These pro players have someone they trust to have PT. Why is he trolling around? Because he is trolling.

That isn’t uncommon. I can’t imagine the in house masseuse community is all that large in Houston. I’m sure word got around about him, especially if he is the city’s starting QB. And once one or two stepped forward I am sure the firm reached out to see if there were other plaintiffs it happened to. Might not be a ton a firm wanting to take that on, they might refer any clients to the firm that started it.

What’s he trolling? Watson’s lawyer did his work and found out quite a few were after $. They all talked to somebody and those somebody’s don’t always remain confidential


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https://www.nytimes.com/article/desh...t-lawsuit.html

You can figure out what he was trolling for on your own

To get back on topic, I would be interested to know some of your opinions on who we should bring in this offseason. At the very least, I think this is the year that Ballard might actually open the check book for someone (pass rusher, wide receiver or TE)

Edge- Von Miller, Chandler Jones, Fowler Jr, Pierre-Paul, Akiem Hicks, Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison, Anthony Barr, Hasson Reddick, Clowney, Emmanuel Ogbah, William Gholston, Solomon Thomas, Derek Barnett, Ryan Kerrigan, Justin Houston, Jihad Ward, Melvin Ingram, KJ Wright

WR- ARob, Godwin, Devante Adams, Will Fuller, Crowder, Hilton, Smith-Schuster, Emmanuel Sanders, AJ Green, Keelan Cole, Sammy Watkins, Mike Williams

TE - Ertz, Jimmy Graham, Gronk, Uzomah, Ebron, Everett, Jared Cook, Tonyan, Firkser, OJ Howard, Hayden Hurst, Evan Engram, Mike Gesiki

CB - Gilmore, Joe Haden, Kyle Fuller, Chris Harris, Patrick Peterson, Bryce Callahan, Jason Verrett, Kevin King

Given, a number of these names will be resigned by their own club before they even hit the market. Considering our funds are rather limited, and with our wide array of needs, I think we spend up on edge and get 2nd or third tier guys elsewhere.

Von Miller would be my first choice, but I like Jones, Hicks, Reddick as options to bolster our D in some way. Miller is a pro and has proven to still have gas in his tank and he might just be a bit cheaper given his age.
Allen Robinson would be my first choice at WR since he would cost in the 12-15 million range as opposed to Adams asking for 25-30. I would have wanted Godwin here but he's coming off a nasty injury and may not be ready till mid season.

I think we all could agree to give Ertz a one year deal, pair him with Wentz, and see if they can get some magic there. I think we likely draft a TE as well and likely push Granson into the lineup more prominently, even though he didn't really earn it or show much.

I think any of the listed veteran CB's could help us tremendously, but I would rather grab a 2nd or 3rd tier guy here that is much younger to see if we can develop him ala Darius Butler or Kenny Moore.

I also think we need to save at last 5 million in cap space this year for a QB. Weather that be Winston, Trubisky, Mariotta...I don't care, but we better be bringing in a vet to take the reigns if (when) Wentz screws up. Hell, knowing Wentz he might just very well lose the job to that vet in training camp since we all know he hates competition.

I feel/fear that ballard won't stray too far from his FA approach. He talks about winning up front a lot but drafted 2 DE last year that he is really high on, so I wouldn't expect him to sign a big DE FA. I would think CB first followed by WR. And that WR better not be hilton. I am ok resigning hilton to a one year low cost deal but if ballard does that and calls it good thats a big mistake.

Godwin could probably be had for cheap, coming off of injury.

What is Haasan Reddick's deal? I haven't watched much of him yet, but I'm curious. He doesn't have much of a stat line for his first three years, but the past two years...

2020 ARZ: 12.5sacks 16hits 15tfl 6ff

2021 CAR: 11.0sacks 18hits 12tfl 2ff


Clearly better numbers than anyone we have aside from Buckner. Just going by numbers, he and Buckner are fairly similar. But he only started 31 of 64 games in ARZ and CAR only signed him to a 1yr $6m deal. Anybody know why that is?

1 year prove it deal because of the sparse history of good production.

In free agency, I think you back up the Brinks truck for Chandler Jones and Terron Armstead, then go draft WRs and TEs.

