Colts cuts to 53

[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by FatDT

Sherck you are better than calling people critical of Ballard.'s moves "haters". Give me a break. I don't even dislike Ballard. I think he's made mistakes. And he's owned some of them. I think he's taking longer than he needs to. What I dislike are the fiercely loyal happy horse-shitters that love everything he does and refuse to even consider that a rookie GM might be making bad decisions. The ball swingers. What has Ballard done to deserve unflinching loyalty? Where is the loyalty to the players?

Show me the posters who love everything Ballard does? I question his moves, as do I believe many on this board. It's just we've seen little evidence to prove his moves wrong.

Ballard, perhaps wrongly so, went and got players who fit Pagano's system last season, just to give Pagano a real chance of improving the defense. It didn't happen and we knew it wasn't going to happen. You gotta admire Ballard's humility to do that, even when he also doubted the results.

Fast forward to this season and Ballard got rid of most of the Pagano stench, to give this regime the same chance he gave Pagano.

Hankins doesn't have a job. Tell what gives there? Anderson isn't even starting on a Jets team that runs a scheme that's fits his talents. What would he have done here?

Ballard admitted that he made a mistake by holding onto Simon too long and trying him in a variety of roles. It didn't help Simon and it didn't help the team.

Ballard deserves no praise for any of his personnel moves the last 2 years. He would probably tell you that himself. Because at the end of the day it's all about W/L. Sure we can question him and I often do. Just not to the point that I always think that the sky is falling every time he makes a decision that I don't agree with.

Who know's maybe with ample playing time and a few games under their belts, guys like Basham and Turay can at least become key contributors. I would certainly hope that each could top Simon's career high 5 sacks from 2 years ago.

Us loyal happy horse-shitters are just saying...Let's wait and see.