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He did draft well early while with the Colts, however. Most of they players most commonly associated with the Colts' glory days - Manning, Edge, Freeney, Mathis, Wayne, Sanders, Clark, Bethea - were drafted by Polian. |
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That's not true. It was an aging team without its franchise QB. No team built to be successful based on the success of its franchise QB will do well in his absence.
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Just a kind of related thought - everyone hears Ballard’s comment about the team being more than any one player and see’s it as an indication he plans to build a strong complete team (D, OL, etc) and not force Luck to be the savior. That’s hard to argue with. But what if another valid way to interpret that was that he’s not going to let the presence of Luck dictate how he builds the team. That he’s not going to change his 3 yr rebuild because it is wastes some of what should be Lucks prime years. Would you still agree with that? How can whether or not you have the single most important piece and the one that’s hardest to acquire not effect how you go about building a team? That’s a big part of what I disagree with. Last edited by rm1369; 04-08-2018 at 06:03 PM. |
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There’s several levels of degree difference between what the Colts became without Manning and what most top teams become after losing their franchise QB. People aren’t critical because they didn’t make the playoffs. People are critical because they were a complete joke. That certainly didn’t happen to NE in the past. Or Philly last year. Or even the Packers last year.
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He definitely missed on backup QB at teh end of Mannings tenure.
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I think a lot of guys are getting hung up on the "3 year rebuild" thing.
In 2017, as bad as the team played, we lost 6 games by 7 points or less. 1 point loss 3 point loss 3 point loss 4 point loss 6 point loss 7 point loss If we would have had one player different in 2017 (Andew Luck instead of Jacoby Brissett), how many of those games do you think we would have won? Just swap out QBs and play the exact same team. How many? Just by adding Luck back into the mix (along with Hooker, Wilson, Anderson, a healthy Kelly and hopefully a healthy Mewhort) move the needle a TON even without a single draftee. Sure, we may be 3 years away from being competitive with winning the SB, but I could easily see a 10 win season in 2018 if Luck comes back strong, we draft well and Ballard can fill in with some cap cut veterans prior to the regular season. I really don't think we are only going to be a 4 or 6 win team next year. Walk Worthy,
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