Colts’ Front-Runner for Head Coach Developing?

The Indianapolis Colts’ seek for their subsequent head coach has been an enormous one, kicking the tires on over a dozen candidates. Nonetheless, they’re on to second interviews with a few of their candidates, and considered one of them has made fairly an impression.

Through the first spherical of interviews, Raheem Morris was the one one the place phrase acquired out about how positively the assembly went. Now conversing with the Colts once more, ESPN NFL insider Jeremy Fowler stories that the Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator had “a prolonged in-person interview” with the Colts on Friday and was nonetheless with the groups into the early night.

“Raheem Morris is having a prolonged in-person interview with the #Colts as we speak,” Fowler tweeted. “Was informed Morris was nonetheless with the staff as of early night. Morris is considered one of a number of candidates as a part of Indy’s second spherical of talks.”

Morris (46) is arguably the most-complete candidate that the Colts have interviewed.

Since 2002, he has frolicked teaching with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington, the Atlanta Falcons, and the Rams. He was the pinnacle coach for Tampa (2009-11) and the interim head coach for Atlanta (2020), compiling a document of 21-38.

In his NFL teaching profession, Morris has even frolicked as assistant head coach/passing recreation coordinator in Atlanta from 2015-19, spending the final 4 years of that tenure because the huge receivers coach as properly earlier than taking on because the defensive coordinator in 2020.

Morris is a two-time Tremendous Bowl champion as an assistant coach, successful as lately because the 2021-22 season with the Rams.

He is been described as a coach who relates and communicates with gamers in addition to any of his colleagues within the league, and he is reportedly grown leaps and bounds since his first stint as a head coach at simply 32 years outdated.

Lately, Morris has frolicked within the Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay teaching bushes, so he is acquired considerable assets to type a training employees.

Becoming a member of Morris as finalists for the Colts’ head teaching gig up to now are Colts interim head coach Jeff Saturday, Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero, and New York Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale. They had been excited by interviewing Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn once more, however he withdrew his identify to return to the Cowboys.

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