richard pallo
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48 minutes ago, krunk said:
When did he consult you about who they think is elite?
Huh? Lol
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13 minutes ago, Moosejawcolt said:
I juat don't think with how this draft is loaded, they need to throw all their resources at one guy when u could get one at 15 who could be that guy and still retain your picks. Just not a smart move.
If we stay at 15 and pick a player I would expect that player to be one of 19 he graded as a 1st rd talent. The only WR’s I have seen in the top 20 of the entire draft are Harrison, Nabors and Odunze. He can sit and hope if he wants but when he’s that close to possibly getting elite seems like it would be smart to move up and get one of them. And who cares if we have to pay him a big second contract. You should be happy you hit on a pick. You really prefer a role player instead of elite? Because of money. Omg that’s an unbelievable take. I can’t believe it. Wow!
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4 minutes ago, w87r said:
Just saw a mock with us trading up to #4 for Harrison.
#15
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2025 1st
2025 3rd
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Probably a pretty accurate price. Won't be just us trying to trade up, there would be competition.
Vikings have #11,#23, prob still cost them more as well.
That’s a fair price considering we don’t have many needs. We still have this years 2nd.
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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.
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50 minutes ago, Moosejawcolt said:
Scharager has never been right and just throws his predictions at the wall hoping out of 50 of them, one may come true. No way Colts move up to 4. No way Arizona moves out of 4 to pick at 15 plus whatever else the Colts offer.
Not correct about Schraeger. That’s just your opinion. In actuality it has been proven and reported many times his predictions turn out to be the most accurate. Probably because he talks to a very large number of GM’s and executives from the combine up and until now. He waits until right before the draft to make his mock. His is one to pay attention to.
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16 minutes ago, adubb84 said:
Everyone quick! What are some questions you guys would like answered? I’ll reply to him
Is trading up in the 1st rd a possibility given your current draft position?
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14 minutes ago, adubb84 said:
Everyone quick! What are some questions you guys would like answered? I’ll reply to him
Do you view Dejean as a safety or cornerback?
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25 minutes ago, NewColtsFan said:
Well, if the Colts try to move up, it’ll cost a 3 and likely a Day Three pick. Thats expensive and would potentially prevent the Colts from filling certain positions thru the draft. I suppose it’s possible.
Seriously. That’s a small price to pay for a Nabors or Bowers. I think most here would do it in a heartbeat.
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You focused your question on trading up for MHJ only. I think he’s trading up but not for him. So unfortunately I can not choose one of your choices. I would bet there are many who agree with me.
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37 minutes ago, stitches said:
Props to @w87r for guessing right that Ballard might push some money forward in time. I still find it interesting that he did that. Makes little sense unless something's in the works. Maybe smaller backload would have been understandable to give us a bit more wiggle room for in-season moves, but this looks suspiciously large backload of that contract.
I think many of us expected his cap hit to go down a little bit. But a reduction of this magnitude was certainly not expected especially just before the draft. Hard not think it’s a sign that another move is on the horizon.
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1 hour ago, dw49 said:
I think he goes in round 1 and with a trade down 6-7 spots , he would have enough value to take him there.
Trading down for more picks doesn’t really make sense to me with this team as it’s currently constructed. I think we were the youngest team in the league last year. If not then we were very close. We have all 22 starters coming back and the three specialists. That’s a strong nucleus. We resigned a number of key reserves and added two more key reserves in FA. We have a number of key players returning from injury that were counted on to be key contributors last year. I’m thinking of players like Flowers, Dulin, Woods, Hull to name a few. My point being I’m not sure our current seven draft picks will all make the roster. And we still could sign a FA or two. This strikes me as the time to move up and try for better talent not trade back to get more picks. I also read it’s not considered a good draft class overall. I read where once we get past the top 150 prospects it’s not that great of a class. So I think this is the year to trade up even if it costs us a pick or two.
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Just read where Eliot Wolf who is in charge of the Patriots draft confirmed this morning they are involved in trade talks for the 3rd overall pick. The Colts pick 15 and the Raiders pick 13 is worth 100 pts more than pick 3 on the draft picks chart. The new coach of the Raiders wants to move up for a quarterback. Just saying there is a way if they want to get the Colts involved. Of course maybe the don’t want to.
