{"id":769072,"date":"2026-02-22T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/769072\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:22:24","slug":"can-the-colts-trust-daniel-jones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/769072\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Colts trust Daniel Jones?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Jones was given a golden opportunity to resurrect his career with the Indianapolis Colts.<\/a> After a failed stint with the New York Giants, of which Jones certainly doesn\u2019t carry all the blame, his career was in flux. Another first round quarterback found himself without a home. It was good to see what Jones had to offer in 2025, but then again, what really does he have to offer? Last season was a mixed bag that should leave the Colts wondering just how much they can trust Jones going forward.<\/p>\n

The hot start, followed by an extreme cooling off, made fans second guess if what they were seeing was actually fool\u2019s gold. Let\u2019s look beyond last year. As stated, the Giants organization bears the brunt of the failures for not putting a good team around him, but we can\u2019t ignore Jones\u2019 role in things. A .358 winning percentage over six years is quite abysmal. Every year, a great quarterback makes a bad team look good. How many times did we see that with Manning and Luck? Sure, Jones couldn\u2019t do it all alone, but a record that bad indicates he might not be able to carry a franchise when needed.<\/p>\n

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Jones played 16 games once in his career. The only other season in which it looked like he might be healthy enough to complete the season was 2024. Unfortunately, we didn\u2019t get to find out because he was benched and released after a 2-8 start and ended up in Minnesota as the backup. His career has been all over the place. One can hope he discovers the magic that Sam Darnold found, but even with all their similarities, they are still extremely different and no two situations are the same. Simply wishing and hoping he turns it around like Darnold doesn\u2019t seem to be a sign of solid judgment.<\/p>\n

The trust level in Daniel Jones should be low. What would a high level of trust be built on? The first ten or so weeks of 2025 can\u2019t erase what came before or after. It could be the start of something more, but it could also be a flash in the pan. Expectations were low last season, and Jones did come out of the gate performing well. This isn\u2019t to say he can\u2019t be the guy. This is simply saying, in your gut, do you really trust that he is the guy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Jones was given a golden opportunity to resurrect his career with the Indianapolis Colts. After a failed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,2772,7,932,2004,392,2381,125,233,56,6,1878,3081],"class_list":{"0":"post-769072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-daniel-jones","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-indiana","12":"tag-indianapolis","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts","14":"tag-indianapoliscolts","15":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","16":"tag-minnesota","17":"tag-new-york-giants","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-sam-darnold","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116114734801237495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769072","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=769072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}