Colts Secure Victory & Anthony Richardson's Mixed Performance
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00:00to start week three of the NFL preseason a rarity in one spot in Cincinnati we
00:09saw the starting offense not for the Bengals but for the Indianapolis Colts
00:13out there for a quarter and a half which is what we had heard from Shane Steichen
00:17entering in these preseason finale and it was a mixed bag you saw some good of
00:23what Anthony Richardson can do and then you saw some bad of how this offense for
00:29Indy looks a little bit out of sync and during the regular season regardless at
00:33the end of the day the Colts pick up a 27 to 14 victory over Cincy Indianapolis
00:39covers as a six and a half point favorite the total of 34 and a hook
00:45skies over because of a late rushing touchdown for Indianapolis in the final
00:49two minutes we'll talk about AR in just a moment but the Colts and the
00:53preseason with a win now let me ask you this question Ben here because we are
00:58gonna get Anthony Richardson I watch that entire first quarter well into the
01:01second quarter because I wanted to watch to see how he will do but also do you
01:04know what caught my attention more than anything in this football game can you
01:08guess no oh yes I do know what it was I saw your tweet last night it was the
01:15Guardian cap of Jonathan Taylor that he was wearing over his regular helmet go
01:19ahead though I got like I'm going to defend those sportsbook right now under
01:22touchdowns under yardage under usage rate for Jonathan tell me look there's
01:26something to be said in this world where look good play good that can't be
01:30a real thing and I'm telling you right now if I am a defender I'm just going to
01:34rip that soft piece helmet off every single play just to let him know how
01:38terrible it looks I understand you don't want to have your mind turned into mush
01:41here by taking too many hits I get the understanding but it is such and again I
01:46know we probably can't bring it up it's such a bad look that sometimes Ben I
01:50can't even focus on the game because I try to put myself into it and say well
01:53I mean you can sort of see it to the right but not really good like that
01:56blends in there but if you watch the game itself it's like jarring for me
01:59because I always took pride in how that uniform looked I can't believe that
02:03players are actually well just improve the helmet why do we have to have that
02:07thing over top of the helmet it shouldn't be that hard but I wanted to
02:10get that out of the way Anthony Richardson don't you dare try to excuse
02:13me Jonathan Taylor don't you dare try to lobby the NFL to be able to wear that in
02:16a regular season game it's fine for preseason well it's fine for practice I
02:20can't look at it like that's not photoshopped right there if you're
02:25watching on TV that is not photoshopped that can't be a real thing I'm sorry so
02:31Donnie it's actually new this year right we have seen the Guardian caps
02:34throughout practice and training camp last few seasons around the National
02:38Football League but new this year players can elect to wear a Guardian cap
02:42in actual games not just preseason contests so we'll see if that continues
02:47for Jonathan Taylor the Guardian cap has been very successful in terms of its
02:52stats and figures of limiting head-to-head injury around the NFL but
02:57in terms of the swag in in the uniforms not for Donnie right side yesterday DRS
03:03it was interesting on the Thursday Night Football broadcast to hear our guy Al
03:07Michaels he always loves to make the small innuendos about what the betting
03:12lines were Dimitri felt in under two minutes left takes a 40-yard run up the
03:18gut bounces outside and into the end zone it was a game in which as Al
03:23Michaels said covering a lot of ground for Felton because that play allowed
03:30Indianapolis to cover as a six and a half point road favorite and the total
03:34to go over 34 and a half in the second half the Colts had four scoring drives
03:40on all four of their offensive possessions Sam Ellinger at the
03:44quarterback spot Jason Bean and Keaton Slovis for most of the first half it
03:50was Anthony Richardson and if you are a Colts backer and you wanted to see AR
03:54and what is his de facto rookie season only four games last year in his first
03:59year in Florida only completed two had his rookie campaign in 2023 cut very
04:04short very early on after a shoulder injury AR played in week number one for
04:10the Colts only got two possessions against Denver two of four for just 25
04:15yards both ending in a punt did not play week number two for Indianapolis
04:20against Arizona so we learned that Steichen was going to play the starters
04:24there were some reports out of joint practices against the Bengals that since
04:28these defense was dominant against an out-of-sync Indianapolis offense that
04:33led the guys like Cam Taylor Britt and the Bengals secondary trashing on
04:37Anthony Richardson early on DRS opening offensive possession of the game AR
04:43leads the guys down the field finds his rookie wide receiver AD Mitchell out of
04:47Texas for a touchdown all right here we go next offensive possession Anthony
04:52Richardson another completion but to the Bengals and it was returned for a pick
04:57six a couple of other drives after that out of sync sacks losing the football in
05:03the backfield what did you make of Anthony Richardson's performance last
05:06night in Cincinnati not even watching preseason or not like I'm not all that
05:11high on the Colts I love their head coach I think they have some talent here
05:14but the question marks gonna come up on Anthony Richardson if he is that
05:16franchise guy and it says well Donnie watching it I'm telling you it has
05:20nothing to do with it I think Jacksonville's better and I think the
05:22Texans are better so they're the third place team out of four teams in the
05:25South but having said that watching the game last night everything that arises
05:29those question marks that you had on Anthony Richardson we got nothing and we
05:32know he's a specimen we know he's an athletic freak we know he can really
05:35ramp it up and that first drive shows like wow he's in sync with his wide
05:39receivers everything looks good you come out and throw one of the worst pick sixes
05:42that you're going to see almost reminiscent of sort of what Daniel
05:45Jones did for the New York Giants yeah let me just roll it out there a bad yes
05:48walk into the end zone five to seven yard touchdown interception return and
05:52then the following plays where it's like okay I'm a little bit running around the
05:55pocket not understanding where the players route strip sack fumble now they
05:58ended up getting that football back but these question marks are gonna pop up
06:01this is what we're supposed to have answered last year during the regular
06:04season right make your mistake play the entire season let's have a full off
06:07season and reevaluate he didn't get that here so now we're having those questions
06:11right away I still do think the Colts can have a solid season but I just told
06:15you to me right now they are the third place team in the AFC South right now