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43 minutes ago, RollerColt said:
https://www.nfl.com/news/bill-tobin-longtime-nfl-executive-dies-at-age-83
He drafted some all time great players like Harrison, and of course is famous for his verbal match with Mel Kiper. RIP!
RIP Bill
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5 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Yeah, this place is either going to happy or implode because nobody in here has any idea what Ballard will do or who he will pick.
If he trades out of the first, I will likely jump on the fire him wagon
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43 minutes ago, Superman said:
He just said they're probably going to trade back. It was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but not really...
Hmm this is gonna be an interesting 6 days
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31 minutes ago, Superman said:
Don't you ever get tired of trying to convince yourself that Ballard is going to make a big move? You seem to talk yourself into this at every opportunity, and it never happens.
Everything we know about Ballard tells us there is a practical, unexciting reason for this. I'm happy to be proven wrong, by the way. A big splash would be fun, but I think it's very unlikely.
I don’t think it’ll be a big splash. I think it might be a multiple tiny splash thing, I think they might sign a few more hungry second tier players or possibly trade up a bit. Or they could do nothing.
typically Ballard goes into the fall with around 10-15 million to roll over or use in season. That leaves us roughly 10 mil or so to play with going into the draft and post draft signing period
now if later tonight or tomorrow they cut Mo Allie Cox, I’d say something big was coming but otherwise, I agree that it likely isn’t a major one
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9 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
@NewColtsFan, I went back and looked at every single Thread I have created, there is way you can do that. I have 35 lifetime which isn't much. I created a thread on Feb 7th in 2022 - Titled Andrew Luck, pleading for Andrew Luck to comeback that was because after the way we finished in the 2021 season. The whole thread was jokes thrown out at me and others which I didn't mind because I knew he wasn't coming back at that point. In that thread I never said he was coming back though. When I posted 'what you remember, which I did post about the source even' that I heard Andrew Luck might comeback was before we signed Wentz = 2021 off season on a thread created by someone else. I never actually created a thread that said Luck was coming back.
10 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:I thought I made that post before Wentz signed in 2021, but because we signed Wentz to a long deal at the time, I gave up. The one you are talking about now that I made. I remember posting what you just said. Maybe I am mistaken, it could have been before the 2022 season because we did release Wentz. Time flies by.
If I had your memory, I would be the president of the United States
Ohhh Nevermind I’ll get in trouble lol
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13 minutes ago, w87r said:
Yeah moving up on the draft isn't going to effect us too much.
Like you said $3-$4m more if we moved into top 5.
So would have us around $6-$6.5m in draft picks(top 51), unless we moved our 2nd also, which would drop it down to $5-$5.5m.
That combined with practice squad funds $2.5m-$3m.
We would still be looking at around $19m or so in space
As it is now, $2.8m for draft picks, $2.5m for Practice Squad and we would still be sitting at $22-$23m.
When we go back to 53, I don't anticipate too much of a swing as there will be players above the top 51 dropping off, so I anticipate it being a close to a wash. Especially looking at who is below the line now.
Nice. Thanks
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31 minutes ago, richard pallo said:
Unless I’m missing something I don’t see why we would need all of this extra space to move up in the draft. Trading for an established player is a different story. That seems more likely to me given the choices you presented.
Not all of it but say you trade up from 15 to 5(random number here), unless I’m mistaken, a rookie at number 5 makes more than a rookie at 15.
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1 minute ago, Superman said:
If I had to bet I'd say there's nothing in the works right now. And I think it's unlikely that they make a big enough move that we look back at this say 'that's why they made all that cap space.' I could be wrong.
I think the reason they did this is because Buckner's contract was the most likely target to be reworked to create cap space, and once they do it, they can't restructure for 12 months. So if you have one shot at it, just maximize the opportunity. Just in case something comes up later. That way if an opportunity presents itself later on, you don't have to consider backloading someone else's contract, which is something the team already doesn't like doing.
And in general, while this kind of backloading shouldn't be considered a go-to cap management technique, doing this with one or two foundational players here and there isn't a big problem. It's when you start stacking up these backloaded contracts, especially for less reliable players, that you create problems in the future.
