[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by IndyNorm

Year in and year out Ballard sacrifices team needs in the name of future cap flexibility. You know damn if left unchecked he'll continue to do so, and since he's already invested so much of the cap space in the OL he'll continue to find cheap band aid like replacements for the open positions rather than do the right thing and actually fix the problem.



After watching the god awful OL play this year it's obvious that Glow wasn't the weak link of the OL. If re-signed he'd be our best OG currently on the roster, and since Nelson's play has gone to complete shit the same can probably be said for Reed as well. Even though he's out of football if we had re-signed Fisher he would have currently been our best LT, and certainly a hell of a lot better than Pryor is. Hell, even if Fisher had sat on the couch since January he'd still be better than Pryor.




No, what you're saying isn't beyond me, and nothing you've ever posted on here is beyond me or anyone else on the board. And yes, it's a dumbass line of thinking. For starters Ballard's role is nothing like being a professional gambler and running a football team is nothing like running a casino where the odds are always in your favor.

Ballard is essentially a VP of talent acquisition at a midsized company. Imagine if he was in the business world and decided due to potential future budget constraints to let ~half of the company's experienced talent in their top division leave rather than pay them a manageable salary increase. Then he backfills them w/ substandard talent who's completely incapable of performing at the required level, and as soon as this turnover happens the division begins to grossly underperform so much so that it drags the entire company down from being in the black to the heavy red. Do you think wise investors would say "That's ok. You gambled and lost, but I'm sure you'll get it right next time." No, they would (rightfully so) be calling for his head.

On top of that even if Ballard's job was exactly like a professional gambler, Pryor and Pinter were two of the worst horses in the history of the league to wager the season on, and Ballard should have known that.



Do you honestly think Castonzo told the entire world that he was seriously considering retiring and then told Ballard that he'd stick around for the foreseeable future? If so then I have a great bridge investment opportunity I'd like to tell you about. And even if AC did say he'd stick around the fact that he was considering retiring at the end of the '19 season shouldn't have surprised Ballard when he did retire after '20. But the fact that Matt Fucking Pryor was our starting LT this season seems to speak otherwise.

No Glow did god damn job, which is all you can expect of any player.