Ballard 2024 end of year presser

[Dewey 5]

On Anthony Richardson: "We knew when we took him it was going to be a roller coaster... The number 1 thing we have to figure out and have to work through is he's got to stay healthy. That, to me, is the biggest question."

"We have to have competition at the position ... because competition makes you better and because he's not proven he can stay healthy for 17 games."

On his team-building: "Right now, we're not close. I want to make that clear. Being close is losing on the last play of the of the Super Bowl. Going 8-9 is not close."

Re-signing and rewarding so. many of his own last offseason created a complacency and that was a major problem. Must be an edge in the locker room.

Apparently had a convo Zaire Franklin & I don't think it was comfortable for Franklin.