Patagonia Chris
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5 hours ago, SDakColts said:
A couple more names to watch while Ballard fills his scouting staff. Rex Hogan the Jets Director of College Scouting, and Morocco Brown currently a 49ers scout, but scouted with Ballard in Chicago. La Canfora also mentioned their names a while back.
I personally think that we should look into Scot McCloughan for a position on our staff. I believe he was unfairly a fall guy in Washington due to his conflicted relationship with Team President Bruce Allen. He has a great resume, and built a playoff roster quickly while he was there
He also may or may not have a drinking problem that derailed his career as a GM. I'm all for second chances though, and I agree that he would be a great asset to the scouting department.
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On 4/27/2017 at 10:06 PM, superrep1967 said:
Well not to burst your bubble but they didn't like him on ESPN. They said too many missed tackles and too inexperienced.
ESPN and Jon Gruden loved the D'Joun Smith pick a couple of years ago and look at how awesome that turned out.
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If Adrian Peterson's price keeps going down I wouldn't mind having two 30+ year old running backs and Turbin pound the rock.
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I could see Richard Sherman having a career arc similar to Nmadi Asomugha's if he ever leaves Seattle. I've always thought Sherman was a great athlete who benefits from being in the right system with great players all around him. I wonder about his ability to be able to lineup against the Antonio Brown's, Dez Bryant's and Odell Beckham's of the world and hold his own one versus one.
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On 3/17/2017 at 1:35 PM, Everyone said:
Jags have spent a ton of money the past 3 season and only have around 10 wins to show for it. They must have the happiest fans though.
Exactly! Every NFL fans knows there is no game day experience quite like the Jaguars stadium. Those tarps in the upper deck where fans would normally sit sure cause a ruckus and create an intimidating home field advantage.
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22 minutes ago, COLTS449 said:
Tell em your opinions. We need to become the majority bro. There's too many followers who think every move we make is the best.
I actually like most of the moves that Ballard has made so far, but that has a lot to do with Grigson not being able to build a team with any depth whatsoever. I've been in enough arguments with people on here about how wrong they are on player evaluation that there is no point anymore. I literally had people telling me I was a terrible person because I said I would rather have Incognito than Jonathon Martin on my team. I was heavily against Herremans, Cole, Andre Johnson but it doesn't matter now. You have countless people here who act like they're the second coming of Lombardi, Polian or Mel Kiper that voicing opinions on players isn't really attractive to me anymore.
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This thread is about 2 years too late.
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Other than Sheard everyone he has signed could be solid depth players but they also won't kill the cap if they don't make the team. I think everything is going according to plan. The draft is such a crap shoot that it would be a bad strategy imo to bank solely on the draft for building depth.
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I don't think he realizes that about half of his audience just walked out of the door with him. Especially on a stupid publicity stunt like this. He has some funny tweets from time to time but a majority of his twitter account is just recycled jokes. I think he tweets "testing positive for intelligence" at least once a day. His standup wasn't bad for an amatuer but no where near what it takes to sell places out all over the country. Best of luck to him, but idk that attaching your wagon to a site that caters to frat dudes and drunk college guys is he best career move...
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10 hours ago, csmopar said:
I was wondering the same thing. It's gonna be an interesting next 6-8 weeks
I expect that, defensively, most of the free agent signings on the defensive side of the ball will be much like Grigson's first off-season with the team where he signed low-risk, high-reward no name players. It's all speculation at this point but I don't see Ballard schilling out big dollars to players who don't have a hybrid skill set.
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8 hours ago, Fisticuffs111 said:
I'm curious to see what will happen.
I think what our former GM said about not wanting to overspend in free agency and to mostly hit on the draft will still be in play. Ballard's a smart guy too, I think he'll try to go for areas that he missed out on in the draft.Judging by Kansas City's history in FA over the past four years, I think this statement is right o the money. Other than Jeremy Maclin I can't think of a big name free agent they've signed recently. With all of the Colts holes, I think this may also be the best approach moving forward. The real interesting aspect of this to me is whether or not Pagano stays and how much will Balard be willing to spend on players who fit into a lame duck coach's scheme. If he starts signing players that Dave Toub likes then maybe that's a tell.
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I know he's getting up there in age, so maybe it's dementia, but Bill Polian suffers from a worse case of revisionist history than that guy in your fantasy league who spends every off-season crying about how he would have won it all if only he had "drafted David Johnson over Adrian Peterson and Zeke Elliot over Frank Gore!". Polian has changed his story so many times when it comes to his Colts tenure. He "almost" drafted TJ Yates late, which would have solved the QB problem that season. (Supposedly, according to him.) He "only drafted Jerry Hughes because he was the last player on the board with a first round grade", then the story became "he should have went with Roger Saffold instead.", then back to Jerry Hughes is a great player and nobody knows that like him, because he drafted him! As an employee at ESPN he ranked Donald Brown and Antoine Bethea as 2 of the top 5 free agents in their draft class. Now I guess the story is that he wanted Dalton over Castanzo. I would have loved to see the whole world's reaction if he would have used a first round pick on a QB who would have started one season out of five with the team. Polian was a great GM, but man just it let go, you lost your job because you drafted players like a monkey throwing darts a draft board for the last few seasons. There were plenty of QB's out there who could have "won 6 or 7" games that season, they went 2-14 because their back-up plan was signing a 40 year old QB, two weeks before the season started, and hoping he could take the reigns despite spending all off-season writing country songs.
