Stephen Holder, ESPN
INDIANAPOLIS — Colts broad receiver Michael Pittman Jr. clarified feedback he made later Sunday’s loss to the Browns, pronouncing his feelings were given the most efficient of him as a result of he has “never been a good loser.”
Pittman, the Colts’ important receiver, complained to an Indianapolis Celebrity reporter about his involvement within the offense, pronouncing amongst alternative issues, “They didn’t target me today, for whatever reason. Maybe I’m not a big part of the offense.”
Pittman accrued newshounds within the Colts’ storagefacility room Wednesday in an effort to explain the ones statements.
“Obviously it was a very frustrating loss the way that it happened,” Pittman stated of the Browns’ 39-38 victory. “And I’ve never been a good loser. I’m actually a very poor sport. It’s something that I’ve been working on my whole life, and it’s just hard for me sometimes. And when you lose, sometimes you lose your composure, you lose your head. And I think I was a little dramatic when I said that.”
Pittman, referred to as a fiery competitor who regularly is taken with on-field confrontations with combatants, is the Colts’ chief in objectives, receptions and receiving yards. He had 5 objectives and two catches in Sunday’s recreation, together with a 75-yard landing on which he penniless drop of 2 defenders.
All of that made the character of his feedback unexpected, and Pittman said the ones realities.
“Obviously, I am a big part of this offense,” stated Pittman, who has averaged 9.3 objectives consistent with recreation this season. “I lead the team in targets and stuff like that. So, it was out of frustration, and I just wanted to clear up that I love playing here, that I love Indy and everything that we do here, and I’m excited for this week coming up.”
Pittman is within the ultimate 12 months of his four-year rookie guarantee and gifts an enchanting resolution for the Colts later the season. The group has no longer invested richly in a large receiver in years, and Pittman represents the primary actual resolution of this sort basically supervisor Chris Ballard’s seven-year tenure.
Pittman has continued diverse quarterback adjustments, enjoying with seven settingup quarterbacks in his 4 seasons. This season, he has skilled the season-ending shoulder trauma of Anthony Richardson, depart Gardner Minshew to begin the residue of the way in which.
“I think that I’m very consistent and on a team that’s [had] constant change,” Pittman stated. “And obviously, the receiver-quarterback continuity is huge and we haven’t had that. [Richardson] goes down, so we’ll see what happens there.
“However at the moment, Gardner’s operating the send, and I feel he’s doing a excellent activity. I feel we’re zenith 10 in nearly each and every unmarried section on offense, so he’s doing a splendid activity.”
