Indy showing what happens when you spend premium picks on O-line

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1st round - offensive lineman
2nd round - linebacker
3rd round - offensive lineman
4th round - wide receiver
6 round- defensive lineman
7th round - running back

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I guess the Colts' OL forgot how great they are.  I don't think the Chiefs care which round they were drafted in.  

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they still made it further than we did

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@PapaScott said:

@MarkSP18 said:

@Ralphie said:
From a CBS Sportsline article on today's game. Change can be immediate when you get the right personnel....

Be very afraid of this Colts teamUnlike previous versions of this team, which relied mostly on the offense to do the heavy lifting because the defense was rarely good enough to hold onto a lead, this group is completely different. It starts with general manager Chris Ballard, who spent the offseason fixing the offensive line. No. 6 overall pick Quenton Nelson is already the best guard in football. No, really. He's an animal who dominates on a weekly basis.
How good has this offensive line been? A season ago, the unit ranked 32nd in pass blocking, according to Football Outsiders, after giving up 56 sacks. In 2018? They improved to second, allowing just 18(!) sacks.

Colts deserve praise for this season.  But all these reviews never mention that they absolutely SUCKED in 2017.  This allowed them to have the #3 overall pick and trade down with the Jets and select Nelson.
Kind of nice for a GM to have that kind of draft ammo.
Any of us who post here could have selected Nelson.
The Darius Leonard pick turned out very well.  I bet he thinks about Brian O'Neill instead of Braden Smith though.
The other thing a lot of places are giving him credit for is because all the draft picks made the final 53.
It's like the Vikings in 2011 & 2012.  The depth was so terrible that the draft picks had a hard time NOT making the team!

They also didn't have Luck last year (the quarterback)

Well that explains their being terrible for sure.  But it is just fortunate for them to be terrible and then end up with the #3 overall pick and then trade down getting an extra early 2nd and still being able to take a once in every 10 years type of offensive guard.

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@silverjoel said:
I guess the Colts' OL forgot how great they are.  I don't think the Chiefs care which round they were drafted in.  

Oh boy. smh.

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@StickyBun said:v

@silverjoel said:
I guess the Colts' OL forgot how great they are.  I don't think the Chiefs care which round they were drafted in.  

Oh boy. smh.

Yes Sticky,  everything was invalidated by yesterday's game...

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@"BarrNone55" said:

@StickyBun said:v

@silverjoel said:
I guess the Colts' OL forgot how great they are.  I don't think the Chiefs care which round they were drafted in.  

Oh boy. smh.

Yes Sticky,  everything was invalidated by yesterday's game...

Yep. My theory has been invalidated. Fake news. Defensive BPAs in the first 3 rounds!!

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@StickyBun said:

@"BarrNone55" said:

@StickyBun said:v

@silverjoel said:
I guess the Colts' OL forgot how great they are.  I don't think the Chiefs care which round they were drafted in.  

Oh boy. smh.

Yes Sticky,  everything was invalidated by yesterday's game...

Yep. My theory has been invalidated. Fake news. Defensive BPAs in the first 3 rounds!!

after last year theyre going to need to draft D 1-3 just to fill the newly exposed holes lol. 

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@"BarrNone55" said:

@StickyBun said:v

@silverjoel said:
I guess the Colts' OL forgot how great they are.  I don't think the Chiefs care which round they were drafted in.  

Oh boy. smh.

Yes Sticky,  everything was invalidated by yesterday's game...

Or perhaps they should look at the Chiefs formula for building an offensive line. Those guys looked pretty good!
Did anyone else think Luck's arm looked weak? First time I watched him play this year.

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@MarkSP18 said:

@PapaScott said:

@MarkSP18 said:

@Ralphie said:
From a CBS Sportsline article on today's game. Change can be immediate when you get the right personnel....

Be very afraid of this Colts teamUnlike previous versions of this team, which relied mostly on the offense to do the heavy lifting because the defense was rarely good enough to hold onto a lead, this group is completely different. It starts with general manager Chris Ballard, who spent the offseason fixing the offensive line. No. 6 overall pick Quenton Nelson is already the best guard in football. No, really. He's an animal who dominates on a weekly basis.
How good has this offensive line been? A season ago, the unit ranked 32nd in pass blocking, according to Football Outsiders, after giving up 56 sacks. In 2018? They improved to second, allowing just 18(!) sacks.

Colts deserve praise for this season.  But all these reviews never mention that they absolutely SUCKED in 2017.  This allowed them to have the #3 overall pick and trade down with the Jets and select Nelson.
Kind of nice for a GM to have that kind of draft ammo.
Any of us who post here could have selected Nelson.
The Darius Leonard pick turned out very well.  I bet he thinks about Brian O'Neill instead of Braden Smith though.
The other thing a lot of places are giving him credit for is because all the draft picks made the final 53.
It's like the Vikings in 2011 & 2012.  The depth was so terrible that the draft picks had a hard time NOT making the team!

They also didn't have Luck last year (the quarterback)

Well that explains their being terrible for sure.  But it is just fortunate for them to be terrible and then end up with the #3 overall pick and then trade down getting an extra early 2nd and still being able to take a once in every 10 years type of offensive guard.

So: in 2016, should we have let Shaun Hill play out the season at QB, and kept the draft picks we exchanged for Sam Bradford (14th overall if Hill had achieved the same 7-8 Bradford did, lower pick if not)? That's the closest opportunity Vikings have recently had to the Colts' "formula". I was excited by the Bradford trade when it happened, but it may have been a mistake.