Colts' Daniel Jones impressed by owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon's gameday headset routine, hands-on approach

She’s been doing it for rather immoderate clip now, but fixed the Indianapolis Colts' 8-2 grounds this season, proprietor Carlie Irsay-Gordon has gone viral galore times this twelvemonth for her gameday ritual.

Irsay-Gordon, the girl of the precocious Jim Irsay, is often seen connected the Colts' sideline wearing a headset, penning connected her notepad and taking successful everything that unfolds implicit 60 minutes of play. It’s a hands-on attack seldom seen from owners connected gameday, yet Irsay-Gordon has made it a constituent for years.

Daniel Jones, who joined the squad this past offseason, has gotten to acquisition however Irsay-Gordon runs the organization, and he’s travel distant impressed — particularly with her gameday routine.

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Owner and CEO Carlie Irsay-Gordon (R) watches during the NFL Preseason 2025 crippled betwixt Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts astatine Lucas Oil Stadium connected Aug. 16, 2025, successful Indianapolis, Indiana. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

"It’s neat for sure," helium told Fox News Digital portion discussing his enactment with FedEx’s "Power Move" campaign, caller disconnected the team’s eighth triumph of the season. "Just her attraction to detail, her involvement successful however hard she works successful knowing each facet of the organization. Obviously, the play connected the field, the crippled plan, the scheme, benignant of each that goes into that. She takes a batch of clip and makes a batch of effort to get to cognize that, really, truly recognize it.

"I cognize she’s said worldly successful the past and however important it is for her to recognize each of it arsenic she leads the organization. But, yeah, I deliberation for each of america players it sets a large illustration seeing the proprietor connected the sideline similar that. I deliberation that carries a batch of weight."

Irsay-Gordon has antecedently explained wherefore she wears a headset connected the sideline during games.

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"I request to larn much astir this. I request to beryllium capable to say, ‘Is this idiosyncratic afloat of BS? Do they adjacent cognize what they’re talking about?’" she told reporters. "And I deliberation 1 of the things being connected the headset has truly helped maine larn is, to the question earlier, it’s specified a analyzable organism — a shot squad — and however it operates. On gameday, you tin say, ‘Oh, that idiosyncratic ran that way wrong,’ erstwhile you find, ‘Oh, idiosyncratic tagged the incorrect wide receiver,’ and it wasn’t truly the wide receiver’s fault. It was the idiosyncratic that called it.

"It besides helps america beryllium capable to know, ‘Where bash we request to marque tweaks? What resources bash we need? What bash we request to fix?’ So overmuch of it conscionable comes down to however we run and however things work."

The tweaks spell good beyond gameday, though.

When the Colts finished 8-9 past season, Irsay-Gordon called successful presumption groups to her office. That benignant of gathering from ownership usually isn’t bully news, but these weren’t to subject players.

She genuinely wanted to cognize what could beryllium fixed wrong the organization.

Indianapolis Colts main enforcement serviceman and proprietor Carlie Irsay-Gordon watches crippled enactment against the Los Angeles Rams during the 2nd fractional astatine SoFi Stadium connected Sept. 28, 2025. (Gary A. Vasquez/Imagn Images)

"She wanted to marque definite that immoderate indispensable changes were being made astir the building," choky extremity Mo Alie-Cox told ESPN. "She conscionable wanted to marque definite we felt astatine location and felt comfortable.

"And those changes person decidedly taken place. She was asking worldly astir the cafeteria, question — a clump of antithetic things. It showed she decidedly cares astir america arsenic players for her to instrumentality our advice."

Left tackle Bernhard Raimann added: "I wasn’t expecting that astatine all."

The passionateness and dedication Irsay-Gordon shows her squad isn’t conscionable felt wrong the gathering — it extends to Colts fans, too.

This past weekend, the Colts were successful Berlin, Germany, to play the NFL’s first-ever regular play crippled successful the metropolis erstwhile Irsay-Gordon amazed loyal fans with a circular of beverages astatine a section bar. She adjacent learned however to accidental truthful successful German.

It’s a antithetic attack to ownership, but 1 that resonates with everyone successful the gathering — including newcomer Jones.

Indianapolis Colts backmost Daniel Jones throws earlier an NFL shot crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders successful Indianapolis, Indiana, connected Oct. 5, 2025. (AJ Mast/AP Photo)

Irsay-Gordon is conscionable 1 of galore reasons Jones, who volition beryllium a escaped cause successful 2026 aft signing lone a one-year woody with the team, has travel to emotion playing successful Indianapolis.

"I’ll accidental I person truly enjoyed it here," helium said erstwhile asked if helium could spot Indy arsenic a semipermanent location for him. "We person a peculiar radical successful the locker room. A peculiar radical of players. I truly bask playing for these coaches, moving with [head coach] Shane [Steichen] and his staff. Then, similar you said, Indy is simply a sports town. They’re truly passionate and supportive of america and each the teams here.

"As acold arsenic the future, I truly haven’t thought astir that a ton. We got a batch connected our sheet close now, but I bash truly bask being here, and I’ve truly liked it."

Power Moves With FedEx

Jones came close backmost from Berlin aft a triumph implicit the Atlanta Falcons and got close to concern with FedEx for its "Power Move" campaign. When asked what helium would accidental his powerfulness determination is close now, helium replied, "Handing the shot to Jonathan Taylor close now."

Indianapolis Colts co-owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon walks connected the sideline during the 2nd 4th astatine Lucas Oil Stadium connected Oct. 5, 2025. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn Images)

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Taylor was conscionable nominated for the 4th clip this play for the FedEx Air & Ground NFL Awards program, the fan-voted grant present successful its 23rd year. Jones is simply a large instrumentality of the initiative, which celebrates apical NFL performances crossed the league each week — not conscionable for quarterbacks, but besides for moving backs, choky ends and wide receivers. And it’s hard not to see Taylor, who had yet different three-touchdown crippled overseas.

"He’s been connected fire," Jones said of Taylor. "It seems similar each week helium shows up and tops the week earlier and [is] super, ace accordant for america moving the ball. These explosive runs, particularly successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile we get into these games wherever they’ve worn connected him a small bit, helium finds a seam and pops one. I deliberation the violative enactment evidently deserves a batch of recognition with that stuff, too. But he’s been incredible, truthful I’ll decidedly beryllium pulling for him. He’s got my ballot for the FedEx Ground Player of the Year, which I cognize they’re doing again this year."

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