The Indianapolis Colts announced on Monday that they’ve fired head coach Frank Reich.
The Indianapolis Colts have parted ways with head coach Frank Reich.
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) November 7, 2022
It’s been a difficult season for Reich and the Colts. They lost their fifth game of the season on Sunday, an embarrassing 26-3 loss to the New England Patriots, which brought them to a 3-5-1 record through nine weeks. Their quarterback position has been a disaster, with new starting QB Matt Ryan getting benched after their loss in Week 7 in favor of backup Sam Ehlinger, who led the team to defeat against the Patriots.
Though this season hasn’t been great, the wheels of Reich’s dismissal may have been set in motion over a year ago. He played a big role in bringing QB Carson Wentz to Indy in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles for the 2021 season, a decision that he ended up apologizing for at the end of the 2021 season. Wentz was an albatross around the neck of the Colts for the entire season, and personally prevented them from going to the playoffs when he threw an absolutely comical interception in the final game of the season.
Reich was hired in Feb. 2018, just weeks after he won the Super Bowl as offensive coordinator of the Eagles. He took the job thinking that starting quarterback Andrew Luck would be leading the offense for years to come, but it turns out it was only for a year. Luck abruptly retired in Aug. 2019, just two weeks before the start of the season, starting a carousel of quarterbacks that would plague the rest of Reich’s tenure.
The Colts had to roll with Jacoby Brissett under center for the 2019 season, and then brought in a nearly retired Philip Rivers to run the offense in 2020. Wentz was the starting QB in 2021, and Ryan had the job in 2022. Not one time did Reich start a season with the same quarterback who started the previous season. He ends his time in Indy with a 40-33-1 record.
