PFT explains it well... it's the Colts that tried to pull a dick move.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ears-mess-with-dave-mcginnis/#comment-6071246
On Tuesday the Colts announced that Josh McDaniels would be their next head coach, but by Tuesday night McDaniels had informed them he wasn’t taking the job.
McDaniels never signed a contract with the Colts, never put out a public statement saying he would be the next Colts head coach, and repeatedly refused to answer reporters when they asked him if he’d coach the Colts. So why did the Colts put out the announcement?
Maybe the Colts thought a verbal agreement was good enough. Or maybe the Colts knew that (as
PFT reported on Sunday) McDaniels was wavering, and
they thought putting out a public announcement would make him feel like he had no choice but to follow through.
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as to the assistant coaches, maybe McDaniels discussed with the Colts who it was he’d like to hire, once (and if) he accepted, and the Colts went and hired them as part of their effort to make him feel like he had no choice but to go there.
It’s not hard to believe that the Colts can be both that incompetent and that sleazy. Look at their drug-addled lying weasel of an owner.