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This team has fell off a cliff with the OL play.

I think it contributes to a few different things.

1) Chris Strausser and Kevin Mawae.

2) But the biggest changes I seen from last season of not having a good run game is.

Team Missing:

Mark Glowinski- would I paid him $18mi like Giants probably not but incentives could have been made making him wanting to stay.

Chris Reed- good veteran

Jack Doyle- yes Jack, best blocking TE

Pascal- Not great WR, but very good blocking WR

This is what is missing that made them decent last season as a good run blocking team. They were not a good pass protection team..

Ballard failed at replacing these players. Is Ballard a terrible GM? absolutely not.


IMO, Frank and Ballard would be better on a team with a already franchise QB in place.

These are all my opinions and nothing more please don't smack me around too hard. I'm old and delicate...Lmao

Jalen Hurts was available and Ballard passed on him. Yeah hindsight is 2020 but Ballard didn't even seem to make an effort at getting a QB. Also ironic that Hurts is being coached by the guy that use to be our offensive coordinator that got more out of our current offense.

Hard to not point fingers at Ballard and Reich..

Imagine the Eagles go on to win the SB...

That would be what twice in a decade that our Assistant coach goes on to be the winning SB coach within a decade.

Hope they do really. That might be the eye opener for Irsay that both Frank and Ballard need to go. Who knows really

Sorry forgot to quote damn I'm a rookie..

Hope they do really. That might be the eye opener for Irsay that both Frank and Ballard need to go. Who knows really

Didn't make an effort? Jalen Hurts was the 5th QB taken in the 2020 draft. We took Jacob Eason as the 6th QB taken in the 2020 draft. Before that, we drafted Michael Pittman, Jonathan Taylor, and Julian Blackmon. A lot of people said we had the best draft that year.

A month before the draft he brought Philip Rivers in.

I wanted Hurts. Few people would have had the humility to get shit-canned the way he did by Saban to then turn around and be even better at another high profile program. If you listen to him in interviews, that is a very focused individual who wants to achieve greatness in the concept of the team.

But alas, if he were here, he would probably suck and Frank would fire him too.

If bringing in Rivers is effort...yikes lol

Yeah that draft looked good for sure but being... At best an easy out in the playoffs or a team that wins just enough each year to get a later first round pick every year isn't what I call fun for most fans.

Those are certainly factors. IMO Ballard deciding Matt Pryor was a good LT and handing him the starting job is the biggest factor in why our OL sucks this year.

But that doesn't explain why Smith, Kelly, and Nelson suck now too. Not too long ago when you watched a Colts game you'd see all kinds of replays showing those guys completely blow their opponents off the LOS. Now it's the complete opposite of that. Could be Strausser and Mawae, but since Strausser has been here since '19 it seems like more that just those 2.

Also... I love..LOVE JT but sad reality is that most RBs are lucky to last a good 3-4 seasons.... So if Hurts plays in the league for say just 12 years and makes a SB or two ?

At this point we will be lucky if JT last 5-6 years? Do we see a few spectacular years out of him on a team that constantly goes 9-8 or maybe 10-7 and loses in first round of playoffs and we say well .... JT had a hella season... Maybe next year..... Starts to get old to me.... And I'm getting old fast... Like to see another SB or two won by the Colts before I die lol

Lingering injuries
Long covid affects on the non-vax’d
Kellys unfortunate family incident