Congrats to the Rams!
 

They needed a QB, a DE, and a WR. They went and got legitimate players at those positions and are going to the SB.

We needed the same things. We tried on QB, we ignored the DE and WR needs. We are sitting at home and appear very far away from the SB.

Don't need to hear about how they can afford it, all we ever talk about on here is how Ballard is way too frugal in FA. It's his job to figure it out.

Also don't want to hear about them mortgaging the future, they will play for the ultimate prize in 2 weeks, we will be watching them. Give me a chance at the Lombardi any day over "we're building a monster and gonna win multiple Lombardi's". This is a TODAY league, tired of the persistent playing for tomorrow mantra.

How about the bengals, signed DJ Reader last year

Trey Hendrickson, Awuzie, Apple, Wayne’s, Von Bell all this year

They only shut Mahomes down in the 2nd half

A lot of that was Mahomes completely shitting the bed in the 2nd half. He was just uncharacteristically awful after halftime.

Bengals defense had alot to do with that, that’s the second time this year was they held that dude to 3 2nd half points

I think he had, what, 5 incompletions in the first half? Or was it 3? Over 200 yards passing.

Not scoring before halftime seemed to screw him up. He wasn’t the same after that play.

Please don't be one of those guys. Those guys are annoying know-it-all pricks who are never happy.

Every year there is a new genius. This year (so far) it is the Rams. If (a big if I know) Paye and Odeyingbo turn it on next year the genius may be Ballard. Easy to call once the games are played. Lots of teams go 'all in' and have zilch to show for it. It is a crap shoot.

1st year DE's that have a marked impact, are few and far between (Parsons is a rare find). Odibyu couldn't even play for at least half the year. I like Paye, but I don't ever foresee him being a Freeney / Mathis type, looks like he could be a Seymor type- which would be a fantastic long term player but not a pure speed rush threat that is going to cause panic in the backfield.

Mid season, obviously Odey can't play and Paye is having "marginal" success at best off the edge. Our pass rush is anemic and QB's are routinely completing 65%+ on us. Miller becomes available, clearly looking to play for a team that could compete right now, we are in the middle of a playoff surge.

We sit on our hands again, went with the mentality that we can play for the future vs the present at a critical position.

At WR it's even worse. We didn't really even address the position in the draft. So as far as we can tell, Ballard was comfortable that Pittman, PC and TY would carry the water with some other guys like Dulin and Pascal filling in space around them. We appear to have bought into to Stracham or even Patmon being a possible solution as an emerging player that could contribute later in the year. So PC and TY are hurt, okay so then I guess we would lean into the Stracham and Patmon strategy that must have been our plan? Nope for whatever reason found Stracham incapable early in the season and said he couldn't play at all and we seemed to use Patmon once every 5th birthday.

Mid season our passing game is lethargic, we'd already lost PC much earlier than the Rams lost Woods, and we basically throw to one guy. OBJ becomes available, we again seem to be "fine" with what we have and do NOTHING to try to fix what is clearly a problem. Wentz sucks but might he have been better with WR's that were capable of helping him with separation- which clearly OBJ has demonstrated he can do with the Rams?

Sorry, Race, not trying to be a "told you so" type guy, just pointing out that other teams seem to be willing to TRY to get to the promised land whereas Ballard seems to really like talking about it.

Right now it’s difficult to be happy about the Colts. Ballard is building this wrong. It’s not 1986 anymore

Do you realize that the Rams and Bengals only scored 9 more point than us in 2021?

Total Points Colts 451. The two superbowl teams 460 each
PPG we were 26.5 and they both tied at 27.1. Yep. 9th in PPG this yr.