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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
Yeah, I suppose the rookie LT contract does help. But paying a LG very high end LT money isn't a good thing, especially when said LG has vastly underperformed since being paid that much.
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If you could show me that money would go to a pro-bowl-level contributor in exchange I would say ok. But I'm ok with it. Especially since I suspect we are getting new C and RG soon. Nelson provides a pocket to step up into and that is valuable. Assuming the tackles are stable.
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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
It's not just the injuries. Kelly flat out sucks when he's healthy too. He's probably the worst starting OC in the league this year and possibly the worst OC in the league period (as evidenced when Pinter comes in and outplays him). Of course with our luck he'll probably get back to his former pro bowl level after moving on, but I don't think we can take that risk.
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I think he is hurt and has been playing hurt. It's unfortunate. I don't think Pinter is the answer.
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Some of the nuance I was talking about with Reed and Glow. I know Reed gave Minny a discount, but they're only paying him slightly over the vet minimum. Seems to be we could have outbid them pretty easily. You never know what happened behind the scenes though: my guess is Ballard pissed him off by low balling him.
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I thought there was interest on our side. But who knows.
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Glow did get a good deal, but we could have matched without any problem.
As for Pryor - Hopefully Ballard learned a lesson that LT is one of the positions you can't fuck around with and hand the starting job to a low end talent reclamation project. Unless he's gone then hopefully he didn't learn that lesson.
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We sign Glow then we likely don't sign Gilmore. So i don't know, pick your poison.
Pryor was the disaster of the season. Never seen a single lineman cost a HC his job. I'm not sure why he played so much either. He wasn't benched till Saturday took over. I doubt it was Ballard, if that was true Banagu and Isiah would be starting.
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Agree with your thoughts on Ballard. Year after year he banks on filling holes through the draft or with bottom end FAs and year after year we watch those holes get exposed all season long. He probably shouldn't be fired, but hopefully this shit storm of a season lights a fire under his ass to fill team needs with more urgency.
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Every single team has holes and teams try to exploit them. This is nothing unique to the Colts. The Eagles might be the most complete team and that will stop when 2nd contract time comes for their QB. But he does have to have a solid LT, hopefully, that is Raimann.
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As for not being a FA destination I think Ballard's reputation has a lot to do with that. Agents know that Ballard is only going to offer low end and/or 1 year show me contracts, so they don't even bother to consider the Colts.
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I agree with that mentality somewhat. Expensive FA's can be a huge resource suck. I wanted him to sign a DE a few years ago when we really needed one and had cap room. I think they talked to a few but got outbid. Half of those guys failed. I'm ok with no huge FA's. Polian largely ignored them too. And we get some pretty good contributions out of the guys he does sign. I feel like you do this when you really know you have a shot and need to push over the edge. We still need a QB first.
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Aside from that, up until this year I don't think the Colts were looked down upon that much. Remember we had 2 QBs specifically request to be traded here in the offseason. Going fwd I agree with you. Dumpster fire of a team in a small market = no FA interest.
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QB's see the talent on the roster and would like to work with it. Who wouldn't? But skill players want that spot settled first.