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Originally Posted by Oldcolt
I was one of those who felt it was time for Ballard to go. I am not 100% behind the guy quite yet. My issue was 8 years of believing he could do everything thru the draft, not finding a QB (Honestly we have finally found what appears to be a quality QB but I feel like a blind squirrel finds a nut eventually. We got lucky in my mind and I am thrilled we did. If this guy could really evaluate QBs it wouldn't have taken 8 years) and refusing to go all in. We have a few weeks before the trade deadline. This team is close, very close. There are no super teams this year. Will Ballard pull the trigger for a pass rusher or CB and go all in this year or will he just love them draft picks to much? He showed he was able to change ways and signed us some nice dbs this past off season. l I would love to see us finally go all in. I hope new ownership pushes him in that direction.
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Jim was a lot different than his father ...... I hope that Carlie
IS NOT a lot different than Jim.
As for your blind squirrel analogy, that is far from the truth. Prior to 2025 and after the retirement of Andrew Luck in 2019, Ballard's Colts had one good season (the 2020 Philip Rivers season), 1 bad season (the 2022 4-12-1 season), and 4 mediocre/middling seasons. Those mediocre/middling teams would have been bad teams if Ballard had not done what he said that he intended to ...... build a complete team that
WAS NOT overly-dependent on an all-world quarterback, such as Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck.
The Colts have essentially done the opposite of what the New York Giants did ...... the Giants got a solid quarterback in Daniel Jones and expected him to carry an otherwise incomplete team. The Colts, on the other hand, built complete teams that were a solid quarterback away from being bona-fide contenders (as is evidenced by the 2020 Philip Rivers season and this 2025 Daniel Jones season.)
Jim was a good owner, right up until the end. Ballard was a good GM all long, just like I have been saying for years in dozens of my posts here on
ColtFreaks.
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