Jim Irsay opted for Saturday over some qualified candidates already on staff. Defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and senior defensive assistant John Fox have a combined 20 seasons of NFL head coaching experience. It’s common for teams to promote a head coaching veteran in this type of instance, as the Panthers did last month with Steve Wilks on the heels of Matt Rhule’s firing.
Another possibility, the Colts could have taken a trial run with special teams coordinator Ray Ventrone, who is viewed as a coach on the rise. Or if they were more interested in the sentimental route by hiring someone from the Colts’ 2006 Super Bowl championship roster, wide receivers coach Reggie Wayne and assistant linebackers coach Cato June are also on staff. How do Ventrone, Wayne and June now view their futures with the organization?
“I’m glad (Saturday) doesn’t have NFL experience,” Irsay said. “I’m glad he hasn’t learned the fear that’s in this league, because it’s tough for all of our coaches. They’re afraid. They go to analytics, and it gets difficult. I mean, he doesn’t have all that. He doesn’t have that fear and there was no other candidate. We were fortunate that he was available. He has tons of experience.”
Irsay may or may not be a scumbag on the level of his father or Danny Snyder (only his dealer knows for sure). But, he has that unearned confidence that comes from being born on third base (and thinks he hit a triple.) He is sure he knows more than the NFL cognoscenti, so he deliberately goes against the grain. I wonder how ready the other coaches there are to support his new head coach.
Justin Fields this past Sunday set the regular season record for most rushing yards for a QB over the Vick game where those two Vikings slammed into each other. The overall record is still the Kaepernick game in the '12 playoffs against GB. Similarly, the yardiest game in league history (scrimmage only) is still the Pats-Eagles recent Super Bowl.
When you look in baseball at the official record, the most recent no-hitter listed will be Game 4 of this past World Series. The official record book lists both Larsen's Perfect Game and an Bill Wamsbuss's Unassisted Triple, both in World Series play.
So we count single-game records if they occur in the playoffs. Is there a single good reason why playoff games aren't including in streaks as well? They aren't exhibitions, as both teams clearly want to win playoff games. Or at very least give it a separate entry?
I bring this up with Orel Hershiser's consecutive scoreless innings streak. As you guys remember, he went scoreless the last 59 innings of the 1988 season, beating Don Drysdale's mark by a single out. But then he went and kept the Mets scoreless until the first out of the 9th inning of Game 1 of that year's NLCS. So isn't the record really 67 1/3? He certainly had incentive to keep the runs off the board, it was the playoffs. Or at very least have a separate line for single season only, and then a mark that includes postseason innings for streaks?
My avatar corresponds on my place in the Swamp posting list with the all-time Home Run list. Tied with Mel Ott at Number 25 is Miguel Cabrera at 511.
mister d wrote: Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:36 am
Did McDaniel tell a joke about letting a guy with an obvious brain injury play 100 hours later and nearly suffer a catastrophic injury?
Geez. Ljam's theory isn't that absurd, Mr. D.
One milkshake to bring all the boys to the yard and in the darkness bind them.
