Locked On Colts - Daily Podcast On The Indianapolis Colts - Indianapolis Colts' Jonathan Taylor Officially Requests a Trade

Episode Date: July 30, 2023

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Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor has officially requested a trade. What the heck? What the heck is going on? We're going to dive into it today on Locked On Colts. Let's get to it. You are Locked On Colts. Your daily Indianapolis Colts podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Your team the day.

This is certainly your last listen of the day at this point. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. This is certainly your last listen of the day at this point. This is your daily podcast covering your Indianapolis Colts, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. I am Zach Hicks, your film guy over at horseshoehull.com. And joining me today is Jake Arthur, our boots on the ground over at horseshoehull.com and millions of other people running around behind him. He is actually boots on the ground at this moment there at Colts facility. I'm sure he's getting done a very, very long day of covering training camp. And then obviously the big news that we had to change our entire show to talk about today, which is Colts running back Jonathan Taylor has officially put in the trade

requests. Now to kind of put some context, Justina Anderson and Stephen Holder both reported that the trade request actually came a couple days ago when uh jonathan taylor was talking with chris ballard it didn't just happen immediately after jim ursae's comments to the media so i'm not saying jim ursae is not fault is like faultless here or anything like that like certainly there is parts of this where we have to look at jim ursae but the trade request didn't happen like right after, like it seems in the media or on social media today. It happened a couple of days ago. We're just hearing about it now. Ian Rapoport is the one who broke the news. And yeah, Jake, I'm assuming it's going crazy over there

with all the Jonathan Taylor trade stuff that just dropped, right? Yeah. It kind of rearranged everybody's plans a little bit. I thought I was coming back to the media room to write about practice, but nope, not at all. But yeah, no, everyone's just kind of, and sorry for the noise, everybody. Everyone's just kind of scrambling around right now. This was a weird day anyways, because you know, Jim Irsay, we knew he was going to speak to us tonight, but we saw early in practice, Jonathan Taylor board his, his bus out here so right away you're like you know are they trying to clear the air what are they doing and uh no it's just been a kind of a wild afternoon and evening of speculation and it i i don't this almost it doesn't feel like closure to the situation yet because like there's so many steps to come from here but like all of the speculative parts of it now seem resolved like we know a lot more about what's

going on now yeah the only thing we really don't know is what the contract demands are from Jonathan Taylor's side now we can assume that he's wanting more than what the franchise tag would be and that he's going to want maybe close to Christian McCaffrey type numbers. But we just can't really talk with any certainty on that. All we can really talk about is what's been said on social media between the agent and Jim Irsay, obviously, what's been said by the Colts coaches and obviously by Chris Ballard to the media and all the news that just dropped today, which is the formal request request of a trade. Yeah, it's just crazy because we've done so many shows on this this week, you know, so many

just this week on Jonathan Taylor. And it feels like it's it's dumb to kind of rehash all this. But like, it is really insane how it got this like, again, just to us how it got this bad. So quick, you know, like, as far as we it got this bad so quick you know like as far as we knew for the last couple months like there were conversations about this but it wasn't that awful behind the scenes from everything we knew now I'm sure stuff will be coming out here in the next couple days that'll say like oh yeah this has been building for months and building for months but you know for for Colts fans or even for us who are just you know covering the team and watching it all play out like it feels like it's been like one whole week of just tumbling downhill between both sides to where now we're at this point where it feels like it could be irreparable

like we don't know if he's ever going to play again for the Colts and and that's something if you told me that last week I'd be like okay come on you're going you're being a little dramatic but it really does feel like right now like all bets are off, right? He could be playing for the Colts at a low thing and just be pissed off all year. He could be playing for another team, or he could just not play at all this whole season if he sits out. It is absolutely crazy that it got this bad this quick with Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, and I mean, there's easily a level of frustration for him that I understand with the Colts having not offered him anything yet. You know, hearing Jim Irsay speak today,

it's just not something that's even like, the subject hasn't even like been broached on their side, which seems crazy because, you know, resigning guys before their contract is up with one year left like that is something they've done you know they've they've re-signed grover stewart during the season braden smith was a summer one shaquille leonard was a training camp one so there's precedent for this so like i understand the value of running backs but why is the guy who just led the league in russian two years ago and someone who you would hope would usher in a new era with this quarterback and help him out a little bit?

