Please burn this shit down!

[Mr. Session]

Occam's razor.

Ballard won't engage in the trades because his best case scenario is the team makes the playoffs, even if he gets fired, so he can argue that ultimately they improved and the trend was "up". Same would apply to Stiechen.

Moving the few horses he has does not help in that pursuit.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Mr. Session

Occam's razor.

Chris Ballard won't engage in the trades because his best-case scenario is the team making the playoffs ...... even if he gets fired, so he can argue that ultimately they improved and the trend was "up" ...... the same would apply to Shane Stiechen.

Moving the few horses he has does not help in that pursuit.

o

Correct.

That is self-preservation, which is not vindictiveness with the goal of bringing everybody around him down with him.


There is nothing unusual about GM's that are on the hot seat doing everything that they possibly can to save their own asses ...... again, that is self-preservation, not pathological vindictiveness.

o

[ChoppedWood]

The fundamental difference, this guy hates his employer- we have 10 years of evidence!

[Hoopsdoc]

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.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

The fundamental difference, this guy hates his employer ...... l we have 10 years of evidence !!!

o


What evidence is there that Chris Ballard hates his employer ??? With the exception of Andrew Luck's final season in 2018 and the Philip Rivers season in 2020, the Colts have been mediocre or bad in every one of their seasons under Ballard ...... yet, you are claiming that Ballard hates the very people who keep him on board in spite of this mediocrity, which makes no sense at all.

Throughout numerous underachieving seasons in which Colts fans and the media have called for Ballard's firing, Jim Irsay repeatedly issued strong public votes of confidence, protecting Ballard's job when most NFL GM's would have been let go ...... why would Irsay do this if there was evidence dating back to January of 2017 that Ballard hated him ???


If Chris Ballard does indeed "hate the Irsays", why the hell would Jim Irsay keep him around for all of the years prior to his death ??? The late Jim Irsay did not impress me as some passive weakling that would tolerate a GM that hated him.

o

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

o


What evidence is there that Chris Ballard hates his employer ??? With the exception of Andrew Luck's final season in 2018 and the Philip Rivers season in 2020, the Colts have been mediocre or bad in every one of their seasons under Ballard ...... yet, you are claiming that Ballard hates the very people who keep him on board in spite of this mediocrity, which makes no sense at all.

Throughout numerous underachieving seasons in which Colts fans and the media have called for Ballard's firing, Jim Irsay repeatedly issued strong public votes of confidence, protecting Ballard's job when most NFL GM's would have been let go ...... why would Irsay do this if there was evidence dating back to January of 2017 that Ballard hated him ???


If Chris Ballard does indeed "hate the Irsays", why the hell would Jim Irsay keep him around for all of the years prior to his death ??? The late Jim Irsay did not impress me as some passive weakling that would tolerate a GM that hated him.

o

Good post!

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

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.

IMO, Grigson's biggest mistake, other than the Trent Richardson trade, was letting a still young and productive 29 year old Antoine Bethea go, in favor of Laron Landry, who never played again, beyond that lone season on the Colts roster.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

o


What evidence is there that Chris Ballard hates his employer ??? With the exception of Andrew Luck's final season in 2018 and the Philip Rivers season in 2020, the Colts have been mediocre or bad in every one of their seasons under Ballard ...... yet, you are claiming that Ballard hates the very people who keep him on board in spite of this mediocrity, which makes no sense at all.

Throughout numerous underachieving seasons in which Colts fans and the media have called for Ballard's firing, Jim Irsay repeatedly issued strong public votes of confidence, protecting Ballard's job when most NFL GM's would have been let go ...... why would Irsay do this if there was evidence dating back to January of 2017 that Ballard hated him ???


If Chris Ballard does indeed "hate the Irsays", why the hell would Jim Irsay keep him around for all of the years prior to his death ??? The late Jim Irsay did not impress me as some passive weakling that would tolerate a GM that hated him.

o

The aforementioned Tape.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

Good post !!!

o


Thanks.

o

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

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. l [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.

o


If Luck had not retired the Colts may have won a Super Bowl, the Colts may have won 2 Super Bowls, or the Colts may not have won any Super Bowls ...... but I do believe that it is highly likely that the Colts would have been perennial contenders if Andrew Luck had continued playing, as opposed to the perennial mediocrity in which they have been mired in since the intial retirement of Philip Rivers following the 2020 season.

o