Episode 473 | What’s Intriguing About Anthony Richardson & What Questions Do We Have?

0:00 – Intro
4:49 – What is intriguing about AR?
20:57 – What are the questions?
37:52 – Twitter Questions

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we are back another edition of Kevin’s Corner fitting Lee a month out from the start of training camp this is Monday June 24th again we’ll get that full training camp schedule later this week and then July 24th will certainly be the kickoff at to things at Grand Park Eddie Garrison always good to see you how are you on this Monday likewise how are you I’m good did you have a good weekend I did I did uh I always am kind of like you get to this point you’re like damn July 4th here we come like here we go I mean it’s a once you see the training camp schedule I feel like it’s about to really really get here very quickly um and I’m intrigued and I’m honestly looking forward to this podcast specifically I think it’s going to be one that um is very Anthony Richardson Centric and I don’t want to get into as much as the we de baiting shoulder soreness or things like that I don’t think you can talk about Richardson with without speaking to his playing style to be fair and just the nature that comes with that but at the same time um there’s so much more to his game that I think we witnessed last season albe it in a small sample size that offers a chance for us to uh focus on him here and you know honestly I kind of find it fitting you know I emailed you last night like hey let’s focus on Richardson tomorrow on the podcast and I don’t know if you saw this morning but all of a sudden out of nowhere you got Dan orlovi tweeting under the radar player who could throw the whole league off if he takes the leap Anthony Richardson I feel like I’ve seen a lot of those in the last two three weeks and like you know it’s funny because like field Yates responded to that and goes you know preach at Dano so he agrees you know in the field Yates world of it and I’ve done you know some of these random like fantasy football Centric podcasts here over the last couple of weeks I mean Eddie anthy ‘s name is like one of the first few picks in some of these fantasy leagues what you’re talking quarterback uh I mean he is very high up there so um that is something that I feel like is really really interesting to me um that has has kind of stood out of you know it’s fantasy Centric and I get that you know I I I understand how fantasy football works but I also think orlov’s tweet comes more of just from the NF the actual football nature to it and I do think you know he offers a super intriguing ious um unknown however you want to describe it I’ve the word I’ve used quite often about the Colts in doing these different you know whatever radio interviews it’s like I just think volatility might not be the right word but that’s kind of the word I’ve used in just like you just don’t truly know with Richardson and I think the sample size you you you saw offered a ton of intrigue um then I’m also reminded like how little he played and just how much he’ never expect experienced and you know how does all of that unfold this year so um I do think it’s a really curious time to be a Colts fan and just there’s there’s a lot of intrigue and again I think if you can separate yourself from the injury questions which you you have to acknowledge with him um but at the same time I do think there’s a whole lot here that uh that is very intriguing about number five um want to mention this really quickly I know there are some our listeners that are you know primarily podcast listeners and may not listen to your show in the mornings from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. on the fan or uh the midday show with uh querying company with Jake query Jimmy Cook and then maybe even the ride with j&v so they may not be aware of this but um in a few weeks uh July 18th uh they can come catch you meet you in person at the back n uh golf and entertainment here in downtown Indianapolis for the back night golf event with Franciscan Health and we’ll have food drinks um what else we got going on it’s a grand old time yeah going to start at I think 11:00 a.m. is checkin noon official start time on that Thursday the 18th yeah for those that haven’t been to the Back N golf entertainment center it is awesome cool shot of downtown uh really fun day we did it last year and I I love just getting out and interacting with listeners and meeting people and you know when we have the morning show we don’t have a lot of remote shows so it’s always fun to kind of put faces to you know names and people that have reached out whether social media or email or even some people that have you know never met them prior so yes really looking forward to that uh again three weeks I guess at this point from Thursday uh you can check out our website as Edie said 1075 theef fan.com our events tab there we’ll have a uh preview of that so and if you are uh listening slw watching on YouTube I’ll put a link to the tickets cool in the description there you go I like that a lot all right let’s get into it um we’re going to start here just the Intrigue of Richardson and um you know when he was drafted so much of it I think it was rooted in they this is a big play potential quarterback and I kind of walk away from the four games last year Eddie and I’m like man the Colts were I think it was 10th in explosive plays when he was at QB yet I don’t feel like we even felt the full effect of it and by that I mean this I don’t think he Uncorked it as much down the down the field as he can and will do and then also you know him and Jonathan Taylor play two snaps together so the fact that you were still tenth in explosive plays when he was in the lineup but you didn’t have Taylor um I think offers just so much Intrigue of the big playability you know when Gardner mchu and Matt Ryan would start a drive incompletion incompletion I would sit there and think to myself oh the Colts need to punt on third down whereas if Anthony Richardson starts to drive incompletion incompletion you still strike fear in the defense in your ability to create a big play um with him you can’t fully breathe if you’re the defense until the play’s over because he offers that Dynamic and his arm strength should offer an ability again to test teams much more across the field and that’s horizontally and vertically so I think that stands out I think back to the four games he played and I get he was