"I’m just looking at where we’re at with the team. We’re at .500. It’s my obligation to 53 players in the locker room to win football games.” Ballard has made a single NFL trade deadline deal in his eight years as general manager -- sending Nyheim Hines to Buffalo for Zach Moss and a fifth-round pick (that became tight end Will Mallory) -- and that only after Hines asked for a deal.