Flacco Takes Over for Richardson After the Rookie Quit

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00:00Let's talk about Anthony Richardson.

00:06I made it very clear on this show why he got benched one.

00:10It's because he quit in the middle of an NFL game and said he was tired and needed to go

00:16sit down and have a drink.

00:19That's why he's been benched because you can't have that from a 22 year old top pick quarterback

00:27who has done nothing but get injured, and then he quits on his team?

00:30Are you kidding me?

00:32He doesn't understand why he got benched?

00:34I said today already, how stupid are you?

00:37Let me tell you something from covering this business for decades.

00:41If Richardson started this week, Shane Stike and their head coach could have lost the locker

00:45room.

00:46I'm telling you.

00:47Right.

00:48That'll never go over well with veteran players.

00:50I get it.

00:51I know they're not happy because they've got that quarterback carousel which DeFarge Buckner

00:55talked about, but the bottom line is you can't do that.

00:58The quarterback is the leader of the football team, okay?

01:01Not just the head coach.

01:02It's the quarterback.

01:04They look to the quarterback to get the job done, and by the way, Richardson, after that

01:06great start last season, he was great, but he got hurt with his shoulder.

01:10He's been awful this season.

01:11That's the other part of this that people have to understand.

01:13He struggled mightily, but you can't check out of a game.

01:17That's inexcusable.

01:18Now, the book on him from a scouting standpoint, very talented, but immature.

01:24You just saw it last week.

01:25He's got to get it.

01:26Talk about not getting it.

01:28Now, he's going to get it off the sidelines.

01:30Joe Flacco will start the rest of the season.

01:32How about this story?

01:34I'm talking to people close to him.

01:37He didn't have an offer from another team, Scott.

01:40Not one.

01:41There wouldn't be a backup.

01:43How ridiculous is that?

01:44Flacco's better than half the starting quarterbacks in the National Football League right now,

01:46hands down.

01:47Listen, Joe Flacco, in the game against Jacksonville, the two tutties he threw to Pierce

01:54late in the game, in the fourth quarter, to get him back in the game were so just brilliant

01:59passes.

02:00It was unbelievable.

02:01Watch.

02:02I cannot believe they actually lost that game.

02:04The way he brought them back in that game and got them tied, and then they give up the

02:07late field goal and lose to that crappy team, I almost fell over.

02:10But let's face facts.

02:13Flacco, whenever he plays, whether it was in Baltimore, he won a Super Bowl ring.

02:18Whether it was in Cleveland, he was phenomenal.

02:22You think famous Jameis was good last week.

02:24This guy Flacco did it for like 10 weeks and took him to the playoffs.

02:29He was incredible.

02:30And he is just really a smart, veteran-savvy, arm-throwing quarterback.

02:36As good as they come in the NFL, he's the best backup in the entire league.

02:39Scott, he's got the strongest arm I've seen live.

02:42I've covered Joe since his days at Delaware, saw him play at Villanova in the fall of 2007.

02:49I was on the field.

02:51He looked like an absolute cannon, and he's still doing it at 38 years old.

02:55By the way, he's a really good athlete, better than you think.

02:57He can still move.

02:59And this is a guy, you mentioned it, he put the Browns on their back last season to make

03:05the playoffs.

03:06Yes, it ended in Houston, but he brought them back to somehow get in the playoffs.

03:12He could get them to be a wild card.

03:14There's no question about it.

03:15This is a move they had to make.

03:17Say this about Shane Steichen.

03:19He was decisive.

03:20They're not going to back the Richardson unless Flacco gets hurt.

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