Jeff Brown had reasons to stay with the Colts. But he had a reason to go, too. Find out why the former Speedway and Butler baseball star followed Frank Reich to Carolina.
Jeff Brown is somewhere on Interstate 74, heading west. He’s a husband and a father of four, and he’ll be in the car for two hours. This is the window he has open, the most efficient usage of his time, and right away you can see why Frank Reich couldn’t leave without him.
Reich knew who he was. One, Brown had been a ballboy with the Colts during Reich’s first go-around here under Tony Dungy and Jim Caldwell from 2006-11. Two, Irsay and general manager Chris Ballard had told Reich all about Brown, which is to say, they’d told him this:“You talk about trust, competency, character – I just think Jeff is off the charts,” Reich’s telling me this week. “He’s the kind of guy I believe in.”Frank’s busy, you know? Just got hired at Carolina.
But life happens. Three pivot points, remember? Jeff’s telling me about them, though there’s a fourth pivot point, one I’m not sure Brown knows about himself. His coach at Butler, Farley tells him it’s fine, they’ll work it out. Brown keeps the Colts ballboy gig for years, even as he’s playing for Farley through 2006 and coaching with him until 2011, when he went to Brownsburg to coach baseball.Along the way he’d gone after a full-time position with the Colts, interviewing in 2009 for a scouting role, but the Colts chose Andrew Berry, now GM of the Browns. The Colts director of player personnel then, current Chargers GM Tom Telesco, told Brown he’d come in second.
Brown was doing his share of watching, too. He’s always been that way, quiet, observing. Players scolded him over the years as a ball boy, asking him in various ways, “What are“I just wanted to learn,” Brown says now. “I didn’t talk to Frank much when he was here the first time, but I knew he was good. I could always tell by who Peyton trusted. If Peyton looked at you and was asking for more information, that must be a guy.
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