Tagging Jones and signing Pierce

[Kray007]

Originally Posted by rm1369

Man, can we move the goal posts any further for this guy? Plenty of GMs have QB issues. Ballard was screwed by thinking he had a HOF caliber QB on the roster, but after a season or two he’s been in no different position than the majority of GMs. It’s his philosophy that has put the team in the position it’s been in. Nothing else. Both teams in the SB went from HOF QBs to no QB to the SB in less time that Ballard has had. So what we start the clock for Ballard now to determine if he’s good? For him and him only nearly a decade of mediocrity means nothing? I swear the man is teflon. I can’t wait to hear next year’s excuses.

I don’t have to move the goalposts any farther than the 8-2 record the day Jones got hurt. Ballard assembled a team that was loaded with talent but couldn’t overcome a double barreled disaster at Quarterback.

Philosophy has nothing to do with his inability to find an upper echelon Quarterback. Most successful GM’s stumble onto one, then get labeled a genius because luck gobsmacked them in the face like a lemon meringue pie in a Three Stooges short.

If Andrew Luck hadn’t retired or if Patrick Mahomes had been taking snaps from Ryan Kelly, there would be a couple more shiny Lombardi Trophies on the team’s mantlepiece. Instead, we’ve been in a position where we’ve shuffled from one nonentity to another.

And, yeah, the Patsies and the Seahags rebounded from oblivion to glory. But, they didn’t do it with Matt Ryan or Joe Flacco at the helm. They didn’t do it starting their third string QB.