Ballard Presser

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

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.

Nope, Grigson was a buffoon, stooge, tool. Just because Ballard sucks (and he does no matter how many settings are applied to the lens), does not mean Grigson was good.

Us "detractors" are looking at empirical evidence and stating that there is nothing to substantiate any objective rationale that he has been 1- "good" or 2- he will be "good" going forward. His tenure has provided nothing, absolutely nothing, to provide any reason to believe so.

As for his personality- yes, I absolutely hate his personality. He presents as a haughty, stubborn, know it all who for all his hubris seems like he's really kind of a coward and cannot handle criticism. He constantly clings to what in the grand scheme of things are small and infrequent pieces of an overall larger puzzle that he seems to really struggle to comprehend. He seems very much a trees vs the forest person, and as a GM, that's not fucking good.

And C&O, as for your statement that CF's hasn't been "good" during the 0-7 stretch. What in the fuck does that mean? Us meanies should have been going to the complex with home baked cookies and warm towels for our beloved Colts, as they week after week fell flat on their face???? What in the fuck are you talking about. The other day you more or less told me I should leave, perhaps you would be better suited to go over to Colts.com where the circle jerk is the play of the day. Sorry, you don't like seeing the criticism, dude, we just experienced the worst collapse in the history of the NFL- there is PLENTY of criticism warranted!