That would be hilarious if he did that. But no I don’t think he will. League has a QB health problem though. Last year was a record year for injuries.at some point something has to give, maybe another incentive to do more running also.

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In addition to the Colts beating the Bears today, the Texans were crushed by the Minnesota Vikings by a score of 34-7 ....... so I agree with you, it's way too early to be making presumptions as to whether or not the Colts should be thinking of shrugging off the importance of the season and to strictly focus on the development of Anthony Richardson. In fact, part of a young quarterback's development IS presuming that the team can win and possibly go deep into the post-season. If that's added pressure on Richardson and the team, then I believe that it's all the better in the long-run.

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I said it in the game thread today, but since this thread is about AR's development, I think it's good to say here too. AR is showing three main issues:

1) Accuracy, typically being high on throws. There have been quite a few throws in 3 weeks that Richardson has missed by a lot, usually being high on the throw. Being high often indicates bad footwork, but I haven't seen bad footwork. Is it just that he needs to learn to dial back his arm?

2) Bad Reads. No other way to put this, examples include passing up a TD to Ogletree today to throw an INT into triple coverage and the INT last week on a predetermined throw to Pittman that killed a drive. I haven't watched this week yet, but there were also a lot of open receivers AR passed up against GB. This is the issue that reps and film will fix the easiest.

3) Hero Ball. I could be wrong on this, but it seems like AR is trying to maximize each play. This leads to plays like the one today that was nearly a strip sack turnover. It also causes things like not taking the underneath routes and holding the ball too long leading to sacks. If you watch every dropback against GB, there are at least 5 open crossers Richardson either never sees or doesn't go to because he's trying to make a bigger play. This is an issue that will take coaching and film to fix, but it is fixable.

These three issues, as stated above, are fixable. They are also the reasons that Carson Wentz went from MVP candidate to bust. The other piece of this that concerns me is that AR looked more developed in his fourth and fifth games last year than he has at any point this year. I understand development isn't linear, but regression is concerning, especially if the previously reached high point wasn't the level of play that is needed, either.

Agree with everything said. But I'm sure as hell glad He's a Colt instead of Levis.

I don't remember where I saw it but just before the game, someone showed video of AR from the first two weeks where instead of his hips being perpendicular to his target, his hips are often parallel to his target on many of his bad throws.

He has enought upper body strength to still muscle the ball to his target but it often has the "throwing across his body' effect and his accuracy is poor.

Fixable? Yes, but the video mash up clearly showed that his body was not cleanly aligned for the throw he was trying to make.

Went back and watched for that, you're absolutely right. Happens on the Downs airmail at the end of the half, as well as every high throw. The perfect throw to Granson, his back hip swung out. So this is quite clearly just a mechanical issue for an otherwise really accurate QB. They just need to coach him to plant his back foot in such a way that his hips are in the right position. I think scheming up some designed rollouts to the right will help with this as well, as he'll naturally have the correct footwork for those throws.

Let's look at the AR struggles in this context:

AR has a 49.3% completion percentage and has 7 career starts.

Trevor Lawrence has a 52.8 completion percentage and has 53 career starts.

I think everyone here wants AR to be better than Lawrence.

You beat me to it. Lawrence and the Jagoffs have been a shit show since Lawrence got hurt in their Bungles loss ~2/3 of the way through the season last year.

Of course the Jagoffs will beat us at least in Jax w/out any problem.

The comparisons to Josh Allen do not start and stop here, but this is the exact same issue he had coming out of Wyoming and his first season. That, and length of stride. Short stride = overthrows. Especially with that cannon on his right shoulder.

And fixing footwork may not be easy during the season, on the fly so to speak. It will get fixed though.