In the latest edition of Albert Breer’s Monday Morning Quarterback, where he shares what he’s hearing around the NFL, Breer dropped a little nugget about the Indianapolis Colts and some potential changes coming this offseason.
According to Breer, there have been “at least murmurs” of front-office shuffling with the Colts.
Chris Ballard is in his eighth season has the general manager of the Colts, a tenure that has been filled with mediocrity at best.
Under Ballard, the Colts have made the playoffs just twice in those eight seasons and haven’t done so since 2020. The only playoff win that the Colts have had came in 2018 with Andrew Luck at quarterback.
In the AFC South, a division that has been wide open pretty much every year, the Colts haven’t won a title with Ballard at the helm. Jacksonville has won the division twice, as has Tennessee, and Houston has now won it three times.
The latest disappointing performance for the Colts came this past Sunday. Needing a win against the then two-win Giants to keep their playoff hopes alive, Indianapolis surrendered 38 points to an offense that had been averaging 14 points per game.
This, unfortunately, isn’t uncharted territory either. It is now the third time in four seasons that the Colts have lost a late season game to either keep their playoff hopes alive or to clinch a playoff spot and was reminiscent of their 2021 collapse, when they lost to two-win Jaguars in the final week of the season.
As Pat McAfee said in a recent social media post, the issues that this Colts team is facing goes well beyond the performance on the field. And while Ballard has continually said that he likes his guys, the results tell us that the roster isn’t good enough.
At some point, the Colts have to stop doing to same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