Right but it didn’t HAVE to be done right now unless they just wanted the flexibility for the “what if” thing arises
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21 minutes ago, wig said:
What doesn't make sense? You can use it any time over the next 3 years essentially and the $7M in dead applies to the last cheap year of AR's contract. It gives you flexibility with no downside. They could roll 7M over until 2027 if they wanted. All it costs is Irsay's cash
His point is why do that when it’s not required. Dropping that much on an extension is done with an intent for the short term only. Now what that is or if the plan actually goes through is another matter, but this type of move is pretty much exclusively done around the league to free up short term salary cap.
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1 hour ago, Dobbinblitz said:
Well, it appears Ballard will have fluid monies available to jump on a post June cut, or swing a deal in August if AR's progression is promising. We also may see a sizable UFA signings post draft. Interesting departure for Ballard for sure. I had to read it twice!
I’m wondering if clearing room for a trade up perhaps. Or a trade for an established player.
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8 hours ago, w87r said:
Wowsers:
https://overthecap.com/player/deforest-buckner/4720
Contract Notes
DeForest Buckner signed a two year, $46 million contract with the Colts on April 15, 2024. Bucker received $53.25 million in guarantees on the total contract value of which $43.25 million is fully guaranteed. The new money guarantee is $33 million with $23 million guaranteed at signing. Buckner received an $18 million signing bonus and his 2024 and 2025 salaries are fully guaranteed. There are two void years for salary cap purposes. The extension reduced Buckner's 2024 salary cap number by $14.4 million.
2024 original cap hit: $22.75m
new extension cap hits:
2024 - $8.35m
2025 - $26.6m
2026 - $26.6m
2027 - $7.2m(void year)(dead cap)
2028 - $3.6m(void year)(dead cap)
This is way outside the box for Ballard. Something probably in the works.
New cap space per OtC(Spotrac not updated yet)
$28,412,296
Spotrac estimate - $28,194,348
Stunner. Wow just wow.
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5 hours ago, indykmj said:
But Paye wasn't really an ER coming out of UM. He was an L-DE who set the edge well
and offered a bit of pass rush capability.
At # 41, he'd have been a solid pick. #21 was way too high.
He was mocked as high as 6th that year and nearly every mock had him gone by 15. I know, I was pounding the table for him that year. Read all the reports and scouting videos to the point I had them memorized.
the fact we got him at 21 at the time was considered an A+ by all the draft pundits.
that said, I think he’s been solid but needs to finish more
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1 hour ago, Yoshinator said:
If you want to argue that we didn't have a realistic shot on Danielle Hunter, I agree. However, we could have easily gotten Sneed if we wanted (we just didn't want to pay the guaranteed money because of the injury concerns). When it's just members of the forum saying "we could have gotten X guy for Y amount", then there's not that much credibility to it. However, when it's an 8 year sample size in FA, and Ballard admits that's how he goes about things, it's a pattern. There's a lot of guys he goes after that he misses on, but there's even more that he could get for a realistic price that he has no interest in.
In the end, he's not aggressive as a GM, and it's not necessarily a good thing. He never wants to overpay, but sometimes you have too. If he's building the team through the draft, you think he would allow himself to overpay a time or two in FA because he'd have the cheap rookie contracts he's hitting on to supplement the team and the cap.
Just my two cents.
Fair enough and I can see how you have arrived at that thought process. And I’m not saying you’re wrong either. I’m just saying I’m gonna withhold my judgement on it all until next off season. For me, this is the make it or break it year for Ballard. Assuming AR is as good as hyped and can stay healthy, going into next FA is when I expect to see some more aggression, not expecting the Texans level of course, but more aggression I think would be warranted. Until then, I think the guarded approach is okay until we know what we have or don’t have with AR.
i keep saying this, but people need to understand where Ballard came from. The Chiefs, this is the very same MO they used prior to the Mahomes era. Once they got Mahomes, they became far more aggressive but not stupidly aggressive either. And they became more attractive as a team for FA. In fact, the chiefs were drafting roughly where we have have been, last year not with standing, when they finally traded up for Mahomes.
we are literally the chiefs before Mahomes. A solid roster that is on the cusp of playoffs but yet not consistently getting there. We have a solid core roster but not a star roster. Mahomes elevated that roster and I think they are expecting AR to elevate it some as well. But we still need weapons. We don’t have many
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1 hour ago, Solid84 said:
I think the interest in Danielle Hunter shows they are serious about adding good+ competition at DE.
