Shane Steichen

The Indianapolis Colts named and later introduced Shane Steichen as their new head coach on Tuesday. The former Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator ...

The Philadelphia offense ranked No. "What we learned in the end was that Shane had a lot of that offensive magic, which is hard to find in this league," Irsay said. And boy did he come through with that in his interview." "I'm so grateful for the last eight weeks of the season and the opportunity to represent you guys. The former Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator emerged from an exhaustive five-week search that included more than a dozen candidates. "I'm a gut-feeling guy.

The Colts are turning to another Eagles offensive coordinator fresh off a Super Bowl appearance to lead Indianapolis into its next era of football.

If you can find that in a quarterback, you're probably going to have some success." [also lost](https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-targeting-eagles-defensive-coordinator-jonathan-gannon-as-next-head-co) defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon to the Cardinals on Tuesday, really came into form in 2022 with Hurts at the helm and Steichen calling the plays, averaging 389.1 yards and 28.1 points per game while producing the league's best regular-season record (14-3). "Above the neck, I think the players I've been around -- The Colts have tallied a 31-34 record with one playoff appearance (zero playoff wins) in the post-Luck era. "Offense, in my mind, can be a little more complex and takes a longer time to develop knowing that we're going to have to find a young quarterback to develop. Armed with the We got to be consistent and it starts with us as coaches being consistent with our message to the players and tell them exactly how we want it to look and how we want it to be done. 1 rushing offense which earned a playoff berth under a first-year starting QB and rookie head coach in 2021. "Shane had a lot of that offensive magic, which is hard to find in this league," Colts owner Jim Irsay said Tuesday. We got to be relentless in our pursuit to be the best. The best players, the best coaches I've been around are obsessed with their craft and that's what we want to build here and that's what we want to get done." We want to treat people with respect, and we want to feed the positive and weed out the negative.

The move announced Tuesday ends a search that took more than a month, involved more than a dozen candidates.

And both left the Philadelphia staff just days after their teams played in the Super Bowl, though Reich was hired only after Josh McDaniels backed out of an agreement to take the job. Those success stories seemed especially appealing to a franchise that missed the playoffs each of the past two seasons and almost certainly will have a seventh different opening day starting quarterback in September. Saturday was one of the finalists for the full-time job. He was replaced by interim coach Jeff Saturday, who won his first game but lost the final seven to give Indy the No. Each of Indy’s last two full-time hires were offensive coordinators for Philadelphia Eagles teams that made the Super Bowl. A news conference was scheduled for later in the day.

The Eagles enter the offseason in need of a new play-caller with several internal options in the mix.

The Colts have the fourth overall pick in April’s NFL draft, in which a handful of quarterback prospects are expected to go early. Hurts looked up to Johnson’s decorated career as Utah’s quarterback in the 2000s and was eventually recruited by him when Johnson was an assistant coach at Mississippi State. The Eagles have a few internal options to replace Steichen. [Super Bowl LVII](https://www.inquirer.com/super-bowl-2023/) loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. “For what he’s been for me and this team as a motivator, as a leader, as a coach, as an OC, I think he’s meant the world to us. “I have to be on my duties as a head coach,” Sirianni said in December 2021 on the decision to give Steichen play-calling duties.

El ex coordinador ofensivo de los Eagles, que recientemente llegaron al Super Bowl LVII, buscará encender de nuevo a la franquicia de Indianapolis.

[Kansas City Chiefs](/futbol-americano/nfl/equipo/_/nombre/kc/kansas-city-chiefs), fue el coordinador ofensivo de [Los Angeles Chargers](/futbol-americano/nfl/equipo/_/nombre/lac/los-angeles-chargers), equipo en el que ayudó a desarrollar el talento del joven quarterback [Justin Herbert](/futbol-americano/nfl/jugador/_/id/4038941/justin-herbert) en el 2020. [Jalen Hurts](/futbol-americano/nfl/jugador/_/id/4040715/jalen-hurts), a quien guio para sumar 3,928 yardas totales (3,144 por aire y 784 por tierra), al frente de la ofensiva terrestre N° 1 de la liga. [Indianapolis Colts](/futbol-americano/nfl/equipo/_/nombre/ind/indianapolis-colts) contrataron este martes a Shane Steichen, excoordinador ofensivo de los [Philadelphia Eagles](/futbol-americano/nfl/equipo/_/nombre/phi/philadelphia-eagles), como su nuevo entrenador en jefe para la temporada del 2023.

