Quick Thoughts on the Giants
 

1- Fuck Chris Ballard

If Irsay runs it back with this crew he'll lose the fans. No one likes it but a total house cleaning is in order. Black Monday can't get her soon enough

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Hey ....... I gave you my blessing to fuck each and every player on the Colts' roster if they lost to the Giants today, but not necessarily to fuck Chris Ballard.

If you want to fuck Ballard too, that's on you.

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Steichen got worse this year.

I don't believe at this point he has the ability to establish/build a culture. He is not personable nor impressive in the way a guy like Dungy was. Pagano was personable, you knew the players liked him.

Steichen looks like an asshole and assholes are only okay when you're winning. I appreciate his sense of urgency after watching Reich's helpless facial expressions but I do not think it resonates with the players.

If Steichen isn't a schematic genius, which he does not appear to be, I'm not sure what the plan is here.

At times I've been an apologist for the defense this year. Games where turnovers put them in a bad spot, or failure to sustain drives on offense kept putting them back on the field until they were gassed.

But today, 45 points to that shit team, nah. That was just bad.

Steichen looks like a homeless guy you find on the street. No motivation and horrible "in game" decisions. With our newish QB playing a lot more this season we are finishing with a worse record. I'll give him (AR) one more year but he will have to show he can actually throw the ball. Flacco got 300+ yards today. It felt strange seeing all those passing yards like a real NFL team is supposed to get.
I would keep Gus Bradley until the plane lands in Indianapolis tonight, then can him. The Giants averaged 14 points a game until they found Bradley's defense.

1) don't want to see a guy like flacco on the roster for 3 years


2) everyone needs fired. coaches and front office. most of the players. there are a few players that can be kept but fuck most of them

3) JT is a great player but very stupid. he is a smart guy but a dumb football player. constantly does dumb shit.

4) Franklin should never put on the uniform again. I haven't disliked a player this much for a long time. you are a "savage" that lead the defense to have the most embarrassing game in years. fuck you. get off this team. dude will be out of the league in 2 years.

5) speed and blackmon need to go. taven Bryan needs to go. most everyone on the defense needs replaced

6) this team doesn't care. they play like they don't care. they podcast like they don't care. the locker room needs a complete overhaul. these captains are garbage. no way they earned that title.

7) I hate this team. the constant history making in the wrong way. making backups look like legends. happens every week. this team is embarrassing and they trot out there the next week and do the same shit. i fucking hate them. redo it all


8) blackmon was so fucking bad. how is he even playing at this point? how? someone please explain it to me because I don't fucking understand.

9) I like pierce. I don't really want to be a positive dude today but fuck that kid is one that gives effort every single play. that is your fucking captain.

10) can't just fire gus and roll. can't do it. can't scapegoat him. this is Ballards ingredients and Steichen cooking. these guys are a weekly embarrassment. it all has to go. all of it.

11) I hate this team. have to reiterate that. hate them. I want them to win but get satisfaction that the media talks about how terrible they are and embarrassing. they deserve it. fuck them. fuck Zaire "savage" Franklin.

12) absolutely have to have vets from teams like the chiefs, Ravens or niners come on board and not put up with the shit this team tries to pass off as leadership. create winning expectations

13) fuck this team

Couldn’t agree more… not to mention the in season suspension of your franchise QB for actions that you clearly knew were going on and then you decided to run his nose in it.

This team needs someone to come in and demand respect and hold guys accountable.. Mr. Never call a timeout, constantly spitting on the sidelines, tries to get cute way too much, tries to get guys TDs like it’s little league instead of feeding your best players.

It’s time for him to go

I want to see the locker room footage after this game. what does that look like? probably a bunch of laughter and nonsense. probably 7 guys in that room are pissed. the rest are already booking trips. fuck this team.

What a complete microcosm of the season.

