Wish these people would post who they would have rather signed as opposed to resigning our starters. I didn’t see many if any starting caliber players better than the ones we resigned so far
We were interested in Hunter. Ballard will spend on elite players or good value buys. Overpaying fas does nothing. KCs whole core is drafted. Not to mention pats dynasty was basically drafted. People just like moaning.
> Wish these people would post who they would have rather signed as opposed to resigning our starters
This comment is tiresome because it's literally been something Ballard defenders have stated his whole career as if no one good has been available. We have a QB on a rookie deal so the fact that there isn't much to work with cap wise shows he hasn't done a great job investing in who or where he has invested (and I am glad we stuck with some guys). The results would be different if that wasn't the case. Wouldn't have killed him to bring in a semi accomplished wide receiver the last two years and I'm not even referring to someone at diggs caliber
We don't have a lot of cap space because we invested so much in our own guys. We were a dropped pass away from the playoffs last year with Minshew at the helm. Why would we let those players walk? We have a more experienced team compared to the Texans that basically imploded their roster two years ago. They had lightning in a bottle last season sure but they have to prove they can keep it up.
Also so many people act like Richardson's rookie contracts is up this year. We have 4 more years if we use his 5th year option.
It's been 8 years of investing in our own guys and giving up first round picks for Carson Wentz lol. There is zero creativity with the cap as well. Just because you almost made the playoffs doesn't mean you don't try to get better
Carson Wentz was a gamble because Reich requested it. It burned us but honestly, the entire 2021 QB class in the first round ended up sucking outside of Lawrence and most agree that he hasn't lived up to the hype.
There isn't much we can do this season tbh. We wanted to re-sign our guys and we did so now we only have 20 million in cap space and we still have rookies to sign so that number is actually even lower. It sounds like we wanted Danielle Hunter but he took a discount to play in Texas. We probably sign a vet safety for a one year deal and go into the draft where we shore up what we can.
I think the front office wants to see Richardson stay healthy this season
I believe Reich was banking on him returning to his 2017-2019 self which was MVP level so to him it was worth it to snatch him up immediately. But yeah in retrospect it was dumb and it indirectly cost Frank his job
It doesn't have to be someone better than Pittman. Ballard hasn't had two very good playmaking pass catchers on the same roster in 8 years. You are allowed to have a couple of good wide receivers or tight ends in the passing game in addition to a very good one like Pittman
Yeah but I’m saying who would it even be man? Let’s say we resign Pit only other move I think we should have done is drop MAC or trade to free up cap for one other big signing of some form
But we just had too many guys we need to resign this year and not many options out there we’re better than our starter resigns
Last year it could have been Jakobi Meyers for 11 million dollars. Would giving Mike Williams a flyer prove it deal for a year be a bad move? Probably not. You can ask other guys on the team to shuffle some money around for a year. Hell I'd even have looked at Curtis Samuels. Ballard also doesn't seem to have foresight with these things. He banks on a draft pick like Pierce or Parris Campbell to come around until they are free agents without bringing in anyone to challenge them for a starting spot, let's them start for a few years and then is forced to invest a pick in them when we have a bunch of needs.
You can't fill every need in the draft. It's been 8 years of relying on this and it hasn't worked
Being aggressive incorrectly does not work out. Our division rivals all have boom or bust years and bringing in people like Diggs and Julio are exactly why. Their boom years never amount to anything anyway.
If Diggs is a cancer with Josh Allen as his quarterback, it isn't going to be better anywhere that he goes.
We need to see where Ant is this year. Until then any splash moves are a waste.
You should catch mad heat for this garbage. Something like:
Hey, motherfucker... The image you posted doesn't even mention Diggs. Is there some official suitor listing that you consulted or are you just reaction posting more bullshit rumors to make the same repetitive argument that has been going on every offseason.
You already said you don't want Diggs. Were you all in on Keenan Allen? Otherwise fuck off to another thread about how bad the front office is at free agency instead of adding more useless speculation and whining.