Why is it like pulling teeth to like even go to the table that I don't get? Again, I've said this a million times this week. Like, I just feel like no one is handling this ideally. And I don't really get it. And it has led to a really rapid decline, it seems like. Yeah, especially again, just in the public, it's led to a pretty big decline. Again, we don't know if behind the scenes, it's been something that's been building for a while. But as far as we can tell, it's just been a mess. And I had a question that was posed to me on

Twitter. And I would find it here if you put it in the chat, but I just don't. You guys are leaving a million chats here, so it's hard to really find anything if you did leave it. But I did have a question posed to me, which I was definitely thinking of when I heard the trade request. It's like when you have this young team, you know, you have a young coach, young quarterback coming in, and you're trying to, you know, for the first time since the the Andrew Luck retirement the Colts are trying to slowly build up this roster they're trying to actually restart and kind of rebuild around their new young quarterback and their new young coach like at at some point this just becomes a distraction that's not worth it you know so we'll talk about in our next segment here about what kind of trade offers they could get, or if it even makes sense for the Colts to trade him. But like at some point just having that presence,

like him moping around and having the constant media barrage of, Oh yeah, is he playing? Is he playing? Is he like all this kind of stuff? Like at some point it becomes a hindrance to your young team of what you're trying to do. Like, it's not like the Colts are when now, like we need to win a Superbowl next year or it's a bus. They are building for the future they're more concerned about 2024 2025 2026 with this young core and this young quarterback and young coach that they have so at some point like the distraction just becomes not worth it and do you just kind of cave and give him up for something less than what

he's worth just to move on from this distraction and kind of put everything around Anthony Richardson and Shane Steichen. You know what I mean, Jake? You understand what I'm talking about there? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, at this point, I don't want to say anything's too far gone, but, like, why hold on to this anymore? Like, it seems like a pretty hard line has been drawn in the sand. So, I mean, you obviously want to get value for him.

Like, for example, giving up Stephon Gilmore for him like get for example giving up stefan gilmore for like a fifth round comp pick seemed a little cheap you don't want anything like that like you would hope you'd get a day two pick or a couple for someone like taylor but who knows if that kind of opportunity will materialize right right and again we're going to talk about it in segment two when it comes to if the Colts are able to find a trade partner but even if they play hardball here and Taylor also plays hardball where it's like okay I'm not playing until I get a new contract I'll sit on all year and all that again just what does that do for your young team like if he's already not

going to be here next year like what's the point in having him like just taking up, it's like being the distraction. It's like, you know, when I'm trying to think of a good example for it, it's kind of like having the Chad Kelly on the team in the preseason a couple of years ago when he was getting all the media hype. No,

I don't really have a great example for it here with the Colts, but it's just like having that kind of distraction when it's like, we're trying to build around Anthony Richardson. It's all about Richardson. It's all about having that kind of distraction when it's like, we're trying to build around Anthony Richardson. It's all about Richardson. It's all about Steichen right now. And if Taylor's already probably not going to be back next year because of this destroyed relationship, like even if you're just getting like day three picks back or something,

like it might just be smart just to move on and, and kind of usher in the running back committee alongside Anthony Richardson. I just, again, I'm just kind of flabbergasted that it's kind of gotten to this point so quick. I never, like if gun to my head before the season, if you told me any player was going to hold out and have this whole media circus around it, I never would have thought Jonathan Taylor. Like I might've even guessed Grover Stewart before Jonathan Taylor, like that's how much

I would not have expected Stewart before Jonathan Taylor. That's how much I would not have expected this from Jonathan Taylor. So it's just, I'm truly shocked that it's gotten as bad as it has. Yeah, it's all very uncharacteristic. And like you said, just rewind a couple of weeks ago and who knows? I don't know. It seems like the agent probably has a great deal of influence over all of this as well. Because again, it's just like a shocking heel turn almost for Taylor. I mean, I understand why he wants what he wants. I understand both sides. It's just super unfortunate that this is how it has had to go.

