Ballard Presser

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

Therein is why we disagree. We judge the man on different scales. I now judge him on winning. I used to judge him, like you, on how I personally perceived he was doing. It took me 8 years to recognize that the results were not jibing with my judgements. So now I will judge him on one thing only, our record. After a decade his excuses ring hollow to me. I just don't believe them anymore because I've heard them year after year after year and they always are proven to be incorrect. I'll believe when Ballard says/predicts are actually correct. And, ass that I am, I will need more than one lucky year to be totally back on his bandwagon.

I applaud your honesty here. You are one of the few detractors that has the ability to be swayed by evidence. Most just have hated Ballard since the first year, or shortly thereafter. They seem to dislike his personality. To me, personality is the least of my worries. Their dislike of him from the onset makes me think they are our version of Dickitch, who thinks Grigson was a great GM because he was lucky to have Andrew Luck at QB to save his ass every year. The team was clearly a corpse when they fired that clown, and Ballard had to fix that corpse. Has it taken longer than I hoped? You are absolutely right that it did. However, I do not see the roster declining every year like it did under Grigson, who I supported early on.