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[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

Good post.

It wasn't that long ago, in that window between Harbaugh and Peyton that there was growing sentiment that the Colts could move out to LA- and the noise was getting pretty loud for a bit and of course Peyton shut that shit down basically 3 games into his rookie season and you could see what was coming.

Jim is going to have to massively change things up to keep the fan interest. Gonna have to ditch this Ballard mantra of winning the cap space off season trophy as some sort of great achievement. We are going to have to go very young and try to fill in with some high profile vets that will draw local's attention.

I for one, will be glad to see Ballard gone. Dynasties are cool, they are also in many respects, incredible luck and lack of injuries at the QB position. Today's NFL is a short term play for glory, tear it down, repeat the process. He wants to plan this 20 year model of excellence, it's virtually impossible in today's salary cap world where your super stars rapidly consume too much of the cap to maintain an exceptional overall talent level on your team.

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The Colts went directly from Harbaugh in 1997 to Manning in 1998.

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[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The Colts went directly from Harbaugh in 1997 to Manning in 1998.

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Sorry, probably should have clarified the Harbaugh year where we damn near went to the bowl, to the collapse that was the 3-13 season and talk of expansion and us potentially moving. We battled to make the playoffs the year after Aaron Bailey and then we fell off a cliff and there was talk of no longer being here, then Peyton shut all that talk down near instantly in his rookie year despite the crappy record.