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Old 08-17-2018, 07:36 PM
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Wilson played well in limited time last year. I'm not writing him off yet.
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Odd shot at carter at the end
I’m guessing he was probably a douche, either to Kravitz in particular or the media at large and this was just his way of twisting the knife.

As I recall, Carter essentially said “I don’t do special teams.”
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There are plenty of douche bands in the NFL, including ones that never do a thing and wash out in 2 years. Carter hasn't been a Colt in what, 5 years? 6 years? It was weird. Lots of his readers probably don't even know or remember who that is.
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Ballard is betting the farm on building through the draft, so he's relying on it more than most teams, and he can't afford to miss out especially on the earlier round picks. If Wilson and Basham don't work out, he will likely only have 2-3 players out of 8 picks from 2017 turn into good players. You can't build a team primarily through the draft if you are only getting 2-3 players from each draft.

Ballard needs to stop using 2nd and 3rd round picks on project players with upside.
Getting 2-3 starters out of an average draft is a good result. The 2018 draft should produce more considering the Colts had 5 of the top 64 picks, but that is also not an average draft.
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Getting 2-3 starters out of an average draft is a good result. The 2018 draft should produce more considering the Colts had 5 of the top 64 picks, but that is also not an average draft.
Not with Ballard's approach. 2 out of 8 won't build a team.

We'll see how 2018's draft does. Those project players he took early have to hit.
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Old 08-18-2018, 10:33 AM
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Not with Ballard's approach. 2 out of 8 won't build a team.

We'll see how 2018's draft does. Those project players he took early have to hit.
Yep.

If This 2nd round doesn’t hit, Ballard shit the bed
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Not with Ballard's approach. 2 out of 8 won't build a team.

We'll see how 2018's draft does. Those project players he took early have to hit.
2 starters per year would take a long time to build a team using Ballard's approach. That's why drafts like the 2018 draft need to produce much more than that. I've said before that 2018 has a chance to produce 8 starting/regular PT players, so I'm expecting a minimum of 4 and hoping for 6 from this class.
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There are plenty of douche bands in the NFL, including ones that never do a thing and wash out in 2 years. Carter hasn't been a Colt in what, 5 years? 6 years? It was weird. Lots of his readers probably don't even know or remember who that is.
Three years (2015), but yeah.

I’m guessing Kravitz has some special grudge for Duron Carter.
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Three years (2015), but yeah.

I’m guessing Kravitz has some special grudge for Duron Carter.
Wait. I thought Kravitz was talking Delone Carter. Was it Duron or Delone?

Edit : it was Duron, my mistake. Less weird.
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I think Kravitz remarks are much ado about nothing. He's always been about sensationalism, without regard to if it made sense or not.
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