Mitchell is an oxygen thief.
 

Give me a good reason to cut or keep this guy.

I know which way I’m leaning.

Cutting him sends a clear message that this bullshit won’t be tolerated. He hasn’t earned the right to make such egregious mistakes.

Fuck cutting him--- -STAB HIM!

Yeah, LITERALLY cut him. Lol.

I am probably in the minority here. The dude has potential, but messed up his big opportunity. I get the sentiment, but I remember a lot of dumb stuff i did at his age, but I was given grace to grow from it. I wish the same for AD.

I’d just knock his ass down two spots on the depth chart and give the other guys an opportunity.

Easily the most exceptional performance I’ve EVER seen from a colt.give the other guys a shot.

he is bad at his job.

he should be fired. fuck him. he can't play in this league

Constantly does dumbshit then goes into cry baby mode when shit doesn’t go his way. Doesn’t fit in this team he has no resilience

I've had time to calm down a bit and, in the spirit of fairness, I'd be willing to cut Xavier Howard, too. He was horrible, but not directly responsible for -14 points and a loss.

Get both of these clowns off my favorite football team.

Dulin can replace Shitchell. There's gotta be a free agent out there better than Howard. I mean, that's not hard to beat.

Extend Pierce in the off-season.

He may need cutting or he may not. He is incredibly young. Stupid, childish miental errors. This is most likely career defining for him, it will either propel him forward or break him. He is gonna be getting incredible shit from everywhere. Kinda depends on who he is as a person and id Colts can work with him.I am not holding my breath but lots of people wrote Cross off about a year ago.

Glad this happened in the fourth game against a non conference team

I can recall the same "cut him" mentality after JT did his 1/2 yard drop. Bottom line, shit like that can either make or break a man. He's got a lot of succeeding to do in order to make up for yesterday. I want to see him do that right here on my favorite team.

I gotta tell ya, that catch and run....up until he was 1 1/2 yards from the end zone, was pretty dang amazing. By far the best play of his NFL career thus far.

He has talent. That play would have been in every highlight reel for the week of top ten plays.

Now, however, it will still be in the highligh reel but not in a good way.

One player. 14 points off the board. Loss.

Anyone in the real world would be demoted, at minimum.

JT was at the time, and still is, one of the best players in the league at his position. Mitchell is a nobody.

I’d say that’s a pretty significant difference.

Give the kid a break.

Whether you're the best player in the league or a nobody, a bonehead play is a bonehead play. Both cost us a win, IMO. JT wanted nothing more after that play than to play his ass off and erase that memory. I'd like to see Mitchell do the same. And, I believe he will.

Whoever updated that banner is a villain.

That is hilarious though, admittedly.

I would love to see CIG demand that he get cut, I don't think it will happen though. During the game, I at least would have benched him.

He's a grown man acting like a child. He should sit down and think about what he would rather do: showboat in the end zone, or keep making the $1.8M a year his employer is paying him.

I’m as unhappy with the muffed touchdown as anyone, but Mitchell’s penalty probably doesn’t cost us a TD. I’ve looked at the replay half a dozen times, and it looks to me as though Williams, the Ram’s defender, had pretty much diagnosed the run and would have in a position to impact the play if Mitchell hadn’t taken him out.

In a perfect world, Mitchell would have simply blocked his man. Same result, no flag. But, blocking doesn’t seem to be Mitchell’s forte. Of course, I have a hard time singling out AD for lacking those skills. There didn’t seem to be a single receiver on the field who could block a grandmother in a walker. At least three screens got blown up because three guys couldn’t manage to block a single defender and the play got blown up before it ever picked up steam.

After a game like this, it might be natural to look for scapegoats, and I’ll admit that AD’s head would look pretty good served up on a platter. But, you don’t build good teams by firing guys who make mistakes. They did that with Isaiah Rogers, who might not have shut down Nacua, but would surely have brought more to the field than the Colts Cornerback whose name I shall not speak.