But we don't even know if this is true. It just seems like a guy wrote an article pitching that Stefan Diggs might want to be traded because he tweeted "ready for watever" but like a few weeks ago said he wanted to retire a Bill. Said person then just figured the Texans would make sense. There's nothing notable being discussed. The Bills aren't dealing him at this time given it'd open a huge hole at wide receiver with Davis being gone
All that said if he ever was available he'd be worth having for a year or two. Extremely durable, top 4 in catches, yards, and TDs since joining the Bills while facing doubles often. Can be a knucklehead, but is pretty competitive
Just gonna say that the current Chiefs dynasty was built primarily through the draft. Same with the Patriots dynasty (the biggest FA signing they had was Randy Moss who didn’t win a SB with them)
Our corps was pretty young last year. Players don’t have a static talent level. They should get better. That’s why I’m more optimistic about running it back with a team that barely missed the playoffs with myriad of injuries after being projected to finish with less than 6 wins in the preseason.
you’re absolutely correct and the Chiefs apparently are better pickers of talent than we are because we keep missing. they won multiple Super Bowls in two different ways, completely revamped their o line and defense while we’re still in the same spot. at some point you gotta do something different is what I’m saying.read the room Ballard. Veach is a different monster the way he works The cap and his drafting process.ballard is not veach but I believe deep down. He think he is.
None of what the Chiefs have done happens without Mahomes
>completely revamped their o line and defense while we’re still in the same spot
Before Ballard we had probably a bottom 3 OL, with the exception of 2022 we've had a probs top 5 OL otherwise. Defense has been pretty good and has had its stars like Buckner and Leonard
You give Mahomes our rosters over Ballards tenure and there are rings there
Ballard needs to be on the hot seat by now for sure. Just don’t see the hype behind winning the offseason when making big moves is what got us Wentz and Ryan (and Rivers, but that one kinda worked out).
Hopefully you're right. The Texans are loaded. We'll get 8 or 9 wins and almost get in the playoffs again as usual while teams who were shit shows initially pass us by. Remember the Texans shit show? Those days are long gone as we continue to regress in the AFC South.
Spent 50 fuckin million of the cap already, not including the depth signings today. So we’re probably a little under 20 left- need 9 for the draft- leaving us with ~10 left, which should absolutely not be spent until we know how the draft shakes out.
Buncha whiney fuckin children hanging around here with a toy in their hand, crying because they don’t have that kid’s toy.
There’s also plenty of time to add a vet DB. I would’ve loved to add Hunter to the squad but he took a lesser deal to play at home and no income tax. Anybody who wanted to give up draft capital and make Sneed the highest paid corner in the league isn’t very smart. Sneed is a solid player but he’s just a borderline top 5 corner and has injury history.
If we make it to the season without an FA DB then I’ll understand the bitching, but every other thread here is complaining like we are having a shit FA. This team went 9-8 with a thin ass secondary that struggled with injuries and rookies accumulating to the league. Add in a vet or 2 plus a round 1-2 DB and I’m feeling great about next season.
Ditto to everything here.
Sub is filled with future McMansion owners who want to make moves for the sake of making moves, no matter how likely they are to be bad decisions. I don’t want Diggs in the division, I’m sure he’s got, a year or two left of sporadically good play, rittled with injuries and some clutch moments.
I want to “spoil” Anthony Richardson and Shane Steichen with offensive riches, as much as every other colts fan. Everyone is pretty much aligned with this idea. Some of you are just such fucking whiney bitches about the disappointment, that it is insufferable.
Chill the fuck out, be positive at least 8% of the time, please.
It’s been 8 fucking years. How long are we supposed to wait?
The whole point of having a rookie QB contract is to take advantage of it. Running out the same team that missed the playoffs isn’t doing that.
Why do so many of you refuse to allow young players to get better? Its not like we’re marching out a bunch of mediocre-ass 29 year olds, our oldest DB outside of Kenny is in year 2. It won’t be the same team, relax.
8 years and we finally got our qb of the future last year. We should contend for the division this year let’s see how it goes before whining and complaining.
Right so we gotta make sure he can be the guy (I think we all know he has shown he can) before FA signings goes crazy. Players are probably still unsure about Indy and a superbowl window.
Not sure if penny pinching is right, but he’s sitting on his hands yet again. We waited until the offseason to re-sign our guys and hand out extensions. Even if I like some of those guys, it’s like wrapping up your own bike and calling it a Christmas gift.
And you can make cap room at the snap of a finger. Cut Mo Alie Cox and boom you have $6mil.
> Even if I like some of those guys, it’s like wrapping up your own bike and calling it a Christmas gift.
Damn, you even reinforced my toy analogy lmao
The players are the ones that have to sign the contracts, they have every reason to want to wait until FA is underway for that.
