00:00Daniel Jones is now a member of the Indianapolis Colts.
00:02Mike, I feel like I've got to catch people up on this stuff here.
00:04He won the quarterback job.
00:07He did?
00:07I've got to tell you.
00:09I'm not surprised.
00:10You know, there's pressure in the NFL to win from game one.
00:15It doesn't matter if you're a first-year coach or seventh-year coach.
00:18And let's just call it what it is.
00:20The body of work of Anthony Richardson is one out of every three games he looks great.
00:25I mean, that's five wins at the end of the year.
00:27It can't happen.
00:27Yeah, I think the problem here is that that didn't apply when the Colts drafted Anthony Richardson back in 2023
00:38and immediately put him in the starting lineup.
00:39They knew.
00:40Everybody knew.
00:42The results were on tape.
00:44They were on his college football reference page.
00:47Anything you wanted to look at said Anthony Richardson is a project.
00:51He has as good an arm as there is in terms of strength in all of college football.
00:56His testing was off the charts at the Combine, but he completed less than 60% of his passes as a collegiate.
01:05So, definite project.
01:07So, what do they do?
01:07They start him game one.
01:09He fails.
01:10Then he gets hurt.
01:11Then he comes back the next year, fails.
01:13Then he gets hurt.
01:14And now we're in year three, and the Colts management, from this general manager, Chris Ballard, to the head coach, Shane Steichen, it's really a lot of pressure for them to win.
01:25And now they go with the more reliable, convenient choice.
01:29I look at this as a failure, not just of the Colts in selecting or in rushing Anthony Richardson into the lineup, but this is a general problem in the NFL right now, being in such a hurry to take advantage of having spent a first-round pick on a quarterback that you have to use that player right away.
01:51And it's producing an unbelievable degree of failure, nine of 17 top five picks as quarterbacks over the last decade, not counting the last, each of the last two years, because those players haven't had a chance to establish themselves yet.
02:08But going back to Richardson's class and beyond, those players have not succeeded.
02:15Nine of them were flops out of 17.
02:17That's a terrible rank, a terrible success rate for that position and for that level of selection.
02:26The best players at the position, you look at Patrick Mahomes as the most glaring example, aren't being rushed in to the action.
02:37Lamar Jackson, he didn't start until the final seven games of his rookie year.
02:43And that's why when you mentioned New York and what's happening there, I look at that.
02:49You got Russell Wilson, if he's healthy, play him.
02:52Let Jackson Dart watch Russell Wilson play.
02:56Is Russ the player he was in Seattle?
02:58No, but he's still decent at worst.
03:02And why rush Jackson Dart in there to find out what it's like to fail?
03:06Even the best are going to fail some, but you don't want them to fail consistently.
Be the first to comment