Last year means jack squat in the NFL

For half of what either of those guys salary, I would be Irsays lackey. I would happily hold his beer while I watched the the circus

Sure, so would I, but I don’t have the options those guys do. Plus, they want to advance in their profession. Both of them are pretty highly regarded around the league.

Why wouldn’t they want to leave and go somewhere where they’re actually running things instead of an old hippy owner?

So if Crappybeerguy starts one more game after Sunday, we get a 3rd rounder because Wentz will no longer be able to reach 70 percent of the snaps.

We have to hope Crappybeerguy plays like shit and/or gets hurt.

(To clarify, I’m not hoping he gets hurt. Just saying it would be beneficial to the Colts.)

Because Irsay has a history of being hands off. He let Polian run the shop until it failed. Post Polian, he pulled the trigger on that one a little late, using hindsight.

Ballard has a good record finding talent. The Online was considered one of the best until that group totally failed. The remaining linemen have played well below their past efforts. You cant blame Ballard for the player preformance. That is on the coaching staff.

Finding a Qb is on both Ballard and Irsay. They should have tanked the season when Luck was put on the IR, But they didnt. They traded for Brisset and went .500. Because they thought Luck still gave them 5-6 years of play.

Jim Irsay will not tank a season. He is not his father. Yeah, he is eccentric, but he knows people. Hiring Saturday as HC, he gets a smart guy who will let the asst coaches do their job, he is going to establish the ATTITUDE. Oh, putting Ryan back at Qb is Irsay not tanking. Saturday didnt come in to tank. He came in to put up a fight. They could have hired any one off the street to tank.

Yeah, Irsay may be half a bubble of plumb, he isnt a quitter, and the Colts arent tanking. Fuck that shit. Go down swinging. I can get behind that kind of crazy

No, they’re not tanking, but every major move made this season traces back to Jim. Benching Ryan, firing Brady, and then firing Reich. That’s all on Jim and all made against the wishes of his coaches.

He’s never before meddled like this and there’s no reason to believe he won’t continue to do so.

Besides, he’s already made it clear he doesn’t trust Ballards judgement because Ballard was against hiring Saturday.

I’m not saying I think Ballard ought to be fired, I just think it’s inevitable now that he’s either fired or he leaves on his own.

Have you ever seen a team unit completely fail as the offensive line? New territory, new response. The offense was offensive this year and that is players and coaches.

Partly, but the disasters of Pryor at LT and Pinter at RG is Ballard and his staff's fault. Although if Reich and/or Strausser supported those moves then they're partly to blame as well.

Also, if Nelson's struggles are due to lingering lower back problems or some other physical problem then signing him to such a huge contract could end up being a bad move as well.

Yes. I agree. I did not see many objecting to the extension when it happened. I was for it.

It's a long shot because Heinicke would need to be pulled for some reason... but yeah, it's probably two more games before it's official going by my gorilla math.

WAS is averaging about 70.3 snaps per game with Wentz and 70.5 snaps with Heinicke (pretty consistent). So WAS gets 70.4 snaps per game which would be about 1,197 snaps for the season, 838 would be 70%.

So Wentz would need another 416 snaps on top of the 422 he's already had. That's 59.4 snaps per game over the final 7 games... or 69.3 snaps per game over 6 games. Both are below WAS current average.