does, too; he did an fairly extensive breakdown of the Colts' OL woes since Luck got there. As Major said, that's the difference between a Luck and a Mallett - one is good enough to overcome other issues; the other is not.
Hey, I'm not a Mallett fan. While there was always "upside", I thought the chances of him ever being a legit starter were fairly slim. But are we really going to attack him because he's not Andrew Luck?
No one's attacking him; merely pointing out why a upper-echelon QB is important: they can cover-up/overcome glaring holes much easier than inferior QBs.
Can you imagine how ridiculous they'd be acting right now if Mallett had turned the ball over 4 times last week? There will always be a segment of the fanbase that makes ridiculous statements and poor analysis, you just have to roll with it I guess.
Way off topic for the thread but can anybody tell me how much cap space we will have this year? And how much we could possibly have with cuts of Joseph/Cushing?
I dont think many opinions would have changed...he played terribly with or without turnovers. He has a chance to redeem himself against a weak defense.
Neither can be cut this year, but we save 2.5 mil if we cut JJo after this season and 2 mil if we cut Cush....but that one won't happen till at least the year after that when they can save 5 mil.
I advocated playing Mallett over Fitz last year - based in large part on upside. And since I went into the offseason assuming Mallett would be the guy, in fact - it was basically my only consideration - I didn't really give much thought to them losing Fitzpatrick - hey, it's the back-up, right? And maybe this all eventually works out but... yeah, I'm thinking BOB really botched it. Why jettison Fitzpatrick for Hoyer? Fitz is much better suited to be a back-up; he's been in the system (and was actually surprisingly competent) and he's much cheaper than Hoyer on a much shorter deal (in the event Mallett *is* the real deal). In hindsight, it seems like a total whiff...
