Colts return from their bye week to a new starting quarterback. Clark Wade/The Star
To his credit Tim Hasselbeck was just calling it like he saw it, and what he saw wasn’t exactly encouraging: A team that sits a game below .500, has an unreliable offensive line and that is, suddenly, entirely dependent upon a 40-year-old quarterback.
“It’s one thing when it’s a shorter injury and you have a backup that’s going to play one week, two weeks, three weeks,” Hasselbeck, a former NFL QB and current ESPN analyst, said on the air last week.