Obviously, I've touched a nerve. Just tell us if you are a Colts fan and/or an AR-15 fan. We need to know why you are digging your heels here.
1. No. No no no no no. Their "first 3 years" is not gonna be "them developing". That is a load of bull****. Yes, we know that teams with "the highest draft picks" tend to be the ones with the worst records. Yes, we know it will take a couple of years for the TEAM to succeed. But a Top 5 drafted QB has to at least be playable by the beginning of Year 2. I'm not talking about the "Green Bay situation", where you have the LUXURY of Favre or Rodgers that allows you to let Rodgers (24th pick) and Love (26th pick) sit for a while. I'm talking about teams with immediate needs who use a Top 5 pick to take a QB and pay him accordingly. You can't wait until Year 4. There are plenty of articles that talk about teams that have a COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE by being able to spend money on other positions when they have a first-round QB who is cost-controlled during his rookie contract. AR-15 is a disastrous pick by the Colts from every angle.
2. He got hurt. Waaaah waaah. If it was a fluke, that would be one thing. But he had an injury history in college, which the Colts ignored. And you don't get a "redshirt year" to develop due to injury. If he has so little experience (which he does) and he is going to need so much time to develop (which he does, if he even develops), then you need to USE THE INJURY TIME to accelerate the learning process. Which simply didn't happen. Why are you (falsely) claiming that AR-15 doesn't struggle with the playbook or film ("clearly not an issue") when that absolutely was one of his issues at Florida? Why are you in denial?
3. I don't give a **** if the Colts "believed" in AR-15's development. If you think a guy needs time, draft down and hope he is still there. I am not saying that every other first round QB would have succeeded, but there is such an obvious mismatch of "Top 5 pick" and "needs years and years of development, if ever" that the entire front office for the Colts should be fired. And their houses burned to the ground. I don't care wha the Colts "believed", but they were WRONG. Flat-out wrong. You have fallen for the same fallacy that the Colts fell for. Yeah, that ONE LONG PASS that he completed was beautiful, let's ignore all of his other terrible throws and the fact that the Colts lost the game (I'm talking about that play that was on all the highlight reels a few weeks ago).
I'm done with this nonsense. It's just silly. To argue that a guy on a multi-million dollar 5-year contract should get 3 years to "develop" is just a joke. The Colts wanted to buy a winning lottery ticket. And they vastly overpaid for that ticket. And the ticket was a loser.
Facts.