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If he continues with 4.5 corners defending 4.3's WR were done. It's simple. Pierce, Woods, Cross, Downs, Brents, Ogeltree, Mallory have to play good football. Year two with Steichen and our whole team should be a little better, a little sharper. Another little bump from Dayo and Kwity. In the draft give us a shutdown corner, a fast route runner WR, a couple of good safety prospects and this team can make real progress by seasons end. Then next off season Ballard can pull the string for that 1- 2 players to go for it.

Joe Montana played very much like Mahomes does. The difference is that Montana had much better players around him. What Mahomes has accomplished year after year, clutch play after clutch play, is extraordinary. And Michael Jordan won Championships with a lot of help. AR is going to play very well, when he plays. And I am going to greatly enjoy watching our line compete, and our offensive weapons under Steichen's guidance. And I have no faith that Ballard/Gus can put up enough defense to get us to the playoffs. Sneed was at the top of the list as core. They ran out of $$ for LOL.

Watching our overall defense against mediocre competition was generally frought with unpleasantness. Not enjoyable. Steichen and his staff got a 5 win offense in the victory lane, again playing just an increment better than teams that didn't play so well. I couldn't be happier that that duck and run novelty act found a new home. And those of you that enjoy touting how fun the season was watching that level of football, i would have much preferred drafting 4th -5th in every round this draft. That would have been something Positive for our future. Those garbage wins were quite damaging. Did Ballard or Gus and his staff learn anything useful? 🤔 lol

It's a shame he so loved the deep ball that he took all those big shots, plus he relied so much on running the dang ball and more big shots. Harbaugh flat out lied pre-draft saying that he could make all the throws. His rookie year it was WTH with these poor simple bubble screen passes, and then 3 years of hundreds of inaccurate short throws. It was fun beating the tar out of Jaxs and the Texans and other weak teams. He was barely above .500 otherwise. Yes I would rather he didn't quit but, you win some "playing like a LB", and He risked all playing like one. In the end, he took the $$$ and was still able to run.

The scouts/Dodds are given Ballard's well defined parameters on what he is looking for. Not sure how you assign the blame for any of those 160 or so on our draft board that have been assessed by so many that are in our process. After this long questioning Ballard's grading philosophy certainly is on the table.

What do we have that is SB caliber? 7 d-lineman 4 o-lineman 1 WR 1 slot 1 RB I think our TE room can be that good, Woods must kick tail. It's mystery meat with our secondary, and our LB's have to improve. As does our WR contribution. And it takes one heckuva QB to beat Playoff teams. Show me. As we anxiously await our draft results. We need two future high end starters to come from this draft.

It's exactly true. He was pathetic, and if they wanted to win he would have been replaced much sooner. Wasn't it Orlovsky that did finally replace him and darned near cost us Luck? No way we get Luck if Orlovsky started just a few more games. One can say we came into the season with Collins with hopes of being .500. Once it failed, we were all in for Luck.

Interesting. We lack pass rush. Our LB's are weak in coverage, with No depth. The secondary looks to be bottom 5. Nobody believes in Pierce as a quality 2. Our QB is still a ? We look like a bottom 10 now. There was high Quality play from both sides of the ball from the final 8 teams in the playoffs. With Irsay/Ballard, .500 seems to be the business model.

We certainly tanked. They kept playing Painter. The end.

CB1 WR1 FS1 RG LB future starter/depth These are 5 positions that must be filled and developed before will ever have a chance to even have a sniff at a AFC Championship game. This is no time to be spending picks from the first 3 rounds this draft because there are solid prospects as future, much needed starters. Now a 3rd or later from next years draft to help go up and get a guy. Go for it.

We have suffered with painful miscommunication on the back end so playing another year together as a unit should us help us improve on it. And I am also a BIG believer in having a slew of your best players in their prime. I consider that in years 4-8. This is another big year for our young players to get prepared for us to challenge the best in 2025 and beyond.

