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Ballard must go.
I see the Colts have finally returned to their base identity of mediocrity. If even that.
It’s the usual state of the Colts as owned by the Irsays, back to Baltimore. The Peyton Manning era was an aberration.
McAfee is totally on target. Like any enterprise, attitudes, procedures and resulting performances don’t come from the bottom up but from the top down. For at least 8 years the Colts franchise has shown a severe case of incompetent leadership resulting in extremely poor results. At this point, the entire Colt operation has become a rudderless joke….an embarrassment. True Colts fans will have brown sacks tucked under their coats for the TV broadcast.
Clean the entire house. They need to find a GM immediately as there will be 5-6 other teams looking for new coaches a week from now. The Colts would have you believe it’s a building process and they need time. The Washington Commanders have shown that is not the case. If they don’t make major changes then it is time for ticket holders and sponsors to take action and treat them the way they treat us.
The most irritating thing about the Colts in general is the arrogance. Ballard seems to think the issue is that we are just not smart enough to understand the positives in the dreadful roster that he has assembled. Our defense was dreadful last year and we did 0.0 to improve. How many impactful roster moves did we make at any time since last season? Other Teams are at least attempting to get better; we just ran back the same bunch that failed last year and hoped for better results. I suspect that they will do the same again for next year….
The OB is supposed to be the team leader on AND off the field, Anthony Richardson is anything but that. Other quarterbacks in the Richardson age-group have excelled and shown a growth and leadership trajectory (Jake Daniels, Bo Nix, Drake Maye, CJ Stroud, the list goes on) but Richardson has floundered, shown a questionable work and leadership ethic. It might be argued he hasn’t had the right coaching (or is that babysitting?), but I think most of it is on him. Simply put, he has physical gifts, but he simply is not a franchise quarterback, all the talk of his running and escapability skills do not outweigh the fact he does not have the right stuff to be franchise QUARTERBACK! Never did — I was never excited about his coming here in the first place. “Running” quarterbacks typically have a short and unimpressive shelf life. Mostly flash, but quick burnout. There were what ifs around him when he came in, and there are even more now. *And that’s those rare times he actually played. Cut the cord, or relegate him to another position…TE? I don’t know.
Richardson was exceedingly green (and the world knew that when they drafted him) and the Colts, to the best of my knowledge, didn’t surround him with a really good QB coach and others to help with the development. It’s still too early to figure out what he will be.
I suspect he will go on to be a pretty good quarterback once he gets into a better situation with better coaching and the Colts will be mocked. Recall this is the franchise that drafted Jeff George … and traded the team’s best lineman AND wide receiver to get him. How’d that work out?
Franchise needs to identify a guy out there with a Bill Parcells persona for GM and another like Vince Lombardi for head coach that can, and would, put together a coaching staff and roster worth rooting for. The Colts are, and have continued to be ‘obtuse’, soft and indifferent since Ballard got here. Irsay family….wake up!
Richardson should have stayed in college. He hasn’t played the QB position enough to be an NFL starter. The Colts need to draft a serviceable QB—period. Find a Purdy in this year’s draft—period. The Colts have spent a mint on QBs since Luck ran out on them, and they haven’t “hit” on the QB position. They need to draft a guy who’s played the QB position well in college. Draft Kyle McCord—someone like him, etc. Until they get a serviceable QB, they won’t win.
#draftaquarterbackwhocanplaythepostion
Luck might not have quit if he hadn’t been beaten up by the offensive lines that Ryan Grigson ran out there. Colts had a great asset and squandered it.
The Colts risk making the same mistake that Buffalo would have made if they’d given up on Josh Allen after two years. Not saying Richardson will turn out, but what makes you think they will know what to do with a QB they take at 12th in the draft?
The Colts are so mediocre in so many places that … just changing the QB won’t fix it. The wide receivers are mediocre. They’ve got 4 tight ends that would be second stringers anywhere else. No second RB. A defense ranked 29th in the NFL that just made Drew Lock look like Tom Brady in a must-win game. And none of it will change until Jim turns over final decision making, which he won’t ever do.
There’s the important part: Irsay is 65 and ill. Time to retire to his guitar collection and hand the keys to the kingdom to Carlie (and not equally to all 3 kids and their spouses). Generational change helped once before.
JOE B. – See Denver and Bo Nix. Nix knows how to play the position. The Colts need to draft a servicesable QB inthis years draft.