One of the more surprising developments from Sunday's Colts-Texans game was watching Anthony Richardson check himself out because he was tired.
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00:00years, pain and Pendergast. That was a lot of running right there. I don't think I was
00:07going to be able to do that next play. So I just, uh, you know, just always saying I
00:12just needed a break right there. Okay. So he was being, that was Anthony Richardson
00:17who came out for one play. Yeah. Joe Flacco came in on a third and long in Texans territory,
00:23handed off. So he settled for a field goal there. He was tired. He was tired out of breath
00:29on the broadcast. They mentioned he'd been rubbing his wrist earlier. Maybe there he
00:33tapped his head and you're wondering like, does he have a concussion? Like he got an
00:36NRG stadium last year. No, he was simply tired. Something. This is something that I don't
00:41think any generation of people listening to right now who have watched football or have
00:47played football at high school, college, or the NFL.
00:50I'm guessing that they've never seen a quarterback remove himself from a game. I never have tired.
00:57Have you? No. Yeah. No, it doesn't. It is. And Tiki Barber on the broad, I had to go
01:04back and listen to how they handled it on the broadcast and Tiki Barber. They kind of,
01:08it sounded like he didn't quite know how to absorb that. My first thought was, well, clearly
01:13it can't be that right. Like they're, they're just not telling the truth yet. There's gotta
01:17be more to it. Be that he confirmed it because the team had said, no, he was just tired.
01:22Uh, that's, that's an uncomfortable, like that's a leader. Your team, Pat McAfee, this
01:26is where I know Colts fans. Um, uh, the, the, the Pat McAfee when Pat McAfee throw
01:33to the endorsing Anthony Richardson, he said, I had never seen an NFL QB tap out while still
01:40being healthy until watching Anthony Richardson. The QB is your franchise. The message it sends
01:45is loud and influential. We are, we are dudes who tap out when we're tired. We're screwed.
01:52Yeah. There's really only one position group on the field that it's, it's part of the culture
01:58of just getting a blow. It's defensive line. It's a defensive line. You treat it like a
02:01hockey line. Almost. You're rotating guys in and you'd rather have usually a backup
02:06with fresh legs is better than the, the, the starter who's gassed. So it's no big deal.
02:12That's common. Quarterback is at the other end of the spectrum. You do not get taken
02:16out unless you've got some gadget. If you're a, if you're a statue quarterback that has
02:21an athletic quarterback and come in on short yardage or whatever, but you don't tap out
02:25because you're tired.
02:26I think defensive line. And I think if you're a skill guy who just busted a long play wide
02:31receivers too. Yeah, they do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think those are the only ones that
02:36I, that I, those are the only ones I can ever remember seeing do it real quick. Cause we
02:40did, he did is just by way of illustrating, he threw fully fought a Cossy off his back
02:46on that play. That was impressive. Pretty damn impressive. And then he ruined it. It's
02:51like he painted the Mona Lisa and then took a dump on it. Wow. What a play. Okay. I got
02:56to leave now. Okay. I'm tie tie. Yeah. Yeah. Made me happy. So yeah, I was, I was happy
03:04to see Flacco come in in that instance because the, you know, he was coming off the bench
03:07cold and they ended up handing the ball off. They didn't even let Flacco throw it. I thought
03:11at that point, you know what I thought? Cause it was third and long is that maybe they're
03:17doing some like sort of platoon thing. We're on obvious passing downs or bringing in Joe
03:21Flacco. I'm like, no, that's kind of a smart thing. Yeah. Yeah. They've turned Shane Steichen
03:26into a plum fool. He's a, he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. He's out there.
03:30He's out there. You know, it's like, he's a highly trained sniper who all of a sudden
03:35they say here, use a slingshot and it changes up his whole game, you know? Cause that's
03:39what he's got a slingshot of a quarterback every now and then you hit your target. That's
03:43right. Big week for Nick Casario. He's the general manager and executive vice president
03:49of the Houston Texans comes on our show every few weeks. Yeah. You've talked to him before.
