Jeff Saturday Aint It

Today, the Indianapolis Colts fired head coach Frank Reich. With a 3-5-1 record this season, the Colts are now looking at ESPN analyst, Jeff Saturday, to save their franchise.

I recommend NFL teams not hire guys who they see on TV that morning. Personally, if I were looking for a coach, I’d probably hire a coach and not the guy from ESPN’s Get Up.

The Colts started the season with a 20-20 tie with the Houston Texans—a Texans team that consists of precisely zero good NFL players. Serious football teams don’t tie with the worst team in the NFL.

I would imagine Frank Reich wasn’t shocked to lose his job midseason. The AFC South is wide open yet the Colts seem so far away from contending.

The Colts ranked 29th in points scored and 29th in point differential. They are a bad football club.

But Frank Reich went 40-33-1 in his 5 years with Indianapolis despite being put in one of the worst positions any head coach has ever been in.

Reich and Andrew Luck were supposed to build a dynasty together.

Entering the league in 2012, Andrew Luck was the best quarterback prospect since Peyton Manning. He was created in a dungeon to throw footballs. He had all the physical tools necessary to succeed in the NFL.

Plus, he was a lame white dude who went to Stanford so you know NFL front offices were drooling at the chance to make him the face of their franchise.

Andrew Luck made the All-Star team all three of his first 3 years in the league before his body began to betray him. See, Andrew Luck tricked everyone with the Stanford education. Luck’s entire playing style consisted of extending every single play as long as he could which typically ended with him taking huge hits because he thought he was Superman.

After 3 years of scrambling for first downs and getting blasted by linebackers, Luck’s career was littered with injuries. In 2015, Luck lacerated his kidney. A local doctor described his injury as similar to a ‘car crash’.

Meanwhile, Frank Reich was the offensive coordinator for the 2017 Philadelphia Eagles that beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. The Eagles had a Top 5 offense despite having half a season with Carson Wentz and the other half with Nick Foles.

If Reich could win a Super Bowl with two of the doofiest QBs of the century then it made all the sense in the world he and Andrew Luck would join forces and walk to a Super Bowl.

And instead of running up championships, the two had one season together in 2018 before Luck decided to randomly retire in his prime leaving the Colts organization with a team that was ready to compete for a title but was only missing a QB.

So rather than rebuilding and finding the next Andrew Luck, Indianapolis tried to fill the void with new quarterbacks every single season.

2018: Andrew Luck
2019: Jacoby Brissett
2020: Philip Rivers
2021: Carson Wentz
2022: Matt Ryan

This man was set up to fail. Those are 4 of the worst starters possible. Brissett, Wentz and Ryan are all backups currently and Rivers is somewhere raising his 55 children in a large shoe.

That being said, their offense shouldn’t be this bad. In Sunday’s loss to the Washington Commanders, Indianapolis went 0-for-14 on third downs. That’s tied for the worst third-down conversation rate in NFL history. Fight back.

But is Jeff Saturday the answer?

Jeff Saturday last coached in 2020.

He went 3-7 in high school football 😳 pic.twitter.com/2IHKJZiGYr

— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) November 7, 2022

Now, you can say it’s just high school and the talent level and blah blah but if Pete Carroll coached a high school football team next season I promise you they would at least have a winning record.

Last time an ESPN analyst was hired as a head coach, he stole millions from the Raiders, immediately traded away the best player on the team and then was fired was sending some nasty ass emails.

Obviously, Jeff Saturday and Jon Gruden are completely different people but I’d have to imagine there are far more qualified coaches in that building than Saturday. Like, perhaps someone who is ACTUALLY A COACH AND NOT A GUY WHO SITS NEXT TO MIKE GREENBERG ON GET UP EVERY MORNING.

But these are the types of hires you expect from a team that hired Josh McDaniels in 2018 only for McDaniels to change his mind 5 days later and stay in New England so they rushed and hired Frank Reich instead. Also, look at how terrible Josh McDaniels has been every time he’s a head coach.

The Colts suck at hiring coaches and quarterbacks.

The Jeff Saturday hiring is odd and might derail any future chance this man has at getting a real gig because this team stinks. This hiring is a problem for all of the more deserving coaches who deserve a shot but just got skipped for a guy who can’t get a high school football team to win 5 games.

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