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Originally Posted by Oldcolt
Ballard is the longest tenured non multi role (not an owner etc) GM in NFL history to have a losing record and not have multiple playoff wins or a conference championship appearance according to an article I read. It isn't this one year that has lost me. It is the past decade of this. I was in the corner of those who make excuses for Ballard until this year. It has just been to long of having the same front office and getting the same results with a different excuse each year. Injuries are not an excuse in the NFL:
49ers had Purdy, Kittle, Pearsall, Aiyuk, Warner, Bosa, and probably other players hurt for extended periods of time and theyre 11-4.
Chargers lost Slater and Alt, Hampton for a lot of time, Herbert has a broken hand, theyre 11-4.
Texans started 0-3 and lost Stroud for a period of time. They won all their games with Mills at QB. Now they’re 10-5.
I have been through many of these bad stretches as a Colt fan over the last 60 years of following them. Those stretches never ended without changes in the management of the team. I think it is time. Again it isn't just about this year. I hope for all of our sake I am wrong.
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At some point, over an extended period of time, your record simply is what your record is. Ballard has a long track record, and there is no other way to look it than it being really shitty. He hasn't produced, simple as that. In every line of work- if you don't deliver acceptable results over a meaningful period of time, you are replaced. Chris Ballard needs to be replaced.