I'll tell you one thing, I love Chris Ballard as a GM. He's a great team builder, but how in the world do you go into a season with a fragile project like Carson Wentz as your starting QB and not have a decent backup option?
I mean seriously, that's just ridiculously irresponsible on his part. [Reply]
“That’s leadership and the best do it almost instinctively because when there is another mistake — a dropped pass or a false start, for example — he can go back to that player and privately tell him that he needs to clean up his performance.
In the quarterback room, when his errors were pointed out, Wentz would sometimes make irrelevant excuses and Taylor wouldn’t correct him. For instance, there would be a play when he didn’t throw to an open receiver. The read was drawn up as designed, the coverage played out as expected, and he would be asked why he didn’t pull the trigger.
And Wentz would say the look wasn’t there, or he would overemphasize the pass rush, and when it was suggested the play be run again in practice as to get it right, he would object.” [Reply]
So glad we don’t have that pussy ass Ballard as our GM:
“Yet while other NFL franchises regularly turn over every stone possible to find a franchise quarterback, Ballard was content to build the rest of the roster and rely on stopgap QB options since Luck’s sudden retirement; Irsay was happy to let him. When asked whether the Colts would seek a quarterback in the 2021 draft, Ballard said: “Look, taking [a rookie quarterback] will get y’all off my ass for a little bit, but the second that guy doesn’t play well, I’m gonna be the first one run out of the building.” [Reply]
Originally Posted by Cave Johnson:
So glad we don’t have that pussy ass Ballard as our GM:
“Yet while other NFL franchises regularly turn over every stone possible to find a franchise quarterback, Ballard was content to build the rest of the roster and rely on stopgap QB options since Luck’s sudden retirement; Irsay was happy to let him. When asked whether the Colts would seek a quarterback in the 2021 draft, Ballard said: “Look, taking [a rookie quarterback] will get y’all off my ass for a little bit, but the second that guy doesn’t play well, I’m gonna be the first one run out of the building.”
Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc:
He’s not wrong, though.
Not wrong, but definitely a pussy.
Imagine how easy it would have been for Andy and Dorsey to just stick with Alex Smith for a few more years. Win 10 games, keep your jobs, profit. Instead, they took a huge gamble on a guy who many said was a disaster waiting to happen and now we have the best QB ever to walk God's green Earth.
That's the difference between guys who are just looking at being in this league because it's a sweet high paying job, and those who actually want to be great. [Reply]