A lot of time and energy has been spent dissecting Colts quarterback Andrew Luck’s decision to retire from the NFL. Why did he pull the plug on a career 15 days before the beginning of the 2019 regular season? His team was seen as a Super Bowl contender before he pulled the plug. The Colts […]
First of all, if you are one of those lunatics who insist this decade will end with after 2020, please stop reading. I cannot help you, and your thoughts on correct decade definition are bonkers. The 20s start with 2020. Arguing that is the defiant act of an entrenched contrarian. Now that we’ve cleared out the kooks, let’s get […]
Is Jacoby Brissett the guy? That’s the first question that needs to be answered about the Indianapolis Colts as we head into an offseason that will be a few weeks longer than we anticipated before Andrew Luck retired. Brissett has been exactly as advertised. Last season, coach Frank Reich was asked about where Brissett would slot among […]
With two games remaining, the 2019 season is over for the Indianapolis Colts, so we turn our attention to 2020. There are many questions to be answered following the Colts collapse after starting the season 5-2 despite the retirement of Andrew Luck. As fun as it was to watch last year’s team rally from 1-5 to earn […]
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 […]
Improving a roster mismanaged by his predecessor has been relatively easy work for Indianapolis Colts GM Chris Ballard. Addition by subtraction makes heroes of a lot of managers – in sports and business. When Ballard took over from Ryan Grigson almost three years ago, there was a lot of productive subtracting to do. Now the work […]
Colts general manager Chris Ballard had a choice earlier this season – replace the best kicker in NFL history with someone off the street, or hope that Adam Vinatieri’s struggles straightened themselves out. Whether Vinatieri’s suddenly erratic field goal tries were caused by a bad left knee, laces out or some other odd confluence of […]
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 […]
Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri is the best in the history of the game, and his career is about to end. That’s the way it goes for everyone in professional sports – either you die a hero or live long enough to become a villain. Vinatieri spent a lot of years flirting with perfection as he enjoyed […]