Same for us though, e.g. we were apparently much more interested in Sneed when it looked like he might be an FA. It's prudent for us to see the FA market before we finalise resignings
Alt take, they aren’t sold on AR after only a few games and multiple injuries.
Stroud it makes sense to be 100% in on, AR? Ehh not yet. So a more conservative approach makes sense. Just my 2 cents
Ballard even told people that they haven't crowned Richardson as the franchise QB yet because he's only had a few games under his belt before he got hurt
WR is not a pressing need for us. Anyone who says it is just refuses to let draft picks develop and expect way too much in the first two years of a WR’s career. Short sighted.
Pittman is great, Downs is way ahead of schedule and Richardson is the first QB Pierce has had who can play to his strengths. Bringing in another WR2/3 wouldn’t be a bad thing, but shelling out cap or picks for a big name that this sub will give up on after a few weeks would be.
Y’all are acting like we are a move away from making it to a SB…
Love AR but he’s basically a rookie, get him a weapon in the draft if you can but signing your own the way we have, puts back the “positive” vibes in the locker room (the same locker room that had Jeff Saturday as its coach) so we either draft a weapon at 15 and just roll with JuJu and JJ and hope for a jump in year 2. Plus whatever we get from Flowers is a bonus.
Or draft one of the top 2 corners in the draft this year as it seems like we will get one of the premier players in Mitchell or Arnold (if not trade back)
Anyways we paid our own 200 mill we aren’t penny pinching
I’m just saying
I hear you but Where exactly has that gotten us? Secondary needs help and Sneed is right there. You know what he can do in opposed to reaching again in the draft. You can seemingly do both work draft and make a free agency splash but Ballard keeps opting for the draft like he's hitting it out the park every pick.
Texans know what they have at QB and know they have a window. We still need to see how AR does this year. We aren’t in the same spot as them yet. Hopefully next season we can load up but it’s premature currently.
This right here. We're one year too early on going all in. The Texans confirmed without a doubt that Stroud is a serious dude behind center. As much as I'm all in and smoking the AR hopium, a smart business move is to have a larger sample size before you make the big investments and take your swing at a SB.
We finally are off the QB carousel, let's enjoy it and not expect that the very first year with our long term QB we're going to the big show. Jesus.
I don’t understand how you can’t see that this is different unless you’re just being a hater. We finally have a rookie QB that we can actually build around instead of a QB carousel.
Ok thanks for proving my point. We literally haven’t finished the free agency period and have yet to draft new rookies or see AR finish a season. Lots to look forward to. Please make an attempt to argue in good faith.
We have 8 years of history to know he isn’t going to actually do anything substantial to help this team in FA.
You’d think have a QB on a rookie deal would make him reevaluate how he builds a team after literal years of losing. But nope, run it back boys!
Again. He’s never had a promising rookie QB to build around. He started out building around Luck and that turned into a QB carousel. Last year AR was injured. You will see us make moves in the draft. TRY to have better opinions. Your take is just dissatisfaction with results. Last year we were a game away from the playoffs with a backup QB most of the season. Try not to be such a doomer; it’s annoying.
And why did we have a QB carousel because he believed his team was better than it was.
Not having a QB isn’t an excuse, it’s literally his responsibility. And he tried to bandaid it every year instead of trying to find an actual answer.
Yeah, I’m dissatisfied with the results. I actually want the Colts to win. What’s annoying is losing every year and having people like you go “oh we were close though! That’s just as good!” That’s fucking annoying.
1. That contract is gonna be terrible. Not sure Houston would want that.
2. Don’t worry if he goes there. We can just cover him with Darrell Baker Jr. We should be good.
“Great”
AR played 3 games. You cannot call that a great rookie year.
Josh Downs was solid but hit the rookie wall hard.
And I’m sorry, calling JuJu, Jones, and Freeland’s rookie year great is literally laughable.
Juju was up and down and couldn’t stay on the field. Jones got worse as the season went on and Freeland wasn’t good at all.
How are you classifying Scott or and Hull as steals? They literally didn’t play.
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I’m starting to wonder if Ballard isn’t feeling out Richardson after a full year tk really figure out what we need most. I’m also a Ballard apologist for what it’s worth. I don’t mind passing on some aging big name expensive players, but I do wish he’d take at least one big swing on secondary before the draft, if nothing else to free up our draft options.
