I am with you on this one. Ballard can stay. At the very least, he is mostly doing a fine job with filling this roster with talent on a yearly basis- young talent, mostly.
I think he needs to show sound improvement on filling obvious holes, and he will.
I also think that his time is now to make the big swing for a QB. The draft is full of them, and he just might have a realistic crack at one if this season is really the dumpster fire that everyone is making it out to be.
Ballard hits on a few players in every draft, even if they may not be in the most important positions. That is better than over half the GM's in the league, and like most have pointed out, Ballard rarely has a top 10 pick to play around with- and when he does- like he did with Q- he flipped it into an extra two second rounders and still got a HOF player.
Ballard can keep backfilling the team with solid drafting and he can work on improving the rest of his skillset.
It is up to the coach to do something with the talent and Reich continuously starts slow and underachieves. The real problem needs to be the first scapegoat and that starts with the coach. It might even start with our coach relinquishing playcalling duties.
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