Exploring Anthony Richardson's Potential Impact and Struggles

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00:00Let me ask you something here. If you're Shane Steichen, best case scenario, Anthony Richardson,

00:09he lives up to what we all hope he can do. Running, throwing, he's healthy, this team

00:14has a great year, and he's a superstar, right? What if he struggles? What if he has a good

00:21drive or a good game, then a bad game, a good game, then a bad game? He's a pick, everybody's

00:26kind of expecting him to be the guy. You got a guy like Joe Flacco with the roster

00:31they have. I just wonder how you handle that if it goes down that path, if you're Shane

00:38Steichen, because you know what you're going to get in Joe Flacco.

00:41You know what you're going to get in Joe Flacco, do you? I mean, Joe Flacco last year had this

00:46really, really amazing run of games for the Cleveland Browns. But prior to that, I mean,

00:52come on, Joe Flacco was at that point in his career, he was just kind of a bouncing

00:57around the NFL backup. In fact, before he even got to Cleveland last year, he was sitting

01:00on his couch for the first 12 weeks of the NFL season. So is Joe Flacco ready to be the

01:06guy that he was for the last six weeks for the Browns? Or is Joe Flacco just a guy now

01:11who had a really great career, won a Super Bowl, made a lot of money, and now he's a

01:18career backup?

01:19Listen, again, I don't yell no more. So I'll be trying to be calm when I start these conversations.

01:30The coach took Anthony Richardson, knowing he was a project. And after year one of said

01:36project, he got hurt. And so the growth of Anthony Richardson was stunted, gigantically,

01:42by the amount of games that he missed due to injury. And so him picking up this year,

01:47where he left off, there's going to be some bumps in the road with every rookie quarterback

01:51at every rookie at every position. So if a rookie has a bad game, and then a good game,

01:55and then a bad game, are you going to go to the backup if the guy's a corner, or if he's

01:59a linebacker, or if he's a left tackle? Like the idea that because Anthony Richardson has

02:04points where he struggles, that now you're supposed to take him out for this traditional

02:08quarterback when they drafted him because he wasn't a traditional quarterback. They

02:12drafted him because his dual threat ability. That's specifically why they took him. That's

02:18what made Shane Steichen so good with Philadelphia and Jalen Hurts. The ability to run and pass,

02:25the mix of the two, to create more options from the quarterback position. So for Kirk

02:31Hurts to talk as if he's going to struggle.