in and out of line up at a couple of those games but you know what Eddie he was two and two as a starter the one loss to open up the year was you know I thought a pretty good back and forth game where you had a lead in the fourth quarter against Jacksonville and then you had the Rams game which was an awful start but then he spearheaded and he was a huge part of leading that comeback and you lose an overtime to you know a very quality Rams team so me think about that you know I mean again I could preface it a thousand times in this podcast and saying the sample size is what it is but two and two losing to the Jags and losing to the Rams granted two home games you know to me not the end of the world for a rookie starter um I think another thing that needs to be very high on the Intrigue list is you are going or you should be a better Red Zone team oh yeah you know we’ve said this a million times and I remember saying it right after the draft happened why do college teams bring in the Dual threat quarterback in short yardage of the Red Zone because when the field shrinks you want a multi-purpose individual that’s touching the football and that’s exactly what Richardson is um at times you have to go off script when the field field shrinks a bit and just a little subtlety of a guy slipping off you or a pump fake here and you freeze Defenders and you know you can make them play I mean hell we saw it at Lucas Oil Stadium what was that two years ago now with Jaylen Herz on the third and goal play and the seeg just parted right and just again when you have that run threat I won’t forget watching that one cuz where I was sitting was the endzone and I just see I mean it was just it was a parting it was a 1,00% a parting one of us could have scored that well not I think you know the turf monster at the two maybe would have caught me there but you know so much of that I think is really intriguing um I guess this is kind of a backhanded compliment but I go back to that Rams game and I think to myself I remember doing a deep dive into that game because obviously you had such a jinh high nature to how it started and ended Richardson was so poor in that game from inside the pocket but was wildly Dynamic outside of the pocket you know he extends and makes that play uh to Mo Ali Cox for the big touchdown um I think he had a big play to OG tree if I’m not mistaken the two-point play very similar to that again it’s the Off Script nature which he does a great job of and I think what he also does a great job of is he doesn’t bail to that immediately I think it’d be very easy for him as a quarterback as it’s fair to say when you compare him to the rest of the NFL he’s an inaccurate starting quarterback when you compare him to the other QBs in the league I actually want to get into that because when you look at the overall percentage for him last season was 59 and a half but a lot of that is skewed because of that Rams game if you just removed that game out of his uh short season last year he was 50 of 84 total if you remove that one game 39 of 59 so that completion percentage goes from 59% % to 66% I don’t know if we even have a an accurate reading on his accuracy well we could probably say we don’t have an accurate rating period on him because he played 173 snacks but I’m just I’m going on if you look at Florida if you look at the preseason and if you look at his four games and you just measure that up to everybody else he’s inaccurate on on that scale again for the thousandth and one time it’s a small sample size so that’s why I can’t wait to watch him because we’re finally going to get clear answers but if you look at that ramp game he made so many plays Off Script but again he’s not a guy that bailes immediately to go to Off Script I think it’d be very easy with a player of his skill set when you do struggle as an in-pocket passer I want to say in that game I think it was like six of 18 six of 19 something like that inside the pocket when you are that guy it’d be very easy to say oh boy that doesn’t look good I’m tucking it immediately and he’s not that and it comes back to the Poise word the Colts use so often when evaluating him at FLA Florida it’s that he has when pressure gets around him he’s not dear in headlights he keeps it the eyes down the field there’s no one in the NFL that does it better than Patrick Mahomes I think that is such a special quality that’s very difficult to teach in a player and I think you saw that um and I remember Shawn McVey was glowing in his praise post game of Anthony Richardson and you know what he did obviously we all remember that Aaron Donald is draped on him and he Chucks the Deep ball down to Alec Pierce but you know I was reminded in that game Eddie of like I want to say it was the final drive I think the Colts were tied and for and it was three straight plays all three inside the pocket incompletion incompletion incompletion and then it led to overtime so again th these are just some areas where it’s like all right is that an outlier is that something to watch you know you know obviously um we’ll see how all that unfolds this season um so I I so much of the curi Curiosity just comes from that ability to have a bit of a leg threat and whether it’s short yardage whether it’s the ability to create big plays whether it’s um I guess those two honestly and I’ve brought this play up so many times but to me it tells you everything you need to know when you watch the all 22 play of Zach Moss’s big touchdown against Tennessee back at home in whatever that was week five or week six ironically the game Richardson gets hurt the amount of respect that Tennessee had for Anthony Richardson keeping it on that zone readed was everything you needed to get Zach Moss to the second level and Zach Moss a guy no one is labeling as a home run hitter gets to the second level and he’s gone now picture Jonathan Taylor next to him a a a true home run hitter Taylor’s hit home runs with every quarterback he’s played with and none of them have had a real leg threat I mean Wentz Maybe a little bit but like no one has had what Richardson brings so just that duo just stop and pause Richardson and Taylor in the backfield striking fear in a defense I’d argue it’s been a long time since the Colts had a offensive Duo that actually made defensive coordinators sweat passing or running frankly and to have that ability and now to okay let’s just play that out now teams load the Box more now teams are saying we’re taking away