Quick thoughts on Dolphins-Colts

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

Check out the prediction thread. People thought this team would be 7-10 win range. Exactly where we will end up. So no, this isn’t surprising to anyone. And let’s stop pretending this is a great roster. It isn’t. Look at the teams we are playing. They aren’t that good..

Oh, ok, so “people” thought this. I just looked at the thread, and here’s a list of the predictions made:

Hoopsdoc - between 4 and 9 wins
JesusChrist – 4-6 wins
Dr. Spaceman – 8 wins
Colts and Orioles – 11 wins
Sherck – 9 wins
Indystu2 – 6 wins
Dewey 5 – 3-5 wins
FatDT – 7 wins

Averaging barely over 7 wins, even including C&O’s 11-win prediction which was ridiculed by several at the time. No prediction by you in that thread, of course, though I did come across this little nugget you wrote at about the same time – “in the 2nd year of being the gm, this team has very little talent. it doesn't look good for ballard right now.”

I’m sure I can find lots more if I look, because you’ve very pessimistic about the Colts under Ballard – a far cry from your suggestion now that you knew all along that we’d perform this well.

Originally Posted by omahacolt

Polian has issues at the dt spot year after year he couldn’t fix through the draft. He signed his own free agents to hefty deals. He couldn’t draft well enough to put together complete teams.

Not a complete team? No team is perfect, but the Colts won 14 in a row in 2009 and were typically one of the top seeds going into the playoffs during the Manning years. And comparing the current approach to Polian’s approach is ludicrous – Polian signed tons of free agents. Even at DT, off the top of my head he signed/traded for Booger McFarland and Corey Simon. Simon, if I’m not mistaken, had even been designated as a franchise or transitional free agent. Not to mention the fact that it appears we are currently drafting well.

Originally Posted by omahacolt

You go all in to win. That doesn’t mean you can’t also plan for the future. I am not calling for a max spend every year. Guys like Mitchell and Inman are a perfect example of guys I am talking about. They vastly improved our depth at least. Both should be starters. They aren’t impeding anyone’s progress.

Nobody cares what you are “calling for” - particularly since you believe Ballard has so much more info than you and therefore can make more informed decisions. And as to Mitchell and Inman, we signed them so what are you complaining about? You should be singing the Colts praises.