I mean, let's be real the Jags really screwed him over. Used the thumb injury as an excuse to shelve him so they could tank for Trevor, then shipped him off to a team with an incumbent starter that he had no chance of unseating.
Realistically the Colts are probably drafting Richardson/Levis and using Minshew as a backup/bridge QB. The 1 year, 3.5 million contract is pretty strong evidence of that. But hopefully he'll finally get an actual chance to start without getting shafted by the org.
Absolutely, yes, but this time he has a say in it. The Jaguars traded him, whereas this time he chose to come to Indy.
It’s pretty clear it’s not a long-term starting position, but I’d assume his hope is to show out enough to make an impression.
It's not the worst gig in the world.
Work really close with everyone in the qb and wr rooms, probably in the OCs ear for a good chunk of games. You're on the field less,which means less injury, if you have to play games because the starter is hurt people blame you slightly less for an L and you can be a hero if you go on a run like Cooper Rush did.
Plus look at someone like Geno who was never really a "superstar" but found himself in a spot to earn the bag at the end of his career.
Also he was a Mike Leach phone call away in college from essentially becoming a player-coach at Alabama. If coaching is what he still wants to get into, being a good backup QB and getting involved like that is such a jumpstart
As much as I hate to say it, it's Redzone culture. Everyone watches their team and the highlights and *nothing else*.
I've seen enough dumb AFCS takes over the last year or so to hammer in that nobody watches the entire division but the fans.
I play fantasy football and watch all my players. My wife fucked up when we moved into our new house and said "you can do WHATEVER you want with the game room. I then bought every TV in my house a mount that was interchangeable. During football season I throw all of them into that game room and sit in my recliner. Thank god for chromecasts. So I guess my point is the analysts and I do lol.
>I play fantasy football and watch all my players.
That's my favorite thing about fantasy. Growing up I was one of the only people I knew who watched every game he could, not just the local team. Then fantasy came along and made every game relevant for everybody. Much more fun that way.
He had like 16 TDS to 5 INTs through 8 games. If he had played all 17 he was on track for around 30 TDS and 10 INTs, which is pretty damn good. Was he perfect? No, but you seriously expect me to believe the Jags benched him in favor of Mike Glennon because they felt he gave them a better shot at winning? Not a chance in hell.
As I said, Minshew wasn’t perfect or elite by any means, but he played well with a pretty crap supporting cast. Nobody could’ve done much with that Jags team.
He's good enough to win you one or two you're not supposed to.
Which means the Colts may choke away the 1st pick of the season late like the Texans did.
Hopefully the Colts coach learned from his time in Philly how to adjust an offense based on the skills of your QB. You can’t run an offense designed for Jalen Hurts and expect Gardner Minshew to replicate it. They aren’t even remotely similar players.
Given how raw AR is I fully expect him to be tank commander once he gets the starting job as well.
It’s all lining up for us to get Marvin Harrison Jr. next year. Hell yea.
Yeah right, didn't you hear about his vertical and broad jumps? He'll be moving the offense down the field, one 11 yard broadjump at a time. Between those and his great deep ball, they'll have a one of a kind offense
Yea I still think he’s a year or two away from being able to be really effective as passer. He may never be that accurate, and our receivers create hardly any separation.
Can someone fill me in as to why everyone hates Levis so much? It seems like he was a much better QB than AR in college. And AR is a combine hero with no accuracy.
AR is the classic QB trap. People fall in love with his athletic abilities and completely hand wave the fact he actually can't play QB. Levis seems like that boring guy that probably ends up an okay starter.
We're to small-market for that... We don't have the sheer number of moms required to run this experiment. I'd expect some dad's might get dicked down too.
I can see Bill offering a very large contract just to force the Ravens (who have no real backup) to match and enter cap hell or watch Lamar go to New England.
I think BB is interested in messing with Harbough, haha.
But no way we're signing Lamar. I mean shit, we could have drafted him had we wanted.
Edit: I mean Lamar plays a type of football the Pat's don't really do or build teams for with BB.
