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[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by albany ed

I don't know, but I'm not Anti Ballard. I think he found some gems in the draft and started to build a solid team. He got put behind the 8-ball early when his extremely=elite QB suddenly abruptly retired, and left a huge hole in team, a hole in which he had no time to fix. Sure, he's made some mistakes, but are there any GMs that haven't ???

o


When Peyton Manning went down in 2011, the Colts went 2-14 without him.

When Andrew Luck suddenly and unexpectedly retired in 2019, the Colts went 7-9 with an average-at-best Jacoby Brissett at quarterback, and 6 out of those 9 losses were by 7 points or less.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/r...Teams/2019-ind


The very next year the Colts went out and got the least mobile quarterback in the NFL (a 39 year-old Philip Rivers), went 11-6 in the regular season, and took the Buffalo Bills right down to the wire in a playoff game on their homefield.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/r...Teams/2020-ind


And in that playoff game the statuesque, 39 year-old Rivers was literally untouched by the Bills' defense, let alone sacked.


https://www.jt-sw.com/football/boxes...ost-wc-ind-buf




Subsequently, in my rat's ass of an opinion, Ballard wasn't just us giving lip-service when he proclaimed that he was determined to build a complete team that was not extremely-reliant on an elite quarterback when he was first brought here in January of 2017.

o