Ballard

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

I supported Ballard for the first 7 years he was gm. I finally got sick of mediocre QB play and holes in the team he was unwilling to fill because he would only use the draft to build a team. He has blown me out of the water this last year and has done everything I was pissed he never did before. Starting with actually fixing the backfield with of all things free agency and a trade for the ages. He has been a genius drafting offensive lineman, absolutely incredible what he has done there. When Luck retired I remember Ballard saying you don't need a franchise QB to win if you have a good well rounded team. Well I thought that made sense then and now we are about to put it to a real test. He took a swing with AR (unlike most of you I think that story hasn't fully played out yet-i believe that sitting behind a well run and functioning team is exactly what this young man needs) then finally found an adequate QB (again in my mind the fact that Jones and Steichen are on the same page is huge). This is such a radical change I have to give huge props to our new owners, no way they didn't have s huge hand in doing this. First time in many years I actually believe we are in the hunt. Loving this as we are finally using everything available to build. Ballard will be here a long time and I couldn't be more happy about it.

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I'm glad that you overcame pancreatic cancer ...... like yourself, I didn't know that there was a "good kind", I was only aware of the one in which is almost always a death-sentence for the patient (less than 10% of pancreatic cancer patients are still alive 5 years after being diagnosed.)

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[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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I'm glad that you overcame pancreatic cancer ...... like yourself, I didn't know that there was a "good kind", I was only aware of the one in which is almost always a death-sentence for the patient (less than 10% of pancreatic cancer patients are still alive 5 years after being diagnosed.)

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I appreciate that. Everyone I know who is old has some sort of thing like this that they have dealt with. I got lucky for now, we all know how this turns out eventually.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

I supported Ballard for the first 7 years he was team's GM. I finally got sick of mediocre QB play and holes in the team he was unwilling to fill because he would only use the draft to build a team. He has blown me out of the water this last year and has done everything I was pissed he never did before. Starting with actually fixing the backfield with of all things free agency and a trade for the ages. He has been a genius drafting offensive lineman, absolutely incredible what he has done there. When Luck retired I remember Ballard saying you don't need a franchise QB to win if you have a good well rounded team. Well I thought that made sense then and now we are about to put it to a real test. He took a swing with AR (unlike most of you I think that story hasn't fully played out yet-i believe that sitting behind a well run and functioning team is exactly what this young man needs) then finally found an adequate QB (again in my mind the fact that Jones and Steichen are on the same page is huge.) This is such a radical change ...... I have to give huge props to our new owners, no way they didn't have a huge hand in doing this. First time in many years I actually believe we are in the hunt. I'm loving this, as we are finally using everything available to build. Ballard will be here for a long time, and I couldn't be more happy about it.

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I may be one of the few that is glad that Ballard is coming back in 2026, also ...... the Colts have had 2 quarterbacks that worked well with the teams that he has assembled (Philip Rivers in 2020, and Daniel Jones in the first 10 games of the 2025 season), but only 1 season as a bona-fide contender in his 9 year tenure as the team's GM (2017 through 2025), but I'm still glad that he's coming back.

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[Oldcolt]

I was premature in my initial assessment of Ballard this year. Am not happy he is back but hope I am wrong