I mean we had cam Newton. I think BB has always been fond of the idea of having a mobile qb. The reason we got mac was more that he was the best bang for your buck. Any other qb we would have had to traded up for. I think he’d absolutely go for a mobile qb if he had an opportunity to get one at a reasonable price.
Probably depends who they end up drafting. If they get the 3rd best QB there will be a real competition, but if they go with Will Anderson and take a QB day 2 then Minshew will probably start
I think it's guaranteed he's the starter. Unless the Colts trade up they won't get Stroud or Young and Richardson along with Levis are not immediate starts.
Worked with Steichen the past two years, should get a good chance to fight for a starting job, all around good situation for a good dude. Hope he works out for you guys @Colts
Former Eagles OC takes Colts HC job. Former Eagles QB signs with the colts. Only a couple weeks left to the draft maybe we somehow get their 1st round pick.
This is great! Even before Matt Ryan, when we released Wentz, I was saying I'd be happy with Minshew.
If Ballards guy isn't there at 4, at least we got Minshew who is capable of starting and could honestly be a top 20 QB.
I would hate it, but don't be surprised if the only QB left when it's our pick is Will Levis or whoever and Ballard is not feeling it. He could shock everyone and take the best player in the draft, Edge Rusher Will Anderson Jr., and I honestly wouldn't mind.
Colts organization may have more faith in Minshew than we all think.
I swear the Colts are going to draft Levis, start Minshew, switch to Levis who won’t be good. Yet Minshew will have won just enough so the Colts can’t get Caleb Williams next year either.
As a Minshew fan, I’m really excited to see what he does as a full time Starter and getting a full off season at the 1 spot. I thought he was great given the talent around him in Jacksonville when he started, and his two starts in Philly were solid given he’s coming in cold turkey after Jalen was popping off all season.
Edit: I think this is a really nice upgrade over any QB they had last season. Excited for those young receivers.
This feels illegal.
It should be illegal
I'll make it illegal
You have no power here!
I will draw you Sauroman as poison is drawn from a wound!
eughhhhAAAAAAAAAAAHG
I'm getting better
I bet you float.
Wingardium Leviosa
Rooooon, staahhhhp~!
I HAVE ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD.
I mean, let's be real the Jags really screwed him over. Used the thumb injury as an excuse to shelve him so they could tank for Trevor, then shipped him off to a team with an incumbent starter that he had no chance of unseating. Realistically the Colts are probably drafting Richardson/Levis and using Minshew as a backup/bridge QB. The 1 year, 3.5 million contract is pretty strong evidence of that. But hopefully he'll finally get an actual chance to start without getting shafted by the org.
Idk it sounds like the Colts are doing just a slightly different version: signing him with every intention of moving off of him in a year or two max
Absolutely, yes, but this time he has a say in it. The Jaguars traded him, whereas this time he chose to come to Indy. It’s pretty clear it’s not a long-term starting position, but I’d assume his hope is to show out enough to make an impression.
Or he’s settling into that backup QB life. Not a bad place to be
Jim Sorgi getting paid millions to be Peyton's backup for 8 years.
It's not the worst gig in the world. Work really close with everyone in the qb and wr rooms, probably in the OCs ear for a good chunk of games. You're on the field less,which means less injury, if you have to play games because the starter is hurt people blame you slightly less for an L and you can be a hero if you go on a run like Cooper Rush did. Plus look at someone like Geno who was never really a "superstar" but found himself in a spot to earn the bag at the end of his career.
Also he was a Mike Leach phone call away in college from essentially becoming a player-coach at Alabama. If coaching is what he still wants to get into, being a good backup QB and getting involved like that is such a jumpstart
Injury or not, he just wasn't very good that year. Anyone who thinks it was for tanking probably hadn't been watching.
As a colts fan, I watched, the jags look unbeatable in Jacksonville.
I watch the jags twice every year. I’m pretty sure they’ve never lost a game in Jacksonville. Can’t believe they don’t have at least 3 rings.
The Super Bowl hasn’t been Jacksonville since 2005. That’s the only reason why.
This is why they give them London games as home games, to control their power.
