Ballard and Steichen are coming back
 

Colts just released a PR on it.


Hey Jim, better dial up the Covid folks and ask them for all the extra cardboard bodies from the Covid events.

FU!

Dear Colts Fans:

As we close out this season, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am that we failed to win the AFC South and earn a playoff appearance.

There’s a high standard in this city for our team and anyone who steps on the field wearing the Horseshoe. The expectation is to win our division and compete for championships. Just being on the doorstep of the playoffs is not the standard I expect, nor what you deserve. We understand that and always accept the challenge.

Believe me, I know you share my impatience and frustration. I know you invest your time, energy, and money into the Colts every year. More than anything, we want to reward you with division titles and playoff runs, and we’ve fallen short in the most painful ways possible.

But things evolve quickly in the NFL from week to week and season to season, so I will never stop being optimistic that this team can take the next step!

I’ve been evaluating our entire operation, and I believe in Chris Ballard and Shane Steichen and our collective ability to make the improvements needed to take us to the next level in 2025.

I know fans who want an immediate change in leadership will be disappointed. That means we all have a lot to prove, so we’ll get back to work and keep doing what we can to earn your support and make you proud to be a Colts fan.

Sincerely,

Jim Irsay

Screw you Jim.

We’re fucked for the foreseeable future

Doing the same thing over and over again….expecting a different result. Insane.

I hate that I can’t bring myself to follow another team.

No qb
A head coach that's in way over his head
A shit for brains GM.

Next season is going to suck & when they get off to yet another slow start Lucas Oil will be empty.

I printed this and attached a note to it Letting Jimmy know he can use it next year at the end of the season again.

But please for the love of God don't retain Gus, that would just guarantee another fucked up season just like this one. Can't stand his cowardly way of running a defense.

Jim needs to get it through his thick skull, you can't keep doing the same old same old and expect a different result. Just plain ass insanity!

8 years of perpetual mediocrity. Why not roll it back again. I mean, what can go wrong?

Dear Colts Leaders:

As we reflect on this terribly shitty season, we can’t tell you how disappointed we are that we not only failed to win the AFC South and earn a playoff appearance, but just flat out sucked and were a dysfunctional shit show that is mocked by the entire NFL community.

There’s a high standard in this city for your team and anyone who steps on the field wearing the Horseshoe to actually fucking care and to compete. The expectation is to win our division and to win championships, not just to have a flat bill fucko talk bullshit about those things of which he knows nothing about. Just being a disgrace of an organization, one where seemingly each week the rest of the NFL is making fun of us, is awful to be part of. Not even really being close to being a playoff caliber team is not the standard we expect, nor what we deserve. We fully understand from your shitty letter supporting an incompetent arrogant GM with no accomplishments to his name that when you say you really care, you don't and are comfortable with mediocrity and that money is all you really give a fuck about.

Believe us, we know you don't give a shit about our desire to root for a team that is worth a fuck and you don't give two shits about our frustration. We invest our time, energy, and money into the Colts every year, and all you do is stuff soiled undies in our mouths and tell us to swallow the shit. More than anything, we want to say FUCK YOU with empty seats and outrageous protests, and to display our disgust in as many painful ways to this administration as possible.

Things evolve quickly in the NFL from week to week and season to season, so we will never stop being furious that this team, namely you, don't even seem to give a fuck anymore!

We’ve been evaluating your entire operation, and we believe Chris Ballard and Shane Steichen are mostly terrible at their jobs and have no business leading grown men who know that when something smells like shit, it is because it is shit. Our collective ability to make the decisions needed to demonstrate to you that we will reject this bullshit will take the brown grocery bags of old, to the next level in 2025. We just aren't going to fucking pay money to attend this sack of shit.

You know fans who want an immediate change in leadership and aren't just disappointed, they are furious. That means we all have to prove to you that your thoughts that you can just fuck us and there will be no repercussions, are fucking wrong, we are going to trash your revenue stream. So we’ll get to work on organizing no shows, ticket sales to opposing fan bases, and keep doing what we can to prove to you that we are sick of this shit to make you aware it is an embarrassment to be a Colts fan these days.

Sincerely,

Colts Fans

This is the reason season ticket renewals start before the season ends. I wouldn’t have renewed mine. Fuck Chris Ballard and his shitty ass “next year” team.

I can’t wait to hear again how “he gets it”, “it’s all on” him, and how he “needs to do some things differently”.

He wasn’t going to fire them. I keep trying to tell people. They are under contract for awhile. They had to lure Steichen here, he’s not going to fire him after the second year. Steichen needs to go back to RPO some, that long ball offense is just low efficiency and I’m not sure it protects him more.

But Irsay likes Ballard and the people he listens to and respect like Ballard notably Bill Polian who speaks highly of him on his show all the time. Notice Pat didn’t mention Ballard but did a lot of players. I don’t think he has forever, but I do think he will be able to see the AR experiment through. I also think Dodds might take over more responsibilities but we will see.

Chris Ballard is the longest tenured non-multi role General Manager (i.e. not an owner, CEO, principal etc) since 1988 to have a losing record and not have multiple playoff wins or a conference championship appearance.

If he finishes out this year without a playoff win, ( he did) he will beat out Ladd Herzeg of the Houston Oilers as the longest tenured GM of any team in NFL history to fit that same criteria.

