Wentz Getting Cut? Maybe

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by JAFF

With all the injuries last year, they found a lot of guys to step in and play. Still had a winning record. If you are looking for perfection, you wont find it in the NFL.

You're not going to find perfection anywhere, at least on Earth. The point I'm making is that we're either no better off or worse in the 3 most important areas to winning games in the NFL: QB, pass rush, and LT. You have to cut Ballard some slack on QB. Luck fucked us and Ballard has done what he could within reason.

As for pass rush: we had 33 sacks in 16 games in 2016 (last year under that worthless turd Grigs) and 33 sacks in 17 games this year. Clearly a failure on Ballard's part not to have improved there.

As for LT, yeah AC retired, but he had been showing signs that he wasn't going to be around for much longer for several years before he retired. Ballard had plenty of time to come up with a better replacement plan than a 1 year band aid player coming off a torn achilles.

I'm also going to throw receiving threats at WR/TE in there b/c you need receiving weapons to win in today's NFL. Like pass rush we're no better than where we were in 2016 as back then we had TY and a bunch of below average guys. Now we have MPJ and a bunch of below average guys.

Look Ballard's at least a decent GM, which is a hell of a lot better than who we had before. But if he was one of the top GMs in the league like some people claim him to be, then he would have had some of the glaring holes in critical areas fixed by now.