Ju-Ju
 

Does anyone know if this guy had a history of injury when he was in college? To me, it seems like he's always resting because of nagging little injuries, am I wrong?

https://www.nfldraftbuzz.com/Player/...Brents-DB-Iowa

No mention of any injuries

He had some health issues while at Iowa - he did get sort of banged up towards the end of his first year and then was battling a knee injury for most of his second year for which the Hawkeyes eventually just redshirted him that season.

However, after he transferred to Kansas State, he played in every single game both his junior and senior seasons.

Thin CB room gets thinner - JuJu Brents to IR with knee injury
 

Rapoport speculates that the injury is season-ending although the Colts will wait and see how surgery + recovery goes. There is a slim chance Brents may be back by the end of the season.

https://x.com/RapSheet/status/1833595243050217551


https://x.com/JoelAErickson/status/1833596303919505457

https://x.com/JoelAErickson/status/1833599277417046492

I’d move Rodney Thomas to CB

Ju Ju Brents to IR
 

Hey Chris Ballard---- YOU FUCKING SUCK!!!

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profoo...th-knee-injury

Sorry, didn't see this one- please delete my post!

But, my sentiment remains true---- CHRIS BALLARD YOU FUCKING SUCK!!!

That’s a shame. Lot of potential just can’t get on the field.

Oh and Ballard is a total & complete incompetent dipshit.

Ballard needs to be fired immediately after the last game of the season. Preferably sooner.

For now, the Colts have moved up CB Chris Lammons to the 53 man roster and signed CB Kelvin Joseph to the practice squad.


https://x.com/Colts/status/1833610062712971356

https://x.com/JoelAErickson/status/1833611614672609443

who would have guessed


fuck

That's...not good.

Well, at least we are now giving our opponents a dilemma....

Beat us with the run.....

or beat us with the pass.....

Sigh.....I have lost my faith in Chris Ballard.

Lack of talent and depth at CB was a known issue. Every off season prediction was for us to sign free agents at the position.

I am ready for change.....

Dude is just lazy, period.

No worries. At the post season press conference Ballard will tell us how it’s on him and how he has to do some things differently. I mean he won’t, but that’s as close as we’ll get to fixing the actual issue.

Looks like it is a MCL injury.

Based on the estimated recovery timing being mentioned so far, I would assume it is classified as a Grade 3 severity.


https://x.com/RomeovilleKid/status/1833622180317311403

Well, I guess we can rightfully say that he is "injury prone"

Colt fans deserve better than Ballard and Gus Bradley. They both suck. Ballard is so damn annoying with his inaction. How in the world was he suppose to stop Stroud without shoring up the defensive backfield. Same old same old with him. Don't even like watching him talk anymore, pure BS.

I've seen this somewhere before. If it wasn't you I've seen others say they exact same thing. It resonates because I feel the same. Every year his shit gets more stale.

A good year is not good enough, the year has to be great.

It won’t be great because “this year” is never the priority. Decisions are always made for future years. Always. He’s yet to have a single season where it was obvious the team thought this was their year or even the start of a window. Contrast Ballard’s methods to Houston’s. How much did their new additions impact that game? Makes sense the Colts didn’t expect their run game to be an issue, they can’t fathom how a team could actually address a known weakness. It’s fucking infuriating.

Well, they did bring back Ronnie Harrison Jr. today if the Colts want to rob from the Safety group.

Harrison Jr was signed to the practice squad and the team listed him as a Safety, not a LB.

https://x.com/Colts/status/1833857733910843885

Unfortunately I think this has to do with Blackmon

I don't think Ballard sucks per se. but his inability to fix know issues is a fire able offense.


we all knew this secondary, at best, had zero depth. and he sat on his hands. championship teams don't do this

there is no cap space saved trophy

Embrace the disappointment, I hope Dallis Flowers is up to the task. Unfortunately the CB free agent cupboard has a lot of molded bread on it.

Let's thank Ballard for waiting until disaster strikes.

Yep, Blackmon hasn't practiced the last 2 days- shoulder. Blackmon also missed the end of the year= shoulder.