Los últimos dos entrenadores de Indianápolis han sido coordinadores ofensivos de equipos de los Eagles que alcanzaron el Super Bowl. Frank Reich fue contratado ...

Anteriormente, trabajó en San Diego con el retirado astro Philip Rivers, quien luego quedó bajo la dirección de Reich y Nick Sirianni, actual entrenador en jefe de los Eagles, en Indianápolis para su última temporada en la NFL. Ahora, los Colts volverían a cambiar de dirección, apostándole a un joven quarterback. Los Colts finalmente podrán establecer sus prioridades con miras a la que se prevé será un agitado receso de temporada.

INDIANÁPOLIS (AP) — Los Colts de Indianápolis contrataron como nuevo entrenador en jefe a Shane Steichen, el coordinador ofensivo de los flamantes campeones ...

Los Indianapolis Colts anunciaron la contratación de Shane Steichen como su nuevo head coach, para poner fin a una búsqueda de cinco semanas y 14 candidatos ...

En 2020, cuando era el coordinador ofensivo, los Chargers ocupaban el sexto lugar en yardas por aire de la NFL. Reich salió de los Colts tras una marca de 40-33-1 y fue despedido tras una derrota en la Semana 9 ante los Patriots, que dejó a los Colts con una marca de 3-5-1. La experiencia de quarterback de Steichen, se considera fundamental para su encaje con los Colts, que tienen la cuarta selección general en el draft de la NFL y se espera que elijan a uno de los mejores pasadores disponibles. Steichen recibió muchas críticas positivas luego de llevar a la ofensiva de los Egales a ser una de las mejores de la NFL en las últimas dos temporadas, y el ataque se balanceó de manera extraordinaria con una gran defensa, para llevar a Philadelphia al título de la NFC. [Indianapolis Colts](https://us.marca.com/nfl/indianapolis-colts.html) anunciaron la contratación de [Shane Steichen](https://us.marca.com/nfl/super-bowl/2023/02/06/63e14101e2704ec6bd8b45c0.html) como su nuevo head coach, para poner fin a una búsqueda de cinco semanas y 14 candidatos para ocupar el puesto que dejó vacante la salida del coach interino, Jeff Saturday. [Patrick Mahomes y su única gran consecuencia por jugar con un esguince de tobillo en el Super Bowl](https://us.marca.com/nfl/2023/02/14/63eaf61b268e3eb1058b45b4.html)

Steichen has a history of developing good, young quarterbacks (which is something the Colts desperately need). Before joining Sirianni's staff in Jan.

The move completes Steichen's meteoric rise from quality control coach as recently as 2015 to now becoming one of 32 head coaches in the NFL. The Colts will ...

Steichen was the [Chargers](https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/_/name/lac/los-angeles-chargers)' offensive coordinator that season before joining the Eagles the next year. Like Steichen, he landed in Indianapolis immediately after a trip to the Super Bowl, with the Eagles defeating the The team hired Reich in 2018 after a stint as the Eagles' offensive coordinator. [Justin Herbert](https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4038941/justin-herbert) and Hurts, Steichen has gained a reputation for getting significant production out of his quarterbacks. His ability to craft the offense around the talents of quarterback [Jalen Hurts](https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4040715/jalen-hurts) has been particularly notable, with Hurts joining Joe Montana and Steve Young as the only players to account for at least 370 total yards and four touchdowns in a Super Bowl. In an interesting twist of fate, Steichen worked under offensive coordinator Frank Reich upon returning to San Diego.

The former Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator emerged from an exhaustive five-week search that included more than a dozen candidates. In the end, it was ...

The Philadelphia offense ranked No. "What we learned in the end was that Shane had a lot of that offensive magic, which is hard to find in this league," Irsay said. And boy did he come through with that in his interview." "I'm so grateful for the last eight weeks of the season and the opportunity to represent you guys. The former Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator emerged from an exhaustive five-week search that included more than a dozen candidates. "I'm a gut-feeling guy.

The Colts are aware of the optics of hiring another Eagles offensive coordinator, but they stressed that Shane Steichen and Frank Reich are different.

