Rick Venturi joined JMV to discuss the Colts 1st regular season game this Sunday vs the Los Angeles Chargers, why he’s confident the Colts can still be a good team with Brissett as QB1, if the offense will have to change at all, key players on the Chargers that the Colts will have to game plan for, how the Colts defense can get to Phillip Rivers, and finally he takes some listener questions!
JMV: “What do you expect might be a not so subtle change or most that will be similar with Brissett under center instead of Luck?”
Rick Venturi: “Well I think they’ll be similar but I think there are some things you want to do with Brissett that you would only do some of them with Andrew (Luck). Particularly with the deep stuff and play action I would approach it a little bit different. Now what you want to get in the end is a decisive, compact, and accurate game by him. Now to get that, this is where I think he’s looked the best in camp and the preseason games. First of all, you want a quick rhythm passing game with him (Brissett), you want to win on 1st and 2nd down and I think you want to move him because he’s really good with his legs, bootlegs and I think you can run the zone-read a little bit more with him than you would Andrew (Luck) and I think he’s ready for it.”
