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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Offseason Interview Series: Colts GM Chris Ballard

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Robert Mays continues the Offseason Interview Series by welcoming Colts GM Chris Ballard to the show. Chris details his time in Chicago, the move to trade for Carson Wentz, his biggest weakness as a general manager and much more.

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0:47.7

Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:50.7

I'm Robert Mays.

0:51.6

Very excited about today's show.

0:53.4

It's the next installment in our off-season

0:55.6

interview series. Really have looked forward to this one for a while. I've been meaning to get him on.

1:00.6

Colts General Manager, Chris Ballard. Chris, how you doing? I'm good. Thanks for having me on.

1:05.8

You are coming to us from an idyllic lakeshore recording spot, which is making me, there's a lot of envy on this

1:13.2

side of the microphone. I can tell you that right now. We come to northern Wisconsin every summer,

1:18.6

and this is the only seven days we could get away. And really, it's only going to be five for my son.

1:24.9

And I think, well, either my wife or I, whoever gets has to take him back to

1:29.8

Cincinnati for a baseball tournament. So with five kids, it's hard to get away. And, you know, a few

1:35.7

years ago, we asked our children, we said, well, they loved coming up here. So we just kind of made

1:40.9

this our permanent spot. It's incredible. It's beautiful. The weather's great.

1:45.3

It's about 70 degrees right now and just not a cloud in the sky, not a, the water's light

1:51.5

glass.

1:52.6

It's the same thing over here after it being rainy and awful for a week.

1:56.5

It's like 70 in Chicago, which is awesome.

1:58.3

So we don't have a ton of time.

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