that that’s their strength we’re taking that away okay there’s oneon-one on the outside for Pitman there’s one-on-one for ad Mitchell there’s one-on-one for Al Pierce and now you’ve got a big armed quarterback that if you’re able to stick it in the belly of Jonathan Taylor and boom that safety Takes Two Steps up now you’ve got more of these opportunities down the field and obviously got to hit on them but if there’s one thing that Richardson does very well as a passer in this dates back to Florida he was a good deep ball thrower that’s all you know his inaccuracies are more in kind of the intermediate stuff we played the clip earlier uh on one of the podcasts from will huet his quarterback coach Richardson mentioned specifically I want to throw over the middle like Brock py throws over the middle you know that accuracy when the numbers you know inside the numbers and it’s a little bit more crowded you you largely got to throw with anticipation more than velocity and you know he had that play in the Rams game to Josh which I think is one of the more kind of iconic rich in plays from last year but again as a deep ball vertical over the top guy I’ve seen him practice I don’t think we really saw much of it in a game if I’m not mistaken I want to say Pierce drop one in the preseason if you go back and I know we’re really nitpicking with some of this stuff but again the sample size is so small but like I think it was a Bills game maybe you know that stuff should be there if you block it up and you are able to provide that so I think just that ingredient Richardson the Run threat and the Big Arm because think about it running quarterbacks at times and maybe I’m stereotyping a little bit but running quarterbacks typically are not great deep ball throwers that’s usually not like a combination of it um so the fact that that’s his other weapon I think adds to the nervous energy if you’re a backend Defender thinking to yourself boy should I become an extra hat in the box or should I think to myself the moment I do that we’re putting you know Johnny on an island over there and if you know Pierce or Mitchell or whoever beats him now all of a sudden you know a 12 yard run could become a 38 yard pass um the fact that the Colts were fifth last year and plays over 30 yards without Richardson for 80% of the Season 90% Taylor obviously missing a chunk as well it’s just huge um it’s just absolutely huge on that end so I think that’s where so much of the Intrigue centers around it I do think he’s a guy that’s wired in a way that you want um as M the Reps he missed was a huge deal I don’t want to lose sight of that I was adamant about it this time last year he needs all the Reps he can get I thought he should have you know started from day one of training camp are you talking about like this season no so far I guess no no last year today just like all the Reps he’s missed in his career I know I’m talking about you know missing the final day of of OTAs all of that is such a kick in the you know what to his overall development and it’s just such a bummer but mentally I do think it adds drive not that he needs any right he strikes me as a very individually driven human but like that’s got to be frustrating you know when you watch CJ strad your guy get those moments you watch what CJ stra does in your own building and you know get that moment like that’s got to piss you off um so I do think that is important as well so um I think that covers probably the base of the Intrigue around it it’s the explosive element um you never feel like you’re out of it and like and the marriage between him and Shane sure sure I mean that’s yeah I’m glad you brought that up I me that’s yeah that’s beyond making sense I also think what’s intriguing about Richardson is you know I I I’ve made the baseball analogy with him quite often is like he hits the home runs Eddie I go back to last year and again he throws the pick to Tyson Campbell to end that Jacksonville game poor decision you know etc etc I don’t remember many risky plays from him as a runner or a thrower I don’t recall a ton of you know again his completion percentage was largely inaccurate but for the most part I didn’t think he had a bunch of turnover worthy plays and often times when you talk about dudes that can create big plays there’s good and bad that comes with it there’s risk and with him again for the most part I thought his outs if you want to go to the baseball analogy his outs were Ground balls to Second not striking out with the bases loaded and that is a that is a unique quality for a big play player I mean usually if you do provide the spark and the Intrigue and the flare you’re going to have to live with some disaster and I I didn’t get the sense he flirted with disaster quite often and I I mean hell maybe I should go back and watch those 173 snaps again but um I didn’t get that feeling from him at all really last season I I I think that was his only interception was was the Campbell play so um yes and again I mean even as a this is probably where I would disagree with the Colts and we we can get into this some now I I just didn’t think he was a reckless Runner either um in the types of chances that he took or you know any sort of that I mean hell I remember what the first play of the Rams game right when he came back from the concussion didn’t he slide yes on that first play uh you know that probably told you everything that you needed to know so anything else on that front Eddie when we just talk about overall posit positive curiosity Intrigue with number five when you’re talking about like you know him being a young player and an exciting player kind of reminds me of our favorite team in the Cincinnati Reds with Ellie De La Cruz like right that dude is the most electrifying player on the uh on the field some days and then there are other days where it’s like dude come on like let’s get it together like and there’s going to be those types of games Drive series with Anthony Richardson it’s just you know minimizing those days of it’s like all right you’ve got all the tools just now hon it in between the ears um and play to the ability that you can yeah and I would say a couple things I do think that dor Cruz comp is really really good um he can impact the game in multiple ways and Ellie can do that whether it’s the arm whether it’s the speed I mean h scored on what a pickoff move yep um the other day in Milwaukee certainly you have power there um but at the same time when you