Same old ...

 ... aaaand you know the rest. Begins with "same", ends with "old."

Same old, same old.

Also "What th-?!". Because that fits, too.

Not even a handful of hours, see, after the Indianapolis Colts wheezed past the cruddy Jacksonville Jaguars in overtime to end their crash site of a season, owner Jim Irsay announced they were going to stay the crash site-y course. Head coach Shane Steichen, who lost his locker room when he benched Anthony Richardson, then restored him to QB1, will remain the head coach. And as for general manager Chris Ballard ...

Well. He's stickin' around, too.

No, I don't know why. Maybe he has naked pictures of Irsay doing heinous naked things. Maybe he stole a guitar from Irsay's frankly awesome collection of musical artifacts and is holding ol' Les Paul hostage.

Nothing else makes sense about keeping Ballard in particular, who built this glaringly flawed mess of a team and looks increasingly like the guy who blew the crucial franchise quarterback pick in 2023.

The Blob will reserve judgment on that one for now, because Anthony Richardson is still only 22 and still has played quarterback for only a handful of those years. He's a kid who was in high school just four years ago. You can tell that by the way he hasn't figured out how to lead a professional football team, on account of him asking out of a game with his team in the red zone and, according to others in the locker room, not putting in the proper off-the-field work.

"Then why did the Colts draft him when he was still just 20 years old and then anoint him the starter right out of the gate?" you're asking now.

Beats me. Go ask Chris Ballard -- and maybe Shane Steichen, too.

Who does not seem to know what to do with the poor kid, even as he somehow wrung eight wins out of this dog's breakfast. For that he can thank the AFC South, which was even more tumbledown than usual because the Jags were woeful and the Tennessee Titans virtually inert this season.

Of course, the Colts still managed to lose to the Jaguars in Jacksonville, where they haven't won since the conquistadors ran the place. They also lost to the worst team in the NFL, the New York Giants, when a "W" would have kept them in the playoff hunt.

On the other hand ... every other loss was to a team that made the playoffs: The Packers, the Vikings, the Bills, the Texans, the Broncos, the Lions. So there's that, I guess.

As to everything else, who knows? Irsay retaining the same brain trust that's so badly mishandled its prize quarterback pick, and which thought they got a steal back in April when they landed edge rusher Laiatu Latu with the 15th pick, suggests only more chaos to come. 

Latu wound up being mostly invisible this season.  And by season's end, Steichen's locker room was full of grumbling veterans who openly questioned the Colts leadership and lack of vision. 

Yeah, boy. Sounds exactly like a course you want to stay. Kinda like the Titanic's, you know?

Of course, Irsay being Irsay, the course might not stay stayed. It's possible the backlash from his announcement yesterday will be so fierce (and the cancellation of season tickets so voluminous) he might just throw up his hands and say. "Just kidding! OK, everybody out."  You never know with him.

All we know for now is this: That iceberg's gettin' closer by the minute.