You are right he hasn't signed yet, but McDaniels doesn't appear to be willing to even discuss a trade and it seems less and less likely by the day.

At this point, I think our only options should be (in no particular order and completely subjective to what each guy would cost) Winston, Mariota, or Jordan Love (Assuming he would cost one third round pick at most)
If Ballard is just waiting for Jimmy G to be released, then I am fine with bringing him on so long as he costs us no picks in the process.
I really hope we are taking serious looks at Zadarius Smith and Allen Robinson. Those two players come on board and I am starting to feel a LOT better about this FA period.
I think JuJu really makes sense as well. Played a year with Pittman at USC as I recall, and would likely be our slot man. He will probably give you as much as Jarvis Landry would at a lower cost.
I don't think Armstead will be an option and I do think we try to bring back both Pryor and Reed (kindof surprised we haven't yet). The reason I think we haven't is because Ballard likes his own free agents to set their market before he offers. He probably thinks that in some cases, he values his own guys higher than others and he can get away with paying his own guys that he likes more than he should. A way of keeping his own perception of his own guys in check. That could be the only reason, IMO, that we have not signed out fringe talent FA's like Turay, Lewis, Pryor or Reed. Each day drives their price down too, and Ballard knows that, and he has a LOT of them to sign.

Flip side to that argument


Luke Schultheis
@LuckAtLuke
If I’m the Colts, I’d much rather trade for Jimmy G. and keep him on the last year of his current contract, 1-year, $25M as a “show me” year (essentially what Philip Rivers got in 2020) then see him cut and have to give him multiple years as a FA.

I think DF may have been asking about Trubisky's deal. Looks like it's for 2 years $14.25M and can grow to $27M with incentives. Overall low risk, high reward deal for the Steelers :cool:

Problem is that that guy isn’t out there this year.

So the latest is…. Baker Mayfield would prefer Colts If he’s traded

Fuck that.

NO WAY. We might as well play Sam instead.

I kinda think (or maybe its hope) that baker is a bit of a smoke screen from indy's POV. They probably want jimmy g but are playing as coy as possible to drive price down. I also read that now it seems we are really the only suitors for jimmy g so ballard is biding time and playing the baker angle.

At this point, Jimmy G is our best possible option right now, outside of Carr. Baker would be my 3rd choice reluctantly.