look at him as a batter I I I don’t maybe I’m wrong on this I would think he probably ranks up there in strikeouts he’s yeah I mean he is but he’s been screwed a lot too so um yeah gez I’m ping up right now yeah he leads Major League Baseball in strikeouts um I don’t get that with Richardson like I don’t think and I don’t know maybe he’ll come become a little bit more turnover prone than he has so far but that wasn’t really the ml at Florida either just like massive turnover numbers where you’ve got to reain that in so um that I think covers everything for me Intrigue wise again unless you got more to add on that front Let’s uh let’s dive into the questions Cleveland Cavaliers are hiring Kenny ainson as their head coach really Golden State assistant yeah gotcha he was a former net head coach right um yes obviously I think the biggest question is just Health like can he stay on the field and if he does uh how does he improve and how does he look over the course of his 17 game schedule yeah and again for me like I don’t even want to dive too deep into Health here um inevitably when you talk playing style I guess there is a little bit of Health off of that but I guess when I think about questions let’s start here how long does the lack of experience lack of reps lack of situational football how much of that how long does it take for that to subside I mean I said it to you when the season ended Eddie Jacob Martin Colts player Jacob Martin played more snaps than Anthony Richardson last season I was like who you know I mean Jacob Martin that’s your that’s a guy that you know bags your groceries at your local Kroger you know went to school with a kid named Jacob Martin look at that deer central zone Jacob Martin not him um you know I remember I broke it down I think it was 36 or 37 Colts played more snaps than Richardson um if you want to look at the numbers of the 68 quarters he could have played he played 25 of them if you look at the 51 practices he would have had in the regular season he practiced in 15 of them so it’s just his eyes are more virgin than most you know and that’s that’s just a bummer from that rookie year um so progression wise um you know how does he see all of those things unfold and it’s like you know look at the Jags game and look at the Rams game the Jags game you’re down three late he throws a pick the Rams game he leads his big time comeback you tie it again you’ve got the three straight incompletions um being in more of those just would have done wonders to him and he basically played two six quarter segments he played the first six quarters of the season for the most part and then he was out that Baltimore game with concussion that he suffered against Houston and then he came back and the Rams in in the Titans game you know barely played on the road I don’t even think he played a full half on the road um you know there’s something that remember Dane bugler draft analyst used to describe CJ strad of like strout as such great ball speed control which I know is a really nerdy way to describe an thrower but like the touch in a game is so much different than touch even in a practice and I bring up the ball speed control because that’s something will huet again Richardson’s quarterback coach he discussed with us you know last year about you know it’s not that he always is throwing at 99 miles per hour it’s just knowing when to throw certain pitches and making sure that you’re hitting guys on the right side of their shoulder pad so you hit them in stride and you allow them to make you know some plays uh after the catch so it it’s simply just answering more of the questions you’ve thrown an interception how do you respond you’re down four with the ball and there’s 230 left how do you respond you’re at your own 20 with 90 seconds to go in the first half how do you respond you know you’re in a road hostile environment in Baltimore the game that he missed early on the year how do you handle that so that I mean those are the things that you just missed out on Jonathan Taylor from was the football in the Red Zone how do you respond you know what a as much as like adversity how about the good stuff you know you have a lead with you’ve got a four-point lead with four minutes to go and you’re about four-minute offense do you know what to do on Third and six in terms of risk and reward in a play of that situation those are all things that like even if you look at his Florida Career he didn’t get any near the CJ St Ohio State experience of that so that’s where I think questions have to remain on okay how does he handle those situations now again I don’t get major deer and headlight vibes from him yeah but what separates quarterbacks in this in this league Red Zone twom minute fourth quarter and and I mean week in and week out the the league is defined by parody so part of me is like that’s why I think it’s super intriguing what he can bring to the Red Zone if Richardson can turn one field goal into a touchdown that could be the difference between two wins over the course of 17 Game season and I’m just asking for one but how does he handle that you know how does he handle all those all those situations um and then I just think the last part of it Eddie and again I guess this is like a little bit of injury stuff but I’ll Focus playing style here just comes down to limit not eliminate when do you get down when do you go for it those sorts of questions and again I’ll go back here I don’t think Shane Sten can say no to him as a runner and I don’t think Shane Sten Shane does not strike me as some dude that’s very wired about like yeah we need to protect Anthony no no no the Cults think it’s on Anthony to protect himself and that’s where I would disagree with him I think it’s on you as a coaching staff to dial it back and that’s why I say limit not eliminate because I don’t think the player should have to be consciously out on the field thinking about that stuff you just want the player to play yeah but you can you can help out that player by calling plays that don’t lead him into those situations and again this gets back to limit not eliminate like it I’ve done the math thing before and I’ll do it again all right 17 games Eddie right yes sir let’s say you take out four of those design runs over 17 games 17 Time 4 can you do it on your calculator yeah 68 68 okay let’s say he gets hit on 50 of those you know 73.5% of the time yeah maybe that’s a high number maybe he should only get hit on half of them you know he