Colts name Jeff Saturday Interim Head Coach

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Originally Posted by Oldcolt

All this crap about how this has never happened before (firing a guy in season and replacing him with a guy with zero coaching experience) is bullshit. Irsay’s daddy did the same thing with Howard Schnellengerger (sp?). Fired him in the locker room if I remember correct back in the 70’s and replaced him with Joe Thomas-the GM who had only coached high school. Not saying that worked out well but it has happened before. Now we are those Colts. We won’t win big as long as Jim is calling the shots, unless we get incredibly lucky again at QB again.

There might be more examples besides Norm Van Brocklin, but Joe Thomas is not one of them.

Joe Thomas had prior coaching experience - in college, the CFL and the NFL - although nearly 20 years had passed since his previous coaching assignment at those levels.

See below:

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...es/ThomJo0.htm