Press Conference Today 4:15
 

Go rogue, Ballard. Fire Pagano and ask Irsay's forgiveness later.

ballard: pagano is coach. he's a good coach that's won a lot of games.

that's not what I wanted to hear ballard.

This is some bull shit.

Good grief.

Fire Ballard!!!

It will be okay. Ballard will improve the talent and Pagano will have enough rope to hang himself with. The lack of talent excuse will be no more.

His ideas sounded similar to the last guy's.

Really? How many feet of rope are they gonna continue to give Pagano? Will Ballard make enough changes that after another disappointing campaign Jim can't say "well he's had a good gm for only a year. Better give him another just to be sure"?
Even if the colts improve, which they should, I believe a better coach could be had.

Well there goes my hope that Ballard had a mind of his own!! He's just Irsay lackey. He should have said Andrew Luck has won a lot of games IN SPITE of Chuckles Pagano!

[QUOTE=rcubed;721]ballard: pagano is coach. he's a good coach that's won a lot of games.

Ballard must not have watched any Pagano coached games.

Well this sucks balls

Well, we have to hope Pags learns quickly about how to be a good coach.

The problem is you can't fix stupid.

Well a talented roster can hide stupid. Think Caldwell.

I'm not defending Pagano and I think a better coach can be had, too. But he's going to be the coach in 2017 so we're stuck with him. Ballard will improve the team and Chuck's rope will be the 2017 season. If he sucks again, and he most likely will, he'll be fired. If Irsay has any sense, anyway. Again, I'm not defending Pagano, I've wanted him gone as long as anyone else.

Regardless of the clapper sticking around, I'm still very happy with this hire, gives me some hope moving forward.

The best I can say is that I'll wait and see. This kind of start really makes me question his judgment. And if he is doing it because he has to then he's not who I thought he was. He seemed to have the reputation of someone that would wait for the right job and not be bound by stupid constraints like this.

Don't like the hiring already, if he truly thinks Chuck Pagano is a good coach we're screwed for another 5 years. Sorry, Luck.

It's stupefying that Irsay made this decision. Hopefully an infusion of talent will compensate for the idiot at the helm.

But what is he going to say? Keeping him came from irsay

Yep, it is. All we can do is hope for the best. I'm certain Ballard will improve the talent. Chuck will get himself canned.

From what i read and heard in the press conference, he wanted a few things in a gm job. Location (midwest smallish market), good owner, and throw set at qb in for a bonus. Maybe he told himself he can suffer through a year with pagano to get the job he wanted, thinking long term. It would have been nice for him to stand ground, but maybe that would have cost him the job and we end up with someone else and still have pags regardless.

http://www.wthr.com/article/kravitz-...E2%80%93-again

Kravitz

All I can say is 🤢...

Edgeman, we need a puking emoji!!

Here's my little glimmer of optimism. I vaguely recall, from the 2015 season when there was all this talk of Grigson interfering too much with Pagano's job, that one of the ways he was doing this was by not letting Pagano discipline guys - in other words, Pagano wanted to be harder on guys than he was, but Grigson wouldn't let him.
Now this year, there was talking again from some players that "they wanted to be coached harder". So once again, is this something where Pagano was being held back?
This clearly doesn't excuse his terrible in-game decisions, apparent lack of preparation for an opponent, and horrible offensive scheme, but hey like I said, it's a little glimmer of optimism.

Just a random bump of a random thread to see how it feels to be Colts and Oreos.

There is only room for one thread necromancer.

Maybe a sticky thread for the sole purpose of obscure colts trivia and random observations is in order. It could pay homage to a previous quirky personality as well... Da Coats and Oreos House of Peculiarities.

perfect! a thread I wont ever have to visit!

Today I realized that the CFL had a Baltimore colts expansion team. You can still gets hats and shirts. Their logo looked like a monochrome blue Broncos logo. If I ever see a road game in baltimore, I'm going to.buy a hat.

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Gotta say, I love how minds work around here

I know now how he feels; it is like when you say, "made you look", when it was nothing to look at in the first place.

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Unlike your antagonistic bump of this thread, my bumps (and/or new threads started of historical comparisons) always have some type of significant relevance........such as this one that you thanked, in spite of your belittling of the practice.


http://coltfreaks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65422


More importantly, I didn't ask for the "Historian" title to be placed below my screen name ........ It was Smitty's idea, and I had no problem with him doing so when he private messaged me in regard to it.

And considering that Smitty is much less pompous and rambunctious than are you, his feelings and sentiments on the subject go much longer with me than do yours........in other words, if I'm doing something that Smitty appreciates but Racehorse doesn't like, then I must be doing something right.

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Ha ha ha. Made you look.
Triggered!

By the way, I like many of your posts. You are an asset to this board. I also like giving you a hard time, like I do many others on here. That is how brothers do it in my family.

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Thanks the explanation, much appreciated.

Actually, I DID let it go when you made the first post on the previous page. I thought that I should just leave it be as occasional teasing/taunting that every regular poster on Colt Freaks gets. Several other posters chimed in, and I let that go, as well ....... it was after you made another post that with an additional dig that I felt that you were essentially pleading for a response, for which I gave you one.

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He eats cookies for breakfast, that kind of sugar intake early in the morning can make you irritable

Im over 50 so I actually enjoy discussing those old memories. A sticky thread would work.

I agree. Although I usually skip C&O's posts anyway.

Every one