can run out of bounds he can whatever slide he can do other things I mean you imagine taking 50 hits off his body over 17 games because I go back to the plays think about the dudes that hit him and led to an injury none of them safety like do you remember who hit Andrew Luck that led to the shoulder the the first hit that led to what was a three-year run of shoulder issues was it Von Miller it was Drell Casey I couldn’t remember which game it was Drell Casey weigh I think it was a week after Von Miller Drell Casey weighs north of 300 pounds uhuh look at the four Dudes that hit Richardson a DB in Jacksonville a DB in Houston um I think the other Jacksonville play was I want to say the linebacker who foyer what’s his name or um yeah they’re they’re great linebacker he weighs like 215 or something and then Harold Landry who was like a Richard in size but it’s not like he had Kus Campbell or DeForest Buckner or you know the you know the 320 pound defensive tackle laying on him so that’s where I kind of get at and think again what can you do as a staff to try and limit I’m all about the numbers just lower the percentages a little bit because you need him to last 17 games and I am such a bullish believer in this just because you’re taking off a few runs a game what I say four a week yes just because I’m doing that does not mean for one second Eddie Garrison as a defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans can breathe can rest easy you know it’s still there you don’t know when I’m going to dial it up and you know it’s still there and the moment you get burnt by it you’re getting ripped because that’s what he does um I want to say he had I think it was 16 designed runs I want to say 16 of us 25 were designed was that what it was um yeah 25 in total that’s what I was asking yeah I mean do like well I know four for sure because those four touchdown runs were all designed right and again I trust me there are positives to running him big time but at the end of the day you’re playing a game of longevity you’re playing a game of and sure you’ll get to a two-minute situation of week 18 Colts Texans and you throw some of that out the the window you know I fourth and one against Houston this year you think it would have look different if Richardson would have been under Center of course 100% so there’s a time in place but I think the overall philosophy has got to be limit not eliminate because I don’t think he’s Josh Allen with his decision- making I don’t think he he he is a reckless Runner uh I is this a perfect solution no but I think it helps a little bit you know I will say when you look at the numbers in the two games that he did start and finish Jacksonville and you know the Rams well you can put an asterisk next to Jacksonville if you want he banged up his knee but he said he would have came back in if the game was close you know um 10 attempts in both of those games so obviously he’ be on Pace for 170 and inversely I just wanted to go look at like Jaylen Herz for example just because very similar very similar he had 157 last year in a 17 Game season in 2022 he had 165 and then in 2021 uh he had 139 obviously 21 and 22 he played in 15 games but that seems like the same like the number or the ballpark thereof of where styken wants to put Richardson sure and out of those 165 140 carries I don’t remember Herz taking a hit on maybe like all but like 20 of them like he’s really good at avoiding uh tackles and just going down or getting out of bounds you know you know Rick Terry quite well obviously color voice of the Colts he describes when Lamar Jackson runs as an eel I think it’s such a great description because Lamar Jackson is not built like Anthony Richardson he’s not hell he’s not built like Jaylen Herz um he’s slender in frame when you talk about you know NFL quarterbacks particularly that are Runners and like sure I think there are some of like you know TW was learning how to fall down you know like that that that like there is some of that that um I get that you know can the player try to incorporate that into their game a little bit but I still think you know sure there’s going to be naturally plays that come off script and there’s going to be naturally things that break down that all of a sudden a play that you thought was a pass turns into a run but you can you control any of the situation I guess is the big question I’m asking and I do think you can control some of it it’s not perfect but you can control some of it because again Eddie none of those four plays he got hurt on last year were ejectable plays none of them were and again none of them were a 300 pounder all outside the pocket of you yes all of them outside of the pocket so you know 11 quarters he played Four injuries four different body parts all undesigned runs all outside of the pocket three of the four Dudes weighed less than 220 PBS like I this wasn’t like a Halton situation where one injury leads to another you know the hamstring leads to the B you know something like that like it you know it wasn’t necessarily that so how do you still make him Dynamic dual threat striking fear to the defense why you draft him number four overall how do you continue to play to that but how do you try and create a better environment for him survive I’m not even talking about surviving 12 years I’m talking about surviving 17 games okay if that’s a question and you’re going around the room and you’re asking that the phrase is branded to my head of limit not eliminate take you know you can have whatever let’s say you’ve got 10 designed runs a game 12 designed runs a game whatever the number was you just threw out at me if you shrink that by one a quarter you still strike the same amount of fear like you could make the argument they might be more fear of it or as crazy as it sounds that might lull them to sleep yeah that’s about 80 games so 156 over the course of a 17 Game season like if you haven’t dialed it up in a few series all of a sudden boom they’re like 136 not 156 I got it for for got that about him so that is my biggest question probably again cult Centric cuz I don’t think internally they agree with me at all in the limit not eliminate I don’t I think they think it’s more on him I mean I go back to the Earth say quote at the owner meetings of he’s not running too much um like you know okay I mean ERS thinks that Chan s’s dialing up those plays yeah um you know you know that as aspect of it um to me is you know do you consider it fluky