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Originally Posted by ChoppedWood
Man there is something to be said for this- and also hearing the rumors of JT being "unhappy" about his injury...
WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THIS FRANCHISE?
The other day JMV as asking someone- think it might have been Bowen, if this is just a toxic workplace. Whoever it was responded back with the "that's a bit too strong of a word but there's definitely something not quite right on 56th Street".
Well, and yes I am a hater, without question I am, but is the problem fucking Ballard? Timeline matches up.
Peyton - Wayne era, even despite the James situation, and even in the face of the overwhelming difficulty of the Peyton neck situation- the TEAM was harmonious; seemed like everyone was on the same page. Hell even in the Grigson era it didn't seem like there was this constant level of fucking noise around the team, just bad personnel and coaching decisions.
It's always made me wonder- why did Philip just up and quit football? Had a really good season, had a team that looked like it could have made a run that next year, would have been paid a tidy sum, nope, just gonna quit. Hines, Gilmore and it appears Okereke to a lesser extent all made it apparent they wanted to leave this team. Let's not forget, Ballard is also responsible for saying they looked at like 30 minutes of film on Ryan and determined he still had it (wtf- why is he still here????).
Is it just his fixation on "his boys" that is causing a bunch of this? And is Jim's over-reaching last year and now clearly way too fucking far into this shit, a reflection on Ballard just being a stooge and Irsay having to act because Ballard is a GM in name only?
Whatever is the fuel behind this, and I am not in the camp that it is Jim just given some of the past work- with a guy like Edge asking him to do is invocation and rolling with him to the podium- man I just have a hard time believing this is Jim's doings. Whatever it is, this shit needs to be rooted out and gotten rid of. This franchise is better than this petty shit that's been going around here the last several years.
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I don’t trust the radio guys. Just did a rant on them. Grigson was super toxic. Lots of former players have talked about it. I only read good things about Ballard from former players. Mac says great things about him all the time.I trust him over any of the radio guys.
I listened to that radio broadcast. Seems like the same stretch that Doyle was trying to make. Gilmore wasn’t some longtime Colt, he’s a journeyman, him moving on is not a big deal and that happens on other teams all the time. Hines wasn’t being used, that’s a Reich thing. So that leaves JT who wants a record setting contract. All last year these same radio guys were saying “don’t pay running backs. You don’t pay them in the NFL.” Bowen said it all last summer. Now he sits there the other day and says Taylor deserves a contract. Wtf! It seems more about doing what Ballard isn’t doing.
He then says Peyton had Marvin and he had Glenn so you can’t compare it to the Faulk situation. Huh? Richardson has Quinton Nelson one of the best interior players in the league and Raimann who is continuing to look good. Smith is a top ten RT. Then we got MPJ, Pierce, Downs and a loaded TE room with lots of potential. Faulk was clearly the best player on that team at the time though, as JT is now. It’s a very similar situation. I just don’t get wtf these radio guys are doing. When it seemed Ballard was going to sign JT to a new deal it was “you don’t pay RB’s in today’s league.” Now they have totally reversed coarse?!? And another great tidbit they talk about how the Colts need to be like the Jaguars signing a bunch of mid receivers to huge contracts. Surround your QB with as as many guys as possible, just totally ignoring the whole Urban Meyer debacle. What a clown show of analysis. Seems they just want to create bullshit and drama up.