Good read from stampede blue

[conklincolt]

The General Manager for the Indianapolis Colts, Chris Ballard, has been extremely conservative during his tenure at the helm. The lessons of being disciplined, love your draft picks, short term deals, bargain bin free agents, build in the trenches, and financial flexibility have all been preached. Those lessons have netted the Colts a total of zero division titles and one playoff win. With an extension last year, Ballard has found something that is extremely rare in professional sports, a new lease on life after producing few results. He has to take advantage of that by changing his ways.

https://www.stampedeblue.com/2024/1/19/24044302/colts-chris-ballard-needs-to-steal-a-page-from-the-pacers-playbook

 

Edited January 22 by Nadine
excessive quoting

[DavePSL]

Hard to argue those points. I'm just hopeful that Steichen will have enough pull to explain to Ballard how to build a team fast. He witnessed it in Philly firsthand, particularly on offense. I think one of the ways we find out is how much AR's weapons are addressed. No more of the "I like our WR's" crap from Ballard and go get some playmakers and no more of the "we have a crowded TE room" and go get a real TE...Last 4 teams left in the playoffs have some of the best TE's in the NFL and that's not a coincidence....It's a must. I don't want to hear about your 5th round pick safety from last year and how much we missed him.....Stop that crap and go get a veteran just in case it doesn't work and we don't have to hear how they were young back there...One thing that bothers me is he acts like he has 20 years to build a team instead of we need to win now.

[Solid84]

This has already been posted in the Ballard Grievances thread I believe. 

[GoColts8818]

Some of you worry too much that Ballard isn’t tying to win.  He doesn’t need someone else to tell him how to build the roster.  Yes Shane will have input as all coaches do but ultimately coaches coach and GMs build the roster.  Yes Ballard is doing it for Shane’s vision or he wouldn’t have hired him.

[Dingus McGirt]

44 minutes ago, DavePSL said:

Hard to argue those points. I'm just hopeful that Steichen will have enough pull to explain to Ballard how to build a team fast. He witnessed it in Philly firsthand, particularly on offense. I think one of the ways we find out is how much AR's weapons are addressed. No more of the "I like our WR's" crap from Ballard and go get some playmakers and no more of the "we have a crowded TE room" and go get a real TE...Last 4 teams left in the playoffs have some of the best TE's in the NFL and that's not a coincidence....It's a must. I don't want to hear about your 5th round pick safety from last year and how much we missed him.....Stop that crap and go get a veteran just in case it doesn't work and we don't have to hear how they were young back there...One thing that bothers me is he acts like he has 20 years to build a team instead of we need to win now.

Ballard doesn’t seem to care that many of the fan base, and the owner, are aging out and don’t all have forever to wait for his often offered “delayed gratification.”

[Superman]

46 minutes ago, Solid84 said:

This has already been posted in the Ballard Grievances thread I believe. 

 

Yup.

 

https://forums.colts.com/topic/72812-ballard-fa-grievances-thread-merge/page/51/#comments