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2 hours ago, richard pallo said:
So only 19-21 players with 1st rd grades and he’s willing to trade up for the right player if he’s in striking distance. So how many of those 21 players would be available at 15 If he’s trying to strengthen the team with a difference making player in a position of need. The key being 1st rd grade in a position of need. I don’t see him going inside the top 5 but I think he’s going to do it somewhere starting with pick 9. I think he would consider Bowers, Nabors , Odunze, and Turner as candidates for being the right player. I think he will move up for one of those players starting at pick 9 depending on how the draft falls. 19-21 is a small number and a number of those positions are not a position of need. Can’t see him waiting. I think he likes our secondary too. I think he told us he’s prepared to move up to try for a playmaker if he falls within striking distance. I think he’s going to do it.
sure hope he does we need a game changing pass catcher
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3 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
If we trade back, I won't be happy at all. We need an impact playmaker at WR. Pittman is a good #1 (not great), he is a good possession WR which is needed. Having said that, we need someone that can blow the doors off of teams that they fear like a Marvin, Nabors, or Rome. In today's league you have to score a lot of points to win - keep up with teams like the Chiefs, Ravens, and Cincy with Burrow.
We need to trade up, JMO.
ballard seems to like more lower picks instead of high quality picks
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On 4/16/2024 at 9:32 PM, Yoshinator said:
The difference with Mahomes and AR to me is the timeline of the GMs on both teams. Brett Veach was only on the Chiefs for a year at this point before he started building around Mahomes. Ballard is the GM of the Colts for 8 years now and he isn't doing it. With Veach, you can argue it's because he was waiting for Mahomes to get better and he was relatively new as a GM. With Ballard, it's just how he is.
The rosters are similar from that time, yes. I agree. I just think we are fooling ourselves by saying he's going to spend over and over and it never happens. We just come up with a new reason. I'm guilty of it too. I'm actually fine with the offseason besides Sneed. That was inexcusable not getting him IMO, but everything else is ok. We just have to do well in the draft. I think we will take a WR on day 2 or in a trade down (Xavier Worthy maybe). The draft is Ballards bread and butter, so I always know he'll do his best there to help the team.
ballard will do his best in the draft but he has not been good at drafting game changing wrs or pass rushers
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1 minute ago, OLD FAN MAN said:
like anyone would want a quitter who has been out of football that long some players just cant take the hits in the nfl
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is this worth talking about
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13 hours ago, Stephen said:
Still debating whether we should go wr or cb first. I think impact players at both positions will be there in the 1st and 2nd. I truly love the idea of getting a speedster who can separate and catch for Richardson to make full use of his arm, but have a shut down corner would help as well. If only we could get both. Bowers pick would be a luxury pick as we still need an upgrade at wr as I don't want to start this season without a wr that can push pierce
imo the nfls receiver friendly rules have made cbs second round and below only
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18 hours ago, Yoshinator said:
I feel Ballard put us in a spot where we need a top CB still by not trading for Sneed. Mitchell is the perfect scheme fit for Gus Bradley's defense. Ballard may not pick him, but I like him better than anyone else at 15 when you combine need and scheme fit.
if he is available at 15 i like bowers, i can just imagine the colts having a pass catching te like kelse or gronkowski
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3 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
I love this forum as a whole, so I am trying to get along with everyone better. I love talking all sports and respect many here. We all can improve. It is the best football forum by far. If you go to others, you will see. The Mods deserve a lot of credit here, but I have always thought that for keeping this place sane. I have even had good convo with Doug and Mosse lately, life is too short to be upset with people because they have different points of views than many. I am over it regarding that
we needs more posts like this
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5 minutes ago, csmopar said:
Yeah I get it. But history is not on the Texans side. The super bidders of FA of the last 20 years, 16 of them have missed the playoffs and only the Rams have gotten to the Conference Championships or beyond. They could but it’d be unlikely,
meanwhile, teams like the chiefs and Bills were rather patient , building a deep solid set of rosters before finally landing their QB and boom, they’re contenders for the big dance.
I feel that Ballard is taking this approach and once he knows what he has in AR, then I think we’ll see a change in mannerisms towards FA.
I hope you are right and he gets ar some better weapons and game changers
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2 hours ago, Solid84 said:
I gave you my opinion - intent is important to me at least.
You didn’t like it and here comes the petty insults. Have fun with that.
we should not insult one another or be rude to our fellow colts fans even though we may disagree
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5 minutes ago, csmopar said:
Not saying you’re wrong but… I’m saving this post for when the Texans strategy blows up in their face.
I think Ballard is too conservative but I think Caserio is too reckless. It’s gonna bite them harder than us when it back fires. As history has shown time and time again.
as I’ve said for years, we are the mid 2000s chiefs under Alex smith. A team that is on the edge of the playoffs but need the right guy at the right time. Entirely plausible that AR is that guy, but we don’t know. If he turns out good to great and we own the Texans again, I hope you and others come back to eat some crow. Likewise, if the Texans somehow win a ring, I’ll eat my crow.
