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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
We have $56M in guaranteed money tied up between Nelson, Smith, and Kelly in their current contracts. Do you not think that's going to hamstring the Colts ability to fill needs, especially with the way Ballard goes about things? Also, I need to add that with the way those 3 are playing that's $56M too much to be spending on them.
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How so? If they wanted to do so, the Colts could sign virtually any available player at this point.
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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
You're downplaying how much of a fuck up this is. Ballard handed Pryor the starting spot at the 2nd most important position in football after a whopping 1 ok start there. It was obvious from snap one of game one of this year that he wasn't capable to holding down the LT for an entire season. How the fuck did Ballard and/or his staff not realize this? At the very least bring Fisher back. Yeah he had his struggles, but he's not the dumpster fire of worthless shit that Pryor is.
And the Pinter move was almost as bad. Pinter clearly isn't strong enough to play OG in the NFL. How the fuck did Ballard and his staff not know this? On top of that we had 2 OGs who went to other teams (Glow and Reed) for reasonable and dirt cheap deals. We should have had both of them back, no problem. Of course who wants actually good O Linemen when you can have the extra $12.5M in future cap flexiblity.
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I don't disagree that the LT and RG positions have been a mess, and that Ballard has a large amount of responsibility for this. All I was saying is that you need to judge the decision based upon info available at the time, not in retrospect now that it hasn't worked out. Is Ballard making rational and logical decisions, and is he taking worthwhile gambles? I agree it's questionable on the positions you pointed out, but its not nearly as obvious as every is saying. A good part of this is on Ballard, no doubt.
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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
While AC did hold off retiring until after the '20 season, he seriously considered it in '19 which should have motivated Ballard to begin working on his replacement that offseason. The fact that Pryor, who might be the worst starting LT in the history of the NFL, was our starting LT 3 offeasons later shows how unbelievably bad Ballard fucked that up.
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How do you know what AC was discussing with the Colts? I know it was reported in the media that AC might retire in 2019, but he signed a two-year contract shortly thereafter. And who should the Colts have signed/drafted in 2019 or 2020 that would have satisfied you?