Indianapolis Colts GM Calls Out 'Anonymous Sources' In Rage-Filled, Expletive-Laced Tirade

Indianapolis Colts GM Chris Ballard is in the middle of some sort of weird garage band phase with his hair right now, and he's got the mouth to back it up. 

Perhaps one of the biggest loose cannon GMs in the league – under the biggest loose cannon owner – went OFF on all the cowardly anonymous sources who spent the months leading up to the draft tearing down "kids," calling them every name in the book in a cussing crusade for the ages. 

Headphones in, volume up, and … GO!

Chris Ballard might be a lunatic 

I said garage band phase, but I think Chris also sort of looks like every single lunatic in every single scary movie. He certainly has the anger for it.

What pure, raw, pissed off emotion from Ballard here. The character concerns with Adonai Mitchell he's referring to, by the way?

He's got diabetes and can get a little agitated when the ol' blood sugar ain’t where it needs to be. 

Seriously. 

From SB Nation:

One pre-draft report cited that Mitchell, a Type 1 diabetic, didn’t manage his condition well and that could be the cause of friction.

"When his blood sugar’s off, he’s rude, he’s abrasive, he doesn’t pay attention in meetings. It’s why you get really, really shitty character reports coming out of Georgia and Texas. But when his stuff is normal, and they get him normal by lunch time, he’s out at practice high energy, best practice player, loves football."

It went on to say that Mitchell’s disregard for managing his blood sugar was likely a trait of being immature. It’s unclear whether or not this factored into the pre-draft process, but Ian Rapoport did point out on NFL Network that he heard from several teams that Mitchell came off as being disinterested during meetings. 

I mean, come on. What are we doing here? When I hear character concerns, I think more along the lines of, I don't know, Aaron Hernandez. He gave off some pretty serious red flags before he started murdering people. 

But getting a little moody when you have a bad lunch? Science can fix that. 

As for what Ballard is saying here, I guess I get it. But, at the same time, I'm in the #content game, and we live for anonymous sources pissing people off to the point of expletive-laced press conferences at midnight on a Friday. 

I would love people to just all of a sudden bluntly say what they're thinking. Imagine how refreshing it would be, and how funny it would be if/when it goes wrong. 

For instance, my idiot college baseball coach once declared that Mookie Betts wouldn't last two years in the league. 

True story. Mookie, obviously, is already a Hall of Famer at this point. My dummy coach somehow got to coach two more years after saying that. 

Now, he eventually did get fired because we were awful, but I would've preferred him being fired on the spot after that statement and saving me from a 2-29 senior year. 

Not sure how that applies here, but whatever. You get it. 

Thanks for content, Chris Ballard!

PS: Sorry for the language, but not sorry. 

Nice save.