One huge, and I mean huge, difference in JTs fumble and Mitchells is the way the team reacted to them. After JT fumbled the team totally fell apart. After JTs fumble we were in a position to win up until the end. It feels like this is a different animal of a team than we have had before

The fumble ok I was actually willing to give him a pass but to follow it up by pouting and whining on the field away from the huddle and then get a stupid holding penalty at a key moment tells me he has no control. Once he crashes out mentally there’s nobody on the sidelines or on this planet that can talk the dude back to reality that’s the worst kind of player to have

Never want to see him again. Get out.

I just can't help but think...
3 times in the last year we've seen unforced goal-line drops. JT did it twice, though it didn't cost us last week as he just barely managed to get it across. And now AD.

Whose job is it on the coaching staff to get these guys to learn how to carry the rock?

I stick with my game thread comment: make every skill position player on offense run sprints from the 30 through the back of the end zone indefinitely and no ball should touch the ground for any reason during this.

Or make a new team policy - every touch down must involve running through the back of the end zone with the ball in hand and then giving it to a ref. No spikes, no celebration until after you've done that. Even if its a goal line dive and you're tackled just across the goal line, still make it required that you get up with the ball and walk it through the end zone. Fine anyone who doesn't follow this team rule.

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Actually, I said in last week's game thread when Jonathan Taylor nearly dropped the ball at the goal-line again against the Titans that spiking the ball would be a solution to the problem ...... I have NEVER seen a player spike the ball at the 1/2-yardline and get a TD overturned. In the dozens and dozens of times in which this gaffe has happened in both college and pro football over the last 30 years since the advent of instant-replay, it has ALWAYS been from a player dropping the ball at the 1/2-yardline ...... make it mandatory that all Colts players must spike the ball after a TD, because that would almost certainly eliminate the problem.

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Yeah, I feel the same way ...... in spite of yesterday's loss, this 2025 Colts team DOES NOT feel like the typical 2 steps forward/2 steps back team which they have been in every season between 2019 and 2024 with the exception of the solid 2020 Philip Rivers season ...... this is a team that nearly overcame a player astonishingly giving away 14 points. With only 3 minutes and change left to play in the 4th quarter, the Colts had possession of the ball in a tie game with a chance to win it if they could just get into FG-range ...... in that Broncos game last year, the team collectively played like a junior high school kid who was sitting in the principal's office waiting to be scolded and punished for some transgression after Jonathan Taylor's gaffe.

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AD Mitchell is not going anywhere, Colts still believe in him and from the comments I have read so do his teammates! I don't know how teams are allowed to fine players, I'm sure the union protects the players from fines they believe are unfair or excessive....but the Colts should have a team meeting and inform all the players that if you try to do something cute with the football before you cross the goal line and cost the team a touchdown you will be fined the maximum allowed by the league!

Holy fuck, I didn't notice it until you pointed it out.

This is top tier hilarity. Well done to whoever did it, it made today like 30% better.

As if we need to go undefeated. This team is still learning and it was non divisional foe. Get over it and move on. It was a beautiful game against a tough opponent. In the words of Frank Black, "I'm learning!!!"

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The shittiest thing about that play was right up until the brain fart it was an absolutely incredible catch and great athleticism and football acumen to make all the defenders miss and get there. You just have to finish.

At the end of the day I admit I’d love to see him succeed with the Colts. My only fear is that he takes snaps away from someone more deserving of the chance to showcase the fruit of their hard work and maturity. Whatever goes on behind those closed doors this week I hope it serves as something to improve the team moving forward.

24+ hours later: Cut. Him. Get rid of him before he does another stupid thing to lose a game. Before he does it. Because he will.

I told my wife that he went from a story he could brag about to his grandkids for decades to a play that his best friends will make fun of him about in just two seconds.

Ive heard and read that Mitchell is a hard worker. It is obvious to me that he has made a ton of progress this year in route running and no longer seems to have alligator arms. He is learning his craft and screwed up big time and cost us. Price you pay sometimes when you draft young and watch them grow. Sucks but I'm betting most will be singing a different tune by the end of the year.

Yep

I was there last year in houston and said out loud for Dulin 2 get big..I love him too
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What he's postin...nothing Dulin let's go 19!¡!!!