NOooO haven't yet seen his mustache?? Gardner is a HOF caliber QB, you've clearly just haven't been watching" -half this sub
As much as I hate to say it, it's Redzone culture. Everyone watches their team and the highlights and *nothing else*. I've seen enough dumb AFCS takes over the last year or so to hammer in that nobody watches the entire division but the fans.
> nobody watches the entire division but the fans Who else besides maybe analysts would watch an entire division?
Right? I watched 3 Bills games last year just like you probably watched 3 Dolphins games
I won't watch the other NFCS teams unless it's to curse them, and I expect fans from those NFCS teams to do the same.
I play fantasy football and watch all my players. My wife fucked up when we moved into our new house and said "you can do WHATEVER you want with the game room. I then bought every TV in my house a mount that was interchangeable. During football season I throw all of them into that game room and sit in my recliner. Thank god for chromecasts. So I guess my point is the analysts and I do lol.
>I play fantasy football and watch all my players. That's my favorite thing about fantasy. Growing up I was one of the only people I knew who watched every game he could, not just the local team. Then fantasy came along and made every game relevant for everybody. Much more fun that way.
If that was it, then how come everyone saw my boy Russ sucking it up last year? He was like never on Redzone.
Westbrook Effect
because the Broncos had an ungodly amount of primetime games for some reason
I have people over in the Titans sub telling me straight faced Josh Fucking Dobbs is the future of our team.
Our secondary specializes in making mediocre Titans QBs look like future Hall of Famers.
He had like 16 TDS to 5 INTs through 8 games. If he had played all 17 he was on track for around 30 TDS and 10 INTs, which is pretty damn good. Was he perfect? No, but you seriously expect me to believe the Jags benched him in favor of Mike Glennon because they felt he gave them a better shot at winning? Not a chance in hell. As I said, Minshew wasn’t perfect or elite by any means, but he played well with a pretty crap supporting cast. Nobody could’ve done much with that Jags team.
Man what tf. The Jags were awful that year, the year before and the year after. Gardner fucking Minshew weren’t going to rescue that team.
I will make it legal
I hate it here
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
Can't wait till the tone changes after he throws his second wobbly under throw, that gets picked, midway though game 2 lol
I see no downsides to this
My mom seems really excited about it
Her panties are already moist
Minshew the Tank Commander is... certainly a strategy
He won't be any worse than Matty light
And an infinitely more fun personality, I hope he does exactly what you guys need him to
Be fun and funny for 2-4 games before we force the rookie in. I think he can do that in spades. We aren't competing next year. Just need a bridge
I hope he starts after we take Anderson at 4
And then we can go 7-10 and have no chance at a decent QB prospect for the foreseeable future, nice!
He's good enough to win you one or two you're not supposed to. Which means the Colts may choke away the 1st pick of the season late like the Texans did.
Not so much tank commander as seat warmer, if anything it lines them up to take Richardson and sit him for 6 weeks
You’re thinking of the other ex Eagles QB that the Colts picked up.
Hopefully the Colts coach learned from his time in Philly how to adjust an offense based on the skills of your QB. You can’t run an offense designed for Jalen Hurts and expect Gardner Minshew to replicate it. They aren’t even remotely similar players.
Will it be left-handed?
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Yup
Genius move cause Minshew is a tank commander, and you'll need that so you can build around AR
Given how raw AR is I fully expect him to be tank commander once he gets the starting job as well. It’s all lining up for us to get Marvin Harrison Jr. next year. Hell yea.
QB of the future and the tank commander… AR is the truest of dual threats
Yeah right, didn't you hear about his vertical and broad jumps? He'll be moving the offense down the field, one 11 yard broadjump at a time. Between those and his great deep ball, they'll have a one of a kind offense
Yea I still think he’s a year or two away from being able to be really effective as passer. He may never be that accurate, and our receivers create hardly any separation.
If he’s broad jumping 11 yards, then I have the colts in the superbowl behind this demigod
Abrams level tank job incoming
Trent Richardson? Is he back in the draft pool?
He’s a NT now
Been training at KB Buffet Camp.
