{"id":81620,"date":"2025-08-20T05:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81620\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:04:07","slug":"anthony-richardsons-agent-trust-level-with-the-colts-is-questionable-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81620\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Richardson’s agent: “Trust” level with the Colts is “questionable right now”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson respects the decision<\/a> made by the team to make him the backup to Daniel Jones. Richardson\u2019s agent apparently does not.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot to discuss<\/a>,\u201d agent Deiric Jackson told Stephen Holder of ESPN.com, regarding Jackson\u2019s looming conversations with the Colts about the fourth overall pick in the 2023 draft. \u201cTrust is a big factor and that is, at best, questionable right now. Anthony came back and made the improvements in the areas he needed to improve. And by all accounts, he had a great camp.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the assessment of the Colts, it wasn\u2019t great enough. They\u2019ve decided that the job should go to Jones. And, in the ultimate meritocracy of pro football, it\u2019s hard to imagine they deliberately made the wrong decision.<\/p>\n

If anything, a tie or something close to it would have likely gone to Richardson. After all, benching him amounts to an admission that they made a mistake when selecting him with a top-five pick.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they needed a big play last year,\u201d Jackson said, \u201cwhose hands did they put the ball in? Anthony\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an oversimplification. Richardson was benched, after a game in which he tapped out. If \u201ctrust\u201d is a big factor, any quarterback who decides he needs a break risks losing the trust of his teammates.<\/p>\n

Quarterbacks don\u2019t come out of the game. Ever. If anything, they fight to stay in when they arguably shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The bigger question is whether Jackson will be asking for a Richardson trade; there\u2019s really nothing else that Jackson can do at this point. The separate question is whether Richardson and Jackson are on the same page.<\/p>\n

Based on Richardson\u2019s comments and Jackson\u2019s comments, there\u2019s a chance they might not be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson respects the decision made by the team to make him the backup to Daniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-81620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}