Bill Cowher called the decision to hire Jeff Saturday as interim coach of the Colts “a disgrace to the coaching profession” on “The NFL Today” Sunday.
For one Sunday, Jim Irsay’s decision paid off as Indianapolis went into Las Vegas and defeated the Raiders, 25-20.
It wasn’t without drama as the Raiders had a final drive to try and win the game and save embarrassment for the franchise and coach Josh McDaniels.
The only reason Las Vegas was in a position to try and win was Saturday went for 2-point conversions after each of the Colts’ last two touchdowns. The sheet probably dictated those decisions but …
Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but the two PATs would have made it a seven-point game rather than the five-point difference.
It turned out okay in the end as Matt Ryan led the Colts’ offense to victory after being reinstalled as QB by Saturday.
The Raiders have to live with a coach who had no experience other than at the high-school level managed to topple them in what has become a dreadful season.
ESPN celebrated its former analyst.
Jeff Saturday is 1-0 as Colts interim head coach đź‘Ź pic.twitter.com/px1LylNmTd
— ESPN (@espn) November 14, 2022
And there is this commentary:
Jeff Saturday beating Josh McDaniels proves that the only thing worse than hiring with absolutely zero coaching experience is hiring someone with experience coaching under Bill Belichick
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) November 14, 2022