With Sunday’s loss, the 2-5 Colts are finished, and now they can hit the trade deadline running

This will be a massively important job for interim general Ed Dodds, who needs to set up the next guy with some draft capital.

MY COUCH, Ind. – The Colts lost.

Let the garage sale commence.

Everything – well, everybody – must go.

If interim general manager Ed Dodds can move Jonathan Taylor, or DeForest Buckner, or Grover Stewart or any one of the team’s tradeable commodities by the Nov. 10 deadline and get some first- (maybe) and/or second-day picks in return, that would mean mission accomplished.

You want to know something? It’s a good thing the Colts lost, 16-10, to the punchless but undefeated Vikings Sunday. Sounds crazy, I know, but if they had won this eminently winnable game, and if they had stolen another victory in the next two games at Jacksonville and home against Dallas, there may have been some thought to playing out the season with the current crew and fighting for a long-shot playoff spot. Which would have been a mistake.

But with this loss at US Bank Stadium, the die is cast and the Colts, now 2-5 and heading to haunted Jacksonville next Sunday, are officially in garage-sale mode.

And that’s for the best.

Now Dodds can go to work.

In my mind, nobody is untouchable.