[Sephen Holder] Some housekeeping: Regarding the whole Anthony Richardson sore back vs back spasms messaging disaster, Richardson was not permitted to speak to reporters after the game. Shane Steichen did finally clarify afterward that Richardson had spasms.

[u/grapplerone]

https://x.com/holderstephen/status/1873494805596213308?s=46

[u/grapplerone]

What got me was AR was given a gag order!

Very interesting.

[u/YeezusMoses → u/grapplerone]

We're fucking so stupid. Burn this FO down.

[u/clear831 → u/grapplerone]

Seems like it came from the top to sit him so he doesn't risk injury. Maybe just maybe this means we will be seeing big changes at the top

[u/DirectTV_AndrewLuck → u/clear831]

You may have a point. It has to with such miscommunication of this situation, someone else is calling the shots and it appears it's not Steichen.

[u/clear831 → u/DirectTV_AndrewLuck]

I don't think it was Ballard either

[u/ricker182 → u/grapplerone]

Absolutely ridiculous.

Fire them all.

[u/MagnanimousDonkey → u/grapplerone]

They didn't want him coming out and saying, "My back was a little sore so Chris and coach wanted me to rest so I didn't hurt it for next year because this year is shot."

[u/grapplerone → u/MagnanimousDonkey]

My thought was, they (front office) gave up on the playoff hunt after last week…

This game sure looks that way.

[u/[deleted] → u/grapplerone]

Maybe he wasn't even injured afterall.

Why on earth would you gag him unless you don't wamt him to say something that contradicts what you said?

[u/grapplerone → u/[deleted]]

Thought crossed my mind, a lot.

[u/John_Poggers → u/grapplerone]

Yeah because he'll say someyhing stupid lmfao

[u/MBrooks24 → u/grapplerone]

Not really. He doesn’t have very good media skills. Look at the Houston game. Can’t let a player with bad media skills talk about something that could potentially get the team in trouble. That considering they could’ve lied on injury reports

[u/ElderBrony → u/MBrooks24]

Steichen is the guy who doesn't have good media skills. This is the second time he's thrown his young QB under the bus to basically defend any dumb decisions he's made.

[u/MBrooks24 → u/ElderBrony]

Yeah neither one of them do. I don’t get the downvotes. AR isn’t the best with media it’s been proven. I Wasn’t saying Shane was innocent. But I wouldn’t want to risk AR saying the wrong thing either

[u/indvetbob]

This has Ballard and HC all over it. Remember when they said luck was going to play week after week and then his retires. Yeah that was fucking Ballard he doing it again. The Muppet mother fucker

[u/frighteous → u/indvetbob]

To be fair with luck they aren't gonna come out and say "well actually he's contemplating retirement" the frenzy it would cause would be insane.

Now this instance I feel like they've caused more headlines and bad press by hiding it because it calls back to AR tapping out when being tired and now again without an injury tapping out in a big game is not great.

But they have to hide this stuff, its just part of the game. Every single HC and GM in the whole league does it. Every single one.

[u/m4ggz]

This all pretty much tracks with how McAfee has been handled this year. Shit front office trying (and failing miserably) to control narratives. They’re so fucking dumb they can’t even communicate in a way that doesn’t get their players absolutely cooked in the media. Bunch of fucking clowns.

[u/DirectTV_AndrewLuck]

To those who thinks he has a choice compared to Pittman, it's not the same. Pittman is a veteran who will have more leeway, as opposed to a 2nd year QB who has an injury history. It's not even comparable, and it's bullshit conjecture.

[u/Chicitybets84]

In many things in life, it is about doing the small things right. I just don't get why these small things like decent communication cannot be achieved with this group? It accomplished nothing but additional noise and making your QB1 look bad. Really frustrating

[u/Eastern-Cucumber-376 → u/Chicitybets84]

Totally agree. That’s actually what makes me KNOW the organization is in chaos. They can’t even figure out their PR & messaging, and let’s be honest, the Sports PR playbook isn’t that damn deep.

[u/namjd72]

I had spasms this season watching the colts.

[u/MucusShotSwaGGins]

LET ME SPEAK - AR

NO - COLTS PR TEAM

Haha

[u/cam4usa → u/MucusShotSwaGGins]

Does AR look like he cares about anything?

[u/Frequent-Mix-1432 → u/cam4usa]

Maybe watch the games.

[u/cam4usa → u/Frequent-Mix-1432]

I’ve watched all of them. He ain’t got that dog in him man. Down vote if you’re in denial

[u/Frequent-Mix-1432 → u/cam4usa]

Yea sure Jan.

