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Solid84

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  1. I was actually thinking the media, but pick your poison.
  2. Which other vet CBs are still on the market? Anyone worth bringing in? How about safeties? This is probably the area I feel needs the most attention.
  3. Just saw this: Haven’t really watched or hear a lot about him. Opinions?
  4. I would say you’d have to have the right guys. Continuity for the sake of continuity is not how you win in my opinion.
  5. Byron Murphy is my #1 DT, but Ruke Orhorhoro is top 3 in my opinion, possibly only passed by Jer'Zhan Newton (and Murphy). Good write up, I hope Ballard has him in his sights. He'd be a great prospect to have behind Buckner and to eventually take his place.
  6. I'm beginning to lean this way too. The way it's dragging out and with noone having anything concrete one way or the other makes me believe it's his agent keeping this alive and noone else.
  7. Strictly speaking Sneed would be a trade, so calling him bargain bin Ballard would still apply as that is in regards to FA. 😉
  8. It’s a lot of money, but it would lock down CB1 with one of the top zone CBs for the next 4 years. I think I’d do it.
  9. It would definitely affect how other teams would approach the Chiefs about trades in the future. I think Sneed would prefer to stay with the Chiefs, but money will ultimately make the decision for him. We’ll see. I just think it’s been a bit of a farce so far.
  10. Yeah at this point I think Sneed and the Chiefs are wasting everyone’s time.
  11. How much do we think Sneed is asking for? $20m/year?
  12. Yeah, with the top 3 WRs gone Bowers will be next in line I think. Too bad, really wanted him as a Colt.
  13. No no, they "bought it" and FAs never work out.....
  14. I think this is an extremely generous view on what Ballard has doen so far. Despite having the cap space our pass defense is no better and our offense is no more explosive - both of which Ballard said he wanted to improve in his end of year presser. Our pass rush isn't any better either. If you REALLY wanted to be an * about it all Ballard has done is pay more money for the defense to stay EXACTLY the same.
  15. It's interesting, when I run Kneeland as a DE he grades out at 9.24: Another good write up. Come 'em coming!
  16. Good move. He'll be a great backup for us.
  17. Sack rate is a function of sacks and total pressures - 60 sacks/281 total pressures = ~21% It's a neat number, but like looking at sacks alone it doesn't really tell the whole story. It wants to be an efficiency number - how effective are we converting pressure to sacks? But, if you look at individual games last season you'd see we racked up most of our sacks against porouse Olines and bad QBs, so we weren't really efficient at converting pressure to sacks at all.
  18. Doesn't matter what the odds are. AR is a typical Ballard guy - raw and traitsy. If we wait for him to fully develop to make a decision on him we could be waiting 4 years completely wasting his rookie contract. It's not about aiming for the Super Bowl next season, it's about giving AR the best possible odds to succeed improving the team in any way we can. All Ballard has done so far is try to maintain the status quo. We're no better at rushing the passer, we're no better in pass defense, the offense is no more explosive. I'm not talking about throwing the kitchensink at a Super Bowl run. I'm talking about improving the roster and Ballard willingly and knowingly limits himself by only using the draft.
  19. Yeah figured they would be mulling over keeping him now they have more space.
  20. Still have the spreadsheet and looked it up. Median was 15% and average was 15.45%
  21. I did the math on it in another thread some time ago. The Colts were clear #1 with the Chiefs being 2nd at 19% and all other top teams being no higher than 17%.
  22. I think you would take the actual pass snaps where the defense rushed the passer and the total pressures. So say the defense faced 1400 pass snaps the our pressure percentage would be roughly 20%.
  23. Pressures are a total of sacks and hits (and hurries if you follow PFF). PFF numbers: The Colts had 281 total pressures in 2023 - 60 sacks (they count half sacks as 1 to each player), 53 hits and 168 hurries. This ranked 25th among all teams with the Ravens (397), The 49'ers (389) and the Dolphins (361) being top 3.
  24. I don't expect (or want really) Ballard to make the big splashes in FA. I do want him to make the medium splashes. Ballard basically only uses FA for 1-2 year JAGs he hopes can fill the holes he can't fill in the draft. It's not working for us or anyone else. You NEED to plugs holes with reliable talent. Unless you never miss in the draft, solely using that to add talent isn't enough. No succesful team does what Ballard does. Look at what the Chiefs are doing, the Ravens, the Bengals. They add talent in FA to supplement their draft hits. Sure, they are further along than us, but when Ballard has a tendency to draft raw, traitsy guys who need 2-4 years of development we're never going to get there, because if one is a miss we're once again behind those 2-4 years a new guy will take to develop. He needs to use FA to add talent when he misses.
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