Colts' Uncertainty: Starting Quarterback Role and Season Outlook

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00:00I don't have high expectations for the Colts. I don't know what's in store for Shane Steichen

00:04and that team. Because why? We don't know who the starting quarterback is going to be. So let's

00:08start here. If you look just at the odds market to be the starter day number one, Anthony Richardson

00:13is the favorite at a minus 130 price. Daniel Jones, a slight underdog now to plus 102. Riley Leonard

00:18at an 80 to one. I always thought when the offseason began, Joe, this was a team that's

00:23going to say, Anthony Richardson, until the wheels fall off, we are going to play you this year

00:29because we have to understand if you get hurt again, you're going to get hurt every single

00:33year. Obviously in your career, we can't have you here. If you can play really well, maybe we have

00:37a future. If you are really bad on this football field and can't lead and perform, we're going to

00:41cut and get rid of you anyway. But at least you would have finality. Then we start here in the

00:45offseason like, hey, that shoulder injury not healed up. He's got to miss some time. And it just felt

00:49like it was going to be Daniel Jones's team, which is the exact opposite of what you wanted. Daniel

00:54Jones being your starting quarterback, he's not going to be your franchise guy. Let me start with

00:57Anthony Richardson with you and the expectations for what you've come to see over the past couple

01:03of years and entering into this all season right up to the start of training camp this year.

01:08I honestly don't know what the Colts thought was going to happen here. You're talking about a guy,

01:17Donnie, that had exactly one year under his belt at Florida as a college football starter. And even then,

01:26everyone said, wow, what great athletic abilities, a big guy. Wow, that's great. But the problem is

01:31he doesn't know where he's throwing the ball. And in the NFL, even a guy his size, you're not running

01:38in the NFL unless you plan on having a very short career. So we already know the shoulder issue

01:44because he's running. He has shown flashes of being, you know what, not a great quarterback,

01:50a great athlete. But that doesn't cut it in the NFL. So they threw him to the wolves right off the

01:57bat. He gets hurt. Now, all of a sudden, he doubts everything. And he's in training camp a couple of

02:02days, Donnie. And he's short hopping guys in 11 and 11 drills. He's thrown intercept. He looks like he

02:10has no clue as to what is going on. But why did we expect him to come in like this polished product

02:17and think that Indy of all places was somehow going to turn him around? Hasn't turned him

02:23around. It's actually made him worse. Yeah. Taking a flyer because we knew the unbelievable

02:29athletic ability coming out of Florida. That was always there. And it thought from the thought

02:33process was, well, he is going to be a little bit of a reclamation project. And usually you say that

02:37for a guy that's like 34 years old, just trying to get the last couple, you know, squeeze out of

02:41the juice there. But that's not the case. It was like, all right, we understand what we're getting

02:44out of Florida. He'll sit behind some quarterbacks. We'll have packages for him. But the maturity of

02:49the position is needed by saying, I might not play for one or two years. I'm going to get in some of

02:54these games. Sooner or later, it's going to be my team. Well, now we're a few years into his NFL

02:57career. We know nothing about the guy other than I'm really fast. I can run. I can dominate a game

03:02that way. But I do get really tired. I like to pull myself out of games. And I'm injured every single

03:06time I enter a football game. I can't finish it. So it doesn't feel like there's a lot to say,

03:11well, he struggled with new coaches. He's not struggling with new coaches at this point.

03:15So I can, it's a very good offensive coordinator. It will get the best out of them. And that's the

03:18problem. You have wide receivers. You have a solid offensive line. You have one of the best running

03:22backs in football. This should be working, but it seems like it's not working because number one,

03:26he's never been accurate. And maybe you can't teach that. But number two, you're right. If you're

03:30running game as a quarterback is what you lean on. You're not finishing many, many football games here in

03:35the NFL, Joe. No, no. Especially when you're trying to run over guys. I mean, listen,

03:40he can throw the ball 80 yards on the fly. We know that. We've seen it. But again, I wish they

03:46would have just allowed him to spend the year. They were in such a rush to hurry up and get them

03:51onto the field because somehow or another Indy thought they were an actual playoff team a couple

03:57of seasons ago. That's not it. I mean, he was a guy that needed to sit on the sidelines a couple of

04:03seasons to try to get acclimated to the speed of the NFL game and what's going on. Not to mention,

04:09is this a lead? Is this a guy that's going to lead your franchise and the men in the locker room

04:15there? Does he strike you as that kind of guy who took himself off the field because he was out of

04:19breath? Like, I don't like what in the world did you? It's not like he was a fifth round pick,

04:25Donnie. They went out of their way to get him in the first round and nobody else did.

04:29What a sweetheart.

04:31And that attitude.

04:33You know, you have to go out of your future.

04:36So, I don't want to take eight gold standard to do this.

04:39And if you don't share value with a friend that's going in two rounds,

04:41it was really like the same word that I named whom the fire and said Scheed got

04:46even though it's not going in the wrong place in the middle of the field.

04:48And that's what came up with hisала this Kopie Center.

04:51We're focused on how close those numbers.

04:53So, I decided not to forgive myself if he was a satisfying target, and most likely threat

04:54who had become really happy as part of the day.

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