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Originally Posted by Racehorse
I am pretty sure Frank was part of the same search that McDaniels was in, but you do you.
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Frank was never interviewed until after McDaniels backed out. Per IndyStar:
“When Josh McDaniels stiffed the Colts and reneged on an oral agreement last week to become the team’s next head coach, General Manager Chris Ballard said he would simply revert to his original list and begin meeting with candidates he had not interviewed in the first round. But even a cursory look at the candidates the Colts have considered in recent days shows the Colts did not simply pick up where they left off.
And it is this change of course that brought the Colts to Reich………………………
Ballard didn’t characterize the kind of candidate he would target when he held his post-McDaniels disaster news conference on Wednesday but, rest assured, this shift is not simply coincidental.
There was a clear contrast between the second round of candidates and those targeted immediately after former coach Chuck Pagano was fired six weeks ago. Gone were the shiny objects like McDaniels, the talented but flawed Patriots offensive coordinator, and Matt Nagy, the young, up-and-coming but unproven former Kansas City offensive coordinator.
They were replaced in this round by the likes of Buffalo’s Leslie Frazier, a veteran and steady hand in the Tony Dungy mold, who once led the Minnesota Vikings. Also interviewed was the Saints’ Dan Campbell, perhaps not an X’s and O’s wizard like McDaniels, but a coach who would instill toughness and leadership for a franchise that needs to get back on track.
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It was, as a key source explained, absolutely intentional.
Ballard surely had a long list of possibilities before he originally began his search but, interestingly, he pinpointed a certain sort of candidate the first time around.
This time, Ballard went for proven leadership.“
So he wasn’t initially interviewed, Ballard changed what he was looking for, conducted new interviews, and there were several other candidates meeting the new criteria. Sounds like a different search to me. And if I was on here criticizing Ballard for not reevaluating and starting over after McDaniels you would already know this and be defending him. But hey, you do you.