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Originally Posted by ChoppedWood
Measuring by the wrong stick, that's a great one. Last I checked, every single team in the history of sports has been measured by wins and losses, by playoff appearances, and by championships played in and won.
You go ahead and use whatever fucking obtuse other measures for success you wish. I'm gonna go with the tried and true standard used for now hundreds of years.
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By that standard, you'd have to say Grigson is a better GM than Ballard, which anyone with half a brain can see is wrong.
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Originally Posted by rm1369
I’m not following your logic at all. Yes Hunter would be a two yr stop gap. So what? Two years is an eternity in the NFL. And it buys time to actually develop players. That’s the whole point. No one is denying that the primary source of talent for a team should be the draft. The question is what happens with your weaknesses in the meantime? You can either try to find viable stop gap solutions or gift positions to rookies and accept below average play while they learn. Ballard almost always chooses the latter. Yes it’s cheaper financially but it’s more costly in wins and losses. Rivers probably beats the Bills if Ballard doesn’t kick the can down the road at WR. And if he didn’t think that team could win then fine, but why the hell are you signing a 40 yr old QB for? Certainly not the future. It’s because Ballard doesn’t have a big picture view besides maintaining flexibility for the future. Next year is always more important than this year. It’s a strategy for mediocrity and so far it’s worked to perfection. Only Irsay’s intervention temporarily changed the course.
We’ll have to disagree on Grigson. I fucking hate the guy, but his use of free agency was the one thing he got right. He filled holes. Not that he was always right in his signings, but that’s not what sunk the team. The problem was he never was able to do the second part - draft the talent to eventually fill the positions long term. Ballard mostly can. We just have to wait 1-3 seasons with a gaping hole until the draft aligns with our needs enough to address them. And accept the losses along the way.
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The problem with Grigson was that he couldn't draft at all, and he didn't do well in free agency, and that was a big part of what sunk his teams. Ballard can draft, better than most GMs in NFL history. As for last year, Ballard thought that last year would be a development year, so he drafted a secondary to develop. Some improvement in the secondary will come from second year breakouts, plus the Colts kept Kenny Moore. Will that solve everything in the secondary? No, but I'll feel a lot better about the secondary concerns if Blackmon is resigned, or maybe a Justin Simmons signing. That said, successful organizations become that way by drafting and developing players. It won't matter who they sign if they can't draft and develop the replacements.