Ballard takes blame for brutal Colts season

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — “Look, I failed.”

The message was easy from Indianapolis Colts normal supervisor Chris Ballard Tuesday morning: He’s responsible for the horrible 4-12-1 season.

“I’m not going to take a seat up right here and make excuses. I failed lots of people,” Ballard stated. “Extremely disillusioned about the place we’re at, how the season went. I by no means take calmly what’s at stake right here. It’s not the wins and losses, however individuals’s lives are on the road – gamers’ households, coaches’ households, entrance workplace, individuals on this constructing. I by no means take that calmly. I’m disillusioned. I’m disillusioned in the place we’re at. In the end, it falls on my shoulders.”

Ballard wasn’t shy about itemizing off the issues that went fallacious this season. First on that record – the quarterback carousel.

“While you’re altering quarterbacks yearly, it’s robust. It’s robust on all people. It’s robust on the group. And never getting that place settled has somewhat one thing to do with it.”

The followers haven’t let Ballard off the hook in any respect, and he understands why.

“Our followers deserve higher. They deserve higher. And I’m grateful for them, grateful for his or her ardour. I’d slightly they be passionate than apathetic. And I need to do good for them, and I’m sorry I allow them to down.”

One of many details of debate was who would be the head coach for the Indianapolis Colts subsequent 12 months. Ballard says he would be the one main the search. And sure, Jeff Saturday is a candidate for that job even after ending with a 1-7 document. Nevertheless, all of that doesn’t matter to Ballard.

“It’s a tricky spot [that he came into], man. I’m not judging him on that,” Ballard stated. “What I’ll choose, the issues I did like have been – he stayed constructive. He saved working. He held the group accountable. Certain, he’s obtained issues he’s obtained to develop. All of us do.”

In the end, proprietor Jim Irsay may have the ultimate say within the subsequent head coach. Nevertheless, in accordance with Ballard, he hasn’t been overreaching.

“Mr. Irsay lets me do my job. I like working for him. He’s a great man, a great proprietor. He has a variety of expertise on this league,” Ballard stated. “There’s a variety of choices that I’ll make and he’ll say, ‘Good, Chris, I don’t completely agree with that however lets transfer ahead.’ And there’s some choices that he’ll make that I’ll say, ‘Look, I don’t utterly agree with that however let’s transfer ahead.’”

One main choice that they must make is what to do with the fourth general choose – and can or not it’s shifting as much as get a quarterback.

“We perceive the magnitude of the place we’re at within the draft, and we perceive the significance of the choice,” Ballard stated. “I’ll do no matter it takes. If we thought there’s a participant that we’re pushed to get that makes the franchise and the group higher, that’s what we’ll do.”

It’s clear — Ballard desires to remain in Indy and repair the Colts.