Colts missed the boat on Fields when they signed Flacco

Danny Bridges I never really fancied myself as an NFL Player Personnel type, and generally speaking l try not to use the genuine platform that this newspaper provides me to simply stir the proverbial pot. After all, aside from once rushing for an eye-opening thirty-six yards in a Bantam League game in the early seventies, I’m pretty inexperienced and can’t be branded as a football man. When it comes to recommending how to go about compiling an NFL roster, l certainly would defer to the true professionals when it comes to calling the shots as after all they are “lifers” of the sport and surely they would know more about it than me some ninety-nine point nine percent of the time, right? But that point nine percent comes in to play every once in a while, and this time it’s a virtual no-brainer when one looks at the recent quarterback strategy occurring on West 56th Street.& You know, where the decision to sign a thirty-nine year old veteran quarterback who can no longer get out of the way of an oncoming shopping cart at the grocery let alone a powerful edge rusher in the NFL, was anointed a backup to...