I certainly dont want the texans to be better than us and I hope that I eat crow lol. But caserios method seems to be working for them but it could blow up down the road . Meanwhile ballard is just plodding along and not upgrading our weak positions which is not keeping up with the texans. I want us to win it makes our team so much more fun to watch.
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Just now, 2006Coltsbestever said:
I know, insane really. If AR doesn't pan out this year, Ballard may be gone.
hopefully ar is great and we have our qb that can take us to a higher level
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1 minute ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Great post. What would be the best thing is when someone just respects your opinions and when they are wrong, they can be woman or man enough to apologize to you when they are wrong, instead of never admitting they are wrong or just ignore you. That is the worse thing you can do to me. That is why I have avoided social media most of my life, this is social media but not like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.. I don't even mess those sites. This world be a nuch better place if people can just express their freedom of speech but some can't handle the truth and get butt hurt when you try that
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you are one of the good posters on here who is not rude , you are one of the most positive posters on here and I would like to be that positive myself. I just get frustrated because I see where we need upgrades and nothing seems to get done.
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6 minutes ago, stitches said:
But it isn't for a 6th rounder? Come on man... this is so obtuse and you know it is. You know what he meant, you know what I meant. Should we expand on every single caveat that can be made about a pretty simple and intuitive statement only so someone wouldn't catch you in a technicality "well, you actually didn't explicitly say this or that". This is stupid. Lets talk like adults here. Did you get what is meant when me or @Solid84 wrote our posts? Do we really need to go into whether a 3d rounder is "taking a shot" or the 4th rounder is "taking a shot", but the sixth rounder after that isn't... but in one of the years there were legit 1st round QBs to be taken and in the other one there weren't... etc.
If you want to be really technical... EVERYTHING in the draft is a dart throw. From the no. 1 pick to the UDFAs. Doesn't mean we cannot talk colloquially and understand eachother without "gatchas". Ballard did NOT seriously address the QB position in the draft until last year. This is the essence. And a pick in the 3d might not have been enough either... but it would have been better than nothing. When you have no long-term QB on the roster, you do what you can to find that guy.... in the 1st.... or in the 3th or as UDFA... just different expectations for players drafted in different ranges.
I'm sorry but this whole thing is so freaking pointless and doesn't serve anybody except for us to bicker over meaningless minutiae and waste our time.
you are so right , the nitpicking of words and posts is not enjoyable on this forum and some of these posters are not kids but they are adults who act like children. it would be a better forum if the post and word bashing stopped and we all acted like adults, we can disagree on here without being rude or combative. we are all colts fans lets try to treat each other with respect.
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2 minutes ago, Yoshinator said:
Yep. The sad thing is we don't even really benefit from not signing FAs with the compensatory pick system. We rarely ever have extra picks. I think maybe 2-3 extra picks since Ballard took over. No other FAs sign for enough money to qualify most of the time, and if they do, we cancel it out with the 2nd tier FAs we do sign.
So it's not like we are just signing our own to gain extra picks, we are just stuck in neutral and paying more to stay the same.
Sneed would have been nice. If Mitchell and Arnold get drafted before us, we may be in some trouble at the CB position for the draft and next year.
ballard seems to like the young corners that he drafted he liked their ras scores like he did with all the failed wrs and pass rushers he drafted who are no longer on the team. he needs to be better at drafting if he builds only through the draft and bargain bin free agents. his method is keeping us and average team. delayed gratification should have kicked in after almost a decade of waiting. he said he was going to change but he has not done it as of now. we need upgrades at pass rush pressure, wrs who can get open, tight ends who can change games, cbs who can cover and pass defending lbs. we need upgrades everywhere, meanwhile he resigns his average talent.
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1 minute ago, Yoshinator said:
I hate Ballard because he makes watching the Colts an unenjoyable experience. I would prefer he do well (even if his approach is bad) because it would mean the Colts are doing well.
On the contrary, any playoff team that's a contender loves Chris Ballard because they know he isn't going to be a threat to beat them or make the playoffs (the Chiefs in the regular season not withstanding).
The only people who are Ballard-haters are Colts fans who want to win and are frustrated with the team since 2019. 31 other teams fanbases love Chris Ballard not because he's good at what he does, but because he makes sure the Colts are stuck in mediocrity and that's one less team that will contend for the SB. Texans fans really love Chris Ballard.
I agree texans fans are benefiting from ballards method of filling the roster. they should love ballards bargain bin method while they watch caserio turn a losing team into the elite of the afc south with his smart deals and draft picks.
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8 hours ago, stitches said:
Oh I know perfectly well what he meant and there is no twisting in his words. The more contentious part of my post is whether he indeed is relying on one player to now make the difference for him. I think all the puff pieces (Nate Atkins, Holder) we've had trying to explain how what he's doing (7th year in a row) is good, while the opponents are losing talent(conveniently omitting to assess if the lost talent is better than the gained talent), are making a pretty good case for the essence of my post - Ballard's main hope for this team to be better next year is AR. Which is pretty ironic.
Damn... I guess now that the sad emoji is out you decided it's time to open the vault with long held inside gripes.
