Report: Jeff Saturday Among 7 Colts Head Coach Finalists

The Indianapolis Colts are inching nearer to discovering a brand new head coach.

In response to ESPN, the group will conduct a spherical of second interviews with seven head teaching candidates, together with interim head coach Jeff Saturday.

“Colts’ interim HC Jeff Saturday is scheduled to have his second interview right this moment for the full-time head teaching job in Indianapolis, per sources,” Adam Schefter tweeted. “The Colts plan to conduct a second spherical interviews with seven HC candidates, per supply.”

Earlier within the week, NFL Community‘s Tom Pelissero additionally reported on the subject.

“This whole first spherical of interviews has been digital, and I am informed proprietor Jim Irsay has not been in any of these interviews,” Pelissero mentioned. “The plan is, within the subsequent couple of days, they’re going to pare down that listing of 13 and arrange a second spherical of interviews later this week in individual, with Irsay concerned.”

He is not precisely the fan favourite for the job, however Saturday does have some teaching expertise now after an eight-game audition following the Colts’ throughout of Frank Reich in the course of the season.

Regardless of a large web of certified candidates — the Colts interviewed 12 and nonetheless wish to communicate with San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans — Saturday is probably going a finalist as a result of Irsay’s admiration for the previous Professional Bowl heart, in addition to his transient expertise teaching the group.

“Jeff Saturday stays a candidate for this place,” Pelissero mentioned. “Irsay believes in him and needs him to have an opportunity regardless of his 1-7 report because the interim head coach. Nonetheless, I am informed Irsay can be open-minded on this course of.

Saturday stepped into a troublesome scenario, however by almost all accounts, the group’s efficiency acquired even worse following his arrival. The Colts have been outscored by 87 factors in his tenure and have been on the enterprise finish of historic losses to the Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings. Dallas scored a franchise-record 33 unanswered factors within the fourth quarter en path to a 54-19 triumph, and Minnesota erased a 33-point deficit to finish the largest comeback in NFL historical past.

Together with Saturday, the opposite reported finalists are Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero and Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris.

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