BUFFALO – It will be this way all season, and it’s the Indianapolis Colts’ fault.
Coach Chuck Pagano and general manager Ryan Grigson don’t work well together. There’s a rift. Without a Super Bowl title, Pagano isn’t coming back in 2016. Maybe even with a Super Bowl title, he isn’t coming back.
That’s the perception, and it might as well be the reality. The noise has been growing for months, since it became apparent that Pagano would not sign a contract extension, meaning he enters 2015 without a safety net. Add the comments from owner Jim Irsay that the Colts need to win a Super Bowl with quarterback Andrew Luck — sorry, they need to win two Super Bowls with Luck — and the Super-Bowl-or-bust comments echoed by Grigson, and the Colts have created a scenario in which it sure looks like Pagano is coaching for his Colts career.