to the athletic and I apologize to control room for jumping all
around. I know we have a very carefully
scripted rundown of the topics we're going to hit. And I'm,
I'm jumping ahead. A ya, because spot. But but, but
Chris, yeah.
This was something that our say, said
about the, Matt Ryan situation. Yeah, I know
that tells me,
one of two things, right?
And I mean this, with all due respect, Respect and deference.
He's either really stupid or he thinks we're really stupid.
There is no in-between
because there's been pushed back about the idea to Matt
Ryan is benched for the rest of the year. That's how it was
presented to us just two weeks ago. He's
the starter no more
for the Indianapolis Colts
and irsay said to the athletic. I don't know how people report
these things falsely. There's no playing time thing. For Matt
Ryan. His 17 million dollar bonus in the offseason. There's
no such thing.
They're all available to help us win. Bottom line, there's no
bonus. Mat plays, a certain amount of time. It's
ridiculous. No Jim. You're ridiculous, my friend, the 17
million is, right. He's got the right number. There is no
playing time incentive. There's nothing tied to the amount of
snaps that Matt Ryan takes this year, that would trigger 17
million next year,
the 17 million. And again, he knows the number. He knows
the number.
The 17 million is the Jury guarantee. Yeah, right. It
becomes fully guaranteed
if Matt Ryan with something ever. So simple as a hangnail,
that prevents him from passing, a physical,
the middle of March of twenty twenty three which is just
about five months away. If he can't pass a physical,
the injury guarantee
becomes a full guarantee because he can't be cut while
he's unable to pass a physical. So the decision was made two
weeks ago.
Business decision by someone in that organization.
Maybe not Jim irsay. Maybe they maybe they didn't explain it to
the owner very well, why they did this? But somebody who
works for the Colts made the business decision
that we are putting Matt Ryan
in bubble, wrap for the rest of the year.
There's no way we're going to take the chance that you're
going to fail to pass that physical. And we're going to
show the guys 17 million. We're done with him. He's out, we
don't want to back next year. We already showing Millions
full guaranteed next year. Anyway, we're not going to make
it worse by risking on him another 17. That's the
truth, folks. Yeah. So
Jim irsay is either deliberately lying to you,
or he doesn't know
how things work in the football team. He owns Which reinforces
the point I made yesterday, Chris, despite all the past
successes, he's not fit to own an NFL team. Well, it is
a little odd that it is. And, you know, again,
I think we both think, you know, Chris Ballard's running
the day-to-day things there, either way. But the way, Things
have Shake Tatar shook out here the last, you know, few days,
you know, I don't know, you know, again, errors or say it
from that comment there. Sounds like he wasn't really a part of
that decision. You're right because
that's just this ridiculous, we took fright, but what did, what
did Frank Reich say? Yeah, he mentioned our say, like five
times when he was explaining it became clear. This was a nurse
a decision. Well, it was a nurse a decision
that's where I was just going to get to this thing and
especially like, was a crazy as this week is Earth, say maybe
He's as crazy as just going. I don't want Matt Ryan start
anymore starts at mallinger. I mean, it could be that. It
seems like we're flying by the seat of our pants here. So I,
you know, again, I don't know,
maybe Chris Ballard through that option out there to him.
At some point was like, Hey, you know, he gets hurt and are
all line it stinks. I mean, we saw that again this week,
I'm Sam millinger, got killed this last weekend and it was
a nine sacks few other hits on the ground. You know, taking
shots from everybody in that game.
So that's a real thing. But I mean this makes me question
everything. Thing. Yeah, with Frank Reich from those comments
from two weeks ago.
I don't know. I don't know what the logic was behind that.
I know Ballard's. Logical and understands all these things
and I get that. But yeah. Obviously irsay is not
understanding the details there from that comment. We saw
yesterday.
Yeah, it really is stunning to me. And again, he either is
woefully misinformed about the team that he owns and operates,
which makes him unfit to own and operate the team or he is
Flat out lying
to all of us which I don't know that it makes him unfit
to own or operate. The team, some would say it makes him
just part of the club.
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