On Monday evening, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, general manager Chris Ballard, and interim head coach Jeff Saturday held a press conference announcing the hire of Saturday — the former Colts center and ESPN analyst — who had never coached at any level of college or professional football before. Irsay had fired head coach Frank Reich on Monday morning, and the Saturday hire shocked just about everybody throughout the league.
As did the press conference, in which Irsay was at his Irsayest, Ballard was prickly as hell, and Saturday looked like he didn’t know what the light in the tunnel meant. Which would be an understandable reaction. It’s how a lot of us felt watching it.