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14 minutes ago, Yoshinator said:
The only similarities that Ballard and Veach have is that they were both on KC at the time Mahomes was drafted (Veach is the GM now obviously), and they both build well through the draft. Other than that, they are different in every other way as GMs.
You are correct, Ballard is more like Dorsey. Ballard is actually best friends with Dorsey. They had a thing in the draft where Dorsey always prank called Ballard during the draft. Was kinda funny.
If AR hits, then we will have gotten there as a playoff team the slow way. However, with Ballard, it will have taken a lot onger than it ever should have. People can blame Lucks retirement, Reich, or whatever, but GMs generally don't start with a franchise QB when they take over a team. IMO, Ballard was a scout who had no idea how to be a GM when he took over, and when Luck retired, it completely exposed him. He finally figured it out 7 years in his tenure. Might be too little, too late.
I think he saves his job this year and Colts fans are happy with the results of the season. He probably saved it last year but AR’s injury derailed the playoff spot. I think if he played the entire year we wouldn’t be talking about Ballard’s future with the team right now. So far so good this year. And the draft is still in front of us and he’s armed with more cap space so we shall see.
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10 hours ago, boo2202 said:
Most teams with a young QB, give them the best chance of succeeding by adding talent around them. You can look at the past Qb’s taken and see this. From Burrow, Tlaw, Herbert, Tua, etc. These teams have added pieces around their QB to help ease the curve. Right now our receiving core consists of Pittman basically and we seen last year what happens if he’s out. You must get talent around the young QB to give him a chance to succeed. Let them grow together. We’re not making the SB next year anyway.
Very true. Josh Allen is another one. The Bills traded for Diggs to help him out and they took off. Now he’s gone. I expect the Bills to do something big again to help him out. Once you get your quarterback the next step is making sure he has the weapons around him. Right now AR has some real quality weapons. Getting him another one could really set the team up for a nice run.
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14 minutes ago, Superman said:
Don't you ever get tired of trying to convince yourself that Ballard is going to make a big move? You seem to talk yourself into this at every opportunity, and it never happens.
Everything we know about Ballard tells us there is a practical, unexciting reason for this. I'm happy to be proven wrong, by the way. A big splash would be fun, but I think it's very unlikely.
So what.
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Ballard could have extended Buckner after the draft and still achieve the same result. But he does it a week before the draft. Therefore giving him more cap space and giving him plenty of flexibility before and during the draft to trade for a player with a meaningful cap hit if he wanted to. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the 1st pick. It could be a 2nd or 3rd rd pick. This seems to be the reason to me. This is the first time he has extended a player this way with a significant cap reduction. And he does it just before the draft. He has never traded up in the 1st rd either. Maybe that is also about to change. I believe he has a press conference this Friday. I would imagine he will get questions about this extension and will probably be vague explaining his reasons for doing it the way he did. That said I think Ballard is going for it this year. I think he feels he has to. I think these coming days are going to be exciting and full of surprises. JMO of course.
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13 minutes ago, Blueblood23 said:
With all the rules favorable for the offense, I would in no way take a corner in the first round.
I think it makes sense to draft a corner to try and counteract the trend of opening up the wide receivers more with the rule changes.
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47 minutes ago, csmopar said:
I’m wondering if clearing room for a trade up perhaps. Or a trade for an established player.
Unless I’m missing something I don’t see why we would need all of this extra space to move up in the draft. Trading for an established player is a different story. That seems more likely to me given the choices you presented.
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2 minutes ago, Yoshinator said:
I have another off-the-wall prediction. Colts trade the Broncos their 15th pick for Patrick Surtain. They could use that pick to move up in the draft and get a QB. Them having 12 and 15 would get them ahead of the Vikings who have 11 and 23.
We then extend Surtain to a long-term deal.
Yup. Another good one.
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33 minutes ago, w87r said:
So what does all this extra cap space this year mean?
Diggs or Simmons?
Only problem I see with this is Blackmon, how will he take it if we bring in outside Safety making 2-3x what he is making?
Xavien Howard, Gilmore, Nelson?
Trade for someone? Baker?
Trade up in draft would cost more as well...
Countdown has begun.