I crucified Ballard? I mean... I guess I will have to rely on your memory here and hope they are better than mine and not at all influenced by grudges or inability to take criticism of ... the team's GM. I don't have that memory because my memory is that at the time I actually liked a lot of those picks. Notice, this is not to be mistaken with me wishing he'd take a shot on one of those QBs in the 3d. And I don't consider that a mistake, either. Both Tennessee and ATL made the right decision to take a shot on a talented QB when they knew they didn't have their long-term guy on the roster. It didn't work for them... it's normal, a lot of picks don't work out and not just at QB and it doesn't automatically make the decision wrong or a mistake. This is something you don't seem to understand - the process is much more important than the low level details. I've said a ton of times - I care about what Ballard does on a philosophical level, much more than the specifics... I defer a lot to him and the scouting department on specific players. And I don't expect every player to hit... and I don't consider every miss a mistake.
what a great post
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2 hours ago, cdgacoltsfan said:
I think we already have a thread dedicated to Ballard bashing.
mods made this one too
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13 hours ago, Restinpeacesweetchloe said:
Look I am who I am. If you don’t like the way I express myself you could just skip over the post. I have never been great at expressing thoughts but that doesn’t give you the right to jump on me like a pack of wolves when I post something you don’t like. Sorry I am not good enough for you or express myself as well as you think everyone should. I used to find this place enjoyable because I could talk football with everyone. I don’t have people in my life who like football. So being able to talk football is enjoyable to me. But it’s not enjoyable when people are rude and inconsiderate and make others feel silly.
I quit reading the posts of the wolfpack , they are not worthy of wasting my precious time on them. If I read one by accident they certainly do not dignify a response. The forum is now so much more enjoyable for me. There are many great colts fans on here who are not rude or arrogant and it is very enjoyable exchanging ideas with them.
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4 hours ago, Restinpeacesweetchloe said:
Look I am who I am. If you don’t like the way I express myself you could just skip over the post. I have never been great at expressing thoughts but that doesn’t give you the right to jump on me like a pack of wolves when I post something you don’t like. Sorry I am not good enough for you or express myself as well as you think everyone should. I used to find this place enjoyable because I could talk football with everyone. I don’t have people in my life who like football. So being able to talk football is enjoyable to me. But it’s not enjoyable when people are rude and inconsiderate and make others feel silly.
there is a wolfpack of rude and arrogant posters on this board and it is very obvious who they are, just ignore them they like to cyber bully, keep posting you make good posts. there are also many good posters like you who dont try to bully other posters and are not rude. I find your posts great.
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2 minutes ago, ColtStrong2013 said:
We don’t know if we aren’t keeping up with them yet… We beat them in Houston with half of AR and lost by what might be just a few plays at home with the division on the line, and a backup qb going head to head with wonderboy CJ stroud. They’ve made moves. But this isn’t Madden. They aren’t guaranteed to work better. It’s now a 1 year deal for Diggs. A more expensive one now too. He may re-sign. He may not. We don’t know at this point. This is the year to judge, imo. We’ll have a pretty good idea by Thanksgiving where this team’s standing in the division/league is.
im hopeful some of our young guys elevate this year. I’ve seen some glimpses to know it’s possible. I want to see Jelani Woods healthy and on the field. I want to see Pittman’s potential with qb stability, and another year with Steichen. I want to see JT healthy and back to 2021 form. That’s just on offense. I agree the defense has some work to do. But I don’t think they’ll get worse, I think they’ll improve quite a bit this year. Just in growth on the backend, a new defensive line coach to tweak things up with a couple ends in contract years. We’ll see what we do in the draft/ remaining free agency. I think Bradley’s going to be coaching for his job. I think moving the ball better on offense will help defensively.
I’m hopeful things come together more this season than ever. Might not lead to the success you need to see to be satisfied. But I think we have a winner at the helm in Shane Steichen. He’s certainly not going to want to disrupt things by bringing a new GM in. He didn’t accept this job with that understanding… He bought in to where the team is headed under his leadership and influence/working relationship with Ballard and co.
I like shane too and if any coach can help us it would be him, I just hope he can influence ballard to upgrade some positions
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18 minutes ago, ColtStrong2013 said:
Sounds like that’s what you hope for. The more you talk, the more it sure feels like it. You didn’t see any positives last year to give you hope that things will improve going forward?i hope ballard changes his method and gets some playmakers. sorry if i sound like i want more being average but i want us to win and ballards current method is not keeping up with the texans or other elite teams. last year i didnt see hope on defense but i did see hope with ar , ballard needs to upgrade ars weapons ,we need gamechangers
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11 minutes ago, ColtStrong2013 said:
i have. They say Ballard’s the best we’ll get.
i sure hope not or we are doomed to be just average forever
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7 minutes ago, ColtStrong2013 said:
like i said earlier. Colts fans have been spoiled. Those born in the ‘90s only knew winning until they were in their twenties…there is nothing wrong with winning ask some kc fans
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Colts have the 15th pick in the draft. (MERGE)
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ballard drafted hooker in the first with pick 15, that did not work out for us