Quick thoughts on Dolphins-Colts

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by Chaka

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.



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.



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.

We are one game over 500. The way you post it sounds like we are undefeated and not playing some bad football at times. I am pretty sure I predicted that if luck is healthy we would be at 7 to 9 wins. I never bought into this division being good. And this team does lack talent. Our all world QB is masking some talent deficiencies

Polian signed tons of free agents? The fuck he did

I am giving him props for Mitchell and Inman. Should have had them earlier. With some other dudes

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by NoLuck4Chuck

See, they dont think it's ok to have an opinion. You just have to drink the koolaid no matter what

Hell I hope he proves me dead wrong.I just agree that it doesn't make sense to sit on that Cash.Meanwhile teams like the Pats,Saints and Steelers realize they just need to keep reloading with their franchise QBs.

And spending the cash doesn’t mean you don’t get to draft young guys. You can do both

[Luck4Reich]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

We are one game over 500. The way you post it sounds like we are undefeated and not playing some bad football at times. I am pretty sure I predicted that if luck is healthy we would be at 7 to 9 wins. I never bought into this division being good. And this team does lack talent. Our all world QB is masking some talent deficiencies

Polian signed tons of free agents? The fuck he did

I am giving him props for Mitchell and Inman. Should have had them earlier. With some other dudes

1 game over .500 playing one of the easiest schedules in the NFL. Have the Colts beat one team that will make the playoffs?

[southside asshole]

Originally Posted by NoLuck4Chuck

This same point was argued about Grigson in his first 2 years.

I guess it's wrong to question a guy until hindsight is 20/20.

Don't think I'm coming at you with this - it was just your comment that inspired me to post one.

An opinion on Ballard doesn't have to be binary. It's not either all good or all bad. I would remind people that just about everyone else's opinion on this is probably as nuanced as their own.

When people criticize Ballard for something specific, they're not saying he's a failure of a GM and in over is head.

When people defend Ballard's decisions, they're not saying he's an infallible genius with a magic binder.

Everybody on this board (fuck, everybody everywhere) always assumes that if someone disagrees with you on one little point, that their entire perspective is clear 100% over on the other side of whatever it is. That's almost never true.

My own opinion of Ballard is that, while he's basically a rookie GM and is still prone to certain mistakes, overall I respect and agree with what appears to be his philosophy: play the long game, build your team through the draft and supplement the roster with low-risk free agents that are either solid vets or have a good ratio of upside relative to their cost.

Moreover, he appears to also have a good, collaborative relationship with Reich on which players fit the schemes and doesn't seem to try to interfere with the depth chart. Basically an anti-Grigson. This is all good.

My primary criticism of him at this point, aside from a few totally predictable and also practically inevitable draft misses, is that he appears to be a bit of a cap hoarder. Whether it's because he's being protective of the locker room atmosphere and team culture, or if he's adamant about having the cap space to resign talent, or he's just so risk-averse that he's afraid to spend any money and repeat a T-Rich situation remains to be seen.

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by southside asshole

Don't think I'm coming at you with this - it was just your comment that inspired me to post one.

An opinion on Ballard doesn't have to be binary. It's not either all good or all bad. I would remind people that just about everyone else's opinion on this is probably as nuanced as their own.

When people criticize Ballard for something specific, they're not saying he's a failure of a GM and in over is head.

When people defend Ballard's decisions, they're not saying he's an infallible genius with a magic binder.

Everybody on this board (fuck, everybody everywhere) always assumes that if someone disagrees with you on one little point, that their entire perspective is clear 100% over on the other side of whatever it is. That's almost never true.

My own opinion of Ballard is that, while he's basically a rookie GM and is still prone to certain mistakes, overall I respect and agree with what appears to be his philosophy: play the long game, build your team through the draft and supplement the roster with low-risk free agents that are either solid vets or have a good ratio of upside relative to their cost.

Moreover, he appears to also have a good, collaborative relationship with Reich on which players fit the schemes and doesn't seem to try to interfere with the depth chart. Basically an anti-Grigson. This is all good.

My primary criticism of him at this point, aside from a few totally predictable and also practically inevitable draft misses, is that he appears to be a bit of a cap hoarder. Whether it's because he's being protective of the locker room atmosphere and team culture, or if he's adamant about having the cap space to resign talent, or he's just so risk-averse that he's afraid to spend any money and repeat a T-Rich situation remains to be seen.

Great post. Hopefully he is hoarding all that cap space for a reason other than saving money (and that does not seem to be something Irsay is concerned about).

[rcubed]

Originally Posted by sherck

Where did you find that stat?


Walk Worthy,

Originally Posted by falloutboy14

Pretty sure it's this.
https://i.redd.it/n0gdun8l5x021.jpg

yes thats it. that pic was from a twitter account that I saw on B/R

[Pez]

Originally Posted by NoLuck4Chuck

1 game over .500 playing one of the easiest schedules in the NFL. Have the Colts beat one team that will make the playoffs?

The Redskins *might* make it

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by NoLuck4Chuck

1 game over .500 playing one of the easiest schedules in the NFL. Have the Colts beat one team that will make the playoffs?

They beat themselves a couple of times

[Colt Classic]

Originally Posted by Chaka

And by the way, this is a cop out

I provided named examples but was ignored, unless Veve is your personal assistant. So the point of even complying with the whole exercise was?

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by Colt Classic

I provided named examples but was ignored, unless Veve is your personal assistant. So the point of even complying with the whole exercise was?

Indeed you did. And I think you are correct. If we had signed wide receivers who did not have the dropsies we would have a better record. Brown/White seem like they would have been better than who we got. I'll ding Ballard for that. But it is a small ding as I am not sure anyone would have guessed that those guys would have dropped so many passes. On that subject does anyone have any idea why they seemed to have stopped doing that? Seems like since Inman got here its really improved