quick thoughts on the donkeys

[rm1369]

The idea we can’t make a change because it could get worse is exactly why this team is a shit show. Ballard operates off the same scared mindset. Hopefully Jim sees differently or we’ll continue the “next year” narrative many of you seem to be happy with. One of these days you may even be right and the team will finally make the playoffs again! Ballard just needs another 3 or 4 years to build the roster.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by rm1369

The idea we can’t make a change because it could get worse is exactly why this team is a shit show. Ballard operates off the same scared mindset. Hopefully Jim sees differently or we’ll continue the “next year” narrative many of you seem to be happy with. One of these days you may even be right and the team will finally make the playoffs again! Ballard just needs another 3 or 4 years to build the roster.

Exactly!

The time has come to end this fucking wash, rinse, recycle bullshit. Ballard has proven he is not a good GM. To say well our guy is bad, but the next guy could be worse, that's just fucking ludicrous and again, a reflection that some are just okay with mediocrity. Fuck being mediocre! I would much rather just fucking flat out suck and build up some draft capital that a REAL GM could convert to wins, than just watch bitch ass Ballard do absofuckinglutely NOTHING. You are right, he is a coward, period, he is afraid to take aggressive steps and this is the result- this same fucking middle of the pack bullshit over and over and over.

FUCK CHRIS BALLARD!

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

Exactly!

The time has come to end this fucking wash, rinse, recycle bullshit. Ballard has proven he is not a good GM. To say well our guy is bad, but the next guy could be worse, that's just fucking ludicrous and again, a reflection that some are just okay with mediocrity. Fuck being mediocre! I would much rather just fucking flat out suck and build up some draft capital that a REAL GM could convert to wins, than just watch bitch ass Ballard do absofuckinglutely NOTHING. You are right, he is a coward, period, he is afraid to take aggressive steps and this is the result- this same fucking middle of the pack bullshit over and over and over.

FUCK CHRIS BALLARD!

I’m sorry, but this kind of season was exactly what you signed up for when you reached down in the draft and took a Quarterback who had played all of 50 quarters of football since high school. The year that they took Peyton Manning, they struggled to a 3-13 record, and Peyton was vastly more experienced when he came into the league.

If winning, going 10-7, sneaking into the playoffs, and praying that the other guys team bus breaks down on the way to the stadium is what you want, Chris Ballard could’ve signed someone like Sam Darnold or Kirk Cousins and given you that. Heck, if the O Line was healthy, we’d be 7-7 and poised to close out the season with three more wins.

I know that a lot of people are unhappy, but Shane Steichen has been on the job for less than two freaking years. No one in their right mind fires a coach based on how they perform over that short a span.. With any luck, Jim Irsay will look back and remember the two decade long shit show that ensued when his father began firing head coaches, and general managers willy-nilly.

Ted Marchibroda can tell you exactly what that’s like. He lived it.. Bob Irsay fired him after he lost a preseason game.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Kray007

I’m sorry, but this kind of season was exactly what you signed up for when you reached down in the draft and took a Quarterback who had played all of 50 quarters of football since high school. The year that they took Peyton Manning, they struggled to a 3-13 record, and Peyton was vastly more experienced when he came into the league.

If winning, going 10-7, sneaking into the playoffs, and praying that the other guys team bus breaks down on the way to the stadium is what you want, Chris Ballard could’ve signed someone like Sam Darnold or Kirk Cousins and given you that. Heck, if the O Line was healthy, we’d be 7-7 and poised to close out the season with three more wins.

I know that a lot of people are unhappy, but Shane Steichen has been on the job for less than two freaking years. No one in their right mind fires a coach based on how they perform over that short a span.. With any luck, Jim Irsay will look back and remember the two decade long shit show that ensued when his father began firing head coaches, and general managers willy-nilly.

Ted Marchibroda can tell you exactly what that’s like. He lived it.. Bob Irsay fired him after he lost a preseason game.

Nope, you've got the wrong guy on this one Kray. Unlike some, I am still in AR's camp. I see things that give me hope and I am willing to ride with it for another season.

Hell, I can even sign up for another season of Steichen. Though here, anyone watching that game unravel after the JT poop play, has to question if Steichen is up for this. Frankly he looked completely sped up, seemed lost in the moment, unable to settle things down and just focus on capsules of time and effect. He literally looked like a fucking freshman QB thrown into the big game and shitting down his leg. Where was the designed runs for AR? The ONE THING he does consistently well- is gets on the edge and gaps for yards. Nope, all we saw seemingly mid 3Q through the end of the game, drop back and 12+ yard throws. It looked fast, it looked panicked, and it looked like a guy that was collapsing under pressure- and yes I am talking about the coach not the QB! So, nope, I'll go one more ring around the sun with the coach despite feeling very confident he isn't going to suddenly become Belicheck or Knoll.