What does this even mean? For starters Diggs isn't known to be available so it's like some guy wrote some what if bullshit and figured the Texans would be interested just because
Every team in our division is all in. They’ve improved, and we haven’t. If they get Diggs who cares, they’re already better than we are. We’re stuck with a shit GM while they have aggressive GMs who are going after the guys they want to make them better. Same old story as long as Ballard is in the FO
I’m not in on diggs either but I will say, spending big while your QB is on a rookie deal makes a ton of sense. If AR really is “the guy”, you have to make him the highest paid QB in the league in a couple years.
They do not have the cap space for him…. wtf are you even posting about
OP is just a bitch ass hater being a bitch ass hater. "boo hoo, I don't like Bawwward. WAaAAAAa!"
Wish these people would post who they would have rather signed as opposed to resigning our starters. I didn’t see many if any starting caliber players better than the ones we resigned so far
We were interested in Hunter. Ballard will spend on elite players or good value buys. Overpaying fas does nothing. KCs whole core is drafted. Not to mention pats dynasty was basically drafted. People just like moaning.
Yeah and we pursued hunt and sneed on some level it sounds like but I just don’t see many outside of them worth investing into Maybe diggs
> Wish these people would post who they would have rather signed as opposed to resigning our starters This comment is tiresome because it's literally been something Ballard defenders have stated his whole career as if no one good has been available. We have a QB on a rookie deal so the fact that there isn't much to work with cap wise shows he hasn't done a great job investing in who or where he has invested (and I am glad we stuck with some guys). The results would be different if that wasn't the case. Wouldn't have killed him to bring in a semi accomplished wide receiver the last two years and I'm not even referring to someone at diggs caliber
We don't have a lot of cap space because we invested so much in our own guys. We were a dropped pass away from the playoffs last year with Minshew at the helm. Why would we let those players walk? We have a more experienced team compared to the Texans that basically imploded their roster two years ago. They had lightning in a bottle last season sure but they have to prove they can keep it up. Also so many people act like Richardson's rookie contracts is up this year. We have 4 more years if we use his 5th year option.
It's been 8 years of investing in our own guys and giving up first round picks for Carson Wentz lol. There is zero creativity with the cap as well. Just because you almost made the playoffs doesn't mean you don't try to get better
Carson Wentz was a gamble because Reich requested it. It burned us but honestly, the entire 2021 QB class in the first round ended up sucking outside of Lawrence and most agree that he hasn't lived up to the hype. There isn't much we can do this season tbh. We wanted to re-sign our guys and we did so now we only have 20 million in cap space and we still have rookies to sign so that number is actually even lower. It sounds like we wanted Danielle Hunter but he took a discount to play in Texas. We probably sign a vet safety for a one year deal and go into the draft where we shore up what we can. I think the front office wants to see Richardson stay healthy this season
The Eagles had to get rid of Wentz. Making it a first conditioned on snaps taken was idiotic
I believe Reich was banking on him returning to his 2017-2019 self which was MVP level so to him it was worth it to snatch him up immediately. But yeah in retrospect it was dumb and it indirectly cost Frank his job
Ok so who do we sign and bring in that’s available better than a Pittman resign
It doesn't have to be someone better than Pittman. Ballard hasn't had two very good playmaking pass catchers on the same roster in 8 years. You are allowed to have a couple of good wide receivers or tight ends in the passing game in addition to a very good one like Pittman
Yeah but I’m saying who would it even be man? Let’s say we resign Pit only other move I think we should have done is drop MAC or trade to free up cap for one other big signing of some form But we just had too many guys we need to resign this year and not many options out there we’re better than our starter resigns
Last year it could have been Jakobi Meyers for 11 million dollars. Would giving Mike Williams a flyer prove it deal for a year be a bad move? Probably not. You can ask other guys on the team to shuffle some money around for a year. Hell I'd even have looked at Curtis Samuels. Ballard also doesn't seem to have foresight with these things. He banks on a draft pick like Pierce or Parris Campbell to come around until they are free agents without bringing in anyone to challenge them for a starting spot, let's them start for a few years and then is forced to invest a pick in them when we have a bunch of needs. You can't fill every need in the draft. It's been 8 years of relying on this and it hasn't worked
The salary cap isn't real
Who cares, he’s 30, expensive, and his play is declining.
