Jim Irsay Hiring Jeff Saturday as Colts Coach Shows Exactly How Owners Circumvent the Rooney Rule

We need to talk about Jeff Saturday becoming pulled off the avenue to finish the 2022 time as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts.

Seem, I like Jeff Saturday. I have nothing at all from him as a man or woman. I performed versus him, he constantly appeared like a good leader, and all of my outdated teammates that know him have almost nothing but excellent factors to say about the gentleman. This take is not really about Jeff Saturday.

That being explained, it’s totally outrageous that they hired this person to end out the season as the Colts head mentor. 

I see people today chatting about “Jeff Saturday is a Colts legend.” 

Well if Colts lovers want him to remain a legend, it’s possible there should really be a improved approach than handing the controls of a crashing aircraft around to another person without flight experience.

And talking of Colts legends, does not Indianapolis already have Reggie Wayne as a initially year receiver’s mentor, and Cato June in his seventh 12 months of coaching college football or previously mentioned?

It would be 1 matter if Jim Irsay was putting in Jeff Saturday as an admission that this year is misplaced, the path of the staff demands re-considered, and the search for a alternative was heading to start off quickly. 

But that is not what this is. 

Jim Irsay dared reporters to bet against Jeff Saturday as Colts head mentor, and alluded to the possibility of producing the playoffs THIS Year. 

I’ll take your guess, and your cash Jim. 

But I at the very least want to thank Jim Irsay for properly illustrating the aggravation with the ineffectiveness of the Rooney Rule when place up versus a rich previous white man’s “gut instinct.”

Though Irsay mentioned that the Colts have each individual system to honor the Rooney Rule and go via a respectable interview process right after the season to gauge the vision of numerous candidates, which include minority candidates, he also stated this about Jeff Saturday:

“He’s the most effective gentleman for the position, and there is no query about it in my intellect. I have been around it a prolonged time. He’s incredibly rough and he’s a leader. You have to be a wonderful thinker, operate with individuals, be open-minded, produce a tradition exactly where individuals belief you. You have to have experience, attract on knowledge in your lifestyle. You know it when you see it.“

Jim Irsay has a excellent sensation in his tummy about a white player that was a reliable chief in his participating in days, and believes that regardless of no keep track of record in anyway of manufacturing any type of outcomes that would demonstrate these feelings to be rooted in actuality, that Jeff Saturday is the appropriate male to make the Indianapolis Colts a playoff team in 2022.

Considering that Jim Irsay is using bets, how much do we want to guess that Jim Irsay is extra invested in his intestine getting proven appropriate so he can retain Jeff Saturday on as head coach, instead than earnestly following the NFL procedures that were being intended to preserve the specific circumstance of a abundant man’s nostalgia from costing overqualified minority candidates an possibility?

We invested decades and many years listening to that “if only black coaches had extra knowledge as a coordinator,” or “if only extra black players received into coaching on the offensive facet of the ball,” then the levels of prejudice that held them from the penultimate opportunities of the job would erode absent.

That was bullshit.

Oh, and congratulations to the Houston Texans now having grounds to dump Lovie Smith for Josh McCown. The absurdity of the situation was the only matter retaining the Texans from generating this take place last calendar year, but now they will not even be the initial workforce in their possess division to do it.

Allow that sink in.