Pass game specialist / Asst QB coach Parks Frazier to call offensive plays

[AlwaysSunnyinIndy]

https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1590052163237351424

Another surprise in Indianapolis: Colts interim coach Jeff Saturday is expected to have 30-year-old pass game specialist/assistant quarterbacks coach Parks Frazier serve as the offensive play-caller starting Sunday against the Raiders, sources tell me and Rapoport

https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1590052790562619392

Young but talented, Parks Frazier played QB at Northeast Mississippi Community College and Murray State.

He joined the Colts as Frank Reich’s assistant in 2018, helping with the practice plan, call sheets and scripts.

Now, Frazier is expected to replace Reich as play-caller

https://twitter.com/HolderStephen/status/1590058359092568065

Colts passing game specialist Parks Frazier will perform play calling duties for Jeff Saturday's staff, acc to sources. Frazier, to my knowledge, has not called plays at any level.

https://twitter.com/NateAtkins_/status/1590057698984620032

Parks Frazier knows the current playbook rather well and has worked with Sam Ehlinger behind the scenes to this point. Interested to see how this all looks on Sunday.

[Lov2fish]

After a whopping 121 yards Sunday I am not sure we can get any worse. Hell, I'm onboard. Lets do this thing!!!

[Butter]

At this point, I feel ambivalent about the coaching moves. Maybe we find something with a young guy with fresh ideas? It is going to be a shit show isn't it, looks like I chose the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

[Hoopsdoc]

At this point, I feel ambivalent about the coaching moves. Maybe we find something with a young guy with fresh ideas? It is going to be a shit show isn't it, looks like I chose the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Jim is firmly calling the shots now. It’s gonna suck for quite awhile. May as well embrace the clown show.

[ChoppedWood]

What an incredible ride for this dude. What 27 and hired kinda as a research analyst way down the ladder, and at 30 you're OC in the NFL. Crazy shit.

[Lov2fish]

What an incredible ride for this dude. What 27 and hired kinda as a research analyst way down the ladder, and at 30 you're OC in the NFL. Crazy shit.

Saw on Twitter, maybe Keefer or Holder. Said he knows the playbook very well. Other than some cold feet and scared shitless he might be ok. It is for certain the other way was not working.

I guess it will be a good time to take up drinking, A LOT...

[Oldcolt]

At 30 people are full fledged surgeons. This isn’t that hard, this is football for goodness sakes. Unitas was considered a savant at calling plays. Guy was not a phi betta kappa type by any means. We will probably be fucked, but don’t blame this kid. It is the same shitty players that got Frank, Brady, Wentz and Ryan fired except now they are upset about Frank and Ryan, I guess, that he has to work with.

[JAFF]

Saw on Twitter, maybe Keefer or Holder. Said he knows the playbook very well. Other than some cold feet and scared shitless he might be ok. It is for certain the other way was not working.

I guess it will be a good time to take up drinking, A LOT...

You should drink more………..

[Lov2fish]

I was as shocked as anyone when Saturday was named interim coach. Now that I have had a few hours to digest it all. He has no experience, but what can't he perform that an experienced coach can do? As a player I am sure he understands clock management. I am sure he understands coverages. I am sure he knows how to get the best out of our o-line. This alone will be huge as they have been our Achilles heel all year. Hopefully he lets Gus call the D. If he lets the other guys do their job and him and the kid get on the same page maybe we can close out with some hope for 2023.

Every coach has their first job. He is not bringing bad habits learned from other coaches. Hell, we don't know what he is bringing which makes this that much more exciting. As a fan of Jeff I'm going in on it with no lofty expectations, but I hope he proves all the naysayers wrong.

[YDFL Commish]

I was as shocked as anyone when Saturday was named interim coach. Now that I have had a few hours to digest it all. He has no experience, but what can't he perform that an experienced coach can do? As a player I am sure he understands clock management. I am sure he understands coverages. I am sure he knows how to get the best out of our o-line. This alone will be huge as they have been our Achilles heel all year. Hopefully he lets Gus call the D. If he lets the other guys do their job and him and the kid get on the same page maybe we can close out with some hope for 2023.

Every coach has their first job. He is not bringing bad habits learned from other coaches. Hell, we don't know what he is bringing which makes this that much more exciting. As a fan of Jeff I'm going in on it with no lofty expectations, but I hope he proves all the naysayers wrong.

Good Post.

Saturday will coach players, not just offense, but defense as well. He won't have his head stuck in a play call sheet(even though I think Reich was actually reading bible scriptures).

Saturday will rally guys coach em' up, beat em' down and challenge them.

[CletusPyle]

We are basically handing McFatass a win on Sunday!:rolleyes:

[Lov2fish]

We are basically handing McFatass a win on Sunday!:rolleyes:

Not so fast. They are as dysfunctional as we are. Now the Eagles? Lawdy it is gonna be ugly..........

[Puck]

What an incredible ride for this dude. What 27 and hired kinda as a research analyst way down the ladder, and at 30 you're OC in the NFL. Crazy shit.

Doesn't really matter who he named to call the plays. After the second snap you will be ranting about him being fired

[ChoppedWood]

Doesn't really matter who he named to call the plays. After the second snap you will be ranting about him being fired

Oh bullshit! 2nd snap won't even be enough to go 3 and out so automatically he will still be ahead of Frank at that mile marker!

