{"id":89130,"date":"2025-08-22T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89130\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:40:08","slug":"nfl-analyst-says-starting-daniel-jones-gives-the-colts-zero-upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89130\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL analyst says starting Daniel Jones gives the Colts \u2018zero upside\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL analyst says starting Daniel Jones gives the Colts \u2018zero upside\u2019<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Indianapolis Colts have settled on a starting quarterback for the 2025 season, opting in favor of free agent signing Daniel Jones over their former first-round pick Anthony Richardson Sr.<\/p>\n

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While there\u2019s been no shortage of criticism pointed towards the Colts brass for how badly they\u2019ve screwed up Richardson\u2019s development, CBS Sports\u2019 Jared Dubin<\/a> doesn\u2019t think that Jones moves the needle that much further.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve already seen the best and (mostly) worst of what he is as a quarterback. And the best is simply not very good,\u201d Dubin said. \u201cIn the season that got people most excited about Jones, the Giants succeeded by taking almost everything off his plate and asking him to do little else other than check the ball down and operate in the designed run game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones threw 15 touchdowns and five interceptions in that 2022 season with the Giants as they went 9-7-1 en route to a first-round playoff exit. Dubin makes a valid point\u2014 that\u2019s not all that impressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if Jones shockingly performs at that 2022 level rather than the one he has maintained for the other five years of his career, there’s no guarantee that the Colts actually make a playoff run in the AFC,\u201d Dubin wrote. \u201cAnd even if they do, they’ll just be in the same situation the Giants were in three years earlier, where they have to decide whether they want to bring Jones back or move on to another quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jones really doesn\u2019t give the Colts many answers in the long term. General manager Chris Ballard and head coach Shane Steichen frustratingly have the team going in circles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the best-case scenario for the Colts here?\u201d Dubin wrote. \u201cThat Jones replicates what he did in New York and they make a run at a wild card spot, then get blasted in the opening round of the playoffs? What does that accomplish for anyone? Does it even save Steichen’s and Chris Ballard’s jobs? It probably shouldn’t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL analyst says starting Daniel Jones gives the Colts \u2018zero upside\u2019 originally appeared on The Sporting News The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[15872,49,48,52685,1765,1732,52684,514,7338,82],"class_list":["post-89130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-anthony-richardson","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-ballard","tag-daniel-jones","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jared-dubin","tag-nfl","tag-quarterback","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}