Posted on 04/04/2019 7:19:51 AM PDT by jerod
No team in the Super Bowl era -- including the Bill Belichick-Tom Brady Patriots -- has ever won three straight championships, but that didn't stop Colts owner Jim Irsay from setting back-to-back-to-back championships as his team's goal moving forward.
At the NFL league meetings last week, Irsay couldn't help but give his team an incredibly ambitious goal that they will almost certainly fall well short of -- and that's not a criticism of the Colts, a very good football team with a bright future. It's the reality of football. Winning one Super Bowl is hard enough. Winning three in a row is close to impossible.
Here's what Irsay had to say, via the Indianapolis Star's Zak Keefer:
"I really feel like this is a young team that's ascending," he said at the league meetings last week.
A few minutes later, he took it further: "You guys know, I will unabashedly say, I'd like to win three in a row. How hard is it? I mean, it's hard as hell just to win one."
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Johnny Unitas is not in the draft.
“I mean, it’s hard as hell just to win one”
Sounds to me like he realizes how hard it is. He’s got the QB to do it though, and now they have a line to protect him.
The Colts will be a force this season I think. Besides, that division sucks.
He’s joining the Patriots?......................
Yep he’s had too much to drink . Nothing wrong with setting high goals, but, this one seems unrealistic.
Realistic goal would be to say you will make the playoffs each year, and then see how it goes. The playoffs are a crap shoot, but, you will have a shot at the big prize if you make the playoffs.
Meanwhile, the Lions owner set a goal of winning six games.
Like any good business man you always ask for way more than you actually want or expect. In reality he’d prolly be satified with a playoff win or two. lol
Or Bert Jones.
Kansas City Chiefs, with Mahomes, has a better chance of a three-peat.
Colts would need a lot of Luck.
Now that the league has taken out Robert Kraft, everyone is thinking big....
you will have a shot at the big prize if you make the playoffs.
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Especially if the refs had money on you.
I’m thinking he’s back on the pills.
Yeah, and I want a unicorn pony.
I’m not sure who would be more realistic. Meanwhile, I predict the Browns win their division this year!
I am huge Colts fan, but Irsay is a crackpot.
Its impossible to keep a winning team together for 3 seasons.
Prayers up for Matt Stafford’s wife.
"...he kept his head up when he tripped over the blocking sled"
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