Colts winners in Saturday's debut, Ryan's return

LAS VEGAS -- Jeff Saturday is 1-0.

The recently appointed interim manager of the Indianapolis Colts connected Sunday presided implicit a 25-20 win implicit the Las Vegas Raiders successful his archetypal crippled successful his caller role.

The Colts entered Sunday connected a three-game losing streak and connected the heels of the firing of fifth-year manager Frank Reich aft past week's nonaccomplishment to the New England Patriots.

Saturday's hiring stunned the NFL, arsenic helium was not presently employed successful the league. The six-time Pro Bowl enactment who is enshrined successful the Colts' ringing of grant had been moving arsenic an ESPN NFL expert close up until proprietor Jim Irsay tapped him to instrumentality the job.

But Saturday got a assistance from the astonishment instrumentality of backmost Matt Ryan -- who the squad antecedently said would beryllium benched for the remainder of the play -- and a rejuvenated Jonathan Taylor. The All-Pro moving backmost returned from an ankle wounded to unreserved for 147 yards, including a 66-yard touchdown. Ryan completed 21 of 28 passes for 222 yards and a touchdown portion besides rushing for a people successful his archetypal crippled successful 3 weeks.

The Colts had to revamp their coaching unit connected the alert this week, with Saturday mostly yielding the item enactment to the violative assistants, including first-time playcaller Parks Frazier.