The first impulse is to say Simmons or Diggs. I think Ballard could very well make a bigger move. I have mentioned three trades in earlier posts. Baker, Aiyuk, or Crosby. The Raiders would really want to move up for a quarterback to want our pick 15. But our pick could easily help get them to 3or 4. Some think Crosby is a foundation piece and they would never trade him. But if you really want a certain quarterback you have to sacrifice something to get him. Ballard wanted Hunter no reason he wouldn’t try for Crosby. I like a Baker trade a lot as well because it’s a longer term fix in a position of need. Trading for Aiyuk reminds me of the Bills move for Diggs. I wouldn’t rule that out either. I think the Crosby trade is the only one that would require our 1st pick. The others would not imo. For me something is definitely cooking. Exciting times coming up I would say.
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1 minute ago, Yoshinator said:
I'm going to make a prediction. We trade for Budda Baker and give him an extension. We may even release Cox to save another $6 million.
We trade a 3rd rounder for Budda Baker and a 6th rounder. That's my prediction.
I said this in an earlier post. A trade for Baker makes sense to me. He’s younger than Simmons or Diggs. I think the first knee jerk reaction is we are signing on of the two but I wouldn’t rule out Baker.
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47 minutes ago, Yoshinator said:
If you want to argue that we didn't have a realistic shot on Danielle Hunter, I agree. However, we could have easily gotten Sneed if we wanted (we just didn't want to pay the guaranteed money because of the injury concerns). When it's just members of the forum saying "we could have gotten X guy for Y amount", then there's not that much credibility to it. However, when it's an 8 year sample size in FA, and Ballard admits that's how he goes about things, it's a pattern. There's a lot of guys he goes after that he misses on, but there's even more that he could get for a realistic price that he has no interest in.
In the end, he's not aggressive as a GM, and it's not necessarily a good thing. He never wants to overpay, but sometimes you have too. If he's building the team through the draft, you think he would allow himself to overpay a time or two in FA because he'd have the cheap rookie contracts he's hitting on to supplement the team and the cap.
Just my two cents.
You could make that argument that he has been aggressive and overpaid when it came to acquiring Wentz and Ryan. Draft picks and money. Two quarterbacks no less. The most important position on the team. So I don’t think you can say he’s not aggressive. He took big swings on those two and missed. But he also traded a 1st rd pick for Buckner paid him and hit a home run with that swing. I think you could say he has taken aggressive swings. I do think having a franchise quarterback leading your team makes it easier to justify taking one. I think he thinks he has that guy now. So I’m expecting a few more aggressive moves going forward. I think they will be calculated and well thought out. And he and Shane will be in lock step when they happen.
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6 minutes ago, PRnum1 said:
That would be a typical Falcon move... Lol !
Verse is a nice player but to me you absolutely take the player from Alabama who's a one man wrecking crew.
The SEC is a much tougher conference as well. No disrespect to FSU which is playing in a much softer conference.
However, if the Falcons bit on Verse, Turner could fall to 15.
Move up. With no regrets.
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2 minutes ago, csmopar said:
I don’t think he’s fairly being judged here. There’s been reports every single year that we were the high bidder and yet lost out. I truly think most of that comes down to the fact we really don’t have much to offer in terms of things not counting as salary. No franchise QB proven yet, no bikini clad babes or beaches, income tax etc.
Once players think you have the right coach and a franchise quarterback everything changes. Night turns into daylight.
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Ballard pre-draft presser
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Funny you brought this up. I just listened to an interview Ballard did today with Rich Eisen. He asked him if he has given any thought on how many quarterbacks will be taken before our pick and how many does he think. He said sure we go through those evaluations. It helps us with for planning purposes. He asked him how many. 4 or 5 or 6? He laughed out loud at 6. He said Rich if it’s 6 we will be so excited. Let’s hope so. He also said the draft board is not yet set. Won’t be until the night before the draft. He also said he has had multiple conversations with other GM’s concerning the draft. Preparing themselves for opportunities that could take place. And they will continue up until the draft starts. He said trade conversations won’t really materialize until you are within three picks of any trade. Giving you time to finalize it. Interesting interview. Oh he pretty much ruled out moving up for Harrison. Going up into the top of the draft would be very costly for him he said. Thinks he’s a great talent but he thinks he’s pretty much out of our reach.