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Yoshinator

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  1. Bowers might fall to 15. I see a lot of landmines where he can go before us. Chargers, Titans, and Broncos are the biggest 3 IMO. Ogletree may not be back, I agree there. Woods injury shouldn't affect him in 2024. I think he'll be fine. Granson is a JAG, but he's a younger JAG than MAC. MAC is worth maybe half of what he gets. I'd try to give him a paycut down to 3-4 million. Even if we cut him, it would have little effect on the Colts.
  2. He gets a catch a game on average (not even that). 13 catches for 161 yards and 3 tds last season. He's also older now with 0 upside. A pay cut is fair. We have other TEs that have potential.
  3. Yeah, I agree with this. I also believe that Kelce getting aggressive with Andy Reid may have sparked the Chiefs as they were getting shut out at that point and Reid made some adjustments. I've never seen KC have this good of a defense though. Spags did an amazing job with them, and the adjustments were as good as Belichick made (since you mentioned the Pats). Mahomes didn't have an amazing year on offense in all honestly. The defense kept him in games. I saw a stat earlier in the year where they were either undefeated or only lost one game when allowing less than 24 points (I think they allowed 27 once). Mahomes is a great QB, but he didn't have to be this year. The defense stifled all the top offenses in the NFL. McDuffie and Sneed are two shutdown corners. WRs had a lot of trouble Vs them. Solid pressure on the front 7 as well. It's amazing when you consider how late they draft every year. I wish Ballard would consider adding a secondary scout from KC that was responsible for adding Sneed and McDuffie.
  4. I think it could be both scouting and coaching. I don't know if the Chiefs have a version of "with the next pick" that shows an in-depth look at their scouting department and strategies for the draft, but I'm assuming their secondary scouts are much better than ours. Steve Spagnuolo is also a much better defensive coordinator than Gus Bradley. That goes without saying.
  5. The bolded is the appeal to authority I mean. Just because he knows more than us doesn't mean he's a good GM. That doesn't win the Colts games. He's not competing against the Colts forum members. He's competing against 31 other professional GMs and he has a losing record of 54-60-1 with no division titles and 1 playoff win in 7 years against them. Fans may not know as much as Ballard, but it seems Ballard doesn't know as much as the other GMs in football (especially Veach and Lynch who took over the Chiefs and 49ers in 2017 (same year Ballard took over the Colts) and they were in the SB this year). Until Ballard changes his ways, then this team will not be competitive unless he hits in the draft at an astronomical rate. Hey though, he knows more than all of us, so we should feel good about that right? Too bad he doesn't know more than the other GMs. That would make me feel good.
  6. I would love to draft Malachi Corley in the 2nd or 3rd round on day 2. He reminds me of Deebo Samuel, and with Shane Steichen as our coach, I think we could use him really well. Also only 21 years old.
  7. Yeah, I understand what you are saying. Ballard may love this safety class because of all the mid-round options and the fact that he likes to trade down. It might encourage him to take a safety in the 4th round or so. I just think we need a starter if Blackmon is not re-signed. Not sure we have one besides Cross. Daniel Scott has potential and Ballard said good things about him, but he's coming off an ACL tear. Don't trust Rodney Thomas much. With the way the draft is looking with safeties right now (it could change), I don't see any definite starters for us. Free Agency seems like a much better option. Not really a fan of having three day 3 safeties (potentially if we draft one along with Scott and Thomas) competing for the starting job. I'd like either a veteran in there as an option, or a solid FA in there.
  8. Generally, for FAs, I like to decide if I'd pay market price by how good the draft is at that position if I need one. Safeties are bad in the 2024 class. I don't see one I'd feel comfortable taking in the first 2 rounds if I were Ballard. Someone like McKinney would be worth it IMO for the same reason the RB position would be to another team. Great in FA, bad in the draft. I guarantee that's a strategy that teams use as a tiebreaker to decide which positions to sign in FA and which to draft.
