GREAT READ : Breaking Down Colts Draft Film With Chris Ballard

[rcubed]

Originally Posted by FatDT

As complicated as everyone wants to make it, it's simple. Ballard has an overall vision for the team. He has an idea of what the team needs, this year and future years, to be successful. And so with that vision in mind he values players a certain way, and picks the best player for his team, his vision. It is not some sort of objective Madden score where he'll pick an 84 TE over an 81 DE when his vision demands an upgrade at the DE position and not TE. For Ballard, the BPA in that situation is the DE.

It is clear from Hankins and Anderson that scheme fit matters a lot to Ballard, so he is not going to pick a great player that doesn't do well the things he wants that position to do.

Isnt this how any competent GM is supposed to work?

[sherck]

Originally Posted by rcubed

Isnt this how any competent GM is supposed to work?

Don't know.

We might be seeing the first one of those around the Colts complex in about a decade.

Papa Polian was off his meds by 2008 and his son was driving us into a ditch.

Walk Worthy,

[DragonTails]

Originally Posted by rcubed

Isnt this how any competent GM is supposed to work?

Why not move them earlier (before the draft) for something better?


lol

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...aft/572867002/

[rcubed]

Originally Posted by sherck

Don't know.

We might be seeing the first one of those around the Colts complex in about a decade.

Papa Polian was off his meds by 2008 and his son was driving us into a ditch.

Walk Worthy,

yep, and that was my point.

overall strategy of a GM on drafting should be what FattyDT said, but he havent had that kind of mentality since polian's heydays.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by DragonTails

Why not move them earlier (before the draft) for something better?


lol

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...aft/572867002/

Moron

[Oldcolt]

Who the hell is Nate Davis. I mean other than a douche

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by VeveJones007

Yep. Luckily we'll get to witness first-hand.

IMO, the only big reach was Leonard, but if Ballard's right and he's David Thornton, then he's worth the pick. We'll see.

Weird b/c I thought Leonard went right about where he should. He was the 5th best backer in my book and was a good fit for a will backer. I was hoping he would go to the third, but with the top four LB's going in the first his was next.

Turay and Lewis were the ones I was wondering about, but neither was on my radar.