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Originally Posted by Pez
I agree with you for the most part, I think Grigson is likely more to blame than Pagano.
First year 11-5 and playoff berth
Second year 11-5 and playoff win
Third year 11-5 and two playoff wins.
How does Irsay justify firing Pags or Grigson after year 3... Sure it was all spit shine and sealing wax, but we cant really have it both ways. We want an owner to hire good people and let them run the team.
If anyone was to see the forest through the trees that was three years of 11-5 and deeper playoff runs each year and know he has to fire his GM and Coach, Irsay is not that guy.
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The Broncos fired John Fox after that same third year (2014) after they had gone 12-4 and had made the Super Bowl last year. It took balls but they only went onto win the Super Bowl the very next year.
I like where the Colts are now, but I did wonder for quite a long time where the Colts could've been had they showed similar guts after it clearly wasn't working when they got throttled in the AFCCG yet again and had they hired the available Jim Harbaugh at the time.
Like I said, I think the Colts are in a good place now, but that was a serious mismanagement of a process that clearly wasn't working.