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Originally Posted by Oldcolt
Not sure how you can be so sure AR wasn't the right man to lead us. DJ was good for a while but was reverting back to who the NY fans said he was before he once again got injured.
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This is not even close to being debatable.
Before he got injured in the Chiefs game, Jones had a QB rating of 101.6. Even after that, right up until his disastrous final quarter of the Jaguars game he had a QB rating of 100.2 for the season. Jones' completion percentage for the season (including after he broke his left fibula) was 68%. He had 19 TD's and 8 INT's for the season.
Anthony Richardson's QB rating for the 17 games that he played for the Colts in his first 2 seasons was 67.8, and his completion percentage was 50.6. Overall, he had 11 TD's and 13 INT's.
Statistics can be deceiving, but the discrepancy between Daniel Jones in 2025 and Anthonny Richardson in his 17 games that he played for the Colts in 2023 and 21024 is overwhelming.
And if you're saying this this 2025 Colts team is the same old, tired, mediocre team that we've had in the recent past, then that would rule out the argument that Jones was the beneficiary of playing behind a much better team than Anthony Richardson played on (I don't believe this. I believe that this 2025 Colts team is better than the last 4 teams that we've had since the first retirement of Philip Rivers, and I believe that it is
MUCH BETTER than almost all of the Giants teams that Jones played for in his first 6 years in the league. Prior to Jones breaking his left fibula, the Colts were stomping bad teams, something that we haven't seen on a consistent basis since Peyton's Manning was here, and they thoroughly outplayed and beat the Chargers on their homefield in Los Angeles. Even yesterday, when they were down to a broken-down, 44 year-old Philip Rivers on offense and their defense had 3 significant players out with injury they barely lost to what may be the best team in the NFL on their homefield in Seattle.)
I've already explained about quarterbacks whose playing careers were like night and day once they were traded from bad teams to good teams (Jim Plunkett, Rich Gannon, Steve Young, etc.), and quite frankly, I'm tired of making this obvious point. Daniel Jones performance this season was a glaring example of a QB who was much better once a good team (in particular, a good offensive line) was put around him.
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