Dropped passes: ✅

Special teams blunders: ✅

JT mental miscues: ✅

Poor tackling: ✅

No QB pressure: ✅

No forced turnovers: ✅

Poor pass coverage: ✅

Steichen chasing points: ✅

Gimmick plays going embarrassingly bad: ✅

Stupid Flacco int's: ✅

Dumb play calls: ✅

AD Mitchell short arming another pass: ✅

Feel free to add on. There is nothing to look forward to, unless you like the smell of a smoldering dumpster fire!

pretty much nailed it

Get rid of him, and every other coach, along with Ballard and Richardson, the Colt's 6'5' 260lb QB who would miss a game if he had a paper cut !!!!

Yep I’m tired of making excuses for that guy too, can’t rely on him.

He can’t pass accurately and gets hurt when he runs. It’s year 2 the age excuse has run it’s course

Irsay, Ballard and Steichen need to face the media, as if it's congressional investigation.

How the fuck is it acceptable to put that garbage on the field?

All excellent takes, I know it won't happen but I would love to see them bring up Bean for this last game, we know what we have with Sam, no point, Flacco had a good game to go out on....let the kid have a shot!

100% agree. At least he will play like his hair is on fire.

We will most likely go with AR again next week, and in the announcement of such, Steichen will alert us that it gives us our best chance to make the playoffs. That's where we are right now...

With tears of pride welling in his eyes and lips trembling with emotion Steichen will announce that he will be resting Sam Ehlinger next week to keep him healthy for the playoffs. Richardson, Flacco, and AD Mitchell will rotate snaps to earn the right to be Ehlinger's backup. He'll close by pumping his fist and yelling "first round bye baby!"

You might as well put 20 more checkboxes on this one.

The tackling from an NFL team today was about as horrible as it gets. Shockingly terrible.

Our tackling was reminiscent of the shooting abilities of Storm troopers. It really was that bad.

This team has a culture problem. As in, they have none. They have a bunch of guys worrying about their next contract or not getting hurt and very few worried about winning the game they’re playing at the moment.

They have no leaders at all. If they had one true leader, they wouldn’t have tried to coast to a win today.

I’m not sure I blame Steichen as much as I blame Ballard. Ballard is obsessed with building a team full of the best athletes at the expense of guys who can actually play, or guys with character.

There are no Gary Bracketts or Mike Adams or Cory Reddings on this roster.

And that is 100 percent on Ballard.

Hell, even Ryan Grigson knew that you need some character. You can’t just sign 52 of the best athletes you can find and expect them to be a team. You’ve got to have some leaders. Some guys who will put it on the line.

I’m so freaking done with this bunch. I will not be watching next week. Cause you know what’s going to happen. They’ll play decently well and act like everything else all roses going into next year.

Fuck that. Fuck every single one of these assholes.

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The Colts have culture ...... that culture is being a perennially middling team, just good enough to keep the fans hoping for a low-seed playoff berth until late in the season, and just bad enough to not be a bona-fide contender that is capable of making a deep playoff run.

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The Colts have wallowed in mediocrity since the moment Andrew Luck up and quit in August of 2019. That is the singular event that started all of this. The team should have been blown up, and total rebuild started, way back then. It wasn't, and here we are. It HAS to be blown up and rebuilt now. If it isn't, don't expect anything to improve. Things will probably get worse. Flame away.

Not to nitpick, but they actually had one decent season after Luck quit. They went 11-5 in 2020 with an ancient Philip Rivers, the one guy they’ve had in recent years who had any balls at all.

Rivers was washed up by then, but he gave everything he had. He was the antithesis of the pussies we have now.

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I completely agree with this first sentence, with the lone exception being the 2020 season in which Philip Rivers (along with an outstanding offensive line) led the team to an 11-6 record in the regular season, and then took Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills right down to the wire on their homefield in New York State in the playoffs ...... YDFL Commish recently pointed out that we had bona-fide leadership when Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, and Philip Rivers played here, and not in all of the other years (2011, 2017 through 2019, and 2021 through 2024.)