  9. In theory, we are in the best position we've been in since 2018 because of the combination of the overall team and finally having Richardson under a rookie contract. So there's no excuses for not spending in FA on a top player or two. We realistically should have playoff expectations now or at least should be building the team like it. Ballard said he'd be more aggressive, so that's something. He doesn't always say that. I admit I'm getting impatient. Some of it is Ballards fault, some of it isn't. I'm tired of key injuries that end our season and any hope before it gets started, I'm tired of Ballards conservative GMing, I'm tired of the drama from the owner down to the players that puts this team in a bad light. If we win, it's not a big deal. However, two of the last 3 years, we choked by one game, so it is a big deal. I want to win now. Not only do I want to win now, but I want a fair chance at winning without the injuries that affect us more negatively than other teams. I felt not firing Gus Bradley was a horrible move, and it's going to set the defense back. Seems like the same thing all over again when Reich kept his coaches when they stunk, now Steichen is doing the same with his buddy. Hard to be optimistic for me. It's a "I'll believe it when I see it" thing now.
  10. It's pretty much the same for me though. It's going to be a pain watching FA for the Colts specifically because you can't count on Ballard improving the team through FA much. Even in a situation like this where Richardson is under a rookie contract, I don't trust Ballard to spend a little to build around him. Hope to be wrong. The draft is where it is fun to watch as a Colts fan. Ballard usually gets athletes with a high RAS score and they hit decently or they can miss pretty badly. It seems though there's a lot of injury busts and that's been unfortunate.
  11. Everyone on this forum has a .000 batting average in the NFL, unless they've coached or GMed in the NFL before and we are unaware of it. That includes me, you, and everyone else. So your appeal to authority is old here. Compare Ballard to the active GMs, and he's average at best if you include his drafting. He's accomplished nothing so far but 1 playoff win in 7 years when facing other professional GMs on other professional football teams. No division wins. A losing record. Most people are sick of it. If you aren't, then you aren't a fan whose motivation to watch the Colts is making the playoffs and winning the SB.
  12. I agree with you. I love the Combine and pro day, I love FA, I absolutely LOVE the draft with Chris Ballard as the GM. It's a very fun time to see how each team changes and improves. Staff changes as well sometimes. Then training camp to see how they perform early as a team before games. Lot of fun to watch everything.
  13. Can the Colts re-sign their own FAs before FA if they choose as well if they don't want to franchise tag them? I would like to re-sign as many of Pittman, Stewart, Blackmon, and Moore as possible.
  14. Them being the worst franchise for several years had nothing to do with Caserio. He was fixing the team right when he got there. No 1st or 2nd round draft pick his first year as GM. Watson getting traded also had nothing to do with getting CJ Stroud (I know you didn't specifically say this, I'm saying it). It had to do with getting Will Anderson. So, while it did make the team better, they would have been fine without the Watson picks. If teams didn't gameplan for them, that's their fault. They literally had a rookie QB and a rookie coach, won the division, and won a playoff game. You pretend 10-7 isn't impressive with all that happening. Anyone important in football disagrees with you. You are being biased because you are a Colts fan. Ballard has been the GM 7 years going on 8 now, and his best year wasn't that good. We also traded down from 3 to 6 in 2018 and managed to get 3 extra 2nd round picks. Drafted good players with them, but it ended up worthless in the end with how we've done. Caserio has done in 3 years what Ballard has done in 7. That is a fact. Not only that, Stroud is more developed at this point than AR, so they are actually ahead of us at the QB position already, and we're assuming AR will be a hit (which isn't a guarantee). At least for the Texans, there's some evidence that Stroud will be a hit. You are dead wrong here and you sound like a salty Colt fan. At least I can admit when another team does well and our FO is bad. Grow up, give credit where it's deserved, and quit being an immature fan.
