The Colts Just Got Embarrassed 42-7, Shane Steichen Should Have Been Fired Weeks Ago, and Carlie Irsay-Gordon Is Standing Right There Taking Notes While They Waste Jonathan Taylor

The Indianapolis Colts walked into Jacksonville and got demolished 42-7. Not a close game that got away. Not a competitive division loss. A 35-point beatdown that dropped them to 2-6, featured a pick-six, multiple big plays the other way, and an offense that looked completely broken until the fourth quarter when the game was already over. Daniel Jones went 19 of 28 for 144 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. Anthony Richardson got mop-up duty. The Jaguars ran it, threw it, and returned it for scores while the Colts managed one late touchdown. This is not a team fighting through adversity. This is a team that has been bad for a long time and just got exposed again.

Shane Steichen should have been fired weeks ago. The GM who hired him is already gone after the team started 2-4. The Colts have not made the playoffs since 2020. They closed last season on a seven-game skid and have now lost four straight this year. Steichen is still the head coach, still calling the shots on an offense that ranks near the bottom of the league in points and just got shut out for most of a game against a division rival. The excuses ran out when Chris Ballard was shown the door. Keeping the coach while you trade captains and float the idea of selling your best player is not a plan. It is prolonging the same results. He should be fired tomorrow morning.

Carlie Irsay-Gordon is not some distant owner watching from a suite. She is on the sideline every week with a headset and a notepad, listening to the play calls, writing things down, and asking questions. She has been open about wanting to understand the operation, and the cameras catch her doing exactly that. After her father passed and she became principal owner, that visibility increased. She fired the GM midseason. She has been clear that this was a make-or-break year. Standing on the sideline taking notes while your team gets destroyed 42-7 is not passive ownership. If she is heavily involved enough to be down there charting and questioning, then she has already seen enough to move on from the coach who has not delivered. The idea that she “doesn’t play that shit” fits what she has shown: she is present, she is taking it in, and the results keep getting worse.

The real crime is what they are doing with Jonathan Taylor. He entered the week with over 600 rushing yards and eight touchdowns, still one of the best pure runners in the league. Against the Jaguars he got eight carries for 23 yards in a game that was out of hand early. The offense cannot stay on the field, the quarterback play is inconsistent at best and turnover-prone at worst, and the coaching staff has not built a consistent plan around the one player who can actually move the chains and score. Reports already have the Colts open to trading him. When you have a back who produces at that level and you cannot get him the ball in volume in a meaningful game, you are wasting the talent. Trading away Quenton Nelson and DeForest Buckner while Taylor gets limited touches in a 42-7 loss is the franchise signaling it is done competing and ready to start over. Taylor is the one asset that still has real value. Squandering him under this staff is malpractice.

The bottom line is clear. The Colts are 2-6 after a 42-7 embarrassment. Shane Steichen has had more than enough time and has not produced a contender. Carlie Irsay-Gordon is on the sideline with the headset and the notes; she does not need another week of film to see the same problems. Jonathan Taylor is still producing when he gets the ball, and the team is already talking about moving him. Fire the coach tomorrow morning, stop wasting the best player on the roster, and stop pretending this version of the Colts is anything other than a rebuild that should have started earlier.