We don't know anything about Curtis Painter

Look at preseason games. He still sucks. There is no pressure bc he pretty much has the job and losing in the preseason doesn’t mean jack. The dude is in his 3rd season and just flat out can’t play. I want him to be good just like anyone else. When we drafted him, i even sd “smart guy who was underrated coming out of college. he is peyton’s successor.” i was acutally kinda stoked about him. But I’m abandoning ship. He is NOT our future.

I like Curtis Painter as a human being. I like what he did at Purdue. After seeing his body of work last year, I really hope Painter can get over it (whatever it is) and play well… but he’s jittery, nervous, and just isn’t showing his potential on the field.

The stats for Manning are for a single game. In that game, Manning threw 37 times and put up 302 yards including a beautiful 42 yard strike and 1 TD. Enough for people to see the guy could play QB in the NFL.

Here are painter’s stats:
Games: 2
8-28 28.6% for 83 yards (2.96 avg)
Longest pass: 10 yards.
0 TD
2 INT
1 FUM
9.8 QB Rating

can make all the throws. I think that’s the most important thing. The music is playing pretty fast out there—both for him and the receivers. If he had to play, he would get better fast because he would get more experience. Didn’t Manning go 3-13 his first season? That was a season with lots of 1st round picks on the roster (Manning, Faulk, Glenn, Harrison, and more) and a running back that just went into the Hall of Fame! I wasn’t alive way back then, but how bad was that to watch? If Painter were forced to play and went 3-13 would we invite him back to try again next year?

Nobody can replace Peyton manning, but Painter could develop into an 8-8 player. That’s all you can expect from a backup. If he were good enough to get a team to the playoffs, he would be a starter on another team. There are only a a dozen guys in the whole country that are good enough to play that position at an NFL level and they are all on NFL teams. The rest of the guys are hired to throw practice balls, are hired because the owner smokes crack, or just because they are the best of the not-good-enough and you gotta have someone out there to take the snap.

Think about playing quarterback. It’s worse than doing carrier landings in the dark. It doesn’t matter what you do to prepare: you have three seconds. In three seconds the scariest M.F. you ever laid eyes on is going to try to kill you. Two 6’4" 280# homicidical freaks that can bench press 500# and squat 700# and run 4.8 40s are coming to crush you and they hope you die from it. You have to shove that aside and try to make sense out of the other 20 guys running around everywhere. You start with a plan, but unless you have a 25 year-old Marvin Harrison to bail you out, the plan goes out the window. You have to go through your list—the clock is ticking and there are only 3 ticks— and you have to do something right now. 12 guys in the country can step up in the pocket, sense danger without looking back, take the blow without the prior knowledge of it messing up their concentration, and not let the last hit effect the next play, plus put in the time for study and have the presence on the field to recognize what they studied. There are times when Manning goes down 5 times in a row, and it doesn’t look like it phases him. He is that perfect warrior. His mind is on winning, not on worrying about anything else.

First round picks go bust every year. You want to make a list? It will take a whole roll of toilet paper. Painter is a 6th round pick. The Colts know he can be an 8-8 player at best. They are going to have to lose Manning, have some really bad seasons and some high draft picks to get a chance at another franchise QB. That’s why franchise QBs make gigantic money. That’s why the rookie caps were set—being a top pick doesn’t mean you get paid like other top picks—prove you are one of the elite 12.

we draft Manning’s replacement in 2015 after winning two SB. Til then who cares who backs him up