The Colts part ways with head coach Frank Reich.

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Pretty sure Ryan has a bad shoulder and that’s the main reason he was replaced. Not saying the only reason but the main reason. But I agree with some that GM/front office to blame for the Colts meltdown this year.
Yeah but I'm pretty sure they acknowledged that Ryan wouldn't be able to get his starting spot back

Type of injury he could easily come back from this year
 

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Reich said Ryan was out, not because of his injury, and that Ehlinger would start every game the rest of this season.
 

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Just hear Reich will be receiving $200K every week until 2026!

Happy he's getting paid. Seems like a solid guy
 

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I just put $10 on Jeff Saturday to win COY .
The $10 bet pays $2000
It’s a super longshot but I believe the play has some value

That division sucks and it would not be impossible for them to comeback and win that division

Saturday is a very popular person in the media and well liked by the people who vote for the awards

Think it’s worth a few bucks at +20000
 

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How does that work?

Long story short, if he gets hurt there is a roster bonus of 17M that would've had to be paid to him in early March. So once they decide he isn't in their long term plans, they just gave up on the season and benched him.
 

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lol
So, virtuous

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">From NFL Now: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Colts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#Colts</a> hire Jeff Saturday as their interim coach, a move that no doubt highly qualified candidates who are minorities have noted. <a href="https://t.co/BU0RgY35LX">pic.twitter.com/BU0RgY35LX</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=" ">November 7, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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The Great Reich. I will defend him based on his last name alone. Obviously, Rivers had a very good career and was excellent in his prime. The same with Matt Ryan. Reich got both of them on their last legs. Wentz was a border-line reclamation project to resurrect him. I'm not against Wentz, but he's certainly no RIvers or Ryan when in their prime. At least, not close yet.

The NFL is QB-based league. The Colts never drafted him a QB in the 1st round that he could build with? If they did, then that player was a bust.

So, to me, Reich is a good coach but lacks game-breaking players or all-stars on his team and never really had that. He had some very good defensive players that may fit the mold of the aforementioned.

I think the Colts were in a "win-now" mode when then grabbed Rivers, Ryan, and Wentz. They must've thought they had enough pieces to make a major run?

They had a good run running with Taylor last year, but again, who was the dynamic WR or TE or both so when playoff time came they could beat you another way? Belicheck knew all he had to do was game-plan against Taylor in the playoff game.

I think Reich wasn't really given a fair shot being that he never had a above-average QB in their prime.
 

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Should of hired Hannah Storm, just the same amount of coaching experience
 

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Jeff Saturday took the job thinking that starting quarterback Andrew Luck would be leading the offense for years to come.
 

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The Rise and Fall of the Frank Reich. It could have lasted 1000 years but only made it till 5.
 

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Sources: Assistant QB coach Parks Frazier to call Colts' offense.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Colts have an interim head coach who has never coached above the high school level, and now they have a playcaller who has never previously performed his new role.
Passing game specialist/assistant quarterbacks coach Parks Frazier will assume playcalling duties for the team under interim head coach Jeff Saturday, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. The news was first reported by NFL Network.
Saturday said during a news conference on Monday that he had been interviewing current staff members throughout the day to determine who might be the best fit to be the playcaller. The role was previously held by former head coach Frank Reich, who was fired by the team on Monday.
The team also considered quarterbacks coach Scott Milanovich as a candidate to call plays, according to a source, before ultimately turning to Frazier. Milanovich had been a playcaller in the Canadian Football League and was the playcaller for the Jacksonville Jaguars while serving as their interim playcaller during the final five weeks of the 2018 season.
Frazier, 30, is close to Reich, an ordained minister who officiated at Frazier's wedding. Reich leaned heavily on Frazier while he was the assistant to the head coach in 2018-19 before promoting him to quality control coach in 2020 and assistant quarterbacks coach in 2021.
Frazier has an undergraduate degree in computer science and is considered among the leaders on the staff in the use of technology and data. He also has worked closely behind the scenes the past year-plus with Sam Ehlinger, who will continue to be the starting quarterback. A former quarterback at Murray State, Frazier brings experience at the position.
The Colts visit the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.
 

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