The Indianapolis Colts still cannot recover from the sudden retirement of Andrew Luck.
The Carson Wentz experiment failed after one season. The team traded him to Washington and then made a deal for Matt Ryan to replace him. The franchise had nothing nice to say about Wentz and glowing reviews for Ryan.
That experiment lasted seven games before they decided to bench him for the rest of the year. Since Luck stunned the world in 2019 and retired from the NFL at the age of 29, the Colts have attempted to fill his void with Jacoby Brissett, Philip Rivers, Carson Wentz and most recently, Matt Ryan.
NFL Network personality Rich Eisen recently welcomed Zak Keefer, Colts reporter for The Athletic, to his radio show and received some shocking information amid their revolving door of signal callers.
“Any reporting, any whiff, that the Colts have ever called Andrew Luck to just kick the tires and say, ‘you sure your done?’ Any time?” asked Eisen.
“Yeah, yeah they have,” Keefer said.
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“No, it’s not going to happen. He’s definitely moved on from football,” Keefer concluded. “The Colts have reached out. Absolutely they’ve called him. He lived in Indianapolis for the first three years after he retired! He was a mile from the Colts practice facility. And very much, the specter of Andrew Luck still hovers over this team.”
The Indianapolis Colts have the pieces in place to contend, but they cannot find the right QB.
Ryan, who has a 3-3-1 record, has completed 68.3 percent of his passing attempts but is averaging just 6.8 yards per throw. He also has nine touchdowns and a league-worst nine interceptions and has taken a concerning 24 sacks.
Things got off to a bad start this Sunday when they lost to the Washington Commanders. New quarterback Sam Ehlinger completed 17-of-23 passes for 201 yards and rushed six times for 15 yards in Sunday’s 17-16 loss to the Commanders.
The franchise might be faced with the tall task of going full tank mode and starting over from scratch.
