Over the weekend, though, it became apparent that Irsay, like a duck paddling furiously, has a lot going on beneath the surface, reportedly courting Peyton Manning to return to Indy to head up football operations, a la John Elway in Denver, and wooing Jon Gruden as coach.

Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer reported Saturday that Irsay had hoped to have Manning and Gruden working together. Although Gruden apparently is not interested, Irsay is still working on Manning, who won a Super Bowl and then tearfully left in 2012 when the team was ready to draft Andrew Luck. Perhaps Irsay was taking him at his word when, in his farewell news conference in Indianapolis, the quarterback tearfully said, “I’ll always be a Colt.”

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Gruden has no such ties to the franchise and ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Gruden, the “Monday Night Football” analyst and Super Bowl-winning coach, turned down the job although he and Irsay met last weekend for 10 hours, per Indianapolis’s FOX 59 reporter Brian Bondus.

Gruden hasn’t coached since 2009 and he isn’t ready to leave the cushy life of a critic/analyst. “I know nothing,” he told Schefter. “I’ve told people, I’m not coaching. I’m a broadcaster. I’m not a coach.”

Gruden, who remains ESPN’s highest-paid broadcaster, raking in around $6.5 million per year, began his NFL coaching career in 1998 when he took a job with the Oakland Raiders. After sticking around for four seasons, he moved to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002 and led the team to a Super Bowl win that season. Gruden, whose brother Jay is the head coach of the Washington Redskins, remained with the Buccaneers until 2009 when he was fired after overseeing what’s been deemed one of the biggest collapses in NFL history. After starting the season 9-3, the team ended on a four-game skid, and missed the playoffs.

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Gruden didn’t remain unemployed for long. By May 2009, ESPN scooped him up for its Monday Night Football broadcasts, where he’s remained ever since.

Pagano came to the Colts in 2012, and led the team to three straight 11-5 seasons, although he missed most of his first season while being treated for leukemia. The Colts went to the AFC championship game after the 2014 regular season, but since then, they’ve twice finished 8-8 and a great deal of the blame for that has gone to Grigson, who hasn’t stocked the team with much talent.