Dam. Its gonna be a wide 9 vet to teach the youngins what to do. TE and especially WR will be further down the want list than FS and CB LT will be even further down the list. Fisher will be the starter in 2022 with another season to get healthy

No fuckin way Jones had 1 great game week 1 and didn’t do shit after that fuck that dude he’s so overrated

5 sacks week 1- ends season with 10 sacks

Last 6 weeks of the season he had 1 sack

Fuck that dude

We have very little money spare, we are not going to be big players in free agency guys. We have so many of our own free agents that we might need to resign. Now some of the lower level guys are just going to replace the existing lowest contract value so won't take up any space off the available cap space. But i can see some of the lower guys who we might want to keep such as Pryor, Reed, Turay, Lewis, Odum earning significantly more than they are currently earning. Lets just say for arguments sake they average $4m each, thats $20m. Are we going to resign Fisher, he is likely to get similar to last year @ $8-9m, Alie-Cox might expect $5m. Stallworth, Dulin, Adams, Franklin, are each likely to get paid $2m each. So we have already taken $42m just to resign some of our own. What does that leave us with $15m, for a new QB, WR, CB, DE etc. We are not about to be splashing the cash, as we simply don't have that much. If Doyle retires that would give some more cap space, but another position of need to fill.

Name - 2021 salary
Fisher - 8.3m
Hilton - 8.0m
Glowinski - 5.4m
Rhodes - 4.8m
Alie-Cox - 3.4m
Pascal - 3.4m
Muhammad - 2.9m
Tevi - 2.5m
Rochell - 2.5m
Odum - 2.1m
Carrie - 2.1m
Mack - 2.0m
Turay - 1.3m
Davenport - 1.1m
Reed - 1.1m
Lewis - 1.1m
Sendejo - 1.1m
Addae - 1m
Badgley - 0.9m
Woods - 0.9m
Stallworth - 0.9m - Restricted
Dulin - 0.85m - Restricted
Pryor - 0.7m
Adams - 0.6m
Franklin - 0.6m

We don't have enough free cap space to sign more than 1 or 2 "name" FAs this off season. Most of our free cap will be used in $2 - $5m chunks to re-sign our own (Odum, Pryor, Reed, etc).

Of those one or two "name" signings, my priority would be: LT, WR, CB, TE.

However, none of it will really matter until we get a winner at QB which Wentz is not, IMO.

This is mostly my point of this thread. I keep seeing "sign this guy" comments, and the reality is we just won't have that luxury. we need to fill spots of expiring contracts.

Exactly. The Colts can go moving money and playing cap games to chase overpriced talent and it accelerates the cap issues.

Colts were like 10-20 plays away from having home field throughout the playoffs...players need to work and improve in the off season, a good draft will put this team in the hunt next season! Find an experienced, knowledgeable former QB, who is an expert on identifying defenses and going through progressions, pay him a boatload to work with Carson in the off season and offer him bonuses contingent on Wentz's improvement and success next season! If we don't have the cap to get a proven franchise QB, we can pay top dollar to try to develop what we do have in Wentz!

I don't think Wentz is just doing this for the money...I believe he is a competitor and wants to win a championship, looks like he is going to get one more year, he'd better make the most of it!

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Could the Colts Pursue Cardinals Prized, Free-Agent Pass Rusher Chandler Jones ???

(By Luke Schultheis)

https://www.stampedeblue.com/2022/3/...chandler-jones

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There will be an article about every edge rusher out there being a fit with us. Don’t think we should sign a top one. Like it or not we have spent so much draft capital on ends we must get some return so I’m for seeing what they can do. I want us to overpay for one of the top wide receivers. We haven’t spent as much in way of draft capital and rookie wide receivers have a difficult time making an impact. We need an impact wide receiver now, not in 2-3 years.

Cole Beasley anyone? He's aging, but is still very productive as a slot WR, which we can really use.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/15349/cole-beasley

To me, the one free agent the Colts should pull out all the stops for is Terron Armstead. Get him and don't let him go anywhere else. Yes the Colts will have the most expensive OL but they will also have the most effective OL.

Not the worst idea. Long term solution, could play a young Qb back there giving him time.

I like Armstead. But what would our cap hit for OL be? I'm assuming he'll be looking for Trent Williams money at least. And Nelson's going to have a monster contract upcoming. Like $65m for starting OL?

Smart money is to trade Nelson for first+picks his huge contract as a guard is going to hurt the colts.

Trading away the best player on the team? A guy who might get to Canton? You renegotiate his contract. Taylor will be less effective with a rookie at LG. If finding guys like Nelson was easy, everybody who have one.

