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Originally Posted by IndyNorm

Well said. That Ballard doesn't want to make any changes to his process to make a run at the Super Bowl is the point I was trying to make, and in all likelihood by the time he's able to adequately fill all of these gaping holes in the roster father time will have caught up with Ryan. Sad thing is he wouldn't have to "mortgage the future" to bring in some guys. I'm too lazy to look it up, but someone posted a snippet from someone who covers the Colts saying that he could free up ~$40M in cap space by converting salaries to signing bonuses on players he'll probably want to extend when they get to the final year of their contracts anyway (Buckner was one of them).

Also, I couldn't agree more with your final sentence. Ballard seems more concerned with making sure he gets his pre-determined value for every transaction than he does with making the team better, and in doing so misses on the big picture.

Wow, maybe you need to send Ballard your resume.