Only minutes into what amounted to the most enthusiastic sales pitch for an interim coach in NFL history, the only person in earshot of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay who was buying the temporary nature of Jeff Saturday’s employment was Irsay himself. And that was likely only because Irsay kept making sure to underscore the “interim” tag himself, like a gubernatorial candidate circling back to the spine of his political talking points.
But if you absorbed the full weight of the news conference that was Saturday’s first introduction as any type of NFL coach whatsoever, you likely felt the significant gravity of one theme: This hire is real.