Yeah, yeah. Now coming up, guys, we're going to talk about the actual trade request itself. And if there's actually going to be a team that will pony up and do what it takes to acquire Jonathan Taylor. But first this show is sponsored by our friends over at eBay motors. Our partners at eBay motors have teamed up with locked on fancy football hosts, Vinnie Iyer to bring you some of the best fantasy picks each and every week all season long,

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Eligible items only and exclusions apply. And every day, we're going to be covering Colts Training Camp live every day after practice. That's what this show was supposed to be. It was supposed to be a live show talking about the Colts training camp practice that just concluded. Obviously, it all changed, but every day, as you know us, we're going to be live on YouTube talking Colts training camp after every single practice. All right, Jake, so getting into the trade request itself, it's a terrible market to be requesting a trade right now for Jonathan Taylor because we just saw Saquon Barkley threaten to hold out and threaten not to play. And no team came in and offered the grandfather deal for him or the godfather deal for him.

I don't know where grandfather deal came from, but the godfather deal. We didn't see anybody offer for Josh Jacobs, who is still holding out from the Raiders. Nobody was even willing to part with the day three pick for Dalvin Cook, who is still currently a free agent. Is there a market for Jonathan Taylor knowing that you have to give up like a day to pick plus some change, and then you have to pay him all this money that nobody else is paying running backs right now? Yeah, sorry. There's just an enormous amount of noise over here but no it's it is a weird market right now there's only a couple teams that are really even being mentioned in the trade market you know you've got the dolphins of course you know this agent of his has liked every tweet

of people saying trade him to the dolphins um the jets, but it looks like cook could land there. People are going to say the bills, but the bills don't really invest in the running back position like that. I don't know. It's, it's a tough one. And if, you know, if Ursa says he's not going to trade him, then maybe he's just going to have to, you know, sit and hang tight all year. And I don't, I don't know that that's, I don't know how the money goes for that if someone refuses to play, but yeah,

I would imagine the trade or the market will be a lot more robust next year. But at the end of the day, he's a really good player and is a difference maker on offense. So, I mean, there's trades and stuff all the time in the NFL where a team pops up where it doesn't make any sense. So something could happen with a team that we're not considering at all because they've already got someone or again, it just doesn't make sense. But he's the type of player that another team is going to take a risk for, I would think. Yeah, I just I truly do not see there being

any trade offer. Like I just don't see it ever happening. And Jim Irsay commented, which is a great poll, whoever threw that in the comments there, that Jim Irsay was sending a text to, I think, Albert Breer, which you could have grabbed Albert Breer right next to you there, Jake. You should have. Come on, man. I know.

If he wasn't filming something, I was literally going to grab him and be like, hey, what's the market look like for him? But he's a busy guy. Right. But if Jim Irsay is saying that they're not going to trade him, it makes sense because you're not going to get an offer that's worth trading him at all like it's almost more beneficial just as just to call his bluff and say like do you plan on sitting out like you know like do you plan on and I and I hate this because like I'm such a pro players guy and I want

players to get their money and I'm not trying to speak any bit ill here on Jonathan Taylor. I understand why it's a frustrating situation and everything that's going on, but like, there's just nothing that the Colts can like, the Colts kind of have to call the bluff. You know, you have to say like, look,

unless someone comes in and offers us a first, which absolutely not. There's nobody doing that in this market for running backs right now. Like it's better just to say, Hey, like we're not trading you. So your options are either sit out. And then once we clear you,