  15. Hypothetically, if the Chiefs gave up two 1st rounders (I think this has a possibility of happening if we apply the non-exclusive tag) I would do this in a heartbeat for Pittman. Pick 32 and a 1st next year would be great IMO.
  16. I completely missed this thread. Pick I want is Brock Bowers. There aren't many TEs in FA and I feel like a TE like JaTavion Sanders may not be there in the 2nd round. Cade Stover could rise as well past the point where I want to draft him. Bowers in the first would be the best selection IMO based on need, BPA, and generally just because of the lack of TEs available in both FA and the draft this year. Pick I don't want is Laitu Latu. He has some medical concerns that could cause him to fall, and I don't think any of the EDGE rushers really separate from each other that much. If we do take an EDGE, I don't want one that's injury prone. Give me someone like Jared Verse instead (obviously Jareds are better lol). Knowing Ballard, I think the pick will be someone like Quinyon Mitchell. Big riser that fills a position of need. Good height at 6 feet and plays outside zone (which the Colts like to do). I think he'll go in this range when it's all said and done, and Ballard will take him.
  17. The refs are in the same position as a poker player when they bluff to try and win a hand. If they call too many penalties, people will catch on. They can literally call a flag every play if they choose, but they won't. They pick their spots, just like a poker player does when they bluff.
  18. I'll say this, if Mahomes hypothetically wins the SB next year and the Chiefs 3 peat, I would put Mahomes above Montana. Cause at that point Mahomes would have tied Montana in SB wins, made an extra SB, and had an elite playoff record (he's 15-3 in the playoffs now, so he'd probably be 18-3 in that scenario). He already has 3 SB MVPs, so depending on if he won it again, that'd be 4. This is not mentioning that I still believe Joe Montana is somewhat a game manager (although a clutch one). However, Mahomes has proven to be just as clutch in his career, and he puts up elite stats that are more like Brady and Manning rather than Joe Montana. As of now though, Joe was so clutch in the playoffs and he won 4 of 4 SBs (whereas Mahomes is 3 of 4 right now), that Mahomes has to win another SB to be in the discussion to pass Joe Montana.
  19. That's an amazing stat with the bolded. I actually never knew that, but Brady was always a top seed in the playoffs with the AFC East being a cakewalk that it doesn't surprise me. He was very fortunate on Tampa then. I didn't even think about Covid taking away the crowd from him. That whole playoff year was set up perfectly for him.
  20. Yeah, Eli in 2007 may have been the greatest underdog playoff story of the modern era,
  21. Notice the Pats aren't on here at all. They were the reason most of the teams on this list are on the list. They had to beat the Pats in those years, and the Pats didn't have to beat themselves. The Colts in 2006 as the big example for us. We had to beat them in the AFC title game. That was harder than the SB Vs the Bears.
  22. Yes. We take him. The only reason we wouldn't is if he was refusing to sign with anyone but Tennessee, and there was a lot more smoke to that than just talking to the media. I don't think Tennessee would risk letting him fall to the 2nd round though. A team would probably still take him in the 1st and risk that he would sign. He would be an insane upgrade at TE for us. A big weapon for AR. There is very little in FA at TE this year, so Bowers would be ideal for us.
  23. That's why i took out Larry Allen and put in Marshall Yanda. He was a better representation of the 25 year frame. I enjoyed doing the draft with you.
  24. We're both a little nuts. Doing an entire draft during the night lol. I enjoy it though. Some positions were definitely worse than others to get sniped on because of the players. You went a lot more modern year players than me. We definitely had a different strategy there. I took a lot of players in 90s-2010s.
  25. Yeah, I wanted to get Orlando Pace and have my elite tackles first. I kinda telegraphed my next pick lol. It's ok, I had Mack as a backup option. That one surprised me though as well as you picking Adam when you did. I was trying to stretch the Special teams as much as possible and you took him before me. I just made sure to get Lechler wrapped up afterwards.
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