Colts name Jeff Saturday Interim Head Coach

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by nate505

I mean, Ballard's still here.

There is no benefit to firing a GM mid-season.

[Puck]

I hope others watched the interview. And a thread will start to talk about the questions and answers

I will say this.

We officially have the best looking coach in the NFL....Jeff Saturday is a pretty man!

[CletusPyle]

Originally Posted by Puck

I hope others watched the interview. And a thread will start to talk about the questions and answers

I will say this.

We officially have the best looking coach in the NFL....Jeff Saturday is a pretty man!

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by TheMugwump

I wouldn't be doing my job as a humanitarian if I didn't express my concern for ChoppedWood moving forward.

Can we get a welfare check on him? I mean, who is he going to bitch about now?

I'm worried for you, Dude!

Dude, I am in a good spot. The man was just not a good coach. He did so many things that disrupted the flow of his team. He had no ability to ride the wave- he disrupted the wave.

I don't think Saturday is a long term play and is just there to provide energy and evaluation until the blood letting at the end of the year. I do expect us to look like a more cohesive team the next few weeks, but I expect us to lose a LOT of games through the end of the year- which is actually a GOOD thing.

My next gripe is if Ballard is running this thing after the season- he is just as trash as Frank.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Puck

Yea he's been missing Maybe that is why the press conference keeps getting postponed. He's trying to break in just to hug Irsay

Oh. and he will find something to bitch about. We all know that. HA

I posted my thoughts much earlier in the day BTW.

[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.

[AlwaysSunnyinIndy]

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

[Chromeburn]

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.

Robert Irsay is not a guy I want him to emulate. Even Jim has said he didn’t want to emulate his father’s rashness.

[Dam8610]

Now Jim Irsay is becoming his father? I don’t think that's the case. These actions all make perfect sense if you view them through the lens of Irsay wanting to secure a Top 5 draft pick in 2023. He must really believe in Bryce Young or C.J. Stroud.

[YDFL Commish]

So this may not be quite as unprecedented as some believe.

It so happens that Bart Starr was the Packers HC from 1975 to 1983 with only 1 year of QB coaching experience in the NFL in 1972.

He was also the Packers GM from 1975 to 1980 as well, with no prior experience as an executive either.