Former NFL lineman Joe Thomas rips Colts' Jim Irsay for Jeff Saturday hiring
Former NFL offensive lineman Joe Thomas is the latest person to call out Jim Irsay and the Indianapolis Colts.
And he did not hold back. At all.
"It was the most egregious thing I have ever seen in the NFL, and I went 1-31 in my last years in the NFL."
That was just part of Thomas' harsh words on the hire, as he viciously ripped Irsay, the Colts' owner, on NFL Network Friday morning for his shocking hiring of Jeff Saturday to be the team's interim head coach.
Thomas called it insulting and one of the most disrespectful things he has ever seen to coaches already in the NFL.
Said Thomas in part:
"When you hire your drinking buddy to be the head coach of an NFL football team, it is one of the most disrespectful things I have ever seen in my entire life to the commitment, the lifestyle, and the experience it takes to be an NFL coach -- any coach! -- much less the head coach of the Indianapolis football colts. You have got to be kidding me, that this is something, and Jeff Saturday who is not blameless for accepting the job, could have talked and decided that this was the best thing for the Indianapolis Colts at this juncture of the season."
You can see his entire segment here, including a story about how Thomas used to live next door to former Cleveland Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski and the time commitment an NFL head coaching job requires.
He also touched on Irsay's justification of the hiring, in which he said he was glad Saturday did not have any experience because he will not coach scared like the rest of the coaches in the NFL.
"If you didn't already insult every person that's worked their entire life to be a head coach in the NFL, then to go up there and say I like that he has no experience because all ya'll NFL head coaches are scared because you use logic and analytics to make decisions? When I saw this I thought it was a joke."
The Colts are off to an extremely disappointing 3-5-1 start and have the league's worst offense heading into Sunday's game against the Las Vegas Raiders. They have already changed head coaches, offensive coordinators, benched veteran Matt Ryan for rookie Sam Ehlinger, and are now ready to play the second half of the season with a head coach that has literally never coached above the high school level.
It is enough to make you wonder if they are tanking the rest of the season.
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