you have to play or you get fine, pretty much all the money that you were going to make this year. And then it starts digging into some of your money that you've already made. Or you play out this season, however pissed off you are and hit the market next year and go get what you're worth, whether it's with us or somebody else. Like it's, it's a sucky situation for both sides like you don't want players to play for

your team if they're disgruntled and upset but like there's just no incentive for the Colts to move him unless you get this big offer that you're not gonna get so I I just don't like like if I had if I were a betting man if I were a betting man and had to put money on which team Jonathan Taylor plays for next year, almost all my money would go on the Colts because it's either the Colts or nobody. Nobody's going to come in and offer the deal, offer a trade for him. It's just not how the NFL is going right now. Unless you're Christian McCaffreyrey who is also a wide receiver who only got a third and a bunch of chains like it's not like he got this big a big trade offer

for him like the Colts are not going to be able to trade Jonathan Taylor like a lot of this request here is just posturing for the media and just showing his displeasure in another way uh there I just I really cannot see him being traded whatsoever, unless some team just wants to go back to 1920s football and goes crazy with an offer for him. That would be my guess too. Like I don't, I'm sure there's an enormous amount of fines that happens with just sitting

out, you know, being healthy enough to be there, but sitting out. But I, I think what's best for everybody involved is literally for him to come back, play, try hard and, you know, play hard and have another big season and parlay that into a multi-year deal.

Is he going to get four years, 60 million from someone? Maybe not, but it's probably going to be a two or three year deal, but he's going to get out of Indy if he wants. someone, maybe not, but it's probably going to be a two or three year deal. But he's going to get out of Indy if he wants. And, you know, he's going to get, you know, more than one year on his deal and not a franchise tag if that's what he wants. But yeah, I think that is probably the most likely scenario is him just having to suck it up and play here or sit out and face whatever money that's going to cost him. Yeah. Again, it sucks to say that. I hate saying that for players, like just suck it up and play and stuff like that. Because again, we've been very pro pay Jonathan Taylor. Like we have been

very much on pay Jonathan Taylor train on this podcast throughout most of this off season. But again, when it comes down to what's happening right now with the craziness between what the owner's saying, what the agent's saying, what Jonathan Taylor moping around, again, on the sideline and stuff, it's just like, at some point, something's got to break here. And I just don't know how this is going to turn out. All I really can say is I just don't know how this, I don't know how this is going to turn out. All I really can say is I just don't see a trade happening whatsoever. Like again, unless it gets to the point where he's saying like, I will not play for you guys whatsoever.

I will take all the fines and the culture. Okay. We'll just, let's just go get something for him. I guess like outside of that, like Jonathan Taylor is going to be a cult this year. Like, and even again,

even if he's disgruntled all year, the only way he can earn back his earning potential is by having a big season this year. Like if he's going to be on the coast, regardless, the only way he can get that contract that he wants is by actually playing, you know, like he can't, you can't sit out the whole year and then expect to make top of the market in a trade or whatever it is. So, yeah, I don't know how this is going to end here. I don't really know how it's going to get rectified at all, but I just don't see him playing for another team this season. Maybe next year, maybe the year after that, but I don't know. It's just a crazy situation.

It's crazy to talk about man yeah because i mean it's we're also at the point in the off season where a team would have needed to already plan and allocate those funds to make this move anyways yeah so this is all just really on too short a notice for it to actually happen um and again yeah taylor himself is not in the best position to command just any team to come get him either. Because the last we saw him, he was on IR. He only played, you know, half the season and it didn't go well. Like, do I have faith that he would rebound and have a big season?