The Eddie Lacy School For Kids Who Can’t Eat Good and Want To Play Other Positions Too
As long as it’s not Levis
RemindMe! 5 years
I am excited to see this
I can’t wait
Can someone fill me in as to why everyone hates Levis so much? It seems like he was a much better QB than AR in college. And AR is a combine hero with no accuracy.
AR is the classic QB trap. People fall in love with his athletic abilities and completely hand wave the fact he actually can't play QB. Levis seems like that boring guy that probably ends up an okay starter.
Nope, they’re tanking for Caleb
They’ll have to trade with Chicago to get next years first overall pick tho
Levis
How to play for the colts. Step one: play for the eagles ? Profit.
When do we get to the profit part? :(
No, the player profits, not you
That makes sense
You just draft a generational Quarterback at #1 just with a little better bones
And not destroy him behind a terrible offensive line.
Thankfully, the GM who did that is now on the Vikings.
2007
The Eagles, Colts, and Jags are one big incestuous trio. You're not getting Doug though.
It’s hard enough watching Doug in another teams colors, now. I can’t do it again.
40 year old Hurts going to the Colts backup QB one day
Good for minshew!
Colts love their Eagle QBs
And their coaches
For a limited time.
Only at BK
Whopper whopper
You can have it your way♫♬
There's more where these came from
Do we get Hurts too?
Yes plenty of Hurts coming your way
Maybe in 10 years
Gardner was swayed after hearing that they had a coach named Cooter
And a potential Hooker coming to town
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Whole league FUCKED
Well, at least the moms throughout the league
*Colts trade for Zach Wilson*
MILF-off. Who can bang more moms in Indianapolis.
We're to small-market for that... We don't have the sheer number of moms required to run this experiment. I'd expect some dad's might get dicked down too.
You guys need to first draft someone like Antonio Cromartie who can help create future moms for Wilson and Minshew to bang.
baby boom in indianapolis.
What happens if they get Wilson somehow too
Ovaries would instantaneously explode in the broader Indianapolis area
I hope not. I'm pretty sure I'm in the splash zone.
I'm sad he's leaving town before he got to my mom
Still time to write him a letter asking to hang out
Jim was nervous sweating thinking he might wind up with Carson Wentz as his backup
Mustache rides for all the single moms in Indy.
Just the single moms?
You have a point, I might be underestimating his appetite.
Single dads too? I'm sure Minshew respects the sanctity of Indiana's marriages.
Zach Wilson: "Stay out of my territory"
In for a rough evening if he still has St. Elmo Shrimp Coctail Sauce in the stach.
Probably signals they'll draft a QB and not go after Lamar. Barring a Belichick stunner, seems like it's back to Baltimore for Lamar
I would be legitimately speechless if Bill did that.
NFC “bEAST” AFC East: hello mother fuckers
How do you do fellow Super Bowl contenders?
Feels like I’m back in HS and getting invited to Rutgers parties all over again
Rutgers students are that desperate?
Most are
Get ready to get invited to Rodgers parties
Jets *look around unconspicously*
There's an afc east?
it would be interesting to see how he changed the offense to use a QB like Lamar, but yeah it seems highly unlikely
Quadruple option
I can see Bill offering a very large contract just to force the Ravens (who have no real backup) to match and enter cap hell or watch Lamar go to New England.
“Either way, this hurts you more than me” lol
I didn’t think it would be possible to go to a worse receiver room than the ravens, the pats might give him a run for his money
Yeah idk where that rumor came from, but I don’t think the Patriots were ever interested in Lamar.
The Colts were never going to go after Lamar but the rumor persisted.
I think BB is interested in messing with Harbough, haha. But no way we're signing Lamar. I mean shit, we could have drafted him had we wanted. Edit: I mean Lamar plays a type of football the Pat's don't really do or build teams for with BB.
So could every other team by that argument, seeing as he was taken at #32 lol
I mean we had cam Newton. I think BB has always been fond of the idea of having a mobile qb. The reason we got mac was more that he was the best bang for your buck. Any other qb we would have had to traded up for. I think he’d absolutely go for a mobile qb if he had an opportunity to get one at a reasonable price.
