The Colts’ season ended a year ago against the Jaguars. Publicly, the team took the brunt of criticism for Carson, who claimed to be a buyer of Wentz’s fleece. When another veteran rental entered the bunker to find his quarterback, they didn’t hesitate to perpetuate that story. On a personal note, head coach Frank Reich spent the team’s final day at the facility asking coaches and players what they could personally do to make sure something like this never happened again. .
If you consider a pivot to Matt Ryan a panacea, there are two games to the Rude Awakening in Indianapolis. There, the Colts were held back by the Jaguars in a game eclipsed by three Ryan interceptions, and for the second week in a row, the Colts team, commonly believed to be the worst playoff contender, finished 10th in the division. Underperforming against him one of the worst teams. The Colts had less than 150 total yards and only his six first downs as the fourth quarter began on Sunday. Three drive spans in the first quarter gave the Colts a 1-yard offense. In one of the few legitimate whiffs in the endzone, Ryan was slammed to the ground on third down and forced to wander out of his pocket on fourth down, following a hopelessly hit pass on the backline of the endzone. I lofted.
The Colts traded for Ryan to settle issues with Carson Wentz. However, Ryan threw three interceptions against the Jaguars.
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Jonathan Taylor, one of the best players in the league, touched the ball only 10 times and was perfectly fine. In a league where Justin Jefferson can get a consistent touch, having a playmaker with so little to do on Sunday is beyond the head. defenses were trampled by the remnants of Urban Meyer’s bonfires.
We’ve been riding waves with this Colts franchise since the Frank Reich and Chris Ballard regime began. We started by praising Reich for taking on a job abandoned by Josh McDaniels. We felt fine as people around the league praised the overall roster building approach that was supposed to keep the Colts relevant We shrugged and shook off all of the team’s struggles under the veteran quarterback’s cow call.
We were collectively encouraged by the move from Wentz to Ryan.
now? It may be time to wonder how close the Colts have actually come (or are they still going to) to what we finally believed they were. Certainly there are departments ripe to take. Indeed, there may have been a healthy process that led us to this unanswered expectation. What if they tied with the Texans the week before and bottomed out in the playoffs before that?
The Colts may be the perfect example of a team bolstered by good excuses. While some coaches don’t get the benefit of the doubt under similarly horrific circumstances largely due to the incompetence of their former shot-callers, we see the Colts after McDaniels, after Luck, after everything. They were a team that could understand their struggles.
However, it’s been four years since his fortune decided he was quitting the NFL.In the same time period we’ve seen full franchises start to revive with less raw materials. When Deaths (number. Four years is a lifetime in the NFL.
And while we’re not advocating any kind of regime change, it’s fair to call for a closer look at what’s going on with the Colts and whether they’re headed in the right direction Much like any franchise that missed a chance in the playoffs and started the season with two puzzling performances, it’s fair to call for their grace period to end in order to start criticizing the Colts. After several seasons without spawning another dynasty, it’s starting to criticize Bill Belichick and the Patriots.
Minus that grace period, the understanding that the Colts have been the right thing What are they, except for some great individual performances that have kept us from smelling them all along? We’re trying to find out.
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