Anthony Richardson, 2024 Season

[sherck]

QB Anthony Richardson 2024

133 attempts / 59 completions / 44.4% completion rate

You can spin up all the hype you want about his physical skills and running ability (of which he has in abundance), but you cannot get past, at the moment, a passing completion rate that will not win you many, if any, games.

Is it an offensive plan that is not doing him any favors by planning open and hot routes? Is it the clock in his head? Is it poor O-Line play? Is it an inability to read a defense?

I don't know. But my son at the end of the 3rd quarters said that we win the game if we put Joe Flacco in at QB and I think he would have been right.

Right now, AR is just not good enough.

[rm1369]

Originally Posted by sherck

QB Anthony Richardson 2024

133 attempts / 59 completions / 44.4% completion rate

You can spin up all the hype you want about his physical skills and running ability (of which he has in abundance), but you cannot get past, at the moment, a passing completion rate that will not win you many, if any, games.

Is it an offensive plan that is not doing him any favors by planning open and hot routes? Is it the clock in his head? Is it poor O-Line play? Is it an inability to read a defense?

I don't know. But my son at the end of the 3rd quarters said that we win the game if we put Joe Flacco in at QB and I think he would have been right.

Right now, AR is just not good enough.

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.

[sherck]

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.

[HoosierinFL]

I know its weird to say but there's no point in trying to win with Flacco because there's no point in trying to win.
We either develop AR into a franchise quarterback or we don't. There's no other goal to this season, wins be damned.

We might win and even make the playoffs withe Flacco but we aren't going deep in the playoffs and it won't help our draft stock, and 39 year old Flacco can't be the future of this team.

[Lov2fish]

I have railed on Richardson since last year. I didn't want any of the QB's last year and I wasn't shy about it. Richardson is a bust, period. Playing him this year and next is not going to change his trajectory of being a talented player who didn't make it. Putting in Flacco just gives us temporary joy just to get trounced out of the playoffs in the first round, if we even make it. Then we get the benefit of a late round selection. No thanks, we need talent in a lot of places.

All of his weaknesses that plague him now have been what has plagued him since high school. There has not been one percent improvement. The film 2 years ago showed he couldn't hit a wide open 10 yard check down in college, and he still can't. People can hang onto false hope all they want. Its their prerogative to do so, but my lying eyes say he sucks as an NFL starting QB.

[sherck]

The sad part of this whole situation is that Colts leadership said last year that even if they had the #1 overall that they would have taken AR. That he was THEIR guy.

Blowing smoke after the fact? Real? I don't know but, while AR might proove us all wrong, they had to have seen the issues he had and know that correcting them was not a certainty but a possibility.

Sigh....I just hate that we have to march in place year after year since Luck retired because we just do not have the right guy at QB. There are so few quality QBs in the league at any one time and if you don't have one of them...

[Dewey 5]

Originally Posted by Lov2fish

I have railed on Richardson since last year. I didn't want any of the QB's last year and I wasn't shy about it. Richardson is a bust, period. Playing him this year and next is not going to change his trajectory of being a talented player who didn't make it. Putting in Flacco just gives us temporary joy just to get trounced out of the playoffs in the first round, if we even make it. Then we get the benefit of a late round selection. No thanks, we need talent in a lot of places.

All of his weaknesses that plague him now have been what has plagued him since high school. There has not been one percent improvement. The film 2 years ago showed he couldn't hit a wide open 10 yard check down in college, and he still can't. People can hang onto false hope all they want. Its their prerogative to do so, but my lying eyes say he sucks as an NFL starting QB.

Sure looking like it. He is what he is. An exceptional athletic talent playing the qb position but just not a qb.

[apballin]

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.

Problem with that is he’s failing miserably, every time he gets hit he whinces and has bitter beer face, he can’t hit the broad side of a barn accuracy wise, he’s not on the same page with any WR on the dam team, his pocket presence has been horrendous, he moves into pressure most of the time, his situational football awareness is a joke, couldn’t even get a Hail Mary off vs a 3 man rush.

He’s gotten worse and worse than that he still has no clue what it is to be a leader out there. All the guidance, counseling and management they receive and he walked into a press conference and said “I was tired”

Every other QB over the last 5 years had a choker chain of a leash, 1 false step and Irsay was done with them. I still say Brissett and Wentz weren’t given a fair shake. Yet this guy has been given pass after pass because he’s young.

I have defended him since the draft and I simply cannot do it anymore, I really wanted him to succeed but he had a redshirt year and has gotten worse in year 2. Not slightly, I’m talking embarrassing laughable clown type backyard football. He’s making a mockery of the position, the team, and the game of football.

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by sherck

The sad part of this whole situation is that Colts leadership said last year that even if they had the #1 overall that they would have taken AR. That he was THEIR guy.

Blowing smoke after the fact? Real? I don't know but, while AR might proove us all wrong, they had to have seen the issues he had and know that correcting them was not a certainty but a possibility.

Sigh....I just hate that we have to march in place year after year since Luck retired because we just do not have the right guy at QB. There are so few quality QBs in the league at any one time and if you don't have one of them...

Ballard has such a hard on for RAS scores that I wouldn't doubt that AR was #1 on his board and that AR's red flags were probably not a concern for Ballard .

[Butter]

Originally Posted by sherck

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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.

I don't fully agree with , this season yes, but if by year end he is not showing progress it is time to move on.