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24 minutes ago, danlhart87 said:
Why would Ballard do that
true, most i would’ve went would be $20, but now I see he had other things in the works and he made the right move. That’s why he get paid the big bucks and I’m just an armchair GM lol -
I ain’t mad at Von. Got his ring so now he’s cashing out lol
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3 hours ago, TaylorTheStudMuffin said:
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i figured he was gonna go for $17 per year. Wonder what the colts offered. This is one of those times I wish we overpaid. -
4 hours ago, NewColtsFan said:
Im pretty sure the calendar says March 15 and not April 15. I love posts that talk about our wrong or bad approach after one day of free agency. One. ONE!!I looked over on NFL.com and the Colts are one of 8 teams that pretty much sat out the first day of free agency. We are not alone. It’s not like Chris Ballard is doing one thing and the other 31 teams are doing something else.
There will be plenty of time to complain in the days and weeks to come. But after one day? Really? Come on…..
I get what you saying and I agree. We will see. I don’t expect us to splurge and I wouldn’t want us to. But we will see…how many years has it been that we’ve had the most or top 5 cap space? Let’s see if it changes.
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7 hours ago, TaylorTheStudMuffin said:
I know luck retiring set this team back. But Ballard teams keep getting worse. They aren’t even improving in other areas.
my main beef with him is that he isn’t aggressive enough. Idk if he’s being aggressive or not but the lack of talent at key positions shows. Other teams have those same key positions and the teams that compete are able to fill them mostly while we seem to not. I think his drafting has been good. He’s done a solid job of building a foundation and performing what I like to call a “moving rebuild”. But his lack of success in FA is hampering this team. I said this in another thread. It’s ok to build through the draft but we can’t solely depend on it. We have to use FA to fill the rest of our holes and make up for the misses in the draft. When we don’t hit in the draft or FA, it hurts the team that much more.-
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Pat McAfee on our heels about not spending money.
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7 minutes ago, throwing BBZ said:
You act like they may have wanted Reddick.
I highly doubt they had ANY interest at $12M.
Ballard has TWO guys to pay for on the Hall of Fame track, 7 Pro Bowlers in all NOW, Kelly and Smith earning big money, Buckner with a Monster contract, WHAT IN THE _____ are you thinking?
Obviously you can't put two and two together.
Jesus I just used it as an example. I don’t know if we wanted him or not. There aren’t any reports even linking him to us. Just because I didn’t outright say it. I literally said “for example” and used it as a comparison. What is your problem?
and then I even mentioned it was something I think we could’ve which means it was my personal opinion and not something that was actually happening.
calm down
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5 minutes ago, philba101 said:
I agree....but when you don't really participate in FA spending you never win those deals for a guy like Reddick. There has to be some happy medium right? Maybe overpay a little bit? Ballard has always approached FA looking for deals on the cheap.....what results has this produced?
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2 minutes ago, NorthernColt said:
My Favorite targets left:
- QB Jameis Winston
- WR Allen Robinson
- WR James Washington
- WR DJ Chark
- WR Russell Gage
- TE Gerald Everett
- TE Hayden Hurst
- LT Duane Brown
- EDGE Zadarius Smith
- EDGE Chandler Jones
- EDGE Derek Barnett
- LB Bobby Wagner
- LB Anthony Hitchens
- LB Jordan Hicks
- S Marcus Williams
- CB Kyle Fuller
- CB Casey Hayward
- CB Charvarious Ward
- CB JC Jackson
I’d be a happy colts fan if we got chandler and chark
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6 minutes ago, philba101 said:
I am not disagreeing its an overpay...but at what point do the Colts become bystanders in this entire process? The good news is that Chester Rogers is a FA this year, If Ballard is willing to get crazy we can probably steal him back from the Titans.
theres a difference between being a bystander and pulling out of negotiations. For example, I think we could’ve went after reddick by giving him more than what the eagles offered. 3/$45 with $30 mill guaranteed. We could’ve offered more there. But $21 mill for a receiver who was a second (maybe third option) on his team, no. Overpay, but overpay without giving out ridiculous contracts.and not only did they overpay, they screwed the WR market. Now receivers are going to look at him and say if that’s what HE got then I want no less.
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5 minutes ago, philba101 said:
We say that every year and the prices keep going up. The first problem with the current strategy of CB is that we never add any impact players via FA. The second problem is those players go to our AFC competitors. Guess who are the finalists for Robinson? Kansas City and Cleveland. Cleveland is loading up....the Colts are imploding! Its not hard to predict how this is going to turn out.
i agree but you don’t give that money to THAT quality of receiver. I don’t mind overpaying for talent that’s worth it. But Kirk getting paid that much is a HUGE overpay. This is one of the reasons why prices go up.now if he doesn’t play up to $21 mill standards, we would be the first people to want the GM gone.
this is why Byron wanted Baalke GONE lol
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2 minutes ago, philba101 said:
This will be the new rate going forward......Robinson will probably get close to $20 million now.
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44 minutes ago, ColtJax said:
Jags are signing Kirk. Jags get 4 impact players, we get air, like always..
they can have Kirk for 4 years and $84 million. He was someone I wanted but not for $21 a year. -
5 minutes ago, philba101 said:
What is wrong when players want to go play for the Jaguars over the Colts? I am not convinced the Colts are making competitive offers!
https://nfltraderumors.co/jaguars-expected-to-sign-wr-christian-kirk/
My guess also. You’re going to overpay. We get outbidded every year
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29 minutes ago, ColtJax said:
Mitch T to the Steelers is strange. I doubt he's starter material for them and they already have 2 back ups. Well, he's better than Rudolph..
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Lovie smith being hired by the texans
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13 minutes ago, Stephen said:
Burrow is doing than Luck with a bad oline
its because he has the weapons and his offense doesn’t call for him to hold the ball. With all of that said, burrow was still the most sacked and hit qb in the league -
2 minutes ago, runthepost said:
Yeah 106 catches 1355 yards and 5 TDs is better than Higgins, prime Reggie had better stats than Chase
we’re not talking about prime Reggie. We’re talking about the Reggie luck had. That Reggie wasn’t bad but if you’re telling me that you’d take Ty and Reggie over chase and Higgins then you must have blue colored shades on -
2 minutes ago, chad72 said:
For Frank Reich’s system a quick release, just hitting the open guy and taking the layups for YAC occasionally is all that’s needed because we don’t feature a true No.1
Jimmy G fits it to a tee.
don’t say that, Reich and Wentz lovers will tell you it’s because we have a bad ol and need the best.
mind you, most of us have been complaining about wentz not hitting those layups and Reich not using what we have to do so
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2 hours ago, runthepost said:
He gave Wayne his best season
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1 hour ago, LJpalmbeacher2 said:
TY, Reggie, Fleener, and the other TE drafted in the 3rd round & won John Mackey award. ....
no just no.
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Just now, runthepost said:
Burrow is what we thought Andrew Luck was
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Burrow is going to the SB as the most sacked and hit qb in the league. Has that ever been done?
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Bengals defense showed up big second half. Great coaching by the bengals.
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Discussion/news of Free Agent Signings 2022
in NFL Draft, Scouting, and Free Agent Talk
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yup, how could I forget. This contract is probably front loaded.