Ballard 2024 end of year presser

[Racehorse]

Watching it now. He is owning his mistakes from the past. and it looks like he wants to make some serious changes to his style.

[Dewey 5]

On Anthony Richardson: "We knew when we took him it was going to be a roller coaster... The number 1 thing we have to figure out and have to work through is he's got to stay healthy. That, to me, is the biggest question."

"We have to have competition at the position ... because competition makes you better and because he's not proven he can stay healthy for 17 games."

On his team-building: "Right now, we're not close. I want to make that clear. Being close is losing on the last play of the of the Super Bowl. Going 8-9 is not close."

Re-signing and rewarding so. many of his own last offseason created a complacency and that was a major problem. Must be an edge in the locker room.

Apparently had a convo Zaire Franklin & I don't think it was comfortable for Franklin.

[Dewey 5]

He did say things I wanted to hear now lets see if there is action behind those words.

They also let DBs coach Ron Milus and LBs coach Richard Smith go

[AlwaysSunnyinIndy]

Originally Posted by Dewey 5

They also let DBs coach Ron Milus and LBs coach Richard Smith go

That isn't too surprising.

Both of those guys have pretty much followed Gus Bradley around for much of the last decade.

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Dewey 5

Apparently had a convo Zaire Franklin & I don't think it was comfortable for Franklin.

Almost certainly happened exactly two days after the season ended, when Franklin made that public apology.

[rm1369]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Watching it now. He is owning his mistakes from the past. and it looks like he wants to make some serious changes to his style.

It’s better to hear him acknowledge mistakes than to double down on them, but I won’t believe it until we see it. He’s been the same guy from the beginning and the issues have been obvious from the beginning to anyone not drinking the Kool Aid. The only thing that’s changed is that he’s running out of excuses. I’m afraid he’s just a con man placating the masses still convinced he’s right. Unfortunately all we can do is watch and see.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by rm1369

It’s better to hear him acknowledge mistakes than to double down on them, but I won’t believe it until we see it. He’s been the same guy from the beginning and the issues have been obvious from the beginning to anyone not drinking the Kool Aid. The only thing that’s changed is that he’s running out of excuses. I’m afraid he’s just a con man placating the masses still convinced he’s right. Unfortunately all we can do is watch and see.

He has to reflect, and it seems he did. It seems to me that he identified his shortcomings correctly. What he does with that information is what matters.

When he addressed free agency, it seemed to me that his pause was there because he did not want to let it out what he has planned, but I think we see him more active in the trade market than before, and tries to do the trades like for Buckner, which was a definite home run.

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by rm1369

It’s better to hear him acknowledge mistakes than to double down on them, but I won’t believe it until we see it. He’s been the same guy from the beginning and the issues have been obvious from the beginning to anyone not drinking the Kool Aid. The only thing that’s changed is that he’s running out of excuses. I’m afraid he’s just a con man placating the masses still convinced he’s right. Unfortunately all we can do is watch and see.

Exactly. With the exception of in '22 where he blamed the OL going to shit on the media giving him crap about the WR room, he basically says the same thing every year: the buck stops w/ me, I need to get better, etc. I'll believe all of that when I see it.

[apballin]

I like how he called out the “unnamed player “ giving quotes to the media a chicken shit

[YDFL Commish]

Okay, we all remember '22 with not a lot of fondness, I know. But, before that season, Irsay gave the edict to put all your chips on the table. Which of course we know that Ballard didn't do, giving the Colts Matt Pryor and Danny Pinter to work with as O-Line replacements for Castonzo and Glowinski.

If he didn't get fired for that alone, then he is teflon.