Can we find a way to give Jim Irsay a weekly talk show or a weekly press conference of some kind? The Jeff Saturday introductory press conference was vastly more entertaining than the first quarter of “Monday Night Football” between Baltimore and New Orleans.
The Colts owner denounced analytics while using analytics to prop up his team’s success (but only since 2000, gotta make sure you lump all those Peyton Manning years in there!). He said it’s hard to win “in this league” immediately before pointing out Michael Jordan missed a lot of shots and lost a lot of games.
Irsay bragged about never failing to hire a winning coach and ripped the media for potentially questioning what Frank Reich did for the Colts all while ignoring the fact he just fired Reich!
I have zero clue if the Colts will be good or bad in their first game with Saturday as their head coach and who knows how these eight games will go. I do know Irsay is dying to land a high pick to grab a new franchise quarterback (Manning straight into Andrew Luck will spoil a man) and would love nothing more than to hire Saturday full time this offseason.
For now he’ll just have to settle with pitting his new coach against Josh McDaniels, the only person who can likely compete for Irsay’s disdain with Carson Wentz. Cannot possibly wait to see this game — here’s hoping Irsay gives a presser afterwards, win or lose.
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Featured Game | Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Seattle Seahawks
How do they send the NFL to Germany and not give them an Oktoberfest game!??! Come on! The energy for this game should be electric, as apparently the Seahawks are huge in Germany and Tom Brady is popular everywhere. The line movement towards the Bucs (Tampa opened -1 and got as high as -3) is concerning, as is Tampa being good at stopping what Seattle wants to most (run). But I’m backing Geno Smith and Pete Carroll as dogs as long as anyone wants to keep giving them points.
The pick: Seahawks 17, Buccaneers 14
Props, Best Bets: Seahawks +3
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