The Indianapolis Colts have just two games remaining in the regular season before the madness of the new league year arrives, and they are hoping to learn something before changes to the roster are made.
While they have certainly learned more about their team and the roster during the first 15 weeks of the regular season, head coach Frank Reich will be experimenting with some subtle changes to the offense now that the team has been eliminated from playoff contention.
“I mean I have one subtle thing in mind that I obviously don’t want to share for game-planning reasons but it would be a both/and Kevin (Bowen).” Reich told reporters. “It would be maybe something philosophically and it could be a couple subtleties of things off playbooks or maybe things that are in but we haven’t emphasized that maybe we need to emphasize a little bit more and see how we respond as an offense.”
The Colts offense saw major regression in 2019. Injuries decimated the wide receiver corps and Jacoby Brissett’s play under center didn’t push the needle to make the Colts a consistently productive offensive unit.
However, the games now mean nothing in terms of playoff implications. This gives Reich and offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni a chance to try some new installs into the offense that they may have thought were too risky while fighting for a playoff spot.
Even so, the Colts will be doing what they can to come out with a win in these final two games of the season.
“Like I said, we are really committed to winning these last two. We talked about that. We had a very spirited team-meeting this morning. We acknowledged that we had to reset our goals because our goal was to win our division, get in the playoffs and win a world championship,” Reich said. “That is not happening this year so you have got to be a man and face that. So now what are our goals? So we reset those goals and talked about what we are going to try to do the next two weeks.”
It will be interesting to see what the Colts change either from a schematic standpoint or a philosophical point, but some changes should be expected in the final two weeks.