or do you look at it as you know odds you know would you rather get tackled you know whatever six times or eight times they seem to think it’s fluky though correct which just all by the way he was landed and obviously him not finishing the run off in Houston that’s just a dangerous game to play can you try and control it some bit and look there are guys deshaan Watson tours ACL on non-c contct practice I get that injuries can be fluky but at the same time I think in general the more you incre I think there’s a reason why Pon Manning Philip Rivers and Tom Brady had the run that they did because those dudes can’t run they don’t get hit you know I mean that’s a reason why their careers like that and all these running quarterback like Josh Allen to me he’s just it’s it’s such an outlier it it’s such an outlier that he stayed as healthy as he has it’s remarkable it it’s I watch a Bill’s game and think to myself three or four times during a game Josh Allen should be in the locker room and yet he just bounces right back up and plays the next week and etc etc so um I think that covers everything kind of question rise again to me it’s some reps based stuff um it’s some limit not eliminate and just in general like you know does he become a legit thrower you know I wrote something for our website 1075 thee fan.com you know Chris Ballard mentioned that was a concern of his you know how good of a thrower could he be and Ballard walked away from last season thinking oh wow he he can be that okay you know what strides are there um in that development of I’m not asking him to be I mean you said 66% or whatever he was if you take out the Rams game I if he could just hover around 60 and make sure the outs are not strikeouts and they’re ground balls to second that to me is very very real and if he is that then I think he could be something you know pretty darn special but the beauty of it is hopefully we’ll see it all unfold um and again so much of it too is I I I mentioned how you respond from adversity too Eddie how about how you respond from success and Richardson has told this story before you go back to his first game at Florida remember when he beat Utah in Gainesville yeah remember I mean that was the week one September and you know all the hype around and started to get some Heisman watch all that Heisman stuff and Richardson admits this that very next week they play Kentucky and will Levis and he is like freaking out he knows all the Hypes building he knows the opposing quarterback’s a guy that you know NFL people had talked about yeah and he has arguably I I’d say one of his worst games of his college career well what’s that that’s handling success you know that’s not bouncing back from the you mentioned earlier you know Taylor fumble or you know failure or failure exactly sometimes it’s easier to bounce back from the failure than it is to sustain the success and that gets back to you know Brett Leed better his his mental coach and and all of that so you that’s just the unscripted nature of it all that separates the great ones from the good ones so he yeah it covers everything for me richs Richardson wise unless you got anything else I don’t have anything else would you like to get into Twitter questions let’s do it only three to get to on today’s pod or four if I could count old derer will start us out what would you do with Mo Al Cox it’s funny Eddie I just did a 53 man roster projection did you know for the website it’s up on 1075 the fan.com first one that I’ve done here this off season I kept all five tight ends all five I did wow I did I know where did you short change them then I don’t want to get too much into this but yeah I mean you you can Short change a quarterback this year with the new QB you know as the third QB can be a practice squad so that can save one um I think you can save a little at linebacker just with how that position has evolved over the years um and as of now I only kept four safeties I don’t see the need to you know I think what happens especially teams wise will be interesting you know how does how does the kickoff rule how does the Special Teams coordinators view that oh yeah you know do you literally just want your 11 best tacklers out there you know cuz it used to be like you’ve got to match athletes sprinting down the field for 30 or 40 yards and then make a tack whereas now it’s like well hell if I’ve got like whatever if I’ve got quy and he’s a big strong dude and I just need him to operate in this little you know three Yard Box you know if he disengages the Blocker in front of him he’s right there to make a play if everyone’s disciplined in their Lanes you know that that sort of thing so I think it’ll be fascinating to watch how that impacts roster Cuts but to get back to it you know keeping five tight ends obviously there’s no need for five clearly the outlier most teams keep what three maybe four but like to get to Mo I I I just kind of look at it like why would you cut Mo Ali Cox now well you know cutting him earlier in the off season you might need money do you need do you need his money now not I would say not he’s in a contract year right he’s I think a reliable blocker for you um so I just you know go back to our position battles discussion on last week’s pod I VI tied end is flip a coin each week and who knows what’ll happen but I I can you keep five I I I think there’s a way to keep five now one of them will be in active every week you know if everyone’s healthy which obviously last season Jelani Woods was you know never healthy so um how that position evolves off of that will be something to watch but I think at this point man I think he’s here I don’t you know I don’t view the staff you got to remember B is as high on or was as high on Mo Al Cox about any player on the roster oh yeah um so you can’t lose sight of that but you know tight end and how they handle that I mean who’s the easiest to sneak the practice squad is it ogal tree is it mallerie God mallerie is a fifth round pick who ran the fastest 40 of anybody at the combine you know I I just don’t I view mallerie a little bit above Ogle Tree in terms of you know coveted out there but not to mention there’s more I think are on tape with olry than there is with sure mie sure into like earlier in the Pod you were talking about like one-on-one options and stuff and then to go back to like last week with mismatches at tight end and that and that’s why you need one of these guys to you know take the Reigns for a lack