Oh no!! Not another one!

[cdgacoltsfan]

EJ Speed has 8 straight games with 10 plus tackles...tying an NFL record.

Cross

Pierce

Fries

Reinman

Jones

All have been targets for our forum GMs

C'mon Ballard...do something!!!!

Let's see our resident forum GMs do some more spinning...I'm sure they are upset.

[KB]

Let's hope all this equals to us getting into the playoffs, and winning a playoff game. If it dosnt then it dosnt really mean much. Been quiet awhile since we've been able to enjoy playoff football.

[Smonroe]

Don't forget, we are the QB Healers. 

 

After Lawrence returns to form and throws for 350 yards, the forum GMs will be back.

[DavePSL]

Wow, how far the standard for the Colts has fallen...Are we for real....a 500 record and some fans are beating their chest!!!! Sad that some consider this some great feat!

 

I really hope I'm wrong but when this team ends up with a losing record and misses the playoffs, the Ballard apologist will be out in full force. ...................................Again, I will be the first one on here saying I was wrong if that doesn't happen and will be thrilled to admit it but I don't think I am wrong even though I want to be. Wonder if the rest of us will be so quick to admit they were wrong. Doubt it!

[New Zealands #1 Colts Fan]

Phew, I was worried this was another injury thread.......

[Flash7]

7 minutes ago, New Zealands #1 Colts Fan said:

Phew, I was worried this was another injury thread.......

My first thought as well.

[Solid84]

[cdgacoltsfan]

57 minutes ago, cdgacoltsfan said:

EJ Speed has 8 straight games with 10 plus tackles...tying an NFL record.

Cross

Pierce

Fries

Reinman

Jones

All have been targets for our forum GMs

C'mon Ballard...do something!!!!

Let's see our resident forum GMs do some more spinning...I'm sure they are upset.

I forgot about AR....he leads the league in 40+ yard completions. This has been an awful year for our glass half empty forum GMs

[Shadow_Creek]

1 hour ago, cdgacoltsfan said:

EJ Speed has 8 straight games with 10 plus tackles...tying an NFL record.

Cross

Pierce

Fries

Reinman

Jones

All have been targets for our forum GMs

C'mon Ballard...do something!!!!

Let's see our resident forum GMs do some more spinning...I'm sure they are upset.

[Defjamz26]

2 hours ago, cdgacoltsfan said:

EJ Speed has 8 straight games with 10 plus tackles...tying an NFL record.

Cross

Pierce

Fries

Reinman

Jones

All have been targets for our forum GMs

C'mon Ballard...do something!!!!

Let's see our resident forum GMs do some more spinning...I'm sure they are upset.

No one really said anything about Rainman. People were screaming for him to start over Pryor after week 2.

 

Jones had 1 good game with 2 INTs but he’s still a liability in man, and tends to always give up 1-2 big catches a game and a penalty. He’s fine as a number 3 corner.

 

Lot of people also wanted Cross, just at SS instead of FS which is why he has had success. I’ve always thought he was better than Thomas.

 

Fries has been a surprise and this is easily the best we’ve seen from Pierce. Ryan and Minshew definitely limited him.

[DougDew]

Its come to my attention that some members just can't take anybody second-guessing the Colts.

 

I probably fit in the nonsupport of Ballard group, but I've never targeted the players mentioned because I thought they were decent picks at the spot they were taken.  If you average out the draft spot of those players, I'd say they average to about pick 90...mid to late 3rd round.

 

My target was the lack of attention in picking impact players with first round picks, identifying them in college.  One All Pro in 8 drafts, plus capital from trade downs.  And that one All Pro is/was a G.  Doesn't seem like our recent pick #4 is headed there either, but its very early.

[Solid84]

11 minutes ago, DougDew said:

Its come to my attention that some members just can't take anybody second-guessing the Colts.

 

I probably fit in the nonsupport of Ballard group, but I've never targeted the players mentioned because I thought they were decent picks at the spot they were taken.  If you average out the draft spot of those players, I'd say they average to about pick 90...mid to late 3rd round.