What I am NOT willing to ride with for another season is a dead beat, lazy ass, coward ass, blow hard, do nothing, fucking flat bill stooge that hasn't done a motherfucking thing in his 8 years! I won't ride along with a fucking braggart that has NOTHING to be proud of sitting at a press conference and scoffing at the media that is simply pointing out his incompetence. This guy is a dud, a turd, a full on fucking failure. He needs to FUCKING GO! You are who your record says you are, and Ballard's record is fucking trash! Get him the fuck out of this organization right fucking now. Same team, same fucking injuries, same fucking fill ins- move Ballard, and we are 2 wins better over 17- he is THAT BAD! This team is a reflection of him!

Think about this, think about the Saturday debacle, the worst come from behind loss in NFL history, the QB tapping out due to being tired, the JT Playoff Plunder. Dude, all of these things- they are HIS! This is HIS TEAM, all this SHIT is happening under his watch. We need someone to come in and clean all this SHIT up!

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

Think about this, think about the Saturday debacle, the worst come from behind loss in NFL history, the QB tapping out due to being tired, the JT Playoff Plunder. Dude, all of these things- they are HIS! This is HIS TEAM, all this SHIT is happening under his watch. We need someone to come in and clean all this SHIT up!

This is ridiculous. The entire world, except you, knows Saturday was an Irsay move. It is not BALLARD'S TEAM, it is JIM'S TEAM.

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

This is ridiculous. The entire world, except you, knows Saturday was an Irsay move. It is not BALLARD'S TEAM, it is JIM'S TEAM.

yeah, you can't put Saturday on Ballard.



clearly an irsay move. but how embarrassing that team was, was all on Ballard.

[CletusPyle]

Nothing is going to change. With Jim likely to step down soon, the daughters are not going to make a bunch of wild changes and risk the team completely imploding and them being blamed for it. All we can do is hope that AR works hard in the off season and comes back much improved. Maybe we get lucky and draft a real hard nose defensive superstar that totally changes this team's identity! Brylok says the fans in Indy are garbage, so I guess we all need to just learn to be better losers, cause if nothing changes, a lot of losing is in our future!

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Kray007

I’m sorry, but this kind of season was exactly what you signed up for when you reached down in the draft and took a Quarterback who had played all of 50 quarters of football since high school. The year that they took Peyton Manning, they struggled to a 3-13 record, and Peyton was vastly more experienced when he came into the league.

If winning, going 10-7, sneaking into the playoffs, and praying that the other guys team bus breaks down on the way to the stadium is what you want, Chris Ballard could’ve signed someone like Sam Darnold or Kirk Cousins and given you that. Heck, if the O Line was healthy, we’d be 7-7 and poised to close out the season with three more wins.

I know that a lot of people are unhappy, but Shane Steichen has been on the job for less than two freaking years. No one in their right mind fires a coach based on how they perform over that short a span.. With any luck, Jim Irsay will look back and remember the two decade long shit show that ensued when his father began firing head coaches, and general managers willy-nilly.

Ted Marchibroda can tell you exactly what that’s like. He lived it ...... Bob Irsay fired him after he lost a pre-season game.

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5 weeks ago, I made this post about what we need (and what we may or may not get) from Anthony Richardson in the long-run ...... and in order to see whether or not that will come to fruition, we would have to give Richardson at least another 2 full years as our starting quarterback.

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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A quarterback who is the equivalent of Philip Rivers in his prime ...... that's what we need.

Rivers was not mobile, Anthony Richardson is mobile ...... so if Anthony Richardson can be 80-85% of the quarterback that Philip Rivers was, add the mobility, and this team could consistently win between 11 and 13 games year in and year out.


Oh yeah ...... a head coach that was not a complete imbecile would also help.

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[Colts And Orioles]

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With Richardson's mobility (and super-strength, which has made him one of the best QB tackle-breakers in recent memory), I think that we need him to evolve into about 85% of the quarterbacks that Philip Rivers was in his prime ...... that would make them about even, because Rivers was an immobile quarterback in his prime.

And I would sign up for having the equivalent of a prime Philip Rivers in the long run any day of the week, and twice on Sundays (no pun intended, as obvious as it may have seemed.)

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[Thorgrim]

Originally Posted by rm1369

The idea we can’t make a change because it could get worse is exactly why this team is a shit show. Ballard operates off the same scared mindset. Hopefully Jim sees differently or we’ll continue the “next year” narrative many of you seem to be happy with. One of these days you may even be right and the team will finally make the playoffs again! Ballard just needs another 3 or 4 years to build the roster.

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

— William Arthur Ward