For as long as I can remember, I have been a guy who liked to call BS on cowardly management, corrupt policies, and bad mojo. Until today. Arrogance needed to be exposed as an unholy violation against humanity, or at least I used to think so. Dishonesty? It needs to be decried as the most repellent trait […]
NFL coaches being forced to wear masks on the sidelines during games is absurd, but they do it because it is expensive not to. A week after five NFL coaches were dinged to the tune of $100K apiece and their teams clipped for a quarter-mil each for mask violations, it seems the league bought compliance […]
Uh-oh. We know all the banal little sayings about the NFL. “Any given Sunday,” “It’s only one game,” and “It’s not how you start but how you finish that counts,” are repeated over and over throughout the season. Of course, they are as accurate as they are trite, especially after a game like the Colts 27-20 […]
With a Monday Night Football win tonight at New Orleans, the Indianapolis Colts will put themselves in a position where they could still wriggle their way into the playoffs. This has been a disappointing season for the Colts because of their 5-2 start. Given the remaining schedule after week seven, it seemed very likely they […]
There is something admirable about a guy with a tough poker hand throwing all his chips into the middle of the table. Bad golfers who press bets over and over earn our esteem if not our money. The short squatty guy hitting on the leggy model deserves credit for taking a shot. I felt like I […]
Adam Vinatieri was the best in NFL history to kick a football through uprights, but he isn’t that today. As with all athletes, skills erode and the ability to compete at the highest level wanes. That Vinatieri is still as good as he is at almost 47 years of age is remarkable, but that doesn’t […]
The Colts won the turnover battle, Marlon Mack ran for a career high 174 yards, and Jacoby Brissett threw two TD passes and no picks. But they lost to the Chargers 30-24 in overtime anyway. There are reasons – three big ones – why the Colts didn’t win their season opener this afternoon.. Adam Vinatieri missed two […]
Colts GM Chris Ballard and coach Frank Reich are running the Colts as a meritocracy. You excel, you earn. That’s the way the NFL works. If Player B outplays Player A, Player B gets snaps and Player A sits. Ballard has shown a proclivity toward drafting very talented and driven players who push veterans, and […]
The Colts front office and coaching staff are boring. Fans should love it. Sure, it would be more fun to write and talk about a team in total disarray with a rampaging buffoon clumsily running the show. Arguing with people bad at running sports franchises is fun for the media. This is not that. General […]
Down four points on the Eagles 46 with five seconds left, Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich sent back-up quarterback Jacoby Brissett into the game to throw a Hail Mary. He did it because Brissett has a stronger arm than Andrew Luck. It’s that simple. Hail Marys are best delivered to the back of the […]
