Indianapolis Colts owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon is once again under fire for her sideline behavior on Sunday morning.
The Colts are in London, taking on the Commanders in an NFL international game. Irsay-Gordon, who took over running the franchise following the death of her father, Jim Irsay, is on the sideline, wearing a headset and taking notes.
“Let’s let Carlie Irsay-Gordon call plays and see what happens,” NFL write Ian Hartitz shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Others in NFL media are calling her out, too.
“Imagine the outrage if Jerry Jones did this,” Ed Werder wrote.
“I’d probably trust her more than most other owners to know how to call a play — at least one,” one fan added.
“When a person TAKES NOTES, it’s usually followed by an ACTION. I’m curious about what the Action would be,” one fan added.
“I’ll get if they get fired at the end of the season, her pool of potential candidates is gonna stink because no self respecting coach or GM is going to want to deal with this nonsense,” one fan added.
“The owner is taking notes. Maybe not direct play calling, but writing things down for the performance review of the coaching staff,” one fan added.
Irsay-Gordon defends her decisions
Irsay-Gordon has said she wants to learn as much as possible.
“I think one of the things that I learned in going through, even as back as when we hired Chuck Pagano (in 2012), is that sort of accelerated my, ‘I need to learn more about this,'” Irsay-Gordon told the Colts’ official website in June of 2025. “‘I need to be able to say, is this person full of BS? Do they even know what they’re talking about? And I think one of the things that being on the headset has really helped me learn is to the question earlier, it’s such a complex organism of football team and how it operates.”
She’s not going to stop.
“You could say, ‘Oh, that person ran that route wrong,'” Irsay-Gordon added. “When you learn to find, ‘Oh, someone tagged the wrong wide receiver, and it wasn’t really the player’s fault – it was the person that called it.’ I think that’s been very valuable, because 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 comes down to just how we operate and how things work and the headsets – I would suggest it for anyone else that has to pay coaches and GMs millions and millions of dollars. It helps you make a less expensive mistake potentially.”