Hey Jim, wake the fuck up, your GM could have used a ten dollar bill and some cracker jacks to bring in a couple seasoned dudes who could have learned the system JUST IN CASE they were needed, he didn't!

Jim wake up, your GM is still working for the Chiefs, dude is successfully ensuring at least one of the Chiefs challengers will never be in a position to dethrone them. Dude is straight on the take!

CHRIS BALLARD YOU FUCKING SUCK!

What a horrible take. Ballard is not helping the Chiefs. Get a grip!

Each year Ballard ignores glaring holes, over and over and over, same damn theme. He'll of course arrogantly tell everyone he doesn't, but he does.

Got ~$20MM sitting in the salary account, it doesn't roll over, Jim can't stick it in his pocket, it's just funny money in a spreadsheet that converts to $0 when the new year starts.

8 years
2 Playoff appearances
1 Playoff win
0 Division titles

Looks to me like he sure as hell is doing more for the other teams in the NFL than he is for the Colts.

FUCK CHRIS BALLARD!

You're completely wrong about the salary cap. The extra space does Rollover to the next year.

You lost all credibility when you ignorantly claimed the money does not roll over. Blind hatred is bad for the soul.

~
 

Ok, so my bad. So dickfuck will just sit on the ~$20M through league end and then tell the NFL he wants to roll it. So can any one of his defenders give a plausible explanation why that would help us vs paying a couple 6-8 year defensive backfield vets ~$6-$7M a year to learn the system and help the team the minute we invariably suffer injuries at the position?

Why in the FUCK are there people on here that continue to support his conservative ass fucking approach to this team?

Every fucking year it is about NEXT year. At some fucking point it isn't about next year, it HAS to be about the current year. If AR performs in accordance with his pick, in a couple years we will owe him ~$70M. When that happens, there's gonna be some big lineup losses that result. Then what- rebuild with 2033 in mind? Can't you see his approach is always a kick the can down the curb approach?

I to a degree get that this year is a year which will be hyper focused on AR's progression, and most likely we are a borderline playoff team and not much more. Ok, sure, can roll with that. But why in the FUCK is that an excuse for leaving an area of the team completely naked- when EVERY FUCKING HUMAN ALIVE that has ever watched football was screaming we were too inexperienced and too thin on that back line- and he just ignored it with some cap to work with to at least TRY to put a band aid on it? Why, and explain WHY that would be a smart move? So next year we now pretty much know going in, we have to draft CB's and S's at the top of the draft. Great, really fucking great to know that after game 1 of a fucking season. Unless we have a series of Love type situations, this year's roster of QB's to be faced vs last year, with this backfield, and with Gus Bradley's fraidy cat approach having to be expanded even more to compensate for dudes off the street- we are gonna give up billions of passing yards.

I just do not get people who rationalize how bad this motherfucker is at being a GM. It's the NFL, you do not see teams have this sustained level of blah stick with the same people that made the franchise blah, you just don't. He is a fucking joke!

We should have won the division last year. It had nothing to do with Ballard or the team. The last game should not have even mattered. The Colts got screwed by the refs in the Browns game. The NFL even admitted they messed up which they never do.

But the clock reset when AR was drafted. He is tied to his success. Barring a complete collapse he isn’t going anywhere. Might as well accept it. We don’t have a say, and Ballard isn’t all bad, like most GMs he has his flaw and strengths.

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Perhaps the mods can merge these 2 threads, since they are essentially the same.


http://www.coltfreaks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=185877

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Ballards problem is he believes to much in the players he drafts.

It’s always “we like the guys we have”.

A truly great GM doesn’t get sucked into that trap and recognizes that he’s not infallible and a backup plan is always a good idea.

If that is the Colts philosophy it stinks. Ballard should not be deciding who we ride with.

IMO, it's the head coach and the position coaches who should be evaluating they have, because they work them every day.

In Reich's case it seemed like he relented all roster decisions to Ballard. I don't feel like Steichen is that way, especially on offense.

Maybe Steichen needs to devote a little more time to the defensive construction of this team.

I’d certainly like to see him pick his own scheme and coordinator instead of inheriting them.