Disgusting!

What a shameful mark on the team.

I’m not surprised. It’s stupid competitivly. It makes me wish I hadn’t renewed my season tickets. But I’m not at all surprised. Ballard is a con man and Jim likes stability more than anything. Hey one of these days Ballard’s supporters are going to have to be right and the team will squeak in to the playoffs and they’ll all get to say “see we told you Chris was a genius”. My money is on year 10.

Don't act surprised. Disappointed sure. But we've all watched this same scene over and over again. The script hasn't changed, why should the outcome?

The happiest team and fans right now are in Houston! We just handed them the division for the next 5 years!

I wonder if Carlie wrote this and signed Jim's name to it?

Yeah, as soon as I heard Mike Chappell say it, I knew they were coming back. Chappell is right the vast majority of the time.

They can’t also bring Gus back, right? Right?

Because I feel like this team might have been successful in spite of everything had they just had an AVERAGE defense. Instead they had one of the worst in the entire league and led the league in missed tackles.

I’m not happy that Ballard is coming back but I will be LIVID if they try to bring Gus back. Hell, rehire Eberflus.

When answering a stranger's question about who I root for, I hate the sympathetic look I get when I answer "The Colts"

On another note, when your team fails to make the playoffs, you're allowed to choose another team to root for, for the rest of the season. I want to see the Lions vs. Chiefs. The Lions because the fans deserve it and the Chiefs because Mahomes is just plain fun.

I am now a Buffalo Bills fan !!! I hope it snows like hell up there for their first playoff game !!

I think at this stage in Jim's life he cares more about buying guitars, pianos, and singing in his band than he does the Colts !!! We as Colt fans are the suckers because we continue to care.

At this point I fully expect Bradley to be back

You probably wouldn't feel that way if your primo seat for the game was covered in 3 feet of snow and you had to stand the whole game.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?v...E94DB2C85B22C6

I’d hate to see the look on that persons face when someone says, browns, jets, titans, jags, bears, raiders, cardinals.

But since the Colts are out I’ll be rooting for Washington got a couple local guys on each side of the ball playing big roles on that team

Thanks for the images, I lived in Buffalo in '68, I vividly remember shoveling snow!!

Zack Pauley
@CoachPauley300
This is the type of loser shit Pat McAfee was talking about. “Captain” of the Colts going over to McAfees suite to pretend to shake their hands. None of the McAfee group was there. Guess this is the type of culture we as Colts fans just have to put up with now. Pathetic #Colts

https://x.com/CoachPauley300/status/1876086885371797623

Saw that a bit earlier. Big Z doing his thing!

FUCK THIS TEAM!

It makes some sense, it’s just not want fans want. But fans are fickle and develop a mob mentality online. Plus a lot of them are stupid and think things get automatically better with a reset like it’s a video game.

If they brought a new GM in that GM would want to bring in his own people and coaches/players. This is a bad draft to try that in. A bad QB draft and they don’t have a high pick. There is no good replacement for AR in this draft. The best bet is to continue to develop AR and hope he gets better. That is the only thing that will fix this. They could add a few players, maybe make the playoffs, but it’s the same result until they get a good QB. Develop AR and things will get better, should be the highest priority for these guys.a new GM will not fix the qB situation.

Yeah that shit needs to stop. I know Zaire likes to talk smack. But no one wins here.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-hji-Sa...LlywrLEArvKX2P

If they can't get rid of the FO they gotta dump this jackass.

Shiiiiiit, Ballard probably met him in the tunnel and tongue kissed his ass for that. That's Ballard people right there if there was ever an example of it.

What's the least thing you miss about Buffalo?

That’s just it - Ballard is and has been the worst thing for AR. They’ve mismanaged the whole fucking thing. Especially the roster construction. And this isn’t hindsight, I was saying this shit before the season. It should have been an all in season in support of AR. The team should have a D and run game it could lean on, veteran leadership to help set a winning culture, and an offensive scheme / plan from the onset that built ARs confidence and abilities. And we’ve seen none of those. That is a reflection of Ballard and his philosophy. That has been proven over time, it’s not a one off thing. All of those have been issues throughout Ballard’s tenure. You guys keep saying it as if AR is failing Ballard, but it’s the other way around- Ballard is failing AR. They best chance AR has is with a GM that will fix the culture and put a complete, supportive team and plan around him. That is not Ballard.

Yep. IMO Jim Irsay's letter yesterday could have been much more succinct.

"Colts fans, next year is going to be just as bad, or worse than this year. Everything Chris Ballard touches turns brown and smells like shit- that will continue next year. So, at this time next year we will be without a GM, A HC, and a QB1. So for the next 12 months, just sort of shrug your shoulders, say it is what it is a lot, and look forward to drafting a QB at like 10 next year. Hopefully the new GM can figure out how to get some good play out of # 10 or so. Enjoy another lost year fuckers".

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Gus Bradley is still the Colts DC.

Colts---- YOU SUCK!

Maybe the Colts are hoping that the Jags will hire Bradley to be their next Head Coach. :D

With Baalke being retained, you would think that many of the better head coaching candidates will pass on that job.

And hey, a side benefit of hiring Gus...Trevor Lawrence would get to carve up his defense in practice day in and day out. It could be a real confidence builder for Lawrence.

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