I do. But that's just not what the league has seen from him most recently. And it's at a position that is not being given the love financially. So he's just in a really no-win situation here, if that's his stance. Yeah. Again, I don't really know how much more I can say about this, but I'm still shocked about how it's all played out. It's absolutely crazy, but what can you do at

this point? But coming up guys, we're actually going to talk a little bit about training camp. So if all of you guys are here to talk about Jonathan Taylor, you can continue that conversation in the comments. You guys are having a lot of fun in the comment section, but we actually are going to pick Jake's brain here on training camp and see, you know, if we can get some positive things out of this day after this crazy trade quest. All right, Jake. So sidelining all of this conversation about Jonathan Taylor, which it's funny. I actually had someone yesterday. It was like, what off-field drama are you talking about with your show opener? I was like, no, I was saying Anthony Richardson having a good practice was distracting us from the Jonathan Taylor saga.

And I really wish we could have done that today as well. Talk just Anthony Richardson and not Jonathan Taylor. But Jake, how did our savior of our franchise look in practice today? Yeah, so it was actually the day where he threw the ball the most he has thrown to this point. Yeah, let's see. He was 9 of 15. So not so bad in 11 on 11s. One, one thing like all young quarterbacks have an issue with, it seems like is getting the ball out in a timely manner and he's getting that going. You watch him in the RPO game and you know, he's, he's faking hands off handoffs and he's flicking it out really quickly

so that's really good to see it looks like he's getting more command of what he's supposed to be doing you know doing the right things within Shane Steichen's system so that's good to see he did have a couple of would-be big gains today that were drops I think it was Vincent Smith his guy that he's connected with all offseason. They had a bomb that would have been about maybe 40 yards down the left side that Smith just dropped. So there would have been a couple more decent plays from Richardson today if it would have been completed. But he looked pretty good overall. He's making decent progress. He only had one session with the first-team offense.

The other three sessions of 11-on-11s went to Minshew. So that was kind of a weird ratio, how it's gone recently. So we'll see on Monday if Richardson gets the three versus the one or how they'll divvy up those reps. But, no, I mean, he's still coming along make a nice progress i felt he ran a little more today uh that was kind of good to see because he just seeing a guy that big be able to stop and start and shimmy through the line is just unnatural to see yeah but he he does it so hey if if taylor's not going be around, then I think we have another guy that's pretty huge

that can run the ball 20 times a game. You're talking Zach Moss, baby. That's all we're talking right now, Zach Moss. We're going to start getting Zach Moss T-shirts and Evan Hull T-shirts to everybody. You got Mossed. Right, right. Before we switch over to some running backs,

because obviously, again, we want to keep this running back conversation going. how did Gardner Minshew look out there and and kind of one theory I want to float to you is you know Gardner Minshew is kind of a veteran he's a guy who's been with Shane Steichen for years do you think part of giving him all these first team reps or a lot of these first team reps is just to have a guy who's a little more accurate a little more comfortable like to get reps with these receivers so they get you know like when you have a guy who's a little more accurate, a little more comfortable to get reps with these receivers. So they get, you know, like when you have a rookie quarterback, a lot of it is him just trying to learn on the fly

and trying to figure out what he's doing and stuff like that. When you have a guy like Gardner Minshew, like everything's a little bit smoother. So your offense can move a little smoother. Like, do you think he's getting a lot of those reps to kind of keep the offense running smooth just for these other players besides Anthony Richardson for now? That does make a lot of sense. Cause I mean, yes,

you're trying to get your quarterback ready, but you do have a whole other roster of players to get ready as well. So that, that does make sense. And you do want to see for even, even for Anthony's benefit, you want to see the other guy who has been in the system for a couple of years. This is how it's supposed to go right here. But as far as performance goes, I thought Minshew was pretty good today. He likes to take some shots downfield. Him and I think

Rashad Perriman had one today that went well. A lot of involvement from the tight ends from both quarterbacks today. Ogletree, Woods, Mo'Ally Cox, Kylan Granson, they were all pretty heavily involved in the passing game today. So that's kind of another sign of things to come. You know, you've talked a lot about Shane Steichen's offense being very tight and heavy. And yeah, don't worry about the sideline noise. But no, this was a good day to see what Shane Steichen's offense might look a little bit like. Yep. And then one more thing I wanted to ask about the offense is all the running backs. You know,

obviously we talked Jonathan Taylor this whole episode and we don't know if he's actually going to play this year. So how have, you know, Zach Boss, Evan Hull, Jake Funk, Dion Jackson, and Xavier Scott, my boy, Xavier Scott, how have these guys been looking so far in camp? Yeah, so yesterday's practice was like the big one for the running backs. It was pretty good. Now, today was just kind of ho-hum. You didn't get a lot of would-be deep gains, but it was all right. You know, these guys are pretty good at catching the ball. Just, you know, it was an okay day by the running backs.

