[sherck]

Considering that Luck is not yet practicing with the team, I find it a stretch that he will be ready for even the Week 4 CLE game in 2 weeks.

As such, he will be looking at joining a team that is 1-3 at best and quite possibly 0-4 as Cleveland is actually showing some signs of life as a team even though they are also 0-2 right now.

That is a pretty hard hole for him to dig the team out of in order to make the playoffs or have a winning record. Going 8-4 or 9-3 for the rest of the season will be a big chore. I hope Pagano is done in Indy.

I also hope that Ballard is smart enough to have come in, realized how bad the roster is, knew that a total rebuild was in order and also knew that if he kept Clappy McWoodchopper for 1 more season in which we were going nowhere anyway, he could then fire him and burn off much of the excess anger from the fan base while getting his star QB healthy and having a 2nd off-season of talent acquisition to further rebuild the team.

I hope that is the case rather than Ballard being convinced that Clappy was a quality NFL Head Coach and that Tolzien was an NFL quality #2 QB. If he believed that, then this franchise is doomed.

Walk Worthy,