Ballard Presser

[IndyNorm]

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.

I could be misremembering, but most of us Ballard detractors (at least the sane ones) didn't really sour on him until the shit show that was the 2022 season. Not to say that we didn't criticize some of his moves (pretty sure I wasn't happy w/ all of the trading down and a loft of thee selections of the '19 draft for example), but for the most part we were all pretty happy w/ Ballard at least through the 2020 season.

And yes, Ballard is a MUCH better FM than Grigson. But that's not saying much considering my dog probably would have been a better GM for the Colts than Grigson was.