What’s more fun than second-guessing NFL coaches? Nothing, that’s what. So let’s do it every week, right here. Today: Future or past, which way do you turn?
The scenario: The Colts stink on ice. Shane Steichen is facing every head coach’s most dreaded personnel problem: Which do you play, a young, expensive, high-draft quarterback who’s not anywhere near ready or an aging quarterback who’s lost 20 miles an hour off his fastball? (See also: Carolina.)
Your candidates for the Colts starting QB job:
• Anthony Richardson, who may have cashed his career when he admitted to pulling himself out of a game because he was tired, but he’s still a phenomenally talented player with a surgeon’s touch on deep throws.
• Joe Flacco, who has been in the league so long that he competed in the Super Bowl alongside Ray Lewis and against Colin Kaepernick … and that was in Flacco’s fifth season.
Yeah. Good luck there, Shane.
The case for …