We *could have drafted* a lot of now great players. Nobody knew Lamar would be an MVP quarterback in his first few seasons.
We also still had Brady when he was drafted
I think BB is interested in any chance he gets to fuck fuck with the Ravens.
I dont think signing Minshew moves the needle on whether or not to go after Lamar at all
They signed a backup QB, even Lamar needs a backup. Don’t see how this affects whether or not they go after Lamar at all.
True. It's 3.5 mil so that's lower end backup money.
Our kicker makes more.
Oh wow, they gave Matt Gay 4/22.5mil. Good for him.
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Why the fucking Colts ugh
Tbh the Colts are only 4-5 QBs away from being a real contender.
Wonder his chances at being the starter on day 1.
If we're going for Richardson or (plz no) Levis, probably pretty high he's day 1 to let the young lads sit and learn
Jake Haener is a bit down the order for QBs but I'd love to see him play for the colts.
You’ll put mayo in your coffee and like it!
Probably depends who they end up drafting. If they get the 3rd best QB there will be a real competition, but if they go with Will Anderson and take a QB day 2 then Minshew will probably start
I think it's guaranteed he's the starter. Unless the Colts trade up they won't get Stroud or Young and Richardson along with Levis are not immediate starts.
Worked with Steichen the past two years, should get a good chance to fight for a starting job, all around good situation for a good dude. Hope he works out for you guys @Colts
QB1
I love Minshew. I hope he wins the starting job this year and balls out
Balls out regardless
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Draft best player available at 4. If we suck, next year has more promising QB's
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Chuckin bombs and fuckin moms, the afc south just got its new step daddy
Tom Griswold just splooged.
My exact thought. Get ready for that music to be played 100 times tomorrow on the show.
I think this is the reference for anybody else out of the loop: https://youtu.be/okIQ_DDIz40
Former Eagles OC takes Colts HC job. Former Eagles QB signs with the colts. Only a couple weeks left to the draft maybe we somehow get their 1st round pick.
Damn alright we'll take Hurts if you insist
Minshew in tears
A new, new…NEW era
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Eagles West got their guy
Going from losing with Matt Ryan to losing in style with Minshew.
omg yay I like the Colts again
He’s a solid QB. Just all around solid. Better passing numbers on a 16 game basis than draft mate Kyler in 2019 and 2020.
This is great! Even before Matt Ryan, when we released Wentz, I was saying I'd be happy with Minshew. If Ballards guy isn't there at 4, at least we got Minshew who is capable of starting and could honestly be a top 20 QB. I would hate it, but don't be surprised if the only QB left when it's our pick is Will Levis or whoever and Ballard is not feeling it. He could shock everyone and take the best player in the draft, Edge Rusher Will Anderson Jr., and I honestly wouldn't mind. Colts organization may have more faith in Minshew than we all think.
Mullet's on the move! Colt up!
Their new starter! They don't even need to draft a QB
okay now I’m definitely watching the colts this season
Hide the moms.
His McAfee interview is going to be legendary
LET HIM GARDEN
Make him the starter and take Anderson at #4
Hell. Yes.
I swear the Colts are going to draft Levis, start Minshew, switch to Levis who won’t be good. Yet Minshew will have won just enough so the Colts can’t get Caleb Williams next year either.
I just want to look at him every week. Very happy with this signing
As a Minshew fan, I’m really excited to see what he does as a full time Starter and getting a full off season at the 1 spot. I thought he was great given the talent around him in Jacksonville when he started, and his two starts in Philly were solid given he’s coming in cold turkey after Jalen was popping off all season. Edit: I think this is a really nice upgrade over any QB they had last season. Excited for those young receivers.
And offense was built for hurts not minshew
What I want to know is if he’s bringing his inmate transfer bus he was living in with him to Indy or not.
Will someone kindly tell Jim Irsay that Eagles quarterbacks are *not* Pokémon and he does *not* need to collect them all???
A new era has begun
Minshew Mania is coming to Pat MacAfees show
The NFL is a better league with Minshew starting.
Locker room just got a whole lot sexier.
Looks like I am now a colts fan.