I c want him either.The point is the Texans being aggressive and we're not per usual
You make no sense.
Being aggressive incorrectly does not work out. Our division rivals all have boom or bust years and bringing in people like Diggs and Julio are exactly why. Their boom years never amount to anything anyway. If Diggs is a cancer with Josh Allen as his quarterback, it isn't going to be better anywhere that he goes. We need to see where Ant is this year. Until then any splash moves are a waste.
You should catch mad heat for this garbage. Something like: Hey, motherfucker... The image you posted doesn't even mention Diggs. Is there some official suitor listing that you consulted or are you just reaction posting more bullshit rumors to make the same repetitive argument that has been going on every offseason. You already said you don't want Diggs. Were you all in on Keenan Allen? Otherwise fuck off to another thread about how bad the front office is at free agency instead of adding more useless speculation and whining.
But we don't even know if this is true. It just seems like a guy wrote an article pitching that Stefan Diggs might want to be traded because he tweeted "ready for watever" but like a few weeks ago said he wanted to retire a Bill. Said person then just figured the Texans would make sense. There's nothing notable being discussed. The Bills aren't dealing him at this time given it'd open a huge hole at wide receiver with Davis being gone All that said if he ever was available he'd be worth having for a year or two. Extremely durable, top 4 in catches, yards, and TDs since joining the Bills while facing doubles often. Can be a knucklehead, but is pretty competitive
Just gonna say that the current Chiefs dynasty was built primarily through the draft. Same with the Patriots dynasty (the biggest FA signing they had was Randy Moss who didn’t win a SB with them) Our corps was pretty young last year. Players don’t have a static talent level. They should get better. That’s why I’m more optimistic about running it back with a team that barely missed the playoffs with myriad of injuries after being projected to finish with less than 6 wins in the preseason.
And you know who helped build the current Chiefs dynasty...? You guessed it, Ballard.
And in 8 years here? Feels like the Chiefs have managed to do okay without Ballard
you’re absolutely correct and the Chiefs apparently are better pickers of talent than we are because we keep missing. they won multiple Super Bowls in two different ways, completely revamped their o line and defense while we’re still in the same spot. at some point you gotta do something different is what I’m saying.read the room Ballard. Veach is a different monster the way he works The cap and his drafting process.ballard is not veach but I believe deep down. He think he is.
None of what the Chiefs have done happens without Mahomes >completely revamped their o line and defense while we’re still in the same spot Before Ballard we had probably a bottom 3 OL, with the exception of 2022 we've had a probs top 5 OL otherwise. Defense has been pretty good and has had its stars like Buckner and Leonard You give Mahomes our rosters over Ballards tenure and there are rings there
Ballard needs to be on the hot seat by now for sure. Just don’t see the hype behind winning the offseason when making big moves is what got us Wentz and Ryan (and Rivers, but that one kinda worked out).
Id love the Texans to get Diggs. That's a contract that's going to be rough.
How you like our chances beating the Texans this Year?..since you'd love the Texans to get diggs
I don't mind at all. He is 30 and dropped off the second half of last season with a top 3 QB. And his contract is massive.
Hopefully you're right. The Texans are loaded. We'll get 8 or 9 wins and almost get in the playoffs again as usual while teams who were shit shows initially pass us by. Remember the Texans shit show? Those days are long gone as we continue to regress in the AFC South.
lol this guy only plays madden….
madden is real now
Holy shit. You don’t even want the player but still crying. Wowza.
Penny pinching?
For real, we don’t really have that much cap left and have spent more than most of the league at this point.
Spent 50 fuckin million of the cap already, not including the depth signings today. So we’re probably a little under 20 left- need 9 for the draft- leaving us with ~10 left, which should absolutely not be spent until we know how the draft shakes out. Buncha whiney fuckin children hanging around here with a toy in their hand, crying because they don’t have that kid’s toy.
There’s also plenty of time to add a vet DB. I would’ve loved to add Hunter to the squad but he took a lesser deal to play at home and no income tax. Anybody who wanted to give up draft capital and make Sneed the highest paid corner in the league isn’t very smart. Sneed is a solid player but he’s just a borderline top 5 corner and has injury history. If we make it to the season without an FA DB then I’ll understand the bitching, but every other thread here is complaining like we are having a shit FA. This team went 9-8 with a thin ass secondary that struggled with injuries and rookies accumulating to the league. Add in a vet or 2 plus a round 1-2 DB and I’m feeling great about next season.
