Colts cuts to 53

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schreck, by your own numbers the process can be as much as 1/2 of Luck’s most effective years. Can you point to a team embarking on a successful full rebuild / youth movement as their franchise QB entered his most productive years? I’m not suggesting it hasn’t happened, but I can’t remember one.

Another question. Let’s pretend Ballard had said something along these lines coming in - “Look, we have the most important ingredients for success in place. Andrew Luck gives us a chance to win everytime we step on the field. And we aren’t going to waste that. We are going to build a coaching staff and roster that is innovative, tough, and aggressive. And we are going to do it quickly. We won’t mortgage our future for short term gains, but we aren’t going to spend 3-4 years waiting for unproven potential to eventually start producing. We will look for high ceiling and high impact players, but at the end of the day production and accountability are what it takes to build sustained success. Things change to quickly in this league to have your vision so far down the road that you loose sight of the present.” If Ballard had said that coming in would you have disagreed and said it was a shortcut? Would you have said that the only way to build a successful team from where they started was to embark on a 4 yr rebuild? Do you agree with the hard / long rebuild because you think it’s the only way or simply because it’s the way Ballard has chosen?