I’m not sure if you were there but he made key catches in the 2nd half that our guys could not cover, including an incredible TD catch that put them ahead. When they needed a key catch, Alec came up with it.
actually i think chris ballard's pretty good. although he got reamed on the wentz deal. but i blame that more on reich.
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The Colts had the most Pro-Bowlers of any team last year. How is that a disaster?
Until they start awarding playoff wins for most pro bowlers, I’m in the camp of Ballard is over rated.
Would seem to me to be a coaching issue vs GM. At any rate, far from being a disaster as far as roster building.
Yup. Going from Wentz to Ryan should make a huge difference. With top 10 QB play, colts probably win 12 last year. Maybe 13.
Most probowlers but no playoffs? How is that NOT a disaster?
A disaster in the NFL is needing a QB and a team. The colts are essentially a QB away from being competitive at the highest level. It could be much, much worse. Ballard has done a good job building the team, but he's failed at getting an answer at QB. Seems like Ryan could be that. We shall see.
Again, that's coaching. He's built a roster they can win with. All of the big leads they gave up last year & overall crappy play against the Raiders & Jags that cost them a playoff spot was on execution, not talent.
That is way too general a definition, even for the NFL. If you have that many probowlers, the most in the NFL, you should at the very least make the playoffs in a weak division.
That is the definition of disaster. I don't know where to find a better one.
Weak division, but it wasn't like it was an easy division to win and get the auto bid. Now, with a QB, they easily do that. Still should have made it. You can't win in the NFL without a QB. Colts didn't have a QB last year. That has nothing to do with their roster. Have to have a QB.
Not having a QB is absolutely a roster problem. A huge roster problem. You can't pretend it is not.
Never said it wasn't. But the roster minus QB is ready to go.
So true. Team talent, GM and coaching staff can only rise as high as the QB can attain. Hope the D gets a bump also.
Wentz actually wasn’t that bad imo. He’s an easy scapegoat now that he’s gone. He had no one to throw to. We haven’t had a true WR1 or TE1 in years.
Maybe we have had a WR1 or TE1, but every player besides the guy that has the ball handed to him got worse. Wentz was not good and was never going to get the colts to where they want to go.
No Wentz definitely wasn’t the answer. Just like Rivers wasn’t and Ryan won’t be either. But that’s far from our biggest issue. We play in the weakest division in the NFL and can’t even make the playoffs. Need a complete overhaul.
Why won't Ryan be the answer? He's better than rivers and rivers got us to the playoffs and almost a win. But you are correct in that they have to win the division this year. I don't envision Tennessee being the #1 seed in the AFC. Blowing it up would be going backwards though.
Same thing I said all last season: building your offense around a pedestrian QB won’t cut it. Wentz made me wince every time he took the field. I was concerned as it was with the guy coming off two ACL tears and last year was a disaster at QB. And the WRs were bad regardless.
You can't remove the QB from the roster. He's going about it the wrong way. You get a franchise QB first, then you build around him. Tried and true method for long term franchise success in the NFL. Undeniable. Unless you're the Browns. Then you just suck no matter what.
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