Most NFL owners aren't like Carlie Irsay-Gordon with the Indianapolis Colts.
That's something that new players in Indy learn quickly, and that was true for new QB Daniel Jones.
Jones, of course, has made this a special season so far for the Colts for playing at an unexpectedly high level.
And that has brought not just Jones into the spotlight, but the Colts' headset-wearing, hands-on owner.
Jones, for his part, is a big fan.
"It’s neat for sure," Jones told Fox News last week. "Just her attention to detail, her interest in how hard she works in understanding every facet of the organization. Obviously, the play on the field, the game plan, the scheme, kind of all that goes into that. She takes a lot of time and makes a lot of effort to get to know that, really, really understand it.
"I know she’s said stuff in the past and how important it is for her to understand all of it as she leads the organization. But, yeah, I think for all of us players it sets a great example seeing the owner on the sideline like that. I think that carries a lot of weight."
Irsay-Gordon has said in the past that she doesn't stand on the sideline to give in-game input, but rather to see how the people she employs handle various situations.
"I need to learn more about this. I need to be able to say, ‘Is this person full of BS? Do they even know what they’re talking about?’" she told reporters. "And I think one of the things being on the headset has really helped me learn is, to the question earlier, it’s such a complex organism — a football team — and how it operates. On gameday, you can say, ‘Oh, that person ran that route wrong,’ when you find, ‘Oh, someone tagged the wrong wide receiver,’ and it wasn’t really the wide receiver’s fault. It was the person that called it.
"It also helps us be able to know, ‘Where do we need to make tweaks? What resources do we need? What do we need to fix?’ So much of it just comes down to how we operate and how things work."
For now, Jones and Irsay-Gordon are two of the most popular figures in Indianapolis.
Winning makes everything shine brightly.
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