 

My target was the lack of attention in picking impact players with first round picks, identifying them in college.  One All Pro in 8 drafts, plus capital from trade downs.  And that one All Pro is/was a G.  Doesn't seem like our recent pick #4 is headed there either, but its very early.

I don't really care where a player is picked, because if he's starting he's likely been deemed to be the best we have. That in itself CAN of course be pretty unfortunate and that's where it starts to be a Ballard problem.

 

To the OP:

Cross, Speed and Franklin have all been questioned because of their questionable coverage abilities - especially Speed and Franklin. What gets brought up in the OP completely misses the point. Speed and Franklin have also been called out because too many of their tackles seem be be made 5+ yards downfield. I don't see anything disproving that here either.

[jvan1973]

27 minutes ago, DougDew said:

Its come to my attention that some members just can't take anybody second-guessing the Colts.

 

I probably fit in the nonsupport of Ballard group, but I've never targeted the players mentioned because I thought they were decent picks at the spot they were taken.  If you average out the draft spot of those players, I'd say they average to about pick 90...mid to late 3rd round.

 

My target was the lack of attention in picking impact players with first round picks, identifying them in college.  One All Pro in 8 drafts, plus capital from trade downs.  And that one All Pro is/was a G.  Doesn't seem like our recent pick #4 is headed there either, but its very early.

Pretty sure Leonard was an all pro 4 times.  Defense rookie of year..  no one cares about your averages.   You are wrong most of the time.   I wish I could give you an "aggressive laugh emoji"

[DougDew]

38 minutes ago, Solid84 said:

I don't really care where a player is picked, because if he's starting he's likely been deemed to be the best we have. That in itself CAN of course be pretty unfortunate and that's where it starts to be a Ballard problem.

I never argue much about individual players. 

 

Big picture: Ballard is .500 because he's gotten mileage from the mid to later rounds, which kept him from having a losing record.  He hasn't delivered on getting enough of the top kinds of picks with the top end draft choices and extra capital from trade downs.  I thought this was evident the time he was making the picks as far as positions relative to capital.  Just not very efficient uses, IMO.

22 minutes ago, jvan1973 said:

Pretty sure Leonard was an all pro 4 times.  Defense rookie of year..  no one cares about your averages.   You are wrong most of the time.   I wish I could give you an "aggressive laugh emoji"

Oh, so you're the reason it was removed.  We were wondering.  Not surprised folks finally caught on. 

[Yoshinator]

1 hour ago, DougDew said:

Its come to my attention that some members just can't take anybody second-guessing the Colts.

 

I probably fit in the nonsupport of Ballard group, but I've never targeted the players mentioned because I thought they were decent picks at the spot they were taken.  If you average out the draft spot of those players, I'd say they average to about pick 90...mid to late 3rd round.

 

My target was the lack of attention in picking impact players with first round picks, identifying them in college.  One All Pro in 8 drafts, plus capital from trade downs.  And that one All Pro is/was a G.  Doesn't seem like our recent pick #4 is headed there either, but its very early.

Generally the Ballard-apologists can only bash forum members because they don't work in the FO and they try to make their opinions worthless by saying that they are armchair GMs. You rarely see any Ballard-apologist compare Ballard to other NFL GMs because 1.) They work in the NFL, 2.) They are more qualified than Ballard by record, division wins, playoff appearances and wins and possibly SB appearances and wins. 

 

Ballard is a great scout that got put in a GM role he has no idea how to operate in. He has ideas that haven't worked for us and would have only worked if we had Andrew Luck at QB the entire time. However, since he retired we traded for and signed band-aids at QB and never even moved up in the draft for one. Even with AR, we took him at 4 when we had a high pick and didn't trade from 4 to 1 to get Stroud ahead of the Texans when there was evidence the Bears would have moved down with us because they moved down to 9.

 

It's the same excuses and insults from the Ballard crowd to try and prop Ballard up and demean the fanbase who questions him because all we want to do is win, and we have recognized Ballard isn't the GM that will win. Ballard is a great scout that can draft well and can't do anything else as he is ultra-conservative. My preferred path is to make the playoffs this year and have AR improve, but if we miss the playoffs, the 2nd best option is to fire Ballard and let Steichen pick a GM he wants to work with.