of a better phrase of tight end one is that if you can have a tight end that you know gets a lot of one-on-one and they have to put a safety on them that’s one less you know uh defensive backing coverage down the field that can allow a Alec Pierce or a ad I Mitchell to get open down the field next you know you hit a home run yeah I mean tight ends should be foaming at the mouth in this offense and a lot of it could just be you know like Zone Reed dck and dunk stuff yeah you know of like hey we gotta worry about richon we gotta worry about Taylor hey worry about DS oh [ __ ] I forgot about the tight end you know like and all of a sudden a simple little you know pop pass goes for 13 um so yes I do think tight ends tight end will be the one you know where on a Tuesday night you know these defensive coordinators getting ready for the Colts and they’re going to say hey we we’ll put a guy on a tight end but we’ll live with that we’re not going to live with the other stuff uh next question is from wakes Spike he’s got two first question from wakes spike is hey guys should the Colts tell Anthony Richardson to sit out or avoid working with Caleb Williams before Camp starts whoa is that not with a nails painted I guess not is that what it is now Caleb Williams is a will hulet guy right yeah Caleb was also an odd bird a little bit I do think he’s a little different I think this time isn’t as like abundant as you’re working out with others as it is like earlier in the offseason I mean you definitely still do that but like hey it’s only a month and a half during that month and a half you probably get a week maybe two where you’re just fully resting vacation etc etc and then the other aspect of it is you know at some point the Colts are going to have you know a mini camp where they’re all thrown together and obviously you’re not taking Caleb Williams to that so hey um again what did Richardson say he wants to work on the Brock py throw so he he’s not worried about Caleb Williams the other question from wakes Spike how closely are the wide receiver Productions tied to Reggie Wayne’s ability to become an offensive coordinator at some point interesting that that’s a question I I had really thought about you know what is Reggie Wayne’s future this is year three right of him as a position coach yeah boy he hates the hours doesn’t me I could just never see him wanting to be any more higher on the ladder I don’t know maybe his eyes have opened up a little bit but boy he hates the hours um he always surprised me though when he did get hired as a coach I always thought when he was a player that when he retired he was done he was just going to go relax and he obviously took what a handful of years off postretirement yeah I um I’m always kind of torn un like the position coaches and how to evaluate them you know of like hey if their white outs are good does that mean they’re really good you certainly that’s a part of it but just you know a lot of it I think is behind the scenes sort of it’s kind of funny we we just had a a former Purdue assistant named Steve Lutz on our show um he was kind of an early identifier of Zach EDI in the recruiting process and it just kind of popped in my head as I looked at his resume I was like I I don’t see any Matt painer overlap you know so many times with these coaching hires it’s oh yeah I coach with this guy and this stop and you know three stops later we now are linked up together again I was like how did you become a Purdue assistant and he mentioned that Matt Painter told him the story of being at a Nike coaching basketball clinic and they’re all playing cards one night it’s all these head coaches and Greg mcder from kraton where Steve Lutz was assistant just starts raving about the assistant he has in Steve Lutz yeah and payter sure enough just takes that to memory and all of a sudden you know couple more conversations happen he hears Lutz’s name mentioned a time or two again and boom he decides to hire him you know it’s funny how you know that’s more word of mouth obviously kraton had pretty good success with them but like you know how these coaching hirers happen I think it is a mix of kind of word of mouth but also that as well um I do think a great quality the staff has is just their forward thinking like I think Shane is a big time like I’m confident of what we do and I feel like we have an advantage each week but they don’t rest on their Laurels they are forward I mean they’re looking for plays from high school teams from college teams they are very much into the let’s bring as much creativity to the table and see what works and what and what’s not and maybe you’ll find something maybe you won’t uh one of their big plays last year I think came from a high school team I’m trying to think what it was um but yeah I think that’s a quality that this coaching staff definitely has uh Travis would like to know if you saw this Kevin the Colts saying no to a first round tradeback with the Rams when they coveted Texas defensive tackle Byron Murphy II and tried to move up from 19th to 15th they offered the Colts the 19th pick the 99th pick which is in the third round and the 154th pick which is in the fifth round in exchange for the Colts pick at number 15 in their 191st pick in the sixth round yeah this was interesting Travis sent me to the okay so walk us walk us through that again okay the Colts would have moved from 15 to 19 is that right correct that is correct and they would have gotten a third correct and a fifth and then the fifth and sixth would have swapped yeah is that right you would lose a six gain a fifth um um you know I go back to what Chris Po said in the pre-draft press already you 18 to 21 first round grades uhhuh you know so obviously the 19 range makes sense right on the cusp but I mean by all accounts he said latu was a top five player in the draft so they obviously had one guy cover and it’s not just one guy it’s one guy at a position of immense value oh yeah and I think that’s a separator but he struggled to hit on sure sure that is another good point and again a guy that theoretically has a high floor based off his college production there and just the variety of his moves and the ability to line up on both sides and all of that yeah I mean if you played that out what didn’t quinan Mitchell go he went in the 202 terion Arnold WI a pi later coer de Brian Thomas was like right there Jacksonville got him I think at 23 yep um so yeah I mean Turner would have been off the board