Man I am good with the extremity of this shake up- this team needed a radical departure from the norm, something to shake loose all the bullshit Frank embedded in these competitors. I have ranted that the dude walking up the street would do a better job than Frank, and I stick to that, we're not that far away from it incredibly- and that tells me Jim felt the same fucking way. Sunday was the culmination of a long slow spiral to butt. Not sure how but the professionalism mantra morphed into complacency and it was awful to see. Some where down the road the truth is going to emerge about how this all went down, and I expect it is going to be a wild tale.

I am going to support this new regime and I hope we see some crazy things out of them. It literally could not get any more morose than what it has been this year.

[Colts And Orioles]

We are basically handing McFatass a win on Sunday !!! ) :rolleyes:





o


The offensive line has been handing out wins all year.

Until and unless the offensive line starts to play at at least a respectable level, it won't matter if the team is coached by Tony Dungy, Bill Parcells, or Mr. T.

o

[Hoopsdoc]

Doesn't really matter who he named to call the plays. After the second snap you will be ranting about him being fired

Absolutely.

[IndyNorm]

o


The offensive line has been handing out wins all year.

Until and unless the offensive line starts to play at at least a respectable level, it won't matter if the team is coached by Tony Dungy, Bill Parcells, or Mr. T.

o

I disagree on this sucka! Mr. T would get those fools playing hella good in no time!!

[apballin]

Same dude who’s house got shot up a few years ago

[Brylok]

I can't say that I've ever heard of a "pass game specialist" before. Brave new era I guess.

[HoosierinFL]

Keep in mind a lot of HCs are more CEO types. This is the way Dungy was. He was a not involved in the day to day Xs and Os and game planning. He delegated and made sure everyone was doing their job and of courses hired guys who understood his Tampa 2 system. He more or less let Moore and Manning do their thing on offense and didn’t bring that old “Dungy ball” approach.

So I would look for more of that from Saturday. He is probably fielding advice from Dungy this week, not to mention all the years he spent observing how Dungy did things. And of course he can’t come in and implement any sort of system. He’s going to let the current staff continue to run the system that is in place, but he is hopefully going to be there to provide leadership and accountability, and start fixing whatever fucked up culture is happening within the team.

I’ve said many times it seems that Reich was too much of a players coach, didn’t work them hard in camp, gives them easy days during the week, and seemingly not holding anyone accountable. I think that’s why they always have slow starts, they aren’t prepared because Reich doesn’t making them prepare hard.

I’m also seeing an interesting theme emerge from Irsay’s comments and many interpretations of it, that this era of analytics is making for some bad football. All this stuff about genius coaches is pretty dumb. You don’t have to be that smart to understand football, and we’ve all been complaining about Reich always trying to be “too smart” and doing weird shit that never works. So maybe we’re going to see some intuitive, schematic football now, and instead of that pseudo-cerebral stuff Reich was trying.

The main thing I might expect to see Saturday mess up is in-game stuff. He hasn’t been on the sideline in action for awhile, so things like time outs, clock management, challenges, all that procedural stuff, he might mess up here and there. I know he understands that side of the game but I’m sure that without too much experience, and under the time pressure of a live game, it’s easy to get lost in processing too much information and make a mistake. I hope he is planning to use his staff effectively to aid him both during the week and in-game.

[ChoppedWood]

Keep in mind a lot of HCs are more CEO types. This is the way Dungy was. He was a not involved in the day to day Xs and Os and game planning. He delegated and made sure everyone was doing their job and of courses hired guys who understood his Tampa 2 system. He more or less let Moore and Manning do their thing on offense and didn’t bring that old “Dungy ball” approach.

So I would look for more of that from Saturday. He is probably fielding advice from Dungy this week, not to mention all the years he spent observing how Dungy did things. And of course he can’t come in and implement any sort of system. He’s going to let the current staff continue to run the system that is in place, but he is hopefully going to be there to provide leadership and accountability, and start fixing whatever fucked up culture is happening within the team.

I’ve said many times it seems that Reich was too much of a players coach, didn’t work them hard in camp, gives them easy days during the week, and seemingly not holding anyone accountable. I think that’s why they always have slow starts, they aren’t prepared because Reich doesn’t making them prepare hard.

I’m also seeing an interesting theme emerge from Irsay’s comments and many interpretations of it, that this era of analytics is making for some bad football. All this stuff about genius coaches is pretty dumb. You don’t have to be that smart to understand football, and we’ve all been complaining about Reich always trying to be “too smart” and doing weird shit that never works. So maybe we’re going to see some intuitive, schematic football now, and instead of that pseudo-cerebral stuff Reich was trying.

The main thing I might expect to see Saturday mess up is in-game stuff. He hasn’t been on the sideline in action for awhile, so things like time outs, clock management, challenges, all that procedural stuff, he might mess up here and there. I know he understands that side of the game but I’m sure that without too much experience, and under the time pressure of a live game, it’s easy to get lost in processing too much information and make a mistake. I hope he is planning to use his staff effectively to aid him both during the week and in-game.

Tremendous post, tremendous. Not sure how this happened but in some respects it seemed like Frank went from having the analytics guys work for him, he worked for them. Should have been fired on the spot following his fucking asinine comments after the 27 straight pass debacle- that told the whole story, the dude was just out to lunch on feeling the game.

I agree with what to expect from Saturday. I fully expect to see him engaged in live conversations with different coaches and even players on the sidelines this Sunday- Frank DID NOT DO THAT AT ALL- again, to your point- no accountability at all, you'll do better next time Johnny type bullshit. That has to come to an end, dudes need to be TOLD they are fucking up and to change shit or sit down!