If you ask Vegas, the Colts aren\u2019t likely to snap their playoff drought, which the franchise hasn\u2019t made the playoffs since the COVID year of 2020, when longtime veteran gunslinger Philip Rivers was behind center for his lone season in Indianapolis (and really was the last consistently good starting quarterback for the Horseshoe).<\/p>\n
The Colts have the 10th worst playoffs odds this year among all NFL teams. Even the Jacksonville Jaguars (-210), who finished last year at 4-13, are projected to have more wins this upcoming season and be the superior team in the AFC South.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to argue this one when the Colts recently named veteran Daniel Jones as their starting quarterback, and without an injury to their actual projected starter\u2014as Jones is it, after besting 3rd-year pro Anthony Richardson this offseason.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 likely won out because of his command of the offense and better off-the-field study habits, rather than his actual production on the field, when Richardson arguably at least slightly outperformed him throughout training camp and preseason. He\u2019ll have to be much better than he was at the end of his tenure in New York, and maybe with Colts head coach Shane Steichen and a stronger supporting cast, he can rediscover himself a bit out there.<\/p>\n
If there\u2019s reason for optimism, it\u2019s that the Colts defense with a revamped secondary under new defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo could be much improved this year. However, if you\u2019re more glass half empty, the Colts still have a major question mark at starting quarterback and lack elite players at the league\u2019s premium positions.<\/p>\n
Time will tell whether Vegas got this one right! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ask Vegas, the Colts aren\u2019t likely to snap their playoff drought, which the franchise hasn\u2019t made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,5384,2381,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-310127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapolis-colts-odds","13":"tag-indianapoliscolts","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115075751948028910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}