No. I wouldn\u2019t do one<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nWhy not?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in the last year of my deal,\u201d Ballard said. \u201cWe need to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Ballard said his status will not \u201cat all\u201d affect how he approaches potential extensions for players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I will always \u2014 and y\u2019all all know me well enough \u2014 I\u2019m always going to do the best thing for the organization,\u201d Ballard said. \u201cUltimately, that\u2019s my job. Anytime you do selfish, alternative, ulterior motive in play \u2014 that\u2019s not good for the game, it\u2019s not good for the organization. We will always do what\u2019s best for this club. I have too much respect for the Colts, I have too much respect for what Mr. Irsay stood for as an owner, too much respect for the girls \u2014 for Carlie [Irsay-Gordon], Casey [Foyt], and Kalen [Jackson] \u2014 as they start their venture as owners into this thing. No, we\u2019ll always do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ballard was also asked about how much pressure he feels going into the 2026 season. His answer was reflective, expressing plenty of gratitude.<\/p>\n
\u201c[T]his is my 26th year in the league,\u201d Ballard said. \u201cAnd as a kid, if you would\u2019ve told me, I\u2019d be able to work in football and do this for a career, I would\u2019ve signed up 100 times over. OK? The journey\u2019s different for everybody. I\u2019m just a steward in this position. I\u2019ve always believed that. And I\u2019ll always do the best thing for the organization \u2014 both short and long-term. That\u2019s just how I tick and how I roll. I\u2019m grateful that I\u2019ve always had a job in this league that I have great respect for and that will never change. Like, the fun to me is the journey \u2014 that\u2019s the fun part. Even the hard moments, they\u2019re not \u2014 compared to what other people have to go through, they\u2019re not really that \u2026 hard. They\u2019re judged, rightfully so \u2014 we\u2019re in the public eye, and we should be judged. But I get to do football every day, and I never take that for granted.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, in terms of the pressure, nobody puts more pressure on me than myself to succeed. But like if I\u2019ve learned anything over the years, sometimes you\u2019ve got to enjoy all of it \u2014 the good and the bad. That\u2019s the fun part of this, going through things that are not always easy with people that you care about and respect. Man, not everybody gets to do that in life. I\u2019ve been very fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colts General Manager Chris Ballard is in the last year of his contract. From his comments in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-789909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}