though right didn’t he go like two picks after the Colts yes he went uhif or 16 maybe 16 or 17 for someon I thought it was 17 Minnesota no not Minnesota I was thinking of um I was thinking of Dallas Turner not Byron Murphy yeah Dallas Turner went 17 right yeah yeah um so you would have missed out on theoretically him as an edge rusher but you could have got one of those top couple corners so um I just think pass rush matter you know again I’ve always been more pass rush than Corner um so I’m good with that but I could see pass Balor drafts just making some sense oh yeah you know recouping a third rounder I mean that’s you know that I mean that sounds like Ballard’s dream I’m shocked he said no I I just think it goes to show what they think of latu clearly and again not just latu it’s latu plus the position he plays right last Twitter question comes from Avid listener you say Anthony Richardson is a specimen but how much different from luck is he bodywise why do I say this honestly I think luck was a specimen too but you seem AR more but you’ve seen AR more than I do so you would know yeah I I probably have mentioned like Richardson as a specimen quite often I I I think one of the reasons why I said that is like the body is still ever growing I it’s unbelievable when like you know I asked him this question last year at training camp he said it to mcy a few weeks ago he’s like yeah you know I’m I’m I’m gaining weight I’m not trying to but I am yeah gosh you forget that like you’ve got some human being particularly males out there that that can still like grow at the age of 21 and 22 I mean didn’t he say the same thing last year like he said the same thing last year during training camp yeah I was like was it a plan to put on like 10 he’s like yeah I’m about 10 pounds bigger Flo he’s like no it wasn’t a plan I just you know I’m just a grown boy and it’s like gosh you kind of remind yourself and I feel like you heard those stories at times of the Pacers and and Paul George George um you know early in his career and I think Paul was a two-year college guy so kind of a similar age range there so I I don’t know you know when you get to the NFL they’re all freaking specimens yeah let me be very clear on that but like you know luck was always a quarterback really you know Richardson wasn’t initially that um I mean if you want a nit pick I mean I guess you know from a you know height standpoint richson what he’s got him probably by an n she’s probably got him by 10 to 15 lbs and then he runs a little bit you know a couple tenths faster 40 yard dash wise and you know luck to me I just think physically I I go back to luck as a as a as a rookie I mean as a rookie and as you know secondy year guy I never saw Luck’s body evolve too too much you know sure there were Times Obviously shoulder- wise where he had to do a lot of different stuff there but I just think Richardson is different he’s just um I don’t know it’s hard to describe I just think he’s built a little differently um I luck was obviously still a super good-look athlete and a big dude but I I’d put Richardson on another on another tier would you rather be Scotty sheffler right now or somebody else I think I’d rather be Scotty sheffa right didn’t he just win yeah he just won again yeah yeah hell yeah I want to be Scotty sheffler’s cadd is who I want to be how much of a cut does the caddy get you get 10% if you win 8% if you’re a top 10 and I want to say it’s like 5% or 3% for anything else I saw a stat where Scotty sheffler’s caddy would be like 28th on the PJ tour money list right now that’s nuts that’s wild how great is that also how great is it that the wife is now driving into these uh these uh these tournaments yeah yeah yeah that was wild yesterday how about that 18th green did you did you see the Drone shot no of the of the protesters I’m not sure how much this will surprise you Kevin but I don’t really get into golf well it was all over social media you couldn’t miss it yesterday the Drone shot of the five protesters was awesome it literally looked like at times you had you know cops running in you know like from the Fairway it looked like bullpens clearing you know like when the fight happens on the mound and like you get the dudes you know running from the bullpen by the time they reach second base they’re just out of breath I mean great effort by some of these cops there you know 80 yards back in the Fairway but I’m like yeah at that point you might just hold your ground back there and not waste all your energy so hey shout outs to Tom Kim for making the putt you had the red spray paint right next to him still there chefer I thought chefler handled it quite well two things here in conclusion one uh were you able to soak in any of the Olympic Swim trials I was yeah a lot of it actually it was kind of a nightly occurrence for the bone family watching that on the couch great great drama awesome I’m biased I felt like as a city we pulled it off well I was actually on Georgia Street last night last evening as in Sunday the 23rd thank you the final day yes Sunday the 23rd MC and a little kind of FanFest event that they had out there so yeah super cool how about you did you take any of it then yeah Olivia and I went on Saturday night um man Caleb dressle is just an absolute unit man like talk about a specimen yes I talking about a specimen I would love to be able to take two years off of something and return to an form yeah um and be that close to shattering a world record or being a world record not shattering but it is second thing here in conclusion 473 podcasts later and we’re having a Rebrand we are having a Rebrand um no pod for July 4th week so no pod coming up next week so we’ll start I think we’ll get two more in before training camp probably maybe three well we’ll find out after the announcement is made about the announcement yeah exactly right uh but I assume July 24th for the the report date and then first practice typically that next day the 25th so um yes uh it’ll still pop up in your feed don’t worry about it but yeah new logo change I think honestly full transparency is going to help with some SEO stuff uh but yeah we’ll have a Rebrand coming up nothing Earth shattering again from a name or brand standpoint but don’t be alarmed we’ll do that I believe in early July all righty cool yeah Eddie have a great fourth man hope you guys enjoyed this if you guys have any thoughts questions you know where to find us we’ll talk to you enjoy the summer