Polyvalery, aggressiveness and “Genius by Shane Steichen:” Why Daniel Jones entered in 2025 confident as an QB1 of colts “
While Jones intends to choose his spots to aggressively push the ball at the bottom, the way he described himself was a bit like a leader – the kind of quarter who can regularly distribute the ball to his players. Jones described Taylor and the wide receiver Alec Pierce as “explosive”, while the first word that came to my mind for the Large receiver Michael Jr. “reliable”. For the wide receiver Josh Downs, Jones described it as “intelligent” with “Great instincts”, and the first thing that appeared to him for the large receiver Adonai Mitchell was “extremely talented”.
For the tight winger Tyler Warren, Jones said that the first round recruit had a huge “sensation and instinct for space, to open”.
The colts envisaged these skills which complement each other in their offense; Jones considers them all together offering a versatility of match match and even series to the series in the attack on the opposing defenses.
“We have guys who have shown to make big games many times on the ground or with the ball in their hands, make people miss,” said Jones, “or (we have) hard guys who can go to the middle and take difficult, who can present themselves in the third place. (We have) guys who can feel spaces in areas, who can know where other guys are on the field.
The other part of the colts offensive that Jones has learned to appreciate since the signing as a free agent in March was the Steichen game spirit, which he described as “aggressive” in the way he sees the offensive.
“He wants to take shots, wants to keep defense on their heels, wants to keep an attacking state of mind in what we do,” said Jones. “As a quarterrier, this is what you want – these opportunities to do it and create some of these pieces. He is very creative in the way he thinks of obtaining some players the ball in certain situations, and how he sees our attack and different things that can happen fairly quickly. It was fun to work with him.
“I think it is extremely practical and realistic in terms of, it is not always a crazy and super exotic idea. Many things are quite simple and practical that come from many similar looks, you can do a lot of different things from them and which allow the defenses to guess.”
This simple approach is something that benefited Steichen with each stop, he was a game player – from Los Angeles loaders to the Eagles of Philadelphia to the Colts. And this is something that Jones loves in an offense, especially the one who has so many versatile and complementary weapons like the colts.
“There is a lot of genius in this simplicity, on the right,” said Jones. “Guys who can take more complex things and make them simple, make them in the sense of football come from a simple idea but make it difficult to defend.
“This is what I think that many of the best coaches do, and it does it well.”
