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00:00Indianapolis turning to the old man, Joe Flacco.
00:07He was able to do it with Cleveland last year, leading that team to a playoff appearance
00:11against Houston.
00:13Now he's going to get the reins, take it over for Anthony Richardson.
00:17Richardson, last week in week number eight, only completes 10 or 32 passes for a buck
00:2275, but it's the way he moved off the football field.
00:26He was exhausted, couldn't make it through.
00:29The full game, the 60 minutes, now the Colts turn to Joe Flacco, answer a question.
00:36Do you feel this is the best move for the organization moving forward?
00:40And quite possibly, could this be the pinnacle, potentially, of paying first round draft picks
00:46and free agent quarterbacks an exorbitant amount of money?
00:52Is it the best move for the organization?
00:53Listen, you have a commitment to win, right?
00:57I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer.
01:00You've got guys on both sides of the fence.
01:02If you draft Richardson, whether they draft him fourth overall, he's obviously your quarterback
01:06in the future.
01:07He couldn't really play for the most part last year.
01:09A lot of teams will put their starting quarterbacks in there, whether it's Jaden Daniels, whether
01:13it's Williams.
01:17So you say, okay, we're going to have to learn through the lumps.
01:20But then the other side says, well, you've got a commitment to 50 other players.
01:23And clearly he's not as good as Joe Flacco.
01:25Joe Flacco showed last year, and he showed this year with the Colts.
01:28He's got a little something left.
01:30Who knows for how long?
01:31But he definitely does.
01:32You have a much better chance of winning with Flacco in there.
01:35So what do you do?
01:36Do you build for the future?
01:37You should, Joe, be able to still get Anthony Richardson on the same page with practice.
01:43But I will say, this is not the old days where you could practice for seven hours a day.
01:47There are limitations.
01:48You only have a couple of hours a day.
01:49You only have one day a week, literally, to be able to hit during practice because of
01:55football rules nowadays.
01:56So it's not as easy to sit at the bench and think you're going to get your reps and everything
02:00if you're not the starter.
02:01You're not.
02:02So listen, you've got to try and win, and in a weird sort of way, hope you'll lose.
02:09This way, there's no answer to it.
02:11There's no debate, rather, to it.
02:12You put Richardson in at the end of the game.
02:14But if you win a bunch of games in the AFC, you've got to finish right around nine and
02:19eight, and you're going to be competitive.
02:23Ultimately, yeah, I'd put Flacco in.
02:25I would.
02:26Because Richardson's bad.
02:27Think about this, Scott.
02:28Completion percentage is awful.
02:30Right.
02:31That's the biggest thing.
02:32And he struggled with that at Florida.
02:33But Flacco was able to lead this team in Cleveland last year to a playoff.
02:38Gardner Minshew had this team on the cusp of a playoff appearance in Week 17.
02:42They lose to Houston, right?
02:44So the team was close entering this year.
02:46Anthony Richardson, a dynamic, physical talent, but just hasn't been able to put it together
02:53in regards to the quarterback, the completion percentage, understanding how to read coverage.
02:58Maybe in time, that will come.
03:00But then on the flip side, look at Bryce Young in Carolina.
03:03Right now, in two and three years in Carolina, the kid hasn't put it together.
03:07They have a decision to make.
03:09And think about this.
03:11The amount of money that we have paid-
03:12But their decision is made, though, Joe.
03:14That's the advantage of playing Bryce Young now.
03:16They know.
03:17Bryce Young's not going to be the quarterback of the Carolina Panthers.
03:19And you said the same thing about Anthony Richardson with Indianapolis.
03:23If you don't play Richardson, you're not going to find out if he stinks.
03:26At least Carolina knows Bryce Young stinks.
03:29He's obviously out of condition, right?
03:3210-32.
03:33Well, he took himself out of the game for exhaustion.
03:37I think a lot more is being made to that.
03:41He doesn't know now, Joe, that, you know what, if I'm a little winded, I've got to still
03:46stay in the game.
03:47I'm the quarterback.
03:48He doesn't quite know that.
03:50I don't think the guy was so exhausted he couldn't, you know, walk and help me off the
03:54field here.
03:55We're not talking about Kaelin Winslow.
03:57We're not talking about Kaelin Winslow and the Miami Dolphins-San Diego Chargers, who
04:01will help you off the football field here, and then go right back for the next play.
04:04Well, Cunnington would have had that issue, Scotty, with the Super Bowl, right?
04:07Growing up, yeah.
04:08When they lost, right?
04:09But did he take himself out of the football game?
04:12No.
04:13So, I mean, when you're the face of the franchise and you have, you know, 52 other players looking
04:18at you, and even though you're a young player, you're supposed to lead that team by example.
04:23I mean, you know, other quarterbacks, Tom Brady, Pat Moems, aren't coming off the field
04:28unless they're majorly injured in that type of situation, not due to exhaustion, not due
04:33to a conditioning problem.
04:35It wasn't like he was running the ball 50 times and he needed a blow.
04:39He had to be taken out.