Last season, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson missed nearly the entire season with two injuries, suffering a concussion in his second game of the season and a season-ending shoulder injury in Week 4. The injuries have led to the suggestion that he should change the way he plays and run less, but he doesn’t sound interested in doing that.
During a press conference this week, Anthony Richardson made it very clear that he has no intention of changing the way that he plays on the field. He thinks he just needs to play smarter.
“Changing my game and my play style? I don’t feel like there’s anything wrong with my play style,” Richardson said. “People see me, I’m a big quarterback, so they always think, ‘Oh, he wants to run the ball all the time, he wants to be physical and that’s what’s gonna get him hurt.’ But that’s not the case. The times I did get hurt. . . . The one time, the one concussion, that was me completely because I slowed down by the end zone — you’re never supposed to do that. Everything else, it just happened because we play a dangerous game, and there’s nothing I can do about that.
“But necessarily changing my play? I don’t think I’m gonna change it, but being smart, knowing when to get extra yards and knowing when to get down, I feel like I know how to do that. It’s just I have to do it and do it at the right time, I guess. I don’t know if I’m gonna change my game, but being smarter for the team, of course.”
We’ll have to see whether or not he is able to stay healthy throughout the upcoming season.
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