"We wanted to get the best fit for us and for the Colts organization. Steichen shares much of Reich's background as a quarterback developer, which remained a priority for a Colts franchise that is looking to draft a quarterback in the first round for the first time since Andrew Luck in 2011. Reich earned the Colts' job in 2018 largely for his work with quarterbacks like Philip Rivers, Carson Wentz and Nick Foles. Steichen then left to become the Eagles offensive coordinator last year under Sirianni, who calls Reich his top mentor in the NFL "Doug (Pederson) was the (Eagles') head coach and now it was Nick (Sirianni), even though Nick came from us. It's the exact same scenario that brought Frank Reich to Indianapolis back in 2018.

Indianapolis Colts HC Shane Steichen was non-commital about retaining DC Gus Bradley and STC Bubba Ventrone.

Steichen was the quarterbacks coach (2017-2019) and interim offensive coordinator (2020) while Bradley was the defensive coordinator. While Steichen doesn’t seemingly have any tangible connection to Ventrone, the Colts may look to convince the head coach in retaining him. It likely means they haven’t had an in-depth conversation about it yet, and it gives the Colts a chance to look at other options just in case.

Irsay had just spent a long night in Philadelphia one-on-one with Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen. General manager Chris Ballard and the rest of the ...

A few of them checked most of them, but Shane checked all of them.” “He never let anything slide, and I think as a head football coach, you have to hold people accountable, and if something ain’t right, something needs to be said. He has great passion for the game and love for the players. “Boy, did he come through with that in his interview.” With that in mind, the first round of interviews were four to five hours, held on Zoom, with a committee of Colts brass, in a standard routine. “And philosophically, we see the game the same way, which I think is important.” Knowing that we’re going to have to find a young quarterback to develop, that’s a key factor.” 4 pick in a quarterback-rich draft and saw its last coaching regime fizzle largely because of the franchise’s inability to build consistency at the game’s most important position. That was a good learning experience, I think, getting what people thought from the outside.” “I’m going to tell you what I have learned,” Ballard said in January, before the coaching search began in earnest. A lot of times, what happens is you get a vision of what you want before you’ve made your mind up, and then you might ignore somebody that’s really freaking good right in front of your face.” “But boy, Shane just knocked it out of the park.”

Shane Steichen is now the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and if he wants success, he must prioritize addressing these issues.

Indianapolis hasn’t been in a position to select one of the top quarterbacks at the top of the draft in years, and the hope is that they won’t be in the coming years either. Here are three things that Shane Steichen needs to immediately address in order to turn the Colts around. Steichen must be willing to play off the offense’s strengths and not put more on a rookie quarterback’s plate than he can handle. While everything is positive right now, the Colts were 4-12-1 and looking for a head coach for a reason. Many people are applauding the hire of Steichen, and there’s a sense of optimism surrounding the Colts. Jim Irsay and Chris Ballard raved about Steichen as they explained why they selected him out of a deep and talented pool of candidates.

New Indianapolis Colts head coach Shane Steichen has had success with all different types of quarterbacks, which should help the Colts in their search in ...

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Philadelphia has in-house candidates on both sides of the ball who could be sensible replacements.

[Denver Broncos](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/broncos/) coach and longtime NFL defensive coordinator consulted with the Eagles in 2022 and spent time with the team in training camp. [Seattle Seahawks](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/seahawks/) associate head coach Sean Desai, the former Bears defensive coordinator who worked at Temple earlier in his career. He’s expected to become the [Miami Dolphins’](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/dolphins/) defensive coordinator, although it has not yet been officially announced. [Chargers](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/chargers/). [Darius Slay](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/darius-slay-XbcJ9BbxN4jskljf/) said last season that he wouldn’t be surprised if Wilson landed a coordinator job. [San Francisco 49ers](https://theathletic.com/nfl/team/niners/) assistant head coach Anthony Lynn was Sirianni’s head coach with the Chargers. “I’m very particular and I know what I believe in, in the passing and the running game and offensive football.” Brady, 43, replaced Sirianni in Indianapolis and was the quarterbacks coach when Sirianni was the offensive coordinator with the Colts. [Jalen Hurts](https://theathletic.com/nfl/player/jalen-hurts-yhzPJprUoEnfzPvf/) is [well-documented](https://theathletic.com/4121032/2023/01/24/eagles-jalen-hurts-triple-threat-quarterback-brian-johnson/) — Johnson played for Hurts’ father in high school — but it’s Johnson’s resume that has led him to this point. But the early money should go to an internal candidate, considering the talent on the coaching staff and the continuity with Hurts. The other top internal candidate would be Kevin Patullo, the Eagles’ passing game coordinator who is a close confidant of Sirianni. The answer is sometimes, yes, it’s in the building.