Post #62026 - 06/03/2023 09:00:41

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The Eagles have settled on their permanent replacement for Precious Achiuwa Jersey Frank Reich after a long wait.It won't be Jeff Saturday. It will instead be Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen.The Colts officially announced that they had hired Steichen on Twitter Tuesday.We got our guy. Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) The 37-year-old will replace the two coaches the team employed last season, Reich and Saturday, the team's surprise midseason choice to be interim head coach.POWER RANKINGS: Steichen is a hire that will be familiar to Colts fans. It's not because he has ties to the organization, however. It's because he just helped lead the Eagles to an appearance in Super Bowl 57 and it marks the second consecutive hiring cycle in which Indianapolis has settled on hiring Philadelphia's offensive coordinator.Also, Steichen worked under Reich when both were on the Chargers in 2014 and 2015. Reich was the team's offensive coordinator while Steichen was an offensive quality control a sistant.So, why did the Colts hire Steichen? Here's Duncan Robinson Jersey what to know about the franchise's 11th full-time coach since it moved to Indianapolis in 1984.MORE: The Colts hired Steichen because he represents the perfect cro s between what general manager Chris Ballard and owner Jim Irsay are looking for in a coach.As outlined by , Ballard and Irsay were looking for specific traits in a new coach. Steichen checked those key boxes.Steichen is the hire for two key reasons: He's a talented and versatile offensive mind, and he's a fiery personality who will challenge players publicly. The former mattered to Ballard, a more defensive-oriented scout who has always tried to hire that prototype, from Bruce Arians to Josh McDaniels to Reich to now Steichen. The latter mattered to Irsay, who has been longing for a different style of leader than he's had in the past.Steichen's intensity wasn't a fit for every team, but it can be for a Colts locker room that has asked for some more public displays of player accountability.Steichen isn't just a good culture fit for the Colts. He also comes Max Strus Jersey with significant experience in developing young quarterbacks, which will be important as Indianapolis explores selecting a first-round quarterback in the 2023 NFL Draft.Steichen has been a full-time offensive coordinator for three years at the NFL level. In his lone season with the Chargers, Justin Herbert was named Offensive Rookie of the Year after completing Dwyane Wade Jersey 66.6 percent of his pa ses for 4,336 yards, a career-best 31 touchdowns and just 10 interceptions in 15 starts.MOCK DRAFT: In his two seasons with the Eagles, Steichen has helped to rapidly develop Jalen Hurts into one of the NFL's best quarterbacks. He finished second in MVP voting for the 2022 NFL season after leading the Eagles to a playoff berth in his first full season as a starter.As the stats indicate, Hurts made a major leap from his first year with Steichen to his second.StatHurts 2021Hurts 2022Comp. %61.366.5Pa sing yards3,1443,701Pa s TDs1622INTs96Yards/attempt7.38.0Pa ser rating87.2101.5QBR48.566.3Rushing yards784760Rush TDs1013Hurts' succe s with Steichen is a big part of the reason that the Eagles had a top-three scoring offense and a top-three offense in terms of total yardage.The Colts Denzel Curry Jersey will ask Steichen to perform similar work with whichever young signal-caller they land in the 2023 NFL Draft, be it Bryce Young, C.J. Stroud or someone else. He stands a better chance of doing that than Reich, who failed to find or develop a consistent starting quarterback in wake of Andrew Luck's surprising retirement before the 2019 NFL season.