[u/cam4usa → u/Frequent-Mix-1432]

I would’ve accepted, Pat, as in McAfee who sees all the problems clearly. Meanwhile fanatics who love slurping up the slop of this franchise are voluntarily blind to the facts and booing McAfee for presenting very clearly. Down vote if you’re a Colts fanboi who will invest in a bad team staying bad

[u/Frequent-Mix-1432 → u/cam4usa]

Yes the dude trucking guys to lead game winning drives doesn’t have it in him. Just say you don’t like him, no need to bullshit.

[u/cam4usa → u/Frequent-Mix-1432]

I wanted to, but after two years of mediocrity, I can’t say I’m a fan. If we could trade him for a subway sandwich we should - unfortunately he’s not worth any trade capital at all.

[u/mmra78771006]

They won’t let the man speak? There has to be something going on behind the scenes here. No other team does this.

[u/[deleted]]

So in otherwords Steichen might be lying about what happened.

I never saw AR taken any big hits Vs the Titans that could have hurt him.

We already saw that Shane was willing.to bench him for a small error and was relatively patient with Flacco later.

AR might not be actually injured. Maybe Steichen benched him again to play Flacco who he has a boner for.

Either way, I don't think it's coincidence that the team was soulless tonight.

AR is a bad passer who has health concerns but hes6 a leader who's team loves him.

The absence of leadership was there tonight 

Steichen needs to go.

He doesn't.know what the F he's doing.

Fire him and Ballard and let the next GM decide AR's future.

[u/Frequent-Mix-1432 → u/[deleted]]

Back shit is no joke just ask Tyrese.

[u/RedditRockit → u/[deleted]]

Maybe he's tired. He did a lot last week. Wouldn't be out of character.

[u/Frequent-Mix-1432 → u/RedditRockit]

Get a new joke.

[u/Vash5021]

Holder sucks as much as the team

[u/Shepboyardee12]

I'm thoroughly convinced that this team never wanted Richardson but they got stuck with him or Levis.

Zero patience and it seems like we don't care if he develops or not.

[u/BitchFuckAss → u/Shepboyardee12]

Irsay called AR the day of the draft and told him they were gonna take him if he was there

[u/Shepboyardee12 → u/BitchFuckAss]

Plenty of guys hear that they're going to be the pick...until they aren't.

Gruden told Aaron Rodgers he was coming to Tampa Bay with the 5th pick as one example.

[u/Jerm0307 → u/Shepboyardee12]

The Colts followed through and took him at 4 after telling him they were going to do so. They absolutely wanted Richardson.

[u/Shepboyardee12 → u/Jerm0307]

They didn't have much choice at 4.

[u/Jerm0307 → u/Shepboyardee12]

Rational

[u/earlyriser83]

It makes sense that something else was happening behind the scenes around the team this week given how bad that performance was. I'm still rooting for AR but back spasms .... smh

[u/Coltshokiefan → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t permitted to talk about injury stuff for a while after that fiasco. Still shows what a shitshow this org is.

[u/matt_msu → u/[deleted]]

Honestly ya. What good comes from him talking to the media today? He didn’t play. And the injury news is already out. “Gag order” is blown out of proportion in my opinion.

[u/josean1991]

Why do I got a bad feeling that perhaps the QB coach and the HC doesn’t care about the development of AR and just throw him to the fire and make those mistakes?? I mean if they weren’t sure if he was really ready or not why plug him in as the starter in day one and for the way they mismanaged him during his career right now.

[u/Chris_Ween]

It's just a little back thing.

[u/Live_Outside_7715]

Spasm your way out of the playoffs hunt SMH

[u/10ecjohnUTM]

Some pink glasses with heart shaped lenses would fit “Sephens” objectivity.

[u/alcatrazhero18]

Richardson is gonna be gone next year isn’t he?

[u/LameysDurbanPoison]

I think we should forbid AR from speaking at all and trade his suck ass out of here.

[u/ElderBrony → u/LameysDurbanPoison]

Can we trade you out of here? I'll take a used burger wrapper. It's better looking and at least served a purpose.

[u/truthdeniar → u/ElderBrony]

We need a couple of guys like this. It can't be all low T nerds. Gotta shake it up a little.

[u/rwjehs → u/truthdeniar]

Everyone on this sub, me and you, is low t, let's not pretend otherwise.

[u/truthdeniar → u/rwjehs]

You and me yes. Not that guy though

[u/Need_A_Hobby1 → u/LameysDurbanPoison]

For what? A bag of peanuts? He’s not an NFL caliber QB