One can only hope the Colts will have an addendum to their media schedule at some point this week featuring another press conference by owner Jim Irsay. One can only assume that Irsay will continue to let the people who work for him clean up this mess.
As predicted, the Colts failed to find a trade partner for Jonathan Taylor by their self-imposed Tuesday deadline, and he has reverted to the physically unable to perform list. While this was the anticipated outcome, it highlights the absolute ridiculous series of events that have brought us here, and the unnecessary burden the Colts have placed on a new staff.
Irsay committed one unforced error after another, displaying a wanton disregard for the mood of a locker room that first-year, first-time head coach Shane Steichen is trying to break in. This is a critical culture-setting period in which everything a staff does is eyed by the skeptical players who have already been through a pinball machine of absurdity. At least this coach, they’ll tell themselves, was not hired in the middle of the season off some television show.
