On Monday, the Colts fired head coach Frank Reich and named former player and current ESPN analyst Jeff Saturday as his interim replacement. The move took the entire football world by surprise, Saturday included
On Monday, the Colts fired head coach Frank Reich, and named former player and current ESPN analyst Jeff Saturday as his interim replacement. It was, to say the least, aSaturday spent 13 years with the Colts as a player before transitioning to a media role. He’s never coached at the professional or college level—a trait that team owner Jim IrsayThe move took the entire football world by surprise, Saturday included.
What they did hear, though, was a seemingly non-stop flow of some truly incredible answers, ranging from Michael Jordan comparisons to stray shots at analytics for no perceptible reason. Here’s a look at some of the best of the bunch from a press conference that could have doubled as performance art.Available to do what? Speak on the phone? Saturday has been with ESPN for nearly a decade and left his high school coaching job in 2020.
2. “It wasn’t offered to anyone else. I don’t know what Chris and I would have done if he wasn’t available.” - Again, it’s the urgency here that makes this so remarkable. How could Irsay possibly believe that Saturday to be the guy, and that he had to act fast before somebody else beat the Colts to the punch? And given that his first choice was to turn over control of his football team to someone who’s never coached meaningful games before, I sort of believe him when he says he doesn’t know what Plan B would have been had Saturday not said yes.
4. “Y’all been kicking the s--- out of me for not drafting wideouts and now we’re underperforming on the offensive line.” -
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