Let me preface this by saying I think the Ballard era is over. It’s done. It’s time to move on and start fresh, which I think will happen after the season.
That said, we have done worse than Chris Ballard. We lived through Ryan Grigson, for crying out loud, a guy who was really bad at his job AND was hated by everyone in the building. Anyone remember Bjoern Werner, Jack Mewhort, D’Joun Smith, Le’Raven Clark. Free agent signings like Gosder Cherilus, Laron Landry, Ricky Jean Francois, Darius Hayward Bey. Now HE was a bad GM. Ballard is WORLDS better than Grigson.
Even the supposed best GM’s in the game fuck up now and then. The Kansas City Chiefs have an undrafted free agent from Indiana starting at left tackle. That’s pretty messed up.
Ballard’s failure in finding a quarterback was his undoing. If Luck hadn’t retired, I firmly believe we’d have at least one Super Bowl.
But he did and the failure to adequately replace him is squarely on Ballard.
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