Albert Breer: Trade For Sauce Gardner Shows Colts Are All-In On Daniel Jones | 11/5/25

What do you think what the Colts did speaking of big swings? So what’s interesting about the Colts is they they pushed the the their chips to the middle of the table on the core that they have now, right? So like they’re basically at the spot now. Their coach is in his third year, their GM’s in his sixth year. And so they’ve got this core of players that they really believe in, right? So the offensive line, it’s Nelson, it’s Smith, it’s Raymond, it’s Tyler Warren at receiver, it’s DS, it’s um it’s Pierce, it’s Pitman, obviously Jonathan Taylor. um at running back, veteran players like Buckner and uh and Franklin um in the front seven, you’ve got, you know, a really a really good young player in Leatu Latu at defensive end. Um so you’re really pushing your chips into the middle of the table on on those guys, but in particular, you’re pushing your ta chips the middle of the table on Daniel Jones. Like because to me, this takes away your opportunity to go and get a quarterback over the next few years, right? Because how you probably do that is you’d spend high draft picks either to to to take them in the draft or to trade for that quarterback. And without first round picks the next two years, it’s going to become much harder to acquire one, which tells you they’re all in on Daniel Jones. Puts pressure on them to sign Daniel Jones, but it tells you that they think Daniel Jones is more than just an answer for 2025. So that’s what’s so interesting about it to me. And I do like what it means for them in the here and the now, which is this is a position that they were really looking for help at over the last couple of weeks and probably the weakest spot on the roster in that Pittsburgh game the other day. A few weeks from now, it’s going to be the biggest strength, one of the biggest strengths in their roster with Sgard on one side and Chvarius Ward coming back from injury on the other side. Both those guys are versatile. they’ll be able to match against different receivers and they’ll be allow for Lou Inarumo to be more creative um with what he’s doing up front. So all the way around I love it for what it means for them for 2025. But it really does mean they’re in on this core and they’re in on Daniel Jones going forward beyond just this year. And it feels like if I’m the Colts, I’m building my team, reinforcing my team to beat the Chiefs. Just like it felt like the Ravens built their roster with Aussie Newsome to beat the Steelers and they figured if they’re beating the competition, their own division, they’re good enough to win a Super Bowl. Are the Colts built to beat the Chiefs right now? That’s the way it looks. Yeah. I mean, I I think if you’re going to have a chance against the Chiefs, we’ve seen it over the last five years. The way to beat the Chiefs is you have to disrupt their passing game and you have to hit Patrick Mahomes. And that’s like that’s the way it is with all great quarterbacks, right? Like the greatest of all time, Tom Brady. How would you beat the Patriots back over those 20 years, you would beat them by beating their offensive line and beating up Tom Brady? And so I think by going and getting Sauce Gardner again, getting Ward back from injury, you know, now you’ve got an opportunity to create chaos up front, right? And so they’re going to be able to do so much more with their with their defensive front. And you know, the hope is then that that that allows you to get in Patrick Mahomes’s face, disrupt the timing of their offense, and maybe get them playing from behind a little bit more than they would like to. So, um, yeah, I can certainly see that, uh, Dan, if that’s your takeaway, where this would be very, you know, very chief ccentric move by the Colts.

The MMQB senior NFL reporter Albert Breer joins the Dan Patrick Show and discusses the Indianapolis Colts trading 2 first round picks for cornerback Sauce Gardner

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