Goatface Killah

If you are looking to add important positions, or guys who you hope will become cornerstones of your team, doesnt it make sense to draft and develop those players instead of throwing tons of money at veterans? I think this makes perfect sense.

Because you are comparing our pressure rate to the rest of the league, which isnt an apples to apples comparison, and then using that metric as a statement as to our talent level. The Chiefs example is just to show that these stats are far more complex than just talent = production. Scheme is a factor. A big one. Situational football is another factor. A big one. This is why people dont understand how GMs think. They tend to see it as a talent issue every time. GMs just dont think that way. Ballard signed Raekwon Davis because he thinks we need to perform better on early downs, which should lead to better performance on 3rd down, at least in theory. 3rd and long is optimal for creating pressure in our scheme. Our run defense needs to be stout. Its entirely possible that we just performed really well when we put ourselves into ideal situations for our scheme, but we just didnt put ourselves into those positions often enough to accumulate a high amount of pressures. Does that make sense?

Why do you say this like its a fact? The Kansas City Chiefs generated 73 unblocked pressures last year. Thats scheme, not talent. Scheme and situational football are a big part of this. Its hard to scheme up pressure when you are protecting a young secondary and its very hard to apply pressure on 3rd and short. We were very poor vs the run and just did not put ourselves in position to pressure with 4 guys. We need 3rd and 6 ir more to be effective there. So comparing them to a team like KC whose stats are heavily inflated by a masterful DC scheming up blitzes is absolutely not fair to our guys. We have some very good football players on that DL. Is Gus on Spags level? No but not many are. I think it is pretty wild to suggest the team set a franchise record in sacks on pure luck. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

Absolutely. These people are just hating and nitpicking, as usual. Yes the pressure rate needs to get better, but no it isnt "way more important" than sacks. Sacks are huge plays for the defense and you absolutely dont "luck into" sacks. They also have 2 very young ascending edge players who look very promising and should take another step this year. There are other ways to improve the pressure rate other than just throwing money at free agents. The biggest way is to force more 3rd and longs. Forcing 3rd and long is the biggest factor in increasing things like pressure rate, schematically. Its very hard to get pressure on 3rd and 3. Its much easier on 3rd and 8. Especially in this system. i would guarantee you that the teams with higher pressure rates forced more 3rd and longs than the Colts. You have to win the early downs. And I think the fact they produced so many sacks while not being very good against the run is a testamemt to how good they are. This DL is very good and definitely one of the better units, top to bottom, in the league. Are they a top 5 unit? Not quite. But they are knocking on the door. Adding Davis should help by making us more stout when Grover is off the field. He should bolster our short yardage package as well. I wouldnt be surprised to see them both on the field against strong running teams.

Dayo outside more maybe. I could see some big fronts on early downs like Bradley used to have in Seattle.

Ballard obviously didnt give this guy 7 million a year to just backup Grover Stewart. Its pretty clear he thinks he can play him at both spots inside. I personally like it. I think the run defense was a bigger problem last year than people realize. We need to force more 3rd and longs and to do that you have to be good on first down.

I believe he was 12th.

McKinney didnt make much of a difference for the Giants last year. The 1 good year theyve had, he was actually hurt and missed half the season. He aint moving the needle. People over rate these free agents every year.

We were never gonna sign a guy who played in a 3-4 to replace Zaire Franklin.

I actually dont post very often at all. Do you have anything to say about any of the points I made regarding Ballard being active in free agency?

The conversation is about free agency. I understand its very hard for you to follow any kind of actual conversation considering you have a clear agenda, but at least give it a good effort. If you gave me the number 1 overall pick in the draft with a generational QB sitting there for me, I could win a playoff game also. Absolutely nothing impressive about that, at all.

Also Justin Houston, Yannick Ngakoue amd Samson Ebukam. Glowinski?

You see eloquent and I see a bunch of mumbo jumbo from a writer with zero meaningful credentials in a world full of internet experts with zero meaningful credentials. Im not impressed. Why are you so impressed? Only because she agrees with you. Thats it. You like it because it tickles your ego. And you just admitted it.

I think most people expected him to miss the game and return at some point. Im shocked he never came back. That dude loved to play football, I dont care what anyone says.

Consistently, year over year he absolutely is. And he is much better than Grigson or Polian for that matter, ever was. One year does not mean he was more active. You didnt even name as many people as I did and I left out quite a few. Phillip Rivers Stephon Gilmore Tre Burton Eric Ebron Jabaal Sheard Xavier Rhodes Johnathan Hankins TJ Carrie

I think every single one of those fanbases are very dissapointed in their teams this season. So yes, they are all under achieving dissappintments just like us. The only people hyping up their failures is you, and its only for the sake of trying to make the Colts look bad. As far as the rest of your post, its just more of the same. Our wins dont count because we played a backup QB, with OUR BACKUP QB......yada yada yada.......blah blah blah. Whatever. It doesnt even count when we beat the league MVP with our backup QB on the road. Nothing good ever counts. Because youre that insecure in your narrative. The line between success and failure is razor thin and all the teams I listed are proof of that.

Its all about QB. Qb is the straw the stirs the drink. We have needed one and its very hard to find. He has tried a bunch of different things, because its hard. A few have worked fairly well. Rivers, Minshew, and maybe Richardson. A few havent worked as well like Wentz and Ryan. Sounds to me like a guy doing a descent job of plugging a gaping hole more than pure incompetence.

He is thinking of Gosder Cherilus, Andre Johnson and Frank Gore. That year was clearly an outlier. And it didnt work either. Most years the Colts have done exactly what Ballard has done. Even the most successful years we have had. A bargain bin signing or two and thats it. And its not gonna change.

So because the perfect solution wasnt there, he is penalized for having to try something? Youre so delusional youre even mad about the Rivers decision and he took us to the playoffs.

And neither has your philosophy. You all have been hyping up colossal dissapointments like Miami, Philly, Cincinnatti, Jacksonville, Etc..... I am critical of the organization when I feel they deserve it. The last play call of the year, Frank Reich, etc. And I praise them when they deserve it. You know, because I think about what actually happened and not some fantasy world I created for myself, where all my personal opinions result in success. Its not hard to be objective and fair. You on the other hand are pretty consistently posting the same thing 1000 different ways. There is zero nuance to your opinions. Its all Ballard hate, all the time. His decisions last year absolutely worked. The team was drastically improved from the year before. But you would never acknowledge it. So why does your opinion matter if you cant be the least bit honest with yourself?

Youre basing this off one single year. And every move was horrible. Ballard is active every year bringing in guys who actually contribute. Autry, Houston, Ngakoue, Ebukam, Gay, etc.

Thats an organizational philosophy. All you complainers act like we were bringing in free agents before Ballard got here. We have never done that. In reality, Ballard has been more active and made better decisions in free agency than any other GM we have ever had. Much better. Much more active. Stop looking for things that confirm your feelings and try actually looking at evidence.

But it is 2 seperate things. They might be connected, but they arent the same.

I agreed we need more pressure. I never said we didnt. This all started as a response to moose who claimed our pass rush was awful. It isnt. The sack production proves that. If our pressure rate matched pur sack output, we would be undeniably elite. We are somewhere between those 2 extremes.

The Giants defense gave up more yards than the Colts this year.