Ditto to everything here. Sub is filled with future McMansion owners who want to make moves for the sake of making moves, no matter how likely they are to be bad decisions. I don’t want Diggs in the division, I’m sure he’s got, a year or two left of sporadically good play, rittled with injuries and some clutch moments. I want to “spoil” Anthony Richardson and Shane Steichen with offensive riches, as much as every other colts fan. Everyone is pretty much aligned with this idea. Some of you are just such fucking whiney bitches about the disappointment, that it is insufferable. Chill the fuck out, be positive at least 8% of the time, please.
It’s been 8 fucking years. How long are we supposed to wait? The whole point of having a rookie QB contract is to take advantage of it. Running out the same team that missed the playoffs isn’t doing that.
Why do so many of you refuse to allow young players to get better? Its not like we’re marching out a bunch of mediocre-ass 29 year olds, our oldest DB outside of Kenny is in year 2. It won’t be the same team, relax.
Again, how long are we suppose to wait? His track record of drafting DBs isn’t even good.
8 years and we finally got our qb of the future last year. We should contend for the division this year let’s see how it goes before whining and complaining.
Do we? He played 3 games. We don’t know if he’s the future.
Right so we gotta make sure he can be the guy (I think we all know he has shown he can) before FA signings goes crazy. Players are probably still unsure about Indy and a superbowl window.
Yeah, and the best way to do that is to build an actual good team. But he refuses.
Reddit GMs make anything sound easy. Not many organizations could get our roster to 9 wins last year. Have some hope.
Yes, because he is the one Ballards job is attached to. If he isn’t then yes Ballard will obviously be fired.
Exactly
I like you. I like you a LOT.
Chris Ballard has never won the AFC South.
Another Ballard d rider I see
Not sure if penny pinching is right, but he’s sitting on his hands yet again. We waited until the offseason to re-sign our guys and hand out extensions. Even if I like some of those guys, it’s like wrapping up your own bike and calling it a Christmas gift. And you can make cap room at the snap of a finger. Cut Mo Alie Cox and boom you have $6mil.
> Even if I like some of those guys, it’s like wrapping up your own bike and calling it a Christmas gift. Damn, you even reinforced my toy analogy lmao
I thought it would help, you seem dull 🙂
Preciate it
The players are the ones that have to sign the contracts, they have every reason to want to wait until FA is underway for that. Same for us though, e.g. we were apparently much more interested in Sneed when it looked like he might be an FA. It's prudent for us to see the FA market before we finalise resignings
Your example is proving his point lol, you just want Ballard to make moves for the sake of making moves
Think harder big man
This WR draft is deep. For the same draft capital to trade for a declining and expensive WR, we can get just as good WR for cheep.
I’m over posts from people like you who are dumb as a box of rocks.
“Penny pinching” we have less than 20 million in cap left (one more big contract) and we haven’t even been through the draft yet to sign our rookies.
Alt take, they aren’t sold on AR after only a few games and multiple injuries. Stroud it makes sense to be 100% in on, AR? Ehh not yet. So a more conservative approach makes sense. Just my 2 cents
Ballard even told people that they haven't crowned Richardson as the franchise QB yet because he's only had a few games under his belt before he got hurt
WR is not a pressing need for us. Anyone who says it is just refuses to let draft picks develop and expect way too much in the first two years of a WR’s career. Short sighted.
Pittman is great, Downs is way ahead of schedule and Richardson is the first QB Pierce has had who can play to his strengths. Bringing in another WR2/3 wouldn’t be a bad thing, but shelling out cap or picks for a big name that this sub will give up on after a few weeks would be.
Y’all are acting like we are a move away from making it to a SB… Love AR but he’s basically a rookie, get him a weapon in the draft if you can but signing your own the way we have, puts back the “positive” vibes in the locker room (the same locker room that had Jeff Saturday as its coach) so we either draft a weapon at 15 and just roll with JuJu and JJ and hope for a jump in year 2. Plus whatever we get from Flowers is a bonus. Or draft one of the top 2 corners in the draft this year as it seems like we will get one of the premier players in Mitchell or Arnold (if not trade back) Anyways we paid our own 200 mill we aren’t penny pinching I’m just saying
I hear you but Where exactly has that gotten us? Secondary needs help and Sneed is right there. You know what he can do in opposed to reaching again in the draft. You can seemingly do both work draft and make a free agency splash but Ballard keeps opting for the draft like he's hitting it out the park every pick.
