Hear me, Diamond Jim

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by albany ed

I don't know, but I'm not Anti Ballard. I think he found some gems in the draft and started to build a solid team. He got put behind the 8-ball early when his extremely=elite QB suddenly abruptly retired, and left a huge hole in team, a hole in which he had no time to fix. Sure, he's made some mistakes, but are there any GMs that haven't ???

o


When Peyton Manning went down in 2011, the Colts went 2-14 without him.

When Andrew Luck suddenly and unexpectedly retired in 2019, the Colts went 7-9 with an average-at-best Jacoby Brissett at quarterback, and 6 out of those 9 losses were by 7 points or less.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/r...Teams/2019-ind


The very next year the Colts went out and got the least mobile quarterback in the NFL (a 39 year-old Philip Rivers), went 11-6 in the regular season, and took the Buffalo Bills right down to the wire in a playoff game on their homefield.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/r...Teams/2020-ind


And in that playoff game the statuesque, 39 year-old Rivers was literally untouched by the Bills' defense, let alone sacked.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/boxes...ost-wc-ind-buf




Subsequently, in my rat's ass of an opinion, Ballard wasn't just us giving lip-service when he proclaimed that he was determined to build a complete team that was not extremely-reliant on an elite quarterback when he was first brought here in January of 2017.

o

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

o


When Peyton Manning went down in 2011, the Colts went 2-14 without him.

When Andrew Luck suddenly and unexpectedly retired in 2019, the Colts went 7-9 with an average-at-best Jacoby Brissett at quarterback, and 6 out of those 9 losses were by 7 points or less.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/r...Teams/2019-ind


The very next year the Colts went out and got the least mobile quarterback in the NFL (a 39 year-old Philip Rivers), went 11-6 in the regular season, and took the Buffalo Bills right down to the wire in a playoff game on their homefield. And in that playoff game the statuesque, 39 year-old Rivers was literally untouched by the Bills' defense, let alone sacked.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/r...Teams/2020-ind



Subsequently, in my rat's ass of an opinion, Ballard wasn't just us giving lip-service when he proclaimed that he was determined to build a complete team that was not extremely-reliant on an elite quarterback when he was first brough here in January of 2017.

o

I agree. If the line was playing like it did just two years ago, we win the division, and maybe make playoff noise.

[apballin]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

I agree. If the line was playing like it did just two years ago, we win the division, and maybe make playoff noise.

Or if we had a QB get rid of the ball in 3 seconds or less and doesn’t have the most turnovers of n the league….

Ballard definitely dropped the ball at LT

[albany ed]

Originally Posted by apballin

Or if we had a QB get rid of the ball in 3 seconds or less and doesn’t have the most turnovers of n the league….

Ballard definitely dropped the ball at LT

All GMs drop the ball some times. The almighty Polian that some folks here have knighted, dropped the ball when he traded Faulk for a song and then had to draft his equal in Edge. He could have kept Faulk a HOFer and traded the Edge pick to the Saints for every fucking draft pick they had that year. Adding that to their own, they would have been stacked for years.

[apballin]

Originally Posted by albany ed

All GMs drop the ball some times. The almighty Polian that some folks here have knighted, dropped the ball when he traded Faulk for a song and then had to draft his equal in Edge. He could have kept Faulk a HOFer and traded the Edge pick to the Saints for every fucking draft pick they had that year. Adding that to their own, they would have been stacked for years.

Fuckin Scioli and Peterson for Marshall Faulk

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by apballin

Fuckin Scioli and Peterson for Marshall Faulk

holy shit i forgot about scioli

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by albany ed

All GMs drop the ball some times. The almighty Polian that some folks here have knighted, dropped the ball when he traded Faulk for a song and then had to draft his equal in Edge. He could have kept Faulk a HOFer and traded the Edge pick to the Saints for every fucking draft pick they had that year. Adding that to their own, they would have been stacked for years.

Yes, and the Colts could've traded away the Luck pick for 5 1s, kept Peyton, and drafted Russell Wilson, but nobody but me saw that possibility.

Faulk was unhappy, and Edgerrin was just as good if not better at the time. Faulk would've walked in free agency, instead we got 7 years of James.

[albany ed]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

Yes, and the Colts could've traded away the Luck pick for 5 1s, kept Peyton, and drafted Russell Wilson, but nobody but me saw that possibility.

Faulk was unhappy, and Edgerrin was just as good if not better at the time. Faulk would've walked in free agency, instead we got 7 years of James.

Peyton was due 18 million dollar roster bonus before it was certain his neck would ever allow him to be Peyton again. So, it was risky.

Faulk wasn't unhappy, he just wanted his contract renegotiated. Polian said nobody renegotiates on my watch.

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by albany ed

Peyton was due 18 million dollar roster bonus before it was certain his neck would ever allow him to be Peyton again. So, it was risky.

Faulk wasn't unhappy, he just wanted his contract renegotiated. Polian said nobody renegotiates on my watch.

Yes, the risk was Peyton falters and you have a rookie superstar on a rookie deal with 5 more first round picks.

[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by Dam8610

Yes, and the Colts could've traded away the Luck pick for 5 1s, kept Peyton, and drafted Russell Wilson, but nobody but me saw that possibility.

Faulk was unhappy, and Edgerrin was just as good if not better at the time. Faulk would've walked in free agency, instead we got 7 years of James.

just look at this clown