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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
You know damn well that Ballard will use how much he's invested in the OL as an excuse not to invest in FA to fill team needs. He certainly won't invest any more in the OL even thought that's the unit that obviously needs to be fixed. In fact he already did that by letting Glow, Reed, and Fisher walk and going cheap w/ Pryor and Pinter  |
An excuse? Do you think he just doesn't want to spend money because he's cheap? And letting Glow, Reed and Fisher walk? Fisher's now out of football, Reed is a Vikings backup who's been designated as inactive for nearly every game this year, and Glowinski was the weakest link on the Colts line asking for a big payday.
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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
You don't judge a decision by the outcome it creates? What kind of dumbass thinking is that? And BTW handing over the starting LT position to a journeyman backup who made a whopping 1 start there is not a reasonable and logical decision. This was pretty obvious to a lot of us on the board here. Pinter wasn't as obvious to us fans, but it should have been obvious to Ballard and his staff. They had 2 years worth of practices and workouts to evaluate him, and the fact that they were so far off on his evaluation as well as Pryor's should say something.
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Correct. I don't judge a person's decisionmaking simply by the simple bottomline result. This kind of "dumbass thinking" might be beyond you, but think of it like how a poker player makes decisions - a good poker player plays the odds, and makes decisions accordingly. The outcome of those decisions is not always consistent with what the odds would suggest, but the player can rest assured that if you keep making smart decisions, they will prevail in the end. The entire casino industry is based upon this principle.
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Originally Posted by IndyNorm
AC seemed like a really standup guy. Do you think he'd tell the media that he was considering retiring and not talk to Ballard, Reich, etc. about it?
Off the top of my head I would have either signed Leno instead of Fisher and/or drafted Darrisaw instead of Paye. And as I already mentioned re-signing Fisher would have been a much better move than handing the job over to Pryor. But my opinion doesn't really matter as I don't get paid to make the Colts better. Ballard does, and that's something he's failed at big fucking time over the past couple of off seasons. Fucking Matt Broken Down Turnstyle Pryor at LT. What a fucking joke.
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You missed my point. Do you know what Castonzo told the Colts his intentions were when he resigned for two years? I mean I think the guy was 32 at the time, so it's not unreasonable to think he might follow though on the contract and play for a couple years.