If he had a "major career year" he would have gotten a 3 year deal for $21M. He made a number of aggressive splash plays near the line of scrimmage, but for anyone watching, he got washed out defending the outside too frequently. And for those PFF numbers, he got a big boost from 4 int.'s. 3 balls overthrown right to him standing back in his cushiony zone. My estimation would be that the Colts grading system was closer to a PFF equivalent in the lower 60's. The good thing is the cheap "backup level" deal. He already "proved" his abilities. Let's hope Cross keeps him mostly on the bench.

Now we are just having some fun with this of course. Latu, Brian Thomas, Latham, Adoni Mitchell, I project to be future kick tail players. DeJean might make a superb Safety. There is nothing more important for our offense than to have a dominant o-line. Getting us a RG that is a road grader and excellent pass protector would immediately help with everything thing we do.

The lamentation to trade for a $19M per 4th rounder was very loud here. Your question is uncharacteristically seemingly off target. We need as many as we can get. If we can't get QMitchell, trading back with AZ. for 27 and 35 should make Ballard twitch.

OK, thank you. I really do appreciate your vision and football knowledge. Surely Brents couldn't possibly be a better safety. We will see how his 4.5s speed holds up over a season. I'm anticipating your vet to be a 1 year placeholder as we develop another young player. We are likely competing with Tenn. this season to stay out of the division cellar and it's a must cap wise to stay inexpensive at safety for beyond 2024.

Draft Q Mitchell, move Brents to safety. As of now Jones and Flowers compete for the other corner. I like the idea of Brents and Cross on the backend, with a shutdown Mitchell on an edge. I think it can be the start of something very enjoyable.

So be wise and put this piehole on IGNORE and move on.

My shot is that knowing the S draft is weak, the 3 good safeties agents have their heels dug in for multi-year deals with good pay for their clients. It is the job to get the most guaranteed $$ as the market will bear. The Colts are one team that is going to pay one of them as our cupboard is as darn near empty. It's safe to say the Colts are interested in more than 1 of them so now it's a game of chicken about how close does the FA get to the draft before his agent decides on getting his guy a locked in job for the best offer available. Ballard can easily wait till one of them signs, then he will have to step up his aggression. Unless, he feels good about there being acceptable players coming available right up to final cuts. But I seriously doubt that. He will sign someone shortly before the draft I wager. One year $7.8 M

I was hoping this was a post worth reading.

Mitchell is arguably the best click-and-close zone cornerback in the class, with high-end athleticism and major competitiveness. He looked great playing in press coverage during drills at the Senior Bowl. One scout told us he had a case as the best player in Mobile this year, and he’s a picture-perfect fit in Gus Bradley’s heavy Cover-3 defense. From pff

The Colts played zone vs man about 71/29. Most teams played more zone than Gus. That with our secondary stinkaroo. Gus had to love Gilly. Gus also will call the defense as Steichen tells him what is in our best interest. Q Mitchell singularly offers the best bang for the buck. If he is gone next is Brian Thomas.

The Ryan and Leonard guaranteed $$ cost us at least one real nice free agent add. That is a setback. We are free and clear with the ability to add a few really good players in areas of significant need in the draft and still room for another hole filler for this season. 2024 will be a much more solid team. And we have the HC to get the best out of our guys.

Pay attention Beans, he was asking about next season. And we did stink on D against a lot of 2nd rate teams with 2nd rate QB's. It would have been a franchise changing draft if we could be drafting at 4, about where our talent was. 2024 will be fun with good health.

Thats easy. Having great coverage. If noone is open the rush will get there. Or, I wish we blitzed more like Spaignola does as QB's are considerably less accurate under duress. The best offenses have QB's that get rid of the ball quickly which negates to a degree the pass rush. Scholars here are buzzing madly about pressures. Joey Bosa had a crazy number of pressures but how many resulted in incompletions? He had 2 more sacks than Kwity and played roughly 175 more snaps. Detroit's Hutchinson, in their playoff loss, had no pressures, no sacks, and 1 tackle as I recall. And a heckuva player. Truth is you better have really good ability at both, including highly intelligent fast players in the back seven.

Amusingly not so. I suspect Woods is key. If he is still highly favored then Bowers is a luxury. And we will have great prospects available at CB, WR, and DE. And certainly those players will be evaluated to the nth degree right up near to draft day.