The Indianapolis columnist who broke the “DeflateGate” story has a new target: his hometown team.
Bob Kravitz, whose column on the New England Patriots’ use of deflated footballs in the AFC Championship Game sparked the year’s most tiresome controversy, turned his sights on the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday. After the Colts, who have desperate needs along both lines, chose Miami wide receiver Phillip Dorsett with the 29th overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, Kravitz made no illusions about how he felt.
“I hate it,” Kravitz wrote. “Hate it with a fiery hot passion.”
Apparently.
“For a team that claims to be ‘all in,’ for a team that desperately wants to close the gap on the New England Patriots, for a team that has T.Y. Hilton, Andre Johnson, Donte Moncrief and Duron Carter, well, this is beyond shocking and utterly perplexing. How, exactly, does this make them more competitive with the Patriots? How does this bolster their running game, which did nothing against the Patriots? How does this help stop the run, which was awful in two games against the Patriots? How does this help them slow down elite passing attacks, guys like Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger and others, who had their way with the Colts last year?”
The Colts have eight more picks, barring trades, as general manager Ryan Grigson reminded reporters Thursday night. Still, it was a head-scratching pick, for sure, and many Colts fans probably had the same reaction as Kravitz.
As far as all-time rants go, though, this was one of the best.
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