2022 NFL Free Agency

[Oldcolt]

Spike. We don't have a team yet. There still is a draft and we still will sign some free agents (otherwise we wont have enough players to make a team). We improved the one thing that was absolutely necessary for us to compete-pass rush. We disagree on Nelson's monetary worth, I get that. Your opinion is reasonable, I just disagree. I think he is so special that he is worth the money. We are really only talking maybe 4-5 million as going rate for a really good guard is 12-14 million and Nelson will probably get 18-20. LT is a concern, but maybe I am wrong about Pryor and he will be a stud. I don't have confidence but I have been wrong so many times about players...The secondary supposedly isn't that important in Bradley's system according to reports, except for safety and there are rumors about Mathieu coming our way. An off season where you pick up high end pass rusher and a QB is a pretty damn good start, and pretty damn good period, to me. Give it time. Ballard is way more patient than any of us.

[Spike]

Originally Posted by JAFF

Sure you can. They filled in holes with Reed and Glowinsky. You draft well and fill gaps with guys who are to expensive for their former team. You draft a guy like our RT, Smith, in the second round.

And IF they trade him, they had better get more than 1 first rounder. He is this generations John Hannah.

And btw, the Steelers did pretty good with Villaneuva as a walk on.

I guess we will see.

[Brylok]

They signed Matt Ryan and then went back to sleep. I guess we'll wait for the draft/cut downs/ bargain shopping.

[Spike]

Originally Posted by JAFF

Sure you can. They filled in holes with Reed and Glowinsky. You draft well and fill gaps with guys who are to expensive for their former team. You draft a guy like our RT, Smith, in the second round.

And IF they trade him, they had better get more than 1 first rounder. He is this generations John Hannah.

And btw, the Steelers did pretty good with Villaneuva as a walk on.

Yeah, how many SB's did John Hannah win? Look, it's a mute point anyways right now. Having lost Reed and Glo, the Colts definitely need to keep Q now.

[Brylok]

Where's that exciting defensive player Jim talked about? The fan favorite? Oh, it's Sunday...can't do any business today. It's just talk.

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Brylok

Where's that exciting defensive player Jim talked about? The fan favorite? Oh, it's Sunday...can't do any business today. It's just talk.

It doesn't matter. They could clone young Dwight Freeney and put him on the roster tomorrow, then five days would pass and you'd be bored of it and gripe about Ballard's complacency.

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

Until we have a real QB (we have one) who can actually run Reich's game plan we have no idea what kind of receivers we have. I keep thinking about all the open receivers in Kurt Warner's video. If they had been hit and hit in stride like Ryan will would we think that they all sucked? How did they get open if they were shit? I'm just throwing out that maybe Ballard is right and the issue isn't that receivers couldn't get open but that the QB couldn't find them. Bottom line for me is I am not that worried about our offense, run or pass. I think it will be top third of NFL at least. The only place I have worries is LT and I'm hoping that Ballard is a better scout than me or most of my friends on this board.

In 2018, Andrew Luck had arguably his best season. Our top-4 receivers were TY Hilton (maybe outside his prime), Chester Rodgers, Ryan Grant and Dontrelle Inman. Not exactly a murderer's row. Then we had Eric Ebron who wasn't shit before or after 2018. Rookie Nyheim Hines caught 63 balls.

Not saying Ryan is as good as Luck was. But you've heard people say it over and over... Reich's offense gets guys open. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Ryan can do with it.

[Brylok]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

It doesn't matter. They could clone young Dwight Freeney and put him on the roster tomorrow, then five days would pass and you'd be bored of it and gripe about Ballard's complacency.

Well, if there's anything the Colts have been for the last five years, it's complacent. See y'all next week. Maybe they'll have done something other than lose players, but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe they'll pay Q his $20M/year this week. Lol

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by Brylok

They signed Matt Ryan and then went back to sleep. I guess we'll wait for the draft/cut downs/ bargain shopping.

I hope all of the silence means that Ballard is working hard behind the scenes to fill some of these holes on the roster with what's left of the quality FAs. What I suspect though is that it's business as usual: 1-2 pre-draft moves now completed, so time to focus on the draft and then try to fill the holes with bargain 1 year deals after the draft.

This would be fine if the QB we had just traded for was in his 20s or early 30s and there's time to slowly build the roster to a championship level team. But since he's 37 the window is probably 2, maybe 3 years, so the slow build won't get the job done during the Ryan years.

[Brylok]

Originally Posted by IndyNorm

I hope all of the silence means that Ballard is working hard behind the scenes to fill some of these holes on the roster with what's left of the quality FAs. What I suspect though is that it's business as usual: 1-2 pre-draft moves now completed, so time to focus on the draft and then try to fill the holes with bargain 1 year deals after the draft.

This would be fine if the QB we had just traded for was in his 20s or early 30s and there's time to slowly build the roster to a championship level team. But since he's 37 the window is probably 2, maybe 3 years, so the slow build won't get the job done during the Ryan years.

Yep. You actually follow the Colts! That's what they do. Zzzzzz