Nothing spectacular, but. Pretty good. Xavier Scott, I will say, I actually talked to him after practice. It does look like he's going to be a running back moving forward. I know there was questions there about moving from receiver to running back. Running back is probably where he's going to stay. He said he's really comfortable there. You know, that's a place he can maximize his abilities.

Kind of a Swiss Army knife type of player. So that was cool. For all of you guys just tuning in about the slamming door, Jake is actually at the facility right now. So that's why the door is slamming and people are running around by him. Like people are going home and Jake is sitting in a dark corner of the place right there. I'm outside.

Right. Oh, okay. Outside sitting by a dark corner. So he's doing, but switching over to defense. Cause again, we couldn't devote a whole show here to practice, unfortunately.

So don't worry guys next time. Next week, we might actually come back to this conversation from Saturday and go a little bit more into this practice that Jake actually watched today. But one more thing I wanted to ask you is about the defense here, Jake. I saw a couple corners making some plays yet again, which obviously that is the biggest storyline on the Colts defense right now. How do some of these corners look? And I know Darius Rush was also out today, right? Yes. Rush came up because he was in yesterday, so his injury was undisclosed.

We didn't really get a chance to ask about that. So it was Daryl Baker Jr. again and Dallas Flowers on the outside. So Jalen Jones, the rookie, he had a nice pass breakup at one point. He was running downfield and let's see. Yeah, it's somewhere here in my notes, but no, Jones had a really nice play running downfield with, I think it was Vincent Smith again, or Brashad Perriman, someone who's got a lot of speed, but he was able to break that up. And it was a really confident play. Like you could tell, like he knew that he was just going to break it up the whole time. Kenny Moore for yet another day had a big play.

The ball got into Michael Pittman's grasp and, you know, Kenny just kind of flew in and wrestled it away. And yet another day, another big play. This guy really looks like he's having fun and cutting loose again. So that's good to see. Yeah, that's good. And you know what to kind of bring this whole conversation back together is you know with Jonathan Taylor being a little little bum little uh displeased on the sideline you know we saw that last year in Kenny Moore in some practices and stuff and he just all the energy

that we saw from Kenny Moore was just not there last year and it was a really rough season for him but now you know after some time and even without getting a new contract Kenny Moore is looking like Kenny Moore again so let's not close the door completely on Jonathan Taylor being back and turning it around and getting back to Jonathan Taylor um things on the sidelines and stuff like that but uh it is good to see that Kenny Moore is you know out there looking like Kenny Moore again and one more player we have to check on before we close out just because I feel like we have to do a daily report on this guy, Shaquille Leonard, again, back out there looking like Shaquille Leonard again, or was it a little

bit limited? Yep. No, every day he's been out there with the ones running around, being involved, communicating with his teammates. It's, it's like he never left. Now, we're still waiting on a big play to come up. But, I mean, otherwise, he doesn't look like a liability out there. I mean, he looks like himself. But those big plays will come. We know they will. Yep. Yep.

That's good to see. That's good to see. Well, guys, I think that's pretty much all we have for tonight. We appreciate you joining us. I mean, over 200 of you guys joining us nearly at 10 o'clock here on the East Coast. So really awesome to see all the comments. joining us. I mean, over 200 of you guys joining us nearly at 10 o'clock here on the East Coast. So really awesome to see all the comments. I really wish we could have got to more of these comments and talk more training camp. But obviously, 30 minute show, we have to we have to kind of hone

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