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By the time Ballard gets the QB and pass rusher positions right, all the young talent that he HAS gotten right, will all be wasted. It seems that Ballards tenure has been a wait until next year one, not entirely his fault, thank you Andrew !
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Agree that I don't want Ballard to throw our future away by trading away all of our early draft picks for high priced veterans like the Rams have done. But I (like most of us) think he's needs to open up the checkbook a bit like the Bungles did and bring in some difference makers to fill holes rather than just band aid with bargain FAs like he usually does, which obviously hasn't worked out too well. |
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Good point. Not sure we need a franchise/Mahomes type of player, but we definitely need someone better than Wentz.
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1) a team in the playoffs or at the door of the playoffs every year leads to higher expectations 2) the same holes year after year the draft isn't fixing. 3) having issues and over 50 mil in cap space just sittting there and barely missing the playoffs pisses people off. pisses me off. 4) building through the draft can successfully be supplemented with the right free agents. nobody builds 100% through the draft. your team will suck. |
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Ballard doesn’t make decisions based on what the team needs, he makes decisions based on “winning” the transaction with the idea he’ll eventually draft whatever the team needs anyway. The issue is you can never draft enough to adequately fill all the holes. Not to mention the team has yet to adequately fill the three most important positions for winning - QB, DE, and LT. So yes he’s been great drafting but he’s been in charge for awhile and the team still has many major holes and hasn’t won shit. As far as locker room culture, I’m not sure Ballard has built all that great of one. You don’t have a winning culture if you don’t win, right? And I have serious doubts about this team’s commitment to winning considering how many “leaders” in the locker room were willing to throw the season away I honestly like Ballard, but there is plenty of room to criticize his methods without being inconsistent with the criticisms of Grigson. Last edited by rm1369; 02-13-2022 at 11:20 AM. |
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Also, agree on the team culture. Team's with winning cultures don't go shit the bed at the Jagoffs with a playoff spot on the line. |
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They need to go back in time and make the run game the focus of the offense. Beat the other team over the head with the best running back in the league, and hit them with play action and maybe some RPO‘s back side and keep the other team guessing. I’m not saying Wentz is dumb. I would like to see an offense when it comes to the line that the other team hasn’t been able to adjust and predict what they were going to do. Did the Colts run a screen play ever last year?
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I said all this shit last year.
It might be that Ballard is pretty good. Seems with fans they either have to be at one extreme or the other, there is no in between. Ballard is far from perfect, I’ve criticized him enough on here. But I certainly don’t think he is trash and think he is one of the best drafters in the business, which is very valuable. But you have to use some FA to supplement your roster. It seems to me he is biding his time till he thinks we found the next QB. It wasn’t Jacoby, wasn’t Rivers, isn’t Wentz. I think he will spend a mid round pick on a guy as well. Colts are in a tough spot to find a QB. It sucks and I’m not sure outside of trading into the top five how it’s going to get fixed. Last edited by Chromeburn; 02-13-2022 at 01:57 PM. |
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We haven't even won the division since 2014. Eight years ago. That's not good enough. To be fair though, Luck torpedoed the team when he quit. That act alone might have set them back ten years or more. We're Browns level right now.
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