How many wins for the Colts in 2019

And drove him waaaay out of the play.

Well that was pathetic. Bad game plan. Brissett afraid to throw downfield. DBs lost in coverage. It’s like the colts weren’t all that interested in trying to win.

Don’t forget that Funches and Campbell are hurt, Hilton isn’t 100% and Cain didn’t pan out. When the season started it looked like the Colts had playmakers at WR. In hindsight yeah, it’s obvious they needed to do more at WR.

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Also can we talk about the fact the Colts have played 12 Thursday Night games in 13 years and only TWO of them have been home games? What kind of bullshit is that!?

You like to flatter your own views on your knowledge of the finer points of football too, so don't try to pretend like you're not exactly the same as the rest of us, you simply hold a contrary opinion to the majority (doesn't make you right, smart, or in any way better by the way). The fact is if any of us actually possessed knowledge of the finer points of football we wouldn't be posting on a mid-major college's message board.

There is a finite amount of draft capital, cap room, and roster space. No team is exceptional in every area, no team is even great in every area. All teams have deficiencies, be them O-line, LBs, safeties, RBs, WRs or if you're the Miami Dolphins the deficiencies start with the owner and go all the way down to the water boy (which makes losing to them that much harder to swallow).

The Colts decided to sacrifice WR depth to create a top-5 rushing attack, which they have done. The team just rushed for 175 yards with a 4th string running back as their main option, not a lot of NFL teams can do that. That decision making comes with a sacrifice, in this case it's a lack of WR depth. You can't look back and say, well the front office should have known that Hilton was going to be injured, Funchess was going to break his collar bone in the very first catch of the season, Parris Campbell, a guy who ran the fastest 40 time at the combine, was going to battle injuries all season, that Cain (who for better or worse everyone in the Colts organization was high on, right up until the point that they weren't) was going to shit the bed, that Ebron's club hands were going to rear their ugly head again, and that their all-world QB was going to retire a week and a half before the season.

I think, going into the season, most people in NFL circles would have rated the Colts WRs as top 15 in the league with Hilton, Funchess, Campbell, and some combination of Pascal/Rogers/Cain as the 4th WR. Not a group that's going to break records, but a solid group that would help contribute to wins. What we've seen is Pascal and Rogers become the #1 and #2 options due to unexpected injuries, and that's just how the NFL goes sometimes.

Also your assumption that simply drafting a WR was going to make up for that depth is simplistic at best and asinine at worst. There have been just as many (probably more) first round WR busts as there have been successful WRs. The average pick for a WR from 2015-2017 was 15.5 (13 WRs drafted), yet the average receiving yards per season for those 13 WRs was 320 yards. Hardly world beating numbers, or for reference 40 yards fewer than Zach Pascal has put up so far this season.

I also don't think it's fair to assume the Colts would be the same rushing team if they'd used the #6 pick to snag those two mid-round WRs and got a guard either somewhere else in the draft or in free agency. Disregard it if you want, but when the other 3 starting linemen who were here pre-Q (leaving out Smith who was in the same draft class) have all said that Nelson has changed the culture, intensity, and activity on that front 5 means something. These are multi-year pros who are saying Nelson is "that guy".

I've not taken a stance either way on whether or not Q was the right pick. He's the best or second-best G in the league, that's undeniable, but the Colts also have deficiencies that could have potentially been filled by trading down and stock-piling picks. Your steadfast refusal to engage in a discussion, and instead shout at the clouds how right you are and how dumb everyone else is just makes you look like a Boomer.

I'm sure you'll tell me how stupid all this was, but I'm just sitting here enjoying watching Butler get Morehead (wait, that came out wrong...or did it?) and I hope you enjoy your weekend too, General.

Special teams like Ball State.  They might as well lose out at this point.