Indianapolis Colts team owner Jim Irsay introduced Jeff Saturday as the team's interim head coach and defended the decision to hire the former center.
team owner Jim Irsay had a bizarre press conference introducing interim head coach Jeff Saturday night on Monday hours after firing Frank Reich.without any head-coaching experience at the professional or collegiate level and is said to be the first person to do so since Norm Van Brocklin in 1961. Irsay took questions from reporters about the decision to name Saturday the head coach.
"I'm glad he doesn't have any NFL experience. I'm glad he hasn't learned the fear that's in this league because it's tough for all our coaches," Irsay said, via The Score."They're afraid, they go to analytics, and it gets difficult. ... He doesn't have that fear."
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