Colts bringing Josh McDaniels’ coaching career into question is ‘poetic justice’ according to a franchise legend
After losing to the Colts, Josh McDaniels’ job security was called into question. Some felt that was fitting considering his history with Indy.
In Week 10, the Las Vegas Raiders lost to the Indianapolis Colts. Entering the game, no one was giving the Colts a chance. Indy was on a three-game losing streak, had just fired its head coach, and hired a former player with no high-level coaching experience. Sure, the Raiders were just 2-6 themselves but no way they would lose to one of the few teams in the league having a more dysfunctional season than them, right? Wrong. Vegas lost, and all eyes went to the team’s head coach, Josh McDaniels.
Many questioned if the loss would end McDaniels’ head coaching stint with the Raiders. Although it’s just his first season, Josh inherited a team that has multiple Pro Bowl players, made the playoffs last season, and added arguably the league’s best wide receiver this offseason. With all of those factors, their start is both incomprehensible and unacceptable, so people started to wonder if that would be the final game of the McDaniels era. However, it will not be.
Vegas’ team owner, Mark Davis, came out in support of McDaniels and said that the coach won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. While Josh is staying put with the Raiders, some people in Indianapolis wouldn’t have minded seeing him fired after losing to the Colts, considering his history with Indianapolis. Robert Mathis, who’s never been afraid to speak his mind, tweeted after the game that he hoped McDaniels was “canned by the team he double crossed.”
Great win!!! I hope Josh McDaniels gets canned by the team he double crossed. #PoeticJustice
— ROBERT MATHIS QBH8r (@RobertMathis98) November 14, 2022
Robert Mathis was hoping Colts put final nail in coffin of Josh Mcdaniels’ head coaching career
The double-crossing that Mathis is referring to is the 2018 coaching cycle where the Colts hired Josh McDaniels to be the team’s head coach, even making it social media official. However, the day before McDaniels’ introductory press conference in Indianapolis, he decided to pull out of the job and effectively started a feud with Indianapolis that no one in support of the Colts is particularly letting go.
Of course, the Colts ultimately hired Frank Reich and he did a solid job leading the team in the last four and a half years. His tenure came to an end just a week before he had the opportunity to square off against McDaniels. But in the end, it was Saturday, the coach that replaced the coach that replaced McDaniels that helped Indy get some sort of vengeance against Josh McDaniels. As Robert Mathis put it, that’s poetic justice.
