Joe Flacco Replaces Anthony Richardson as Colts QB

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00:00Indianapolis turning to the old man, Joe Flacco.

00:07He was able to do it with Cleveland last year, leading that team to a playoff appearance

00:11against Houston.

00:13Now he's going to get the reins, take it over for Anthony Richardson.

00:17Richardson, last week in week number eight, only completes 10 or 32 passes for a buck

00:2275, but it's the way he moved off the football field.

00:26He was exhausted, couldn't make it through.

00:29The full game, the 60 minutes, now the Colts turn to Joe Flacco, answer a question.

00:36Do you feel this is the best move for the organization moving forward?

00:40And quite possibly, could this be the pinnacle, potentially, of paying first round draft picks

00:46and free agent quarterbacks an exorbitant amount of money?

00:52Is it the best move for the organization?

00:53Listen, you have a commitment to win, right?

00:57I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer.

01:00You've got guys on both sides of the fence.

01:02If you draft Richardson, whether they draft him fourth overall, he's obviously your quarterback

01:06in the future.

01:07He couldn't really play for the most part last year.

01:09A lot of teams will put their starting quarterbacks in there, whether it's Jaden Daniels, whether

01:13it's Williams.

01:17So you say, okay, we're going to have to learn through the lumps.

01:20But then the other side says, well, you've got a commitment to 50 other players.

01:23And clearly he's not as good as Joe Flacco.

01:25Joe Flacco showed last year, and he showed this year with the Colts.

01:28He's got a little something left.

01:30Who knows for how long?

01:31But he definitely does.

01:32You have a much better chance of winning with Flacco in there.

01:35So what do you do?

01:36Do you build for the future?

01:37You should, Joe, be able to still get Anthony Richardson on the same page with practice.

01:43But I will say, this is not the old days where you could practice for seven hours a day.

01:47There are limitations.

01:48You only have a couple of hours a day.

01:49You only have one day a week, literally, to be able to hit during practice because of

01:55football rules nowadays.

01:56So it's not as easy to sit at the bench and think you're going to get your reps and everything

02:00if you're not the starter.

02:01You're not.

02:02So listen, you've got to try and win, and in a weird sort of way, hope you'll lose.

02:09This way, there's no answer to it.

02:11There's no debate, rather, to it.

02:12You put Richardson in at the end of the game.

02:14But if you win a bunch of games in the AFC, you've got to finish right around nine and

02:19eight, and you're going to be competitive.

02:23Ultimately, yeah, I'd put Flacco in.

02:25I would.

02:26Because Richardson's bad.

02:27Think about this, Scott.

02:28Completion percentage is awful.

02:30Right.

02:31That's the biggest thing.

02:32And he struggled with that at Florida.

02:33But Flacco was able to lead this team in Cleveland last year to a playoff.

02:38Gardner Minshew had this team on the cusp of a playoff appearance in Week 17.

02:42They lose to Houston, right?

02:44So the team was close entering this year.

02:46Anthony Richardson, a dynamic, physical talent, but just hasn't been able to put it together

02:53in regards to the quarterback, the completion percentage, understanding how to read coverage.

02:58Maybe in time, that will come.

03:00But then on the flip side, look at Bryce Young in Carolina.

03:03Right now, in two and three years in Carolina, the kid hasn't put it together.

03:07They have a decision to make.

03:09And think about this.

03:11The amount of money that we have paid-

03:12But their decision is made, though, Joe.

03:14That's the advantage of playing Bryce Young now.

03:16They know.

03:17Bryce Young's not going to be the quarterback of the Carolina Panthers.

03:19And you said the same thing about Anthony Richardson with Indianapolis.

03:23If you don't play Richardson, you're not going to find out if he stinks.

03:26At least Carolina knows Bryce Young stinks.

03:29He's obviously out of condition, right?

03:3210-32.

03:33Well, he took himself out of the game for exhaustion.

03:37I think a lot more is being made to that.

03:41He doesn't know now, Joe, that, you know what, if I'm a little winded, I've got to still

03:46stay in the game.

03:47I'm the quarterback.

03:48He doesn't quite know that.

03:50I don't think the guy was so exhausted he couldn't, you know, walk and help me off the

03:54field here.

03:55We're not talking about Kaelin Winslow.

03:57We're not talking about Kaelin Winslow and the Miami Dolphins-San Diego Chargers, who

04:01will help you off the football field here, and then go right back for the next play.

04:04Well, Cunnington would have had that issue, Scotty, with the Super Bowl, right?

04:07Growing up, yeah.

04:08When they lost, right?

04:09But did he take himself out of the football game?

04:12No.

04:13So, I mean, when you're the face of the franchise and you have, you know, 52 other players looking

04:18at you, and even though you're a young player, you're supposed to lead that team by example.

04:23I mean, you know, other quarterbacks, Tom Brady, Pat Moems, aren't coming off the field

04:28unless they're majorly injured in that type of situation, not due to exhaustion, not due

04:33to a conditioning problem.

04:35It wasn't like he was running the ball 50 times and he needed a blow.

04:39He had to be taken out.

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