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Originally Posted by Kray007
Most owners would, indeed, have fired Chris Ballard somewhere along the way. The thing is, though, Jim Irsay wasn’t a typical owner. His 13 years serving as GM instilled in him an understanding of the importance of having a premium Quarterback and the difficulty in finding one.
He wasn’t going to blame Chris Ballard for shuffling through Matt Ryan and Carson Wentz because he had shuffled through Jack Trudeau and Chris Chandler. A man who swung and whiffed on Jeff George wasn’t going to fire a GM for striking out on Anthony Richardson.
If Jim had lived and the Daniel Jones experiment had failed, a parting of the ways might have happened. There’s no way to know.
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Carson Wentz was not as awful as many Colts fans remember him to be.
Wentz' raw stats were 27 TD's, 7 INT's, and a 62.4% Pass Completion rate.
The team had a record of 9-6 for their first 15 games before shitting the bed in the final 2 games of the season against the Raiders and the Jaguars ...... yes, Wentz himself shit the bed in those last 2 games, but so did the entire the Colts team ...... they got annihilated on both sides of the ball in a 26-11 loss to an awful Jaguars team.
Believe it or not, even
l Chopped Wood l was singing the praises of Carson Wentz and the trade in which he was acquired in after the Colts beat the Arizona Cardinals on their homefield in a nationally televised game to improve the team's record to 9-6, which put them in prime position to win the division with 2 games left to play.
The disastrous 2022 season when the Colts went 4-12-1 was much more the fault of the atrocious offensive line than it was Matt Ryan's ...... it's a minor miracle that Ryan somehow managed to guide the team to a 4-5-1 record before they completely collapsed and lost their last 7 games ...... if Philip Rivers had had that offensive line "blocking" for him when he led the Colts to an 11-5 record in 2020, not only would the team's record been about 5-11 or 4-12, but Rivers would not have survived more than 5 or 6 games before they would have had to carry him off of the field on a stretcher.
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