03:55Trade deadline is a week from tomorrow. Just laughing at somehow that would get me to remember
04:02somebody that I had. So trade deadline tomorrow, a week from tomorrow afternoon. Yeah. Not
04:11a trade, but Nick has made a pickup. That's already paid some dividends. I haven't white
04:16Devin white look pretty good doing he, he was on the field first. And then the first
04:21time I noticed him, they used him exactly how I think they, they thought they would
04:25use them early. They blitzed them. And Devin white is inconsistent. He's been inconsistent
04:30as a linebacker. People wonder, okay, what happened to him? Why isn't he this? Why isn't
04:33he that he does some, he does a few things really, really well. And he shows up blitzing
04:38is one of them. He's just inconsistent when it comes to all the other linebacking stuff,
04:43making reads, taking angles in coverage, but he's incredibly athletic. So I think that
04:49he's the perfect guy for D'Amico to bring in use all in specific, in specific situations
04:56and then build from there. So I'm excited about him just for whatever it looks like
05:02for the rest of the season.
05:03I think they're going to use them in specific instances where, where he can do some good
05:06is Nick shopping for wide receivers. If Stefan digs is done for the year. Is he in on this?
05:11You know what? It might be, it might be a window into exactly where Nico Collins is
05:15in his recovery. Okay. Yeah, that's true. He will not, he will not have been activated.
05:20I mean, the trade deadline rolls around. If Nico comes back, you've got tank Dell, you've
05:23got Nico, you've got Xavier Hutchinson and John Metchy and Robert woods. And that's,
05:28that's still a really formidable wide receiving group, especially with this quarterback. I'm
05:32almost wondering if, if, especially if they trade for a wide receiver and they don't
05:36go after a guard guard, it's weird. We're trying to figure out notable, notable in season
05:44offensive line trade and they're few and far between they are because it's hard to just
05:49plug and play an offensive lineman.
05:50But I feel like anybody would be better than right. It doesn't, it doesn't have Joel Petonio's
05:55name got thrown around last week. Cause the Browns are trading Amari Cooper and they're
05:58going to be a seller probably, even though they won yesterday, they're probably going
06:03to sell off a few expensive pieces. It doesn't have to be Joel Petonio. No, no, no, no. Yeah.
06:07It can be any, and then the nice thing about running a QB X Shanahan system is that every
06:11one of them are different, but the play calls have a certain language to them.
06:16The terminology is similar enough that I think a veteran offensive lineman can step in and
06:22be a better than now that Patterson is concussed for right now might be the better option.
06:28I guess I just, I'm really intrigued by Patterson. I wish, but also just to see him with more
06:36reps at left guard, he does some guard things better physically already. I can tell in one
06:41drive then Kenyon green does. It's just a matter of, all right, when teams get some
06:45film on them and they start knowing how to play against them, does he, does he sustain
06:49it? We got guys asking about Cooper cup on the text page. I don't think the Rams are
06:53trading Cooper cup. I think that went over the Vikings on Thursday, took Cooper cup off
06:56the trade market is my guess. And well, and Cooper cup, Cooper cup and Puka Nakua both
07:04being on the field just, yeah, there's a straightaway Cooper cup.
07:09We just got Cooper cup back. So the two names that were floating around yesterday at wide
07:16receiver were Deontay Johnson of the Panthers and Christian Kirk of the Jags. My initial
07:22thing on Kirk was, well, the Jags aren't trading anybody to the Texans. Now it doesn't matter.
07:25Christian Kirk has a broken collarbone. So he's going to be out for a long time. Christian
07:29Kirk, go break your collarbone. Deontay John. I don't know if I'm into Deontay Johnson.
07:35He's been kind of a problem, both places he's been so far. So I guess the, the similar,
07:41the question there would be okay. The giants receiver that went to the chiefs can Darius
07:46Tony. Thank you. Can Darius Tony known, known for his Tom foolery where he goes to the chiefs
07:52or for the back half of one season, he shows up big time in the playoffs. I think for a
07:58half season, you don't, you don't worry as much about, is this guy a perfect fit for
08:02the swarm mentality? Yeah, maybe, maybe your point's a good one. The trade deadline is
08:06going to happen likely before they activate Nico Collins. Right. So it'd be a really,
08:12that's the first week. You're going to face the lions. I don't know, depending on what
08:20they could get for some of these veteran wide receivers or guys that can be a headache
08:24every now and then, I don't know, just having them on the field might be worth it. We'll
08:27see. Trade that trade deadline. It'd be a big topic the next, the next eight days for
08:31the Texans. But for now they're six and two, two games up in the division. Life is good
08:36in the standings right now.
08:37It is.