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Since the other thread has derailed into Ballard bashing, here’s a new one just for posting and talking about the actual signings of players in this years FA. please keep the Ballard campaigning or complaining to the Ballard thread. This thread is intended solely to talk about FA. So far, the Colts have mostly resigned their own with all that cap space and are currently sitting between 16-20 million with several options to restructure or cut various players should they need too. https://www.colts.com/news/2024-nfl-free-agency-tracker-gardner-minshew-zack-moss-kenny-moore Edit: FA Refresher: Re-signed Free Agents: RB:Trey Sermon(1yr $1.055m) WR: Michael Pittman(3yr $68m), OC: Danny Pinter Jack Anderson (1yr $1.055m) DE: Tyquan Lewis(2yr $12m) Genard Avery(1yr $985k) DT: Grover Stewart(3yr $39m) Taven Bryan LB: Ronnie Harrison(1yr $1.152m) CB: Kenny Moore(3yr $30m) P: Rigoberto Sanchez ($3yr $7.5m) Signed with new team: QB: Gardner Minshew(2yr $25m) RB: Zach Moss(2yr $8m) WR: Isaiah McKenzie DE: Jake Martin FA Signings: Joe Flacco(1yr $8.7m) Raekwon Davis(2yr $14m) Remaining FA unsigned: S:Julian Blackmon Henry Black Estimated Cap Space: $18.3m-$18.9m

I vote we close this thread and start a new one for actual Colts FA news as this one seems to have gone off the rails with no hope of getting back to topic. in fact, I’ll go start it now:

Grigson did… he over paid for old washed up FA, Andre Johnson for example? His best signing was Frank Gore.

Looks slow

What a great story!!! just be careful there AR, Indy is a violent town these days.

Cause there’s just whole thread about Ballard that apparently is too complicated for the majority to understand how to use it to whine about Ballard

Oh I agree. I’m just saying it’s not hot right now.

Is it though? Fans may think it is, but I don’t think it actually is. Irsay seems content with Ballards approach for at least the foreseeable future.

I’ve been a big Ballard fan myself. And I was starting to get frustrated with him myself. But then I got to thinking, we still don’t actually know what we have with AR. Yeah he flashed, but so did RG3 and others. The questions surrounding his durability are valid. So why hamstring the team with giant contracts if we still do not know? Ballard can’t come out and say that directly, but I would bet that is his thought process and honestly, it’s one I’d agree with

How the heck did I miss that?! Wow

See above^

It is fact. You do understand where the money to pay player salaries and such comes from right? I mean it’s right there in the CBA… the league basically places the money in an escrow account every year directly from the league, which is a portion of the revenue set aside for player salaries from the leagues various sources(tv deals for example). It never touches the owners pockets first. Jim Irsay could have only 10 cents in his account and it wouldn’t matter when it comes to player salaries. yes, guaranteed monies and such have to be put in upfront but if you read the fine print, that money is basically reimbursed the to the team the year it’s paid out. So 2025 guarantees would be paid back to the team in 2025 from the player salaries fund. and yes, I’ve linked it every year for the past 5-6 years. Ever since the beginning of the Ballard era, which seems to be when this notion of Irsay not having cash for this or that came up as a rationale for not signing big name FA. It’s not though when one actually looks up how that all works.

Haha I was wondering when that comment was gonna be made. It comes up every single year. And it’s proven false every time. Irsay isn’t cash strapped and would have had zero problem putting anything up into escrow(only a small portion would actually have to come from Irsays pocket if any).

I agree. I think Irsay is operating on a 3 year plan to see if AR15 pans out or not. That’ll be when Ballards seat gets hot

No go on Leonard. He’s done. Needs to retire rock, while I don’t see him coming back, I’d kick the tires on

How the heck are we agreeing a second time in the same thread?!?! That has got to be a record for us!

every single year this happens. At least since Ballard has been here. Then in week two or three, he signs someone and 75 percent of those who have been whining about him not signing anyone start cheering and are happy again.

If it happens, it happens. Based on those comments, seems like Sneed isn’t sure and that’s the hold up. Odds are, he’ll stay a chief this year and we will look elsewhere.

Hmmm

Pardon me but I’m not making a connection to Snead here. Can you assist?

Keep in mind, it’s misinformation season…

Maybe. part of me wonders what is actually going on. Keep in mind, we heard of similar rumors back and forth when we traded for Wentz. It was 2-3 weeks of speculation before it finally fell into place. Granted it didn’t end well, I’m curious if we’ll hear something this coming week, one way or the other

Oh look…. Sneezed!

Cause probowl is a joke