Anthony Richardson, 2024 Season

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Originally Posted by rm1369

I don’t think anyone would disagree that AR isn’t good enough. Benching AR now solves nothing. Yes the team will win a few more games but it’s not a great team even with Flacco. And you continue the QB carousel - no idea who the starter will be in 1-2 years. Play the kid and let him either grow or fail. I mean fuck he was touted as extremely fucking raw and inaccurate and he’s shown to be exactly that. Why is that a huge surprise? I think mainly because 1) he looked better than expected in limited time last year. And 2) people are finally getting tired of Ballards perpetual rebuild. Let’s let the kid fail on his own and not add Ballard’s failures to it.

I was not actually saying we should bench him....I was saying that even Flacco would have delivered quality enough QB play for us to win the game.

I think the Colts pretty much have to start AR for the rest of this season and all of next season to allow him to sink or swim. At the end of 3 seasons, you have enough data to make the call.

His dead money after 2025 would only be just under $11m which is easily accounted for if the Colts then choose to go in a new direction.

I was just using that as an illustration that even my son can see that AR was not good enough to win and going to a 154 year-old backup would have been.