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That was unique collection of individuals who worked well together and were very strong minded in their beliefs. Pagano and Grigson were strong minded pricks who were bull headed and couldn't work together. Ballard is strong minded and probably had more control than he should have, because of Reich's passive we can win with these guys philosophy. You can see that in the handling of 2 players last season. Reich was hands off on defense and Nick Cross was benched 1 1/2 games into the season. Reich ran the offense and continued to believe in Pryor at two different positions that he failed miserably at for 9 straight games. Ballard and Reich just did not form a good team. That's nothing against either one of them. It just wasn't working and because we didn't have other coaches the caliber of our 2000's teams and a Peyton Manning, it was never going to work. |
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All I’ll say is it’s a shame the amount of historical posts on here is limited. I’m curious how many of you specifically told me that I was crazy for saying Ballard’s methods were embarking on a 4-5 year rebuild. I don’t remember a single person saying yes but it’s going to take that or longer. Not a single person, yet now it’s so obvious that this was the only way to go. At the time it was all calling me an impatient hater who didn’t understand his brilliance or his challenge. Here we are in the exact scenario I said and I’m still just a hater who doesn’t understand his brilliance or challenges. Eventually, if he hits at QB it will be turned around and you guys will crow and bask in your 7-8 year rebuild. I suspect he’ll still be the ultra conservative GM he is now and it will be bad luck when the same issues keep beating the team. Time will tell.
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Good news, Carson Wentz is available!
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We had our QB. Were we not way ahead of that 5 year rebuild by the end of 2018? We had just ridden a 10-1 wave, including smacking the division champs at home, into the playoffs where we went back to HOU and smacked the division champs again even worse. Yeah, in that context, before Luck bailed out, I'd agree with guys that may have thought 4 more years to rebuild was a stretch. Because it was. |
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Guessing the quote about Scott was more about him being the most versatile since he could play multiple OL spots. Glenn and Saturday were definitely the best OL we had in the Peyton era. I just remember back then us plugging in whoever at LG: 7th rounders, UDFAs, guys signed to the practice squad the week before, and it was fine. I'm sure Peyton had a lot to do with that, but Glenn did as well. Also, I never suggested that Nelson should have been moved to LT. If he was able to do that it probably would have happened well before now. Last edited by IndyNorm; 02-28-2023 at 11:37 PM. |
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So when Nelson comes along and makes the impact he did, despite going against conventional thought, he was worth taking at #6 and worth paying to keep. He reset the market so he's close, but still behind the top LT's money. Quote:
I didn't mean to imply you suggested it. Just saying Pryor would have been exploited anywhere on the line. Nelson could have faired better at LT than Pryor, but Pryor would still be beaten inside and Matt Crisco Fingers Ryan would've fumbled again and we'd lose. |
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As important as having top tier talent on an offensive line, is having the absolute best offensive line coaches who can maximise each individual player to get the very most out of their skill set. If that then means you need to be going to the offensive co-ordinator and saying "stop calling that stupid play, we don't have the personnel to block that", then that might be as good as anything.
I am sure Strausser is a decent oline coach, but is he as good as Howard Mudd was? Does he command the level of respect from the rest of the coaches? |
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