Possible but time will tell
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13 minutes ago, Stephen said:
If the defensive player we pick doesn't have a rookie season like Dwight freeney or darious Leonard I don't want them at 15. Who ever we pick needs to be an immediate impact player. I know Brian thomas jr, odunze, Harrison or nabors can be that. Not sure about any of the edge guys or cbs
I really don’t see that type of Defensive player in this draft. But there’s always surprises. But I agree, we’ve got to go offensive fire power this year. At least in the first.
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9 hours ago, Yoshinator said:
I'm actually leaning towards Ballard going EDGE in the first round more and more now. Besides Marshawn Kneeland, there doesn't seem to be any top EDGE rushers outside the first round. I could see Ballard going Latu or Verse at 15. Then he grabs a WR and CB in either order in the 2nd and 3rd round.
I don’t think we’ll address the DL at all in rounds 1-4. I think we’re happy with who we have currently and will give the new DL coach a chance to see what he thinks over the next season.
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40 minutes ago, richard pallo said:
Once players think you have the right coach and a franchise quarterback everything changes. Night turns into daylight.
Agreed. But the jury is still out if we’re being honest.
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8 hours ago, Yoshinator said:
I honestly believe Ballard could have $100 million in salary cap more than every other team, and he still wouldn't spend in FA. He'd find a way to pay his own more or make a big trade or two and pay a guy he'd like on another team like Buckner. It'll just never happen. He thought AR was the best player in the draft last year, we drafted him at 4, and the following year in FA, Ballard just re-signed his own besides two FAs that were mid card guys and decided to run a mulligan.
Ballard will never be a spender in FA.
I don’t think he’s fairly being judged here. There’s been reports every single year that we were the high bidder and yet lost out. I truly think most of that comes down to the fact we really don’t have much to offer in terms of things not counting as salary. No franchise QB proven yet, no bikini clad babes or beaches, income tax etc.
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I’m thinking we go WR back to back in rounds 1 & 2. Maybe Bowers if he’s still there. Just a feeling after hearing so much about the colts bringing in a bunch of WRs for visits. And in a deep WR draft, I’d do that in a heartbeat.
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3 hours ago, chickenMan said:
Buckner is probably my favorite Colt right now, so I’m ecstatic about this. I know we didn’t do a lot of external work in free agency, but keeping pretty much everyone and also giving extensions to our own guys is huge.
-Resigned Pitt-Resigned Grover
-Resigned Kenny
-Resigned Tyquan Lewis
-Resigned Sanchez
-Resigned Ronnie Harrison Jr.
-Resigned Pinter
-Resigned Blackmon
-Extended Zaire
-Extended Buckner
-Extended JT
Those are all impact players that we have locked down for multiple years. All of that in one season is really damn impressive to me.
It is and it sets the field for a potentially more active FA next year IF AR15 pans out
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16 minutes ago, PRnum1 said:
I was thinking about creating one
Haha
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20 hours ago, VikingsFanInChennai said:
@csmopar is banned from creating new threads about Luck, until he creates 5 new threads that absolutely doesn't involve Andrew Luck in any manner!
lol I’ve only created like 2 luck related threads ever
but if you insist…
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34 minutes ago, VikingsFanInChennai said:
So, when will be the next new thread on Andrew Luck not coming back again? Or some Andrew Luck appearance news?
Over or Under 2 before the regular season starts?
I can start one next week right before the draft hahaha
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1 hour ago, jvan1973 said:
Squatting isn't as big of an epidemic as you think. I think even 1 is too much, but it isn't rampant
Depends on location. Some places, it’s a major problem. Others, not so much.
that said, squatters are one of the worst kinds of thieves if you ask me.
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What is Chris Ballard MOST LIKELY to do in the 1st Round of the 2024 NFL Draft?
in Colts Football
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I’m thinking a trade back is most likely. I’m just hoping it’s not out of the 1st round(unless there’s a future number 1 given, then I might be okay with it)