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Originally Posted by apballin
My point is how do you measure a good GM?
How their drafted players pan out?
Win loss record?
Grigson won the division and went to the playoffs nearly every year. Year 3 AFC Championship is still impressive
Hard to draft great players when you’re in the back half of the draft every year.
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That's a great question, and honestly I think the best answer is the personnel decisions they make. If the decisions the GM makes make the roster better, they're doing a good job. If the decisions the GM makes either do nothing to improve the roster or make it worse, they're doing a bad job. Yes, the Colts got to the AFC Championship Game in 2014, but that was a generational QB in Andrew Luck dragging a wholly outmatched roster that far on his sheer talent alone. Most of Grigson's personnel decisions deteriorated the quality of the roster. Most of Ballard’s personnel decisions have improved the quality of the roster. Of course there are a few hits you could point to for Grigson, and a few misses for Ballard, but generally speaking, the quality of the roster did nothing but deteriorate from 2012 under Grigson and the quality of the roster has done nothing but improve since 2017 under Ballard.