Yeah he makes sense, but I really hate the thought of JT wasting another season of his career, we all know these RBs have a short lifespan in the NFL!

You're not going to find perfection anywhere, at least on Earth. The point I'm making is that we're either no better off or worse in the 3 most important areas to winning games in the NFL: QB, pass rush, and LT. You have to cut Ballard some slack on QB. Luck fucked us and Ballard has done what he could within reason.

As for pass rush: we had 33 sacks in 16 games in 2016 (last year under that worthless turd Grigs) and 33 sacks in 17 games this year. Clearly a failure on Ballard's part not to have improved there.

As for LT, yeah AC retired, but he had been showing signs that he wasn't going to be around for much longer for several years before he retired. Ballard had plenty of time to come up with a better replacement plan than a 1 year band aid player coming off a torn achilles.

I'm also going to throw receiving threats at WR/TE in there b/c you need receiving weapons to win in today's NFL. Like pass rush we're no better than where we were in 2016 as back then we had TY and a bunch of below average guys. Now we have MPJ and a bunch of below average guys.

Look Ballard's at least a decent GM, which is a hell of a lot better than who we had before. But if he was one of the top GMs in the league like some people claim him to be, then he would have had some of the glaring holes in critical areas fixed by now.

Mitch Trubisky? I read something today about how Buffalo really likes him and thinks he should get another chance. Josh Allen said he'd tear it up if given a chance. I might be interested in that, but there will probably be a bidding war and the Colts don't have the capital. What a mess.

I think this group could look much better with a more accurate QB, or at least a more decisive one that can read defenses better.

IMO he'd be worth bringing in. It certainly couldn't hurt.

True. Still would have liked to have seen Ballard be more proactive about replacing AC since he had plenty of notice ahead of time that AC would be hanging it up soon.

I was only addressing the pass catchers as a group.

I still think they should have signed Leno, already got extension with Washington. :cool:

Trubisky might be worth it. He certainly had shit for a coach and has an NFL arm. Would be another crap shoot but you play enough craps and sooner or later win.

Or become the Cleveland Browns.....:D