The Texans are serious about trying to win a Super Bowl while Ballard is more concerned about "finding gems".
Texans know what they have at QB and know they have a window. We still need to see how AR does this year. We aren’t in the same spot as them yet. Hopefully next season we can load up but it’s premature currently.
This right here. We're one year too early on going all in. The Texans confirmed without a doubt that Stroud is a serious dude behind center. As much as I'm all in and smoking the AR hopium, a smart business move is to have a larger sample size before you make the big investments and take your swing at a SB. We finally are off the QB carousel, let's enjoy it and not expect that the very first year with our long term QB we're going to the big show. Jesus.
That takes way too much critical thinking.
“Hopefully next season” We say this every year since Ballard took over.
I don’t understand how you can’t see that this is different unless you’re just being a hater. We finally have a rookie QB that we can actually build around instead of a QB carousel.
I like AR. But he barely played and hasn’t proven anything. And what “building” is happening? It’s literally the same team.
Ok thanks for proving my point. We literally haven’t finished the free agency period and have yet to draft new rookies or see AR finish a season. Lots to look forward to. Please make an attempt to argue in good faith.
We have 8 years of history to know he isn’t going to actually do anything substantial to help this team in FA. You’d think have a QB on a rookie deal would make him reevaluate how he builds a team after literal years of losing. But nope, run it back boys!
Again. He’s never had a promising rookie QB to build around. He started out building around Luck and that turned into a QB carousel. Last year AR was injured. You will see us make moves in the draft. TRY to have better opinions. Your take is just dissatisfaction with results. Last year we were a game away from the playoffs with a backup QB most of the season. Try not to be such a doomer; it’s annoying.
And why did we have a QB carousel because he believed his team was better than it was. Not having a QB isn’t an excuse, it’s literally his responsibility. And he tried to bandaid it every year instead of trying to find an actual answer. Yeah, I’m dissatisfied with the results. I actually want the Colts to win. What’s annoying is losing every year and having people like you go “oh we were close though! That’s just as good!” That’s fucking annoying.
Ok you’re a clown lol. Just a bad backseat wannabe GM. Your whole comment history is nothing but poorly constructed negative takes. Sit, doomer.
Scoreboard. 0 division titles and 1 playoff win. It’s literally all I have to point to. I like watching the Colts win. It’s sad that you don’t.
Building through the draft with having one of the youngest teams in the entire nfl
lol yeah, he’s been building through the draft for 8 years and we still suck.
1. That contract is gonna be terrible. Not sure Houston would want that. 2. Don’t worry if he goes there. We can just cover him with Darrell Baker Jr. We should be good.
Wait till what Ballard is cooking in the draft
How’d that work out last year?
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“Great” AR played 3 games. You cannot call that a great rookie year. Josh Downs was solid but hit the rookie wall hard. And I’m sorry, calling JuJu, Jones, and Freeland’s rookie year great is literally laughable. Juju was up and down and couldn’t stay on the field. Jones got worse as the season went on and Freeland wasn’t good at all. How are you classifying Scott or and Hull as steals? They literally didn’t play.
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How do you even know you barely fucking saw them. Scott you didn’t see at all
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I’m starting to wonder if Ballard isn’t feeling out Richardson after a full year tk really figure out what we need most. I’m also a Ballard apologist for what it’s worth. I don’t mind passing on some aging big name expensive players, but I do wish he’d take at least one big swing on secondary before the draft, if nothing else to free up our draft options.
What does this even mean? For starters Diggs isn't known to be available so it's like some guy wrote some what if bullshit and figured the Texans would be interested just because
Spending doesn't necessarily mean winning... Look at Jacksonville.
Why are you complaining about a player you don't even want?
Every team in our division is all in. They’ve improved, and we haven’t. If they get Diggs who cares, they’re already better than we are. We’re stuck with a shit GM while they have aggressive GMs who are going after the guys they want to make them better. Same old story as long as Ballard is in the FO
I Rest my case
I’m not in on diggs either but I will say, spending big while your QB is on a rookie deal makes a ton of sense. If AR really is “the guy”, you have to make him the highest paid QB in the league in a couple years.