INDIANAPOLIS – Chuck Pagano had the contract extension he wanted, but the head coach wasn’t done.
Ryan Grigson had already met with Jim Irsay.
Pagano had also sat down with the Colts Owner.
Coach and GM followed up those meetings with a face-to-face meeting, sans Irsay.
Now, Pagano wanted to ask Irsay for a favor.
This journey, Pagano and Grigson’s, which had started back in 2012 with the ingredients so scarce, the head coach wanted it to continue together.
“(Chuck) said to me, ‘Jim, I want to make sure I’m tied at the hip with Ryan and I want to make sure when we get to the mountain top that Ryan and I are there together because we’ve been through a lot together and we have a special relationship, a close relationship,’” Irsay said on Monday night, re-telling the final chapter to a season no Colts fans will soon forget.