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The Irsay family, in 54 years of Colts ownership, is now 418/429/2 which includes the Bill Polian era in which the team went 146/94. They admittedly had bad luck with injuries this year but with no draft picks so you may as well keep the current leadership.
That said, I don’t understand why so many people keep thinking the Colts are going to be good each season. Statistically they’ve been a mediocre franchise so why people expect excellence… is beyond me. Without Bill Polian running the football side of the operation, they’ve never been consistently good and even Polian went 3-13 on his first and last seasons.
The Colts only won one Super Bowl in the Peyton Manning era.
Very disappointed in the Irsay ladies’ inability to deal with the OBVIOUS. No NFL GM with this incompetent record for so long would even expect to be retained. Let’s be very honest. IU would likely beat this current team badly as well as 10-12 other D1 teams, Soft and incompetent throughout the organization. Carly needs to get her clipboard out and review her notes again. We all know the old adage: “Repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results”.🤪🙄😳
Ballard has had 10 years and the results aren’t good. It’s time to move on.
With all the injuries, this year wasn’t a reason to fire Ballard, but any one of the last five are.
Ballard needs to go! There must be something else going on for him to still be there, he is clearly incompetent and cannot do the job-very frustrating for season ticket holders.
The records for both are very mediocre, with neither having anything in their bio that says “hey I am great”. Ballard lifetime of 55% wins and Steichen 49% wins says the Colts NEED change. New GM, new coach, new quarterback. The Colts are the living Einstein’s definition of insanity.
Carlie and sisters are in their first year of ownership, it would be premature to blow the current management and coaching up!
The bad luck of buying proven players for a lot of money to be immediately injured has been going on long before Carlie and Steichen.
Getting rid of AR is paramount to moving forward, his drafting was Jim and Chris’ failure after being seduced with size and speed.
And for Joe B, it’s the hope and anticipation of loyal fans that keep supporting the team, and unfortunately in this city we have many ‘fair weather’ fans that want instant gratification, which never happens with any team, in any city.
It’s obvious where the holes in the D and O are, and hopefully Shane, Chris, and Carlie will address those issues to strengthen the current team that has the talent to proceed.
It’s one thing to support the team. It’s another to think that the Manning/Polian era is the standard for how the franchise operates, as opposed to the one exception in a long period of Irsay mediocrity. I think some number of the folks who didn’t start following the Colts until Manning came around … are learning the hard way what the franchise is really like.
Unbelievable. I wish I could perform like Ballard and still keep my job. The Richardson fiasco alone should be reason enough to move on.
They drafted a green quarterback who they had to know was going to take a long, supervised maturation process. They instead threw him out on the field immediately and wondered why he wasn’t a savvy veteran.
Dumbest thing the franchise has done since they traded to draft Jeff George and traded away their best offensive lineman and best wide receiver to get him. Hard to be an effective QB when you’re running for your life and have no one to throw to …