I didn’t expect that. Everything the Colts have said suggests that they would give AR the time and patience to develop, although they fully understand that he is a young quarterback with very little experience and that it is on the There will be some difficult phases along the way. That seems to have been a lie because it looks like the team will go with Joe Flacco at quarterback for the rest of the season.

Is Flacco a better quarterback than Richardson right now? 100% yes, I don’t think anyone questions that. So is Flacco a good enough quarterback to lead the Colts through the playoffs this season? No chance at all. And Flacco isn’t under contract with the Colts until this year. He’ll be 40 in just two months, he’s not a long-term solution.

Well, the way I see it, there are several different possible scenarios that could have gotten us to where we are now, and there isn’t a single one that gives me hope for the future of this mediocre and terribly run franchise.

The first reason is that Richardson will be penalized for playing a playoff against the Texans and will be named the starter again after this week or perhaps after the first series. I have this (stupid, I know) hope this is all an act and Richardson ends up on the bench for the first series, only to go up against an unprepared Vikings defense and torch them at SNF, re-establishing himself as the franchise quarterback. That’s just wishful thinking at this point and probably far from the truth.

If the decision isn’t based “at all” on him substituting himself, as some sources say, then the team has either completely given up on AR but doesn’t want to say it yet, which again would be the stupidest thing to do, or really believe that it is The right way is to bench the young quarterback to promote his development. You knew And said that the guy needs time, that he has to play and make mistakes to be PATIENT. Ballard didn’t spend much money in free agency since this was supposed to be Richardson’s rookie year and the Colts knew there could be a lot of inconsistencies. Colts management has consistently said he needs to play and make mistakes to learn. Giving up on him so early, even though he wasn’t feeling too bad yet, and with such a small sample size, would just be so stupid that I can’t accept it. You draft a young, inexperienced quarterback, you know damn well he needs time to develop, he’s understandably struggling a little, and you bench him? What message does this send to AR? Check out the last 25 years of NFL football. When did benching a young quarterback help the guy? Either allow him to ride out the ups and downs, or let him learn from the comfort of the bench like Mahomes or Jordan Love did. What kind of beginning and then a bank is this? This kind of approach has never It worked in the past, so why should it work for us now?

All this “management” does is make me want to leave this team. I don’t know if it’s Irsay, Ballard or Steichen, and honestly I don’t care. Since Luck retired, the management of this team has been absolutely terrible and I don’t want to waste my time and sanity fighting for such a dysfunctional and stupid franchise. When there is an undeniable trend toward mismanagement, you start looking at the people at the top. Fire your head coach and hire an ESPN analyst. The surprise retirement of your franchise quarterback is announced by an outsider in the middle of a preseason game. Their best player of all time is more present for a franchise he only played for four seasons, and I will do him the favor of not even mentioning the off-field issues. I’ll see how the rest of the year plays out, but as long as Irsay is running this franchise, I think things will get a lot worse before they finally get better.