Originally Posted by Dam8610
IndyNorm essentially agreed with me in the post you call a great breakdown, so glad we're on the same page now.
I'll take your suspicion that I am Chris Ballard as a compliment as he is one of the best football talent evaluators in the world and he's also pretty good at roster construction. The one area where I've found a lot of disagreement with him is the QB position. Stroud was worth trading the farm for in my opinion. I hope he ends up right about Richardson, because the ceiling is still best QB in the league, it's just clear that I was right that the floor was out of the league in 5 years, and thus far, his results have come much closer to the floor than the ceiling.
You say again that you'd lowball Kelly expecting him to walk and cut Smith, nothing new and courses of action on which we agree. That's not interesting. Interesting would be figuring out what to do with the newfound cap space in free agency, and how that effects draft strategy.
For example, as I've stated many times on this thread, my plan A would be to pursue Jevon Holland and one of D.J. Reed and Charvarius Ward. The secondary is badly in need of upgrades, and doing nothing about that pretty much locks in TE, S, and CB as the first 3 picks in the 2025 draft. I think IDL is a much bigger need than anyone is really giving thought to, and if the secondary is addressed in FA, it frees the Colts up to weight need less and BPA more on Days 1 and 2 of the draft.
Asking you to list your preferred free agent targets isn't exactly the same as asking how you'd staff every role within the organization, or apparently how you micromanage those roles. Saying who you’d prefer the Colts to pursue in free agency takes no insider information, the list of free agents is readily available, any game tape you'd want including All-22 can be had for a $100 per year subscription to NFL+, any statistic you would want is available online, most contract data is readily available for free at OverTheCap, and if you want to invent your own metrics and track them, see what I said earlier about the NFL+ subscription. Yes, we don't have as much information as modern NFL teams, but there is a vast amount of information available to us, even as fans. You don't have to lay out a 5 year development plan for each player you say you'd go after, no one person within an NFL organization would do that. That responsibility would mostly be on coaches and internal staff, not even GMs do those things. GMs are responsible for talent evaluation and acquisition.
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