Players were welcomed back to the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center on Monday for the start of Shane Steichen’s first offseason workout program as Colts head coach, kicking off an important two-month stretch to solidify the bedrock of the 2023 season.
Between April 10 and June 15, the Colts will roll through three phases of the voluntary offseason workout program. Phase 1 runs for the next two weeks and will consist of strength and conditioning work plus meetings. Phase 2 goes for the next three weeks, with walkthrough-speed on-field workouts permitted (though no live contact or team offense vs. team defense drills are allowed).
The final four weeks are Phase 3, which will consist of 10 OTA practices (between May 23-June 8) followed by a mandatory veteran minicamp (June 13-15). And because the Colts have a new head coach in Steichen, they’re afforded an additional voluntary minicamp, which will be held April 24-26.
Steichen, offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter and the new Colts’ coaching staff spent the last few weeks installing the terminology of Steichen’s offense – how things are called, how things are communicated, stuff like that. Now they’ll start passing on knowledge – and vibes – as players convene on 56th Street.
“I think you got to bring great energy into that building,” Steichen said. “The players will feed off the coach’s energy, that’s where it starts. And we got to bring that energy into the meeting rooms, on the practice field, in the weight room, training room, all throughout the building just having great energy and feeding the positive energy and weeding out all the negative stuff.”
Steichen’s been through this process before as an offensive coordinator with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2021, Nick Sirianni’s first year as head coach there. The Eagles spent months installing and building their offense, then during the season pivoted to a scheme that best fit the talents of their quarterback – and turned a 2-5 start into an NFC wild card…
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