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If someone was going to trade for Taylor and make an offer the Colts would accept it would have happened when they let him try to find a trade and before they gave him a new contract and would take a significant cap hit to trade him. Taylor isn’t getting traded. For better or worse the Colts made their decision on Taylor and he’s here for the foreseeable future.

Exactly. Your market is what teams will pay you not what fans feel a guy is worth. If Pittman truly hits the open market he’s going to get a big contract from someone because players like him don’t reach free agency and then the Colts will have to figure out how to replace him and the fact he’s a third of the offense. I can guarantee that if the Colts truly let him go because they don’t want to pay him like some fans are saying some of those same fans will be ripping Ballard for not giving Richardson weapons and depending on Pierce to be the number one WR (which is what’s going to happen if you let Pittman leave) and how “bargain bin Ballard” was too cheap to sign Pittman.

But that’s my favorite part of the Colts off-season. GM tells you from the jump he doesn’t do splash free agents. Fans ignore this because it’s not what they want to hear. Fans decide the Colts will sign free agents Fans develop their shopping list. Fans decide because they want the player that means the Colts are actively trying to sign them. player signs somewhere else Fans get upset because Ballard let them get away.

Apparently fans on a message board who are looking for reasons to not like Pittman. I have a feeling Pittman and his agent won’t take the same approach to Pittman’s value.

Because Gus’s contract is up. Also, there is always the chance that Ballard or Irsay orders a change, Polian did it to Mora and ultimately lead to Mora being fired. With that said I don’t expect that to happen. It probably depends on Gus’s contract and does he want to comeback and Shane probably hasn’t had that conversation yet.

Awfully quiet in New England, and the Pats local reporter was on Dan Patrick last week and said BB and Kraft’s meeting would be today. Makes me wonder if BB was able to pull a Pagano in his meeting today and convince Kraft to let him stay and they are figuring out how.

yep I think he knows that is coming too based on his comments today. I think Pittman knows he’s going to be in Indy next year but this is part of negotiations. If you just say yeah I am not leaving what incentive does Ballard have to pay him market value?

The whole point of the surgery was to repair it so that wouldn’t happen again. When he had the injury before he didn’t have the surgery which leads to a higher chance of it happening it again. What concerns me is all the other injuries he’s suffered. I’ve said all along if he had just had the one injury where he got slammed into the turf at an awkward angle with a defensive player I wouldn’t worry about it, injuries like that sometimes happen. However he’s finished one game he’s played and even in that game he got banged up late but was able to finish it.

For some reason Colts fans here are really good at hating their own when it comes time to pay a guy and develop a real case of the grass is greener on the other side real fast. Did you see the Atlanta game? Did you see how bad the receivers were in that game? Are you really ready to live in that world because star WRs rarely get to free agency and even if you draft one they are going to be a rookie and give you limited production. Look at Downs he just broke Marvin Harrison’s rookie team record for catches in a season with 66. There is going to be an adjustment period even if some how the Colts got Marvin Jr which they won’t. Fans get way too worked up about what players get paid. The number is just a number. What matters is how the contract is structured and Ballard has been a master of that since he’s been here. I would anticipate Pittman’s contract once it’s signed, and yes he’s going to get one, to be the same.

Not to mention chase and Pittman are different type of WRs. Higgins is much more fair comparison in terms of style of WR.

12.2. Pittman was 10.6 but has had two years of over 12 ypc when he had Rivers and Wentz as his QB which are probably the best two QBs he’s had in terms of getting the ball down the field. For comparison sake Chase had 12 ypc last year with Burrow. Pittman isn’t as bad as some want him to be and would be a lot harder to replace than some think.

There is a reason he won three games in his career as a head coach…

Say what? You mean having other star players around you makes you better and without them it’s harder?! That’s just crazy talk… yes that’s all sarcasm and not directed at you.

Ask yourself if you were another teams GM would you give up something of value for Granson? Remember Gilmore brought a fifth round pick before you answer.

And then he’d blame Ballard for letting good players go…

It’s not even one per team.

I wouldn’t worry about it too much right now. You almost always extend guys like that even if they probably won’t make the final roster next year. I think Ballard and Shane both probably want an upgrade at the corner spot over Baker.

Well sounds like the local media isn’t talking and we know the Colts aren’t going to tell us so unless one of the two players talks we may never officially know. Still whatever it was it has to be bad if you got waived and they KEPT Baker.

I was waiting to see what would get the first reaction that they kept Baker or officially waived Tony Brown.

Not against it. Colts got pretty lucky with Fries and Nelson being healthy all year. I don’t like the Colts depth at guard and Pinter being a free agent doesn’t help.

That’s what the franchise tag is for.