Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and fantasy analyst Matt Harmon discuss the good and the bad with Colts QB Anthony Richardson and whether there’s optimism he can become the QB that Indianapolis wants him to be. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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What is missing with Richardson right now?

Where is the sort of disconnect between what the offense looks like with Flacco and what it looks like with Richardson?

No.

So first off, I'm with you, I'm selling the argument to Sam is that this is a guy that needs reps.

He needs to get out of his own way at times.

Like the fumble in the red zone he had on the first drive after he has a nice, nice, easy going drive or he's not doing anything too difficult on it.

And then he tries to do a little too much.

He needs game reps, practice reps are one thing.

Game reps are a whole another thing I can tell he gets excited that he's about to make the right read.

Like he's like, oh, you try to disguise this and he gets really bouncy and all.

And then his timing gets off.

Then he feels like he has chuck the throne and throw it 75 miles an hour when you can throw it like still hard, but just a little bit more touch on it.

And again, that comes with game experience when going like, ok, the last time I got punished for this, this happened.

So now I have to do this.

That's where growth comes from is those, those mistakes and everything.

He just needs to calm down like that.

That's it is, there's places he had an RPO that they ran, he pulls, it makes the correct read on it.

But then he like its, he bounces like into the protection into the left tackle and left guard, like just chill, just pull it and throw to me again.

That's a guy that is, I got the question right.

And I'm gonna speak to the teacher and show that I got the question right.

But really, it's more like, ok, you got the question right now, you need to execute.

So it's his mind has to catch up with his feet and his arm, he made a couple of throws that are like three guys, four guys in the league can make right now, like which is again, what you're honing in on with Anthony Richardson, make those more common and take out all the, the, you know, the crappiness, the, the inf you know, just the ineffective play.

And really this game popped open when the Colts ran Anthony Richardson, which is again the element of his game that's so exciting is that he can be an upper echelon runner.

Um It does remind me they are not the same player at all and I know this is the common comparison, same thing with Josh Allen early in his career was that he was so bouncy, his feet were going every which way this is, that comes with time.

Calm the feet down.

Ok.

I can throw this a little bit later and make sure it's all right.

As opposed to like, oh, I'm gonna try and anticipate this and then throw it 70 miles an hour.

Just those two things merging.

This guy is so young.

He is like less than 1000 drop backs combined in college and NFL like that, he just needs more time.

And I still think that the stuff that we have seen is just the stuff that you chase and I think that's why they're excited about him.

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