Yes, it would be a large chunk of the cap, probably closer to $80 million, but it would also be the best OL in the NFL. All that cap money they're spending on OL now will be a waste if LT is a turnstile. If you're paying the premium, get the best, going cheap at the most important position and spending on everything else doesn't make sense.

That's a tough one because I agree with the assessment. That OL would be a true weapon and I wouldn't complain. But that wouldn't just be the most expensive OL in the league... That would be $25m more than second place. It would awesome to have, though

By the way, where does $80m come from? I remember reading that if we gave Armstead $20m/yr we'd be at around $55m total. I'd assume he wants more. So then if Nelson gets a $20m+ salary, wouldn't that be around $65m-$70m?

No no no on Armstead. and FUCK NO on trading Nelson. Christ does everyone forget the incredible change in this offensive line when Nelson became a part of it. At some point we need to find younger and cheaper alternative for this line, otherwise we will not have a well balanced team. I'm hoping we draft our new right guard (or use Pinter and draft a backup) to save money. I'm hoping for a one year contract for Fisher. I don't get the hate here. It was as if everyone thought we were getting a fully functional player 9 months after an Achilles. It was always made clear to me that coming all the way back from an Achilles injury is impossible the first year. You don't get your explosion or quickness back that fast. I felt that if he was just ok the first year (and I think he was, he was a monster in run blocking-all those who love JT should have been happy with this part of his play) we should stick with what I always thought was a two year plan with the guy. If the so called experts are correct we should see a big improvement in his pass blocking this year-a gamble but I think a reasonable one and one that wont break the bank. Ballard has been crap at getting defensive ends in the draft but has been excellent in finding offensive line talent in the draft. The long term answer should come via the draft in my opinion.

I'm torn about Nelson. Paying a guard LT money is crazy, especially when we don't have a solid LT. I'm also concerned about his injuries this past season especially the back one which, if I remember correctly, has become a nagging one. That being said, they will most likely resign him. Ballard said that much in a recent interview.

I see, we're in the early years of Kelly's and Braden's deals, so the cap hit is much lower than the AAV, so yes it would be closer to the $65 million range.

Totally agree I wanted to break the bank for Trent Williams last year

Signed CB Tony Brown

per the .com: Indianapolis –The Indianapolis Colts today signed free agent cornerback Tony Brown.

Brown, 6-0, 199 pounds, has played in 33 career games (four starts) in his time with the Las Vegas Raiders (2021), Cincinnati Bengals (2020-21), Green Bay Packers (2018-19) and Los Angeles Chargers (2018) and has totaled 50 tackles (39 solo), 3.0 tackles for loss, six passes defensed, two forced fumbles and eight special teams stops. In 2021, he spent time on the practice squads of the Raiders and Bengals.

Cowboys traded Amari Cooper to Cleveland for basically nothing. 5th & 6th round pick.

And a $20m per year cap hit. Even with that, I would have wanted him if we had a shot at him.

Cooper and Pittman on the outside with a 2nd round rookie playing this year in the slot and a free agent TE along with MAC and Granson? Yeah, that dog hunts.

However, my guess is that Ballard, if he was in the hunt, is not willing to commit big money to pass catchers until he knows who his pass thrower is going to be.

And if Cooper had a say in the matter, why would he pick to come to Indy without knowing who would throw to him versus going somewhere he knew at least had a QB?

Perhaps IND is targeting Davente Adams (whom GB cannot now pay) who will not cost any draft picks.

I think you could have stopped right there. Unless Irsay has dictated it, Ballard isn’t going to invest a lot at WR. I don’t agree, but he’s repeatedly told us such.

The Green Bay Packers used the franchise tag on wide receiver Davante Adams :cool:

Not sure where the money will come for on this one.
https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/green-bay-packers/

The Browns got Dallas' 6th round pick in return as well, so the trade is even better for them, and none of Cooper's salary go fwd is guaranteed so it should be pretty easy to rework his deal.

Would've been nice for the Colts to have gotten in on this, but as you pointed out it's probably not worth pursuing until we get the QB situation figured out.

Zach Ertz signed a 3 year deal with Arizona

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Raider Shakeup: Chandler Jones Signed, Yannick Ngakoue Traded

(By Case Keefer)

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/ma...yannick-ngako/

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