Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard has high praise for disgruntled running back Jonathan Taylor while acknowledging the situation is bad for everyone involved.
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00:00 All right, so now let's address the elephant.
00:04 Jonathan, because I want to talk,
00:08 and I want you all to hear it, because I know
00:11 you're going to have questions.
00:14 Just so you all know, and I want everybody to know,
00:18 Jonathan is a well-respected and a really good human being
00:24 and a damn good football player.
00:26 I think we all know this.
00:28 All right?
00:30 Things like this happen.
00:32 I tell every rookie that comes in,
00:36 there's going to be a point when we disagree.
00:39 And it's usually about money.
00:42 And it's going to be hard.
00:45 And just know that doesn't change my care level for you.
00:50 I care deeply for Jonathan Taylor.
00:53 I have great respect for Jonathan Taylor.
00:58 Our relationship, I would tell you, is-- look,
01:01 even when it gets hard, I won't quit on the relationship.
01:08 Won't do it.
01:09 I think too much of the young man.
01:11 Think too much of what he's given our organization
01:16 and how hard he's played for us.
01:18 And what sucks-- I mean, the situation--
01:22 I'm not going to sit here and give you some rosy picture
01:24 like, oh, this is just-- everything's OK.
01:27 No, it sucks.
01:28 It sucks for the Colts.
01:30 It sucks for Jonathan Taylor.
01:32 And it sucks for our fans.
01:34 It just-- it does.
01:36 And it's where we're at.
01:39 And we've got to work through it.
01:41 And we're going to do everything we can to work through it.
01:45 Relationships are repairable.
01:48 They're repairable.
01:49 Like, I don't-- when guys get emotional and take a stance,
02:00 you've got to have some-- you've got to be
02:02 able to work through those.
02:04 I mean, have you ever in your life
02:07 had a good friend, a spouse, family member
02:10 that you've had a disagreement with,
02:13 and then you draw a line in the sand
02:15 and say, this person's out of my life?
02:17 Well, no.
02:18 I mean, like, how do you do that?
02:20 No, you work through it.
02:22 And hopefully, you come out the other side better because of it.
02:26 All right?
02:26 We've got work to do.
02:28 We do.
02:29 We've got work to do on the relationship.
02:31 And we've got work to do to find a solution to the problem
02:36 in which-- what we're going to do.