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3 hours ago, Coltswarriors said:
Robert Mathis
Trent Cole
Erik Walden
Akeem Ayers
Darius Butler
Mike Adams
Jack Doyle
Jordan Todman
Robert Turbin
Chris Carter
Hugh Thornton
Darryl Morris
Duke Williams
Who do you guys put as priorities to re-sign?
I'd go with Butler, Doyle, Turbin and if Adams wants to play another year bring him back.
Xby TurboMacAlso, I'd bring Walden back if he's not asking too much after his "breakout" year.
Doyle, Turbin, Butler and Walden (if the price is right or contract is very team friendly) One thing to be optimistic about is that the Colts will have a ton of cap room and they aren't losing very much on field production. Now will the current regime be able to capitalize on it? I have my doubts, but the opportunity is there.
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3 minutes ago, Superman said:
I don't remember, I thought it was always shoulder.
They haven't listed him on the injury report with anything other than a shoulder injury and concussion this season. The Colts are going to turn the next John Elway into the next David Carr.
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I think the fact that Jim Irsay isn't receiving at least some of the blame in this fiasco is perplexing. This is a man who could have literally hired anyone in the league for the GM position before the Colts drafted Luck. This was literally a dream job for anyone with GM aspirations. The Colts were gifted a once-in-a-generation QB for the second generation in a row, and yet here it is, going into year 6 of that QB staring a rebuild dead in the eye. UNREAL!
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12 hours ago, Gramz said:
My grandson would love to see Peppers win.
I think he was the player that had the most impact on a great team this season.
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12 hours ago, bababooey said:
Derrick Henry won last year and is a runningback.
I'm aware of that, but I really thought that was a "meh" selection at the time. I thought McCaffrey should have won it last year. If you watch Stanford, then you know that no one player is more valuable to his team than #5 for the Cardinal.
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The voting body's insistence on giving it to a QB Every. Single. Year. has really watered down the meaning of the Heisman Trophy to me. For an award that's supposed to go to the "best player in college football", it always goes to an offensive player somehow. If I were voting this year, I'd have it 1) Jabrill Peppers 2) Lamar Jackson 3) Westbrook 4) Mayfield 5) Watson... Just my opinion though.
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31 minutes ago, csmopar said:
Geathers is Bob sanders 2.0 in every way(I don't blame him for the concussion ) but I sure hope he can stay healthy, he's a beast
Except that Bob Sanders was a much better player in almost every aspect.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Erik Walden a guy who was brought in to "Set The Edge" and Trent Cole was a guy brought into rush the passer? I don't really see Trent Cole making any contributions to this team down the stretch unless he was able to find a time machine while he was injured and bring his 2010 self back into the present.
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12 hours ago, deedub75 said:
I just wish that 1 of the 2 was experienced when they were hired in 2012.
Agreed. I think Irsay did it right hiring a proven guy in Polian the first time around back before the 1998 draft. Just a personal opinion but Irsay's decision to hire two unknown's at a time when you had the best opening in pro football was just him trying to prove to the world the genius of Jim Irsay. That may also explain why both men got an extension when just about everyone thinks they should have been fired last summer.
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15 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:
...2 titles with 2 different teams....CBE..I agree.
I think Peyton is sensitive to the fact that he has two 'former' home teams, both of whom are in the same conference competing with each other..
....I think its much easier for him to go to NYG games.
...I'm not sure he gets back into pro football any time soon
I also don't see him getting back into football. Your kids will only be young once, football will have Manning anytime he wants it.
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Anybody who has been to a Colts game at Lucas Oil knows that place will be almost 50% Steelers fans. The average Colts season ticket holders unload their tickets any time there is a buck to be made on them. I was astounded at the number of Chiefs fans that were at the game earlier this season. Even with the "Blue Out" there is going to be A LOT of noticeable yellow in the crowd. Hopefully our boys in blue will be able to pull off the neutral field win.
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46 minutes ago, DougDew said:
Look. If anybody thinks that a GM makes a decision to cut a starting ILB without input from the positional coaches, DC, and HC, they are dreaming. Sometimes a GM might do that for salary cap reasons, but outside of DJax, every ILB is making the same money.
For some reason, the coaches recommended cutting Irving over McNary.
I'm sure it's because McNary has "grit" and "keeps chopping wood" on a weekly basis. I bet on the practice field he's always "flying around and making plays". Or whatever else cliches Pagano uses to justify playing under-talented individuals who shouldn't even sniff the field on a contending team.
Two Surprising 53-Man Roster Cuts Before Week One
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Both are better athletes then they are football players. I don't see the upside in cutting either one, unless somebody just absolutely plays their way onto the roster. I know it was more the exception than the rule, but Dorsett did make some nice plays at times last year. TJ Green, ahhhh not so much. I do think he could be a solid contributor on special teams though.