The lack of experience makes Saturday something of a coaching mystery. Players in the Colts locker room will be familiar with Saturday the player, who spent 13 of his 14 seasons in Indianapolis. And they might have watched him on ESPN, where he worked most recently as an analyst. But they don't know Saturday the coach."He was real calculated," said Winston Gassant, who played linebacker under Saturday in 2018 and 2019.
"Jeff knew exactly what our community and our culture needed, because he was in tune with being a part of Hebron football," Davis said."Jeff knows ball, but he knows people. And he’s a leader of people. He gets people to believe and buy in."There were plenty of challenges, of course. Hebron Christian played in Class A – the division reserved for the smallest Georgia high schools – and Davis said they had to deal with the sort of budgetary issues that are common at that level.
"I feel like some coaches, they’ve been in the NFL, they think they know everything, they talk about it all the time," said Hunter Borges, a former defensive back for the Lions."But this wasn’t about him. It was about us." "He had a good little bias towards running the ball a little bit sometimes," said Moorer, who now plays at Texas State.