It has been a,
an intense week, right? For everybody. And and so I think
mostly when I'm thinking of myself, not not talking about
this organization, but myself for my family, you know,
I don't, you know, we had talked about that, they were prepared.
I have been very good about not reading,
not listening, not really being concerned with,
but I have had to remind my family, and I think I'm glad
I do because I just shows the little T. We have to each
other. About listen, man, the, the Lord is our Defender.
After he's already know He promotes he directs and so
don't be concerned with outside. I felt you know,
I felt conviction about the the opportunity.
I knew I was going to take it for
for those reasons and I have no
yeah I got no qualms with what anybody says about their
opinion. Great,
they disagree with it, still love them. Not really worried
about. I got other things, I got to take care of
just said, a coach of the Colts. Pretty much summarizing
what it means to have thick skin in today's world. Jim
irsay. No thick-skinned. They're all you critics, you
criticize all of us in the NFL for losing when we make
the might Right Moves to win you act. So righteous who you crap
and just win, baby.
What is who you crap in a reference? I have no idea
should understand. I'm not that. I know. I was just about
to ask you the same thing. It's the first thing I thought of
when I read it yesterday, I was just like, who you crapping?
What is that? I mean, just when baby is obviously a
A shot at the Raiders.
But yeah. Who you crap him? I don't know. That's, that's new.
The kids are gonna have to teach me that one.
What? A shock that Jim irsay would be a bad winner.
I mean, just, just take solace in the fact that
it wasn't a complete disaster
and also remember,
I checked the schedule,
you don't play the Raiders every week,
just a just a, just a, just a reminder.
Jimmy, you got some games coming up that aren't going to
be quite as easy as
what you got, sir, but, but a tremendous accomplishment
because it was the biggest
Incident of self-inflicted, dysfunction during a season
that I can ever remember, short of maybe, maybe the Browns
announcing in November of 1995, they'd be moving to Baltimore
at the end of the season because that's just through
the rest of a
promising. Brown season into the
toilet once Art Modell made that announcement.
This was a tremendously disruptive and distracting and
dysfunctional development and Kudos, Jeff Saturday. Did
enough to turn it around to win. My question Chris though
is, is yeah. Yeah.
Can they keep it going?
Can they can they will they
once people figure out what Jeff Saturday's Colts do?
Will they be able to stay ahead? You know, the self Scout
putting it all the time? Putting in all the effort
grinding and grinding and grinding come up. That little
Edge. That makes a difference. Will they be able to do it and
we'll see? Yeah, I get to see them literally three times in
the next. Seven games Prime Time and those games aren't
getting Flex the Sunday
night game against the Cowboys is not getting Flex there for
five and one. Why would it be flexed, right? No, I don't.
Listen. I think there's some things that he can tangibly
bring to the table here. We saw in the game the other night
over the other day is you know,
first off you know the energy he can bring
to the team and and changing you know kind of the attitude
in the building. Yeah, there's definitely the ability to do
that for sure.
So and I think we saw a different vibe from them as
a football team. The fact that he got to
one again have a quarterback. Matt Ryan as the quarterback
to me was a big issue mean poor. Frank Reich
has to To bench Matt Ryan because of financial issues and
then gets held accountable for
had the office. Doesn't look very good. Well no s***. I mean duh
I mean we yeah we got it. We put a quarterback in because
we're trying to save money for the future and not be
accountable for that and we put a guy in the wasn't ready,
obviously.
So that was bad. I feel bad for Frank Reich there but he can
change the attitude that Colts defense is real. The Colts
defense is like legit
It one of those top five ish type of defense's
so they could keep them in the game
and then the one thing I do look at here with Jeff Saturday
and I'll be excited to kind of watch this on. Film is, did he
bring some to the Run game a little bit? We haven't seen
them. Run the ball. Like they did the other day
and Jeff Saturday and X offensive lineman. Man, I'd
have a hard time thinking. He didn't one give the offensive
line a pep talk which I know he did and I heard about that, but
also maybe just a different. Hey, wait, when the defense
plays this, we've used to like the boss
Lock it this way and run this play a whole lot. So I'm
I would bet there was some influence there. That help
the football team and we'll see where it goes. But yeah,
I mean again I think we were all
fair in questioning or criticizing a move that we've
never seen done before like this in the history of the NFL
and what struck me yesterday to
Jeff. Saturday, told Peter King, that
one of the reasons he took the job was specifically for
the reason of helping other former players, get opportunities.
I just don't You get opportunities Jeff you could
have been offensive line coach twice and you said no
the idea that you could be a former player and walk through
the doors that head coach, I still don't like it. It's
an affront to the people who are actually busting their asses
putting in the time making the sacrifices being away from
their families for far, less money or Glory
than being the head coach of the team. The idea that some
guy that played for the team more than a decade ago, can
just show up out of the blue and be the head coach. I just
don't think that's fair to the profession and this kind of
Echoes what Bill Cowher.
I said on NFL today
that it's a disgrace to the profession, I
it it's and I know that
I say all the time
football is not as hard
as people like to make it seem right to be, but it's also not
as easy as it looks on TV either. Yeah. Yeah. It is.
There's a lot that goes on here,
you know, and Frank Reich. And what he did, he laid the Train,
the the tracks down here for this football team, it's not
like they're going to change.
The way they play football, Gus Bradley has been running
the Seattle scheme. He invented that that's Jeff. Saturday is
not changing anything there offensively. It's not like
they're like, well, let's blow up the Playbook. I'm going to
do something else. They're still running the same offense.
It's just maybe the attitude and the approach has changed
a little bit through Jeff Saturday. So hey,
maybe he can weather the storm and continue to make them
competitive and all that. But I think some of the things we
really questioned and where it goes,
that'll be if he keeps the job for next year. And now when
The team has to really take on his culture and his style and
you know, how he manages players and offseason and
starts to accumulate the coaching staff. The right way?
That'll be more of a real evaluation of what he can do.
As a head coach right now, he's kind of just a Band-Aid
who's looking to
give some energy to a football team
and we'll see where it goes. It was a great start. It was
there's no doubt about it.
But but yeah, this was unusual
and it goes against everything. We know
and
And that's where, you know, the bill cowers of the world, and
some of those other guys are questioning that. And then
I understand that completely.
Here's your thing to
all those other people who are on the staff, one of
the reasons they're busting their asses is because they're trying
to get to the point where they earn that opportunity. If all
of a sudden you don't have to earn that opportunity anymore,
maybe they'll go coaching college or something. It's
it's you're working your way up the pyramid to the top as
an assistant coach and you want to become Um, position coach
coordinator. And then, if you do, well enough to become
a head coach, if that gets short-circuited,
that that may that may hurt the profession, and it may cause
talented people to say why, why even bother
to try to earn this
if people who haven't
earned it or going to be given the job? And I'm trying to
earn. And I think that's a real point. I think that would apply
in any industry in any profession.
Why am I here busting my ass?
If my ultimate door that I'm trying to kick through isn't
available to me. Me and the owners just going to go hire
somebody who's never coached before or after I've been here
all this time. It's important and we'll see how it plays out.
Let's take a
break.
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