Jim Irsay and The Colts Are Completely Botching The Jonathan Taylor Situation By Placing Him On The PUP List
I was hoping I would never have to blog this. Especially now. I don't want to be blogging at all right now. I'm currently balls deep in colonoscopy preparation. That means I'm living on the toilet for the next 12 hours. I need to clean out my colon. You're welcome for the visual. But I have to do it. God damn it Jim Irsay.
Every bone in my brain wants to believe that Jim Irsay knows exactly what he's doing, and that his decades of heavy alcohol and drug abuse hasn't affected his decision making to the point where he's a complete fucking moron. But what the in the tits are we doing here?
I feel like I have to be missing something, because this situation seems so fucking easy to me. You have a star running back heading into the last year of his contract. He unequivocally does not want to play for you ever again. He hates his teammates. He hates the city of Indianapolis. If you look up the definition of 'disgruntled' in a Merriam-Webster dictionary you'll find a picture of Jonathan Taylor. He's the least gruntled athlete in the NFL. Under no circumstances will Jonathan Taylor EVER play football for the Colts again.
SO WHY AREN'T YOU FUCKING TRADING HIM?!?
It really really really is not that hard. Here's the thing about trying to trade a player on the last year of his contract. His value is shit. His value is ESPECIALLY shit when the entire league knows that he has no interest in playing for your team. Every day you don't trade him, his value decreases. Every single day. And I'm not saying anything groundbreaking here. This is common knowledge.
The Colts had a trade offer from the Miami Dolphins. The offer was never officially made public, so I might be wrong about this, but based on all the rumors swirling around the offer, it included a 2nd round pick + either another player or late round draft pick
From the very beginning of this Jonathan Taylor saga, I've said that they need to just get a 2nd round pick out of him. I know that seems shitty for one of the best skill position players in the league, but you have to look at the facts. The running back market is awful. Nobody cares about running backs. And the Colts have ZERO leverage. They truly could not have less. We've seen this play out a million times in sports leagues across the country. A team has a player who wants out on the last year of his contract. The team thinks he's worth more than what they're being offered. So they refuse to trade (out of what I can only assume is pride) and end up getting NOTHING out of him at the end of the season.
So is this a pride thing for Irsay? Does he feel so slighted by the fact that Jonathan Taylor doesn't want to play for his Indianapolis Colts that he'd rather fuck over his career, the Colts fans, and all the Colts players all at once? He'd rather do that than get any sort of value out of him? Because that's what it seems like.
But here we are. Now the Colts have placed Jonathan Taylor is on the PUP list, and he can't play for 4 weeks. Not too great for his trade value, Jim. Maybe I'm completely wrong about this, but I really can't imagine a world where Jonathan Taylor ever plays football for the Colts again. Even if they somehow get some games out of him this year, he's not coming back next season. The only hope is that Anthony Richardson balls his ass off and impresses Jonathan Taylor to the point that he thinks the Colts give him the best chance to win out of any team. I'm not even sure that would be enough. But as of now, the Colts are one of the favorites to finish with the worst record in the NFL
I know the Colts probably want more out of him than a 2nd round pick, but let's be realistic. The Colts have no leverage. The Colts are rebuilding right now. If they went into the 2024 draft with a first round pick + 2 second rounders, that would be pretty god damn good. A second round pick has huge value in the league for a rebuilding team. So just get something out of him man.
But I'm starting to think the Colts will nothing.
Jonathan Taylor is done as a Colt. That's the way I see it. I hope that I'm wrong and end up looking real stupid for this, but I highly doubt it.
NEIGH