2025 qb

[bigalbert]

What sucks more than anything is the move was right there for us and we’d be set for 15 years

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by nate505

Who cares ??? They'll get a whopping half a season before they are written off, and the Colts draft someone else.

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You're exaggerating ...... Anthony Richardson started 10 games before they benched him.

There are 17 games in a season. 10 out of 17 is 59%, which is more than half a season.

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[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by apballin

Ship hasn’t sailed, he’s just not ready

He’s still the qb of the future

Nah, not after the way this has gone down, today they put his name on the Colts tombstone. No coming back from this.

[Dam8610]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

what's the play here? It isn't AR. that ship is done.

if flacco wins 8 or 9 games do we roll with him again. that's a nightmare for me. I will hate that. we won't draft a guy. do we sign a minshew type player?


what's the call here?

Why wouldn't it be AR? If they jettison the whole front office, it might not be, but as you lay out, there aren't really other options. The way I see it, there are only 3 ways this goes:

1) Flacco comes in, does well, and leads the team to the playoffs. In this scenario, Flacco is 41 next year, there’s no way the Colts will go back to him for 2025. So, AR will end up being the guy in 2025.

2) Flacco comes in for a few games and does poorly, so they go back to AR. Is this ideal? No, they should've kept starting Richardson, but there’s no reason not to let him get playing time and see what they have if there's no postseason chances. This would indicate to me that the front office was afraid of losing the locker room after the Houston game.

3) Flacco does poorly and continues to start for the rest of the season anyway, and the Colts miss the playoffs. If this happens, I think the entire front office is gone at the end of the season, and AR may or may not get another chance. This would indicate to me that Flacco was an Irsay decision, and he wasn’t willing to accept missing the playoffs this season. To me, this is the most hopeless scenario, as it would mean the Irsays have turned into a poor ownership group again. This would demonstrate impatience from ownership at every level, and impatient ownership groups rarely if ever build sustained success for the franchise on the field.

I think Scenario 2 is how it plays out, and honestly, with how poor the 2025 QB class is, I'd run it back with AR next year whether it's the current or a new regime. Either he improves the way we'd hoped he would, or he'll likely perform poorly enough to put the team in position to get Arch Manning. Either would be fine with me.