Matt Ryan may have been able to do what Rivers did in 2022, but the offensive line was the complete antithesis of the 2020 offensive line (they were great in 2020, and absolutely horrible in 2022) ...... if Philip Rivers had had Matt Ryan's offensive line "blocking" for him, he would not have survived half the season, let alone led the team to 11 wins and a playoff berth.

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McAfee not holding anything back. Irsay better be paying attention


https://x.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1873533490005672017

I mean, he’s not wrong about the team. And as hard as it is to admit, maybe he’s not wrong about Richardson.

The infamous tap out and then the equally infamous “explanation” for it. Stepping out of bounds 2 yards short of a first down. The whispers about the work ethic and being late for meetings.

Maybe we should just totally clean house. Get rid of everyone. Resign Flacco and draft a guy.

There is no maybe. Total house cleaning is in order.

The issue isn’t AR, the issue is a locker room culture where that stuff wouldn’t be immediately corrected. Young players struggle with learning expectations all the time, but they should have leaders in the locker room that model professionalism for them and hold players accountable. The best teams have leadership and vision from top to bottom - GM, coaches, vet players. The Colts have none. They have none because of Ballard’s team building philosophy. I will point out again Ballard downplaying vets because he expect his coaches to set the culture. It was one of the first things that turned me off about him. That and his gifting of positions to young players and his plan to slow roll team building with Luck on the roster. Those three things told me he was going to be a shit GM. And he’s proven to be exactly that. He’s built a roster full of decent players who lack leadership and accountability. He’s failed AR way more than AR has failed the team. Those things from AR are a symptom of Ballard’s leadership.

Total house cleaning in the offices. The roster needs some cancers cut out but not a complete turnover. They need a GM that comes in a says we are winning this coming year and then acts like it. They need a coach that holds players accountable. And they need to overpay a few vets from winning teams to help set the right culture in the locker room. You aren’t going to build a winning culture by repeating Ballard’s 8 year plan or “next year”. There is enough talent on the roster to be a playoff team next year with a culture overhaul and some added vet talent.

That's a lot of words when you can just say that Ballard is an incompetent dipshit & a fraud.

Totally agree. The removal of that fucking arrogant scumbag would IMMEDIATELY improve this team. The dude is a con man, a fraud, and complete and total blow hard with nothing behind it but fucking unwarranted hubris. IMO, he is perhaps the worst GM in all of sports. I cannot wait to see the headline announcing he has been removed from the building.

This is the critical part of your statement. The current players do not know what it takes to win and will never know, until leaders come in who will raise the standard. The bar is so low right now, that I could jump over it.

Replace the entire defensive staff, because not a single position group on that side of the ball is performing.

I pray it happens but I’m not convinced it will. I’m afraid he will convince Irsay he just needs one more year for it all to finally come together. Seems crazy to think but then I see he still has supporters on here willing to do just that.

Ballard is a snake oil salesman for sure.

I do wonder if something is up with the team and AR. Steichen just saying he is sore and not letting him speak to the media just doesn't sit well with me. something seems off here. and its the colts, so there probably is something dumb going on.


will be very telling if AR is out again next week

Thought the same thing. No sign of injury at all to end the Denver game, then all the sudden he isn't practicing, they are "optimistic" but then he is OUT.

At some point the levee's gonna break if all this smoke has fire behind it no matter how hard they try to keep it under wraps. McAfee's comments absolutely allude to it.

Something is definitely up, Steichen has done AR no favors. AR has regressed and Steichens play calling and mishandling of a young project QB has been a disaster. Not to mention blasting him in the media. Basically calling him a pussy saying he’s out for the game with back soreness.

he ran a lot against the Titans. backs are weird and it could pop up at anytime during the week. but everything around the situation just seems off.

could be nothing but I just assume with this team, something dumb is happening

But again what’s that say about the leader of your team sitting out with “back spasms” yet Pittmans gutting it out every week with back problems