2019 Free Agency Period

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

Not if we don’t improve the pass rush. I don’t want to enter the year with a deficiency like the WRs were last year, and the oline the year before.

There are two primary sources of improvement from Ballard's strategy.

1) Draft
2) Develop

We tend to focus on #1, but #2 is even more important. If the coaching staff can't develop Turay and Lewis into quality pass rushers, then that's a significant failure.

Still, I expect Ballard to add another DL and DE high in the draft. If you can't get a pass rush with 4 1st/2nd round picks on the DL, then is the problem a lack of commitment of resources to the problem?

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by VeveJones007

There are two primary sources of improvement from Ballard's strategy.

1) Draft
2) Develop

We tend to focus on #1, but #2 is even more important. If the coaching staff can't develop Turay and Lewis into quality pass rushers, then that's a significant failure.

Still, I expect Ballard to add another DL and DE high in the draft. If you can't get a pass rush with 4 1st/2nd round picks on the DL, then is the problem a lack of commitment of resources to the problem?

I’m all for drafting a DE but depending on a rookie for pass rush usually doesn’t work out well. We needed someone to help bridge the gap. With a rotation that shouldn’t be a problem. Plus we are now driven by need instead of bpa. Luckily this draft matches our needs.

I hope the second year guys develop bc it looks like they will be it and a lower tier FA.

[Indiana V2]

It's not overpaying, it's called making a deal.

[Coltsalr]

@gmbremer
Interested to see if the #Colts kick the tires on Earl Thomas. Obviously, he's outside the scope of Ballard's usual moves. But at 29, he's unlikely to get an exorbitantly long deal, and there are several Seattle connections in the FO.


https://twitter.com/gmbremer/status/...044446721?s=21

That would be interesting. Not gonna get my hopes up and I think he’d be a bit of a puzzling complement to Hooker, but I’ll take what I can get at this point. Would probably be a great mentor to Hooker as well.

[Coltsalr]

Not that I myself was particularly high on him but for those that have mentioned him:

@HolderStephen
I know a lot of you have asked about Denver’s Shaquil Barrett as a possible option for the Colts. Checked into him and it sounds like the Colts view him as more of a 3-4 OLB. Doesn’t seem likely to land here.

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by Coltsalr

Not that I myself was particularly high on him but for those that have mentioned him:

@HolderStephen
I know a lot of you have asked about Denver’s Shaquil Barrett as a possible option for the Colts. Checked into him and it sounds like the Colts view him as more of a 3-4 OLB. Doesn’t seem likely to land here.

That's one of those where I'll trust Eberflus and the scouts to determine whether or not he would fit.

[smitty46953]

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Bethea was originally a 6th round pick by the #Colts in 2006

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by Coltsalr

@gmbremer
Interested to see if the #Colts kick the tires on Earl Thomas. Obviously, he's outside the scope of Ballard's usual moves. But at 29, he's unlikely to get an exorbitantly long deal, and there are several Seattle connections in the FO.


https://twitter.com/gmbremer/status/...044446721?s=21

That would be interesting. Not gonna get my hopes up and I think he’d be a bit of a puzzling complement to Hooker, but I’ll take what I can get at this point. Would probably be a great mentor to Hooker as well.

It would mean both safeties can switch off into a cover 1 andcwould provide some deceptive packages. But I don’t know if Hooker is the best inbox safety now. He has improved, but he isn’t an Amos or Collins.

Would be a great mentor for Hooker, if Thomas is willing.

[FatDT]

Originally Posted by Coltsalr

@gmbremer
Interested to see if the #Colts kick the tires on Earl Thomas. Obviously, he's outside the scope of Ballard's usual moves. But at 29, he's unlikely to get an exorbitantly long deal, and there are several Seattle connections in the FO.


https://twitter.com/gmbremer/status/...044446721?s=21

That would be interesting. Not gonna get my hopes up and I think he’d be a bit of a puzzling complement to Hooker, but I’ll take what I can get at this point. Would probably be a great mentor to Hooker as well.

Not a fan of asking Hooker to come up into the box. Thomas can do it all but putting him mostly in the box seems like a waste of his talents. I don't see him as a fit unless he just can't find a deal.

[Pez]

Originally Posted by VeveJones007

There are two primary sources of improvement from Ballard's strategy.

1) Draft
2) Develop

We tend to focus on #1, but #2 is even more important. If the coaching staff can't develop Turay and Lewis into quality pass rushers, then that's a significant failure.

Still, I expect Ballard to add another DL and DE high in the draft. If you can't get a pass rush with 4 1st/2nd round picks on the DL, then is the problem a lack of commitment of resources to the problem?

The inability to develop Turay and Lewis into quality pass rushers is Not a failure by itself. keeping them around after they fail to develop, or keeping the staff around that fails to develop them would make it a failure.