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What’s more fun than second-guessing NFL coaches? Nothing, that’s what. So let’s do it every week, right here. Today: Future or past, which way do you turn?
The scenario: The Colts stink on ice. Shane Steichen is facing every head coach’s most dreaded personnel problem: Which do you play, a young, expensive, high-draft quarterback who’s not anywhere near ready or an aging quarterback who’s lost 20 miles an hour off his fastball? (See also: Carolina.)
Your candidates for the Colts starting QB job:
• Anthony Richardson, who may have cashed his career when he admitted to pulling himself out of a game because he was tired, but he’s still a phenomenally talented player with a surgeon’s touch on deep throws.
• Joe Flacco, who has been in the league so long that he competed in the Super Bowl alongside Ray Lewis and against Colin Kaepernick … and that was in Flacco’s fifth season.
Yeah. Good luck there, Shane.
The case for Richardson: The No. 4 overall draft pick from 2023 is still just 22 years old, which is awfully early to be giving up on a guy. Still, what we’ve seen from Richardson hasn’t been encouraging in the aggregate. Through six games this season, Richardson has a completion percentage of 44.4 percent, and four touchdowns against seven interceptions. That’s nasty.
Then again, he also has the ability to do this:
That’s the kind of arm talent that makes coaches dream big dreams.
Despite all the evidence that teams ought to hold off on starting unproven rookie quarterbacks (See Carolina, again; also see Mahomes, Patrick), the massive price tag and the win-now demands often force quarterbacks into the lineup before they’re anywhere near ready. And when a rookie quarterback breaks out (See Daniels, Jayden), every single other owner thinks, Hey, I want one of those! Could Richardson be that guy for Indianapolis?
The case for Flacco: For the past six years, Flacco has been a sort of Human Duct Tape, stepping in to (briefly) solve problems for…
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Publish date : 2024-11-11 20:51:35
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