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Originally Posted by Colt37
I like going back to a 4-3. Good thing.
But Hankins and Anderson could have done fine, not fitting the system is an arse excuse. Hankins proved his value and he gets into the backfield well for being a run stuffer. As for Anderson, he is a great value player, even if he is injury prone. The only reason I see why Ballard cut him is bc he is a Grigson pick, when Anderson was actually one of Grigson's decent hits, unfortunately like Geathers and Mewhort however he is injury prone.
Letting Hankins go was a huge mistake and a major disapoinment for those of us Colts fans that put up with sub-par interior D-linemen for over 2 decades. He was well worth 8.5 million and he hasn't even hit his prime yet.
It looks like we may be aiming for another tanker of a season. That is why we can overreach for a couple guards and that is why they came out and told us we are in year 1 of rebuild mode.
Will we sit Luck out for another season while letting teams bully their way up our interior defense. Which DT or LB on our roster is going to stop Fournette now? That name would have been Hankins, but Ballard rewarded great play by cutting the player he signed 1 yr into his contract.
Hankins wasn't just a huge mistake bc we lost his talents, but bc what top tier free agent wants to sign with Ballard when he can do to you what he did Hankins? Maybe that played a part in us being so quiet in free agency and why we didn't get some of these guys we tried going after.
I think this draft could have gone a bit better.
Why did we pass on Harold Landry when he can play Edge or OLB? I think we must be aiming to us Braden Smith as our RT and Mewhort as RG. If Mewhort gets hurt we then bump Smith inside and use Good at RT. There were too many game changing playmakers for us to go guard again. Way too many.
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How do we know this though? Anderson has been a 3-4 end for the last 7 years going back to college. If you don't trust your coaches to make player evaluations, why even hire them then. I like Anderson, but he has been hurt for two years and it's not like either of them were pro-bowl players. They want lighter quick step one gap penetrating players. That is who they want to give snaps, and if they have guys they want to develop they will want to give them the snaps.
I think we are in year two of the rebuild.
I wish they could have fixed everything, but there just wasn't enough draft picks. It will take another draft.
The biggest thing I wish they had done was take a chance on Hurst. That heartbeat problem must be pretty bad.