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Colts get Trent Richardson from Browns

Count me in as one who was foolishly wrong on this trade. I still can't believe a guy with that much talent has fallen off so much. I don't think it would hurt him to drop some weight in the offseason and get back closer to his early college build if he can. He doesn't show any burst right now whatsoever.
 
Texn4life said:
Count me in as one who was foolishly wrong on this trade. I still can't believe a guy with that much talent has fallen off so much. I don't think it would hurt him to drop some weight in the offseason and get back closer to his early college build if he can. He doesn't show any burst right now whatsoever.
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I didn't think Richardson would absolutely suck, but I don't see what they hype was about what he did in college. I mean, he had good production and physical tools, but he looked poor to me as an actual RB.

From two years ago: http://www.texanstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1891542&highlight=Richardson#post1891542
 
TexansSeminole said:
The Browns may not have such terrible run blocking after all. Richardson just seems to have poor vision. He can break tackles and has good speed, but he's not a very good back.
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That's for darn sure! Holy moly, you just have to wonder what he's seeing when he chooses his running lanes. Here I thought Slaton had the worst vision. This dude takes the cake
 
Well I know I was wrong about Richardson. I don't think he'd be great back but I had no idea he'd turn out to be this terrible. Hell I could be a poor evaluator of talent maybe the colts could hire me too.
 
chicagotexan2 said:
Well I know I was wrong about Richardson. I don't think he'd be great back but I had no idea he'd turn out to be this terrible. Hell I could be a poor evaluator of talent maybe the colts could hire me too.
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Even the people who thought he was overrated thought that he was closer to Just Another Guy, not one of the worst running backs in the league.
 
Vinny said:
He's looking like the new age Ron Dayne.
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I disagree. You feed Ron Dayne the ball all day and he'll eventually get that ypc up there. It wasn't pretty but he'd eventually wear them down.

Richardson doesn't do anything. It's weird. He looks like he's about to bust one open but it just almost never happens. It's like when he hits a hole it was by accident.
 
Hervoyel said:
I disagree. You feed Ron Dayne the ball all day and he'll eventually get that ypc up there. It wasn't pretty but he'd eventually wear them down.

Richardson doesn't do anything. It's weird. He looks like he's about to bust one open but it just almost never happens. It's like when he hits a hole it was by accident.
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I got it!!!!

Trent Richardson is really Trinitario Ricardo a 38 yr old from the Dominican Republic.
 
Ryan McCrystal ‏@Ryan_McCrystal
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The Browns have more 1st round draft picks than Trent Richardson had rushing yards in the playoffs.


At first read I thought this was a just a joke, but it's true. The Browns have 2 first round picks and Richardson only got 1 yd. rushing on 4 carries in the playoffs. It's to bad Cleveland won't know what to do with those picks because no one wants to coach there.
 
Wolf6151 said:
Ryan McCrystal ‏@Ryan_McCrystal
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The Browns have more 1st round draft picks than Trent Richardson had rushing yards in the playoffs.


At first read I thought this was a just a joke, but it's true. The Browns have 2 first round picks and Richardson only got 1 yd. rushing on 4 carries in the playoffs. It's to bad Cleveland won't know what to do with those picks because no one wants to coach there.
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They should probably promote Ray Horton to HC and just hire a new DC under him. Norv Turner as OC would be nice to retain, but I have no clue what they are gonna do. Normally if you fire a HC you have a plan to replace him, but the Browns don't have a clue.
 
Dutchrudder said:
They should probably promote Ray Horton to HC and just hire a new DC under him. Norv Turner as OC would be nice to retain, but I have no clue what they are gonna do. Normally if you fire a HC you have a plan to replace him, but the Browns don't have a clue.
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They've already fired Horton, too, right?

They'd have to re-hire him. :kubepalm:
 
The only thing I can figure with regards to the Browns is that they must have their sights set on someone with one of the remaining playoff teams that they are currently unable to interview. If that's not the case then they're just stupid.
 
Browns waiting on Adam Gase, but he may choose to stay and learn from Manning for another year if there is one. Then there's the Seattle and 49er coordinators.

Josh McDaniels might be back in play after the playoffs. If everyone declines Munch will likely be the guy. I think Lombardi is running this thing and doing the Al Davis "interviews" where they just try to milk information from coaches who aren't really candidates. Pisses people off.
 
...and the Browns used the Trent Richardson pick for,

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Well, after seeing what the Texans did this past weekend in the draft my Colts better see Richardson earn his pay. I see a great new rivalry for my Colts in the form of the Texans. Should be a couple of real great games coming up this fall.
 
Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter
Colts RB Trent Richardson is inactive.
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Irsay.
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Richardson didn't make the trip to New England for "personal reasons."

The Colts are on the hook for his $3.18 mil next year if they cut him - no offset.
 
I never really thought that Richardson was going to be some super great RB, but he did have a pretty good rookie season on a bad Browns offense. I thought it was an interesting move by the Colts at the time to really bolster their offense. It worried me when it happened. Very glad to see that it backfired miserably.
 
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
Trent Richardson told @MikeWellsNFL: "I'm dealing with a very serious family emergency. I'm still at the hospital. I wouldn't purposely just miss walk through."
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Not that it affects much outside of his character.
 
The dose of reality in this whole scenrio is the Colts have $25 million in cap space this off season and the Texans have $10 million

FIRE Rick Smith !!
 
infantrycak said:
Geez PFT is speculating $25 mil per year. And they have $3.6 mil of proration to pay off his rookie contract. Plus they have 5 starters and 3rd and 4th WRs and CBs as UFAs.
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$25 large, wow.

I'm interested to see how close Luck & Wilson contracts are. Whichever team signs first signs lower $$$ deal...?
 
Playoffs said:
$25 large, wow.

I'm interested to see how close Luck & Wilson contracts are. Whichever team signs first signs lower $$$ deal...?
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I think Luck will get more regardless of order. I think a closer examination than per year average will show more realistic and guaranteed money in Luck's deal.
 
Things started to change for Richardson against Cincinnati on Oct. 19, when he suffered a hamstring injury and had to sit out the fourth quarter after rushing for 77 yards through the first three.

That's when Richardson's weight issue started to take off. He began the season at 225 pounds, but his weight had ballooned up to around 240 pounds later in the season, according to a source.
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He had shared carries with Ahmad Bradshaw during the first 10 games of the season, but Bradshaw suffered a fractured fibula -- ending his season -- against New England on Nov. 16.

The Colts, according to a source, became frustrated with Richardson because they couldn't get in touch with him and didn't have any communication with him until around 1 p.m. the day after the Patriots game.
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Where Richardson stood with the Colts became even more evident when he was listed as the third running back behind Herron and Zurlon Tipton for the wild-card playoff game against Cincinnati and then was inactive against Denver in the divisional round.
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Richardson then was suspended for the AFC Championship Game because he didn't alert the team he would not be at the walk-through due to a family emergency. He told the team, according to a source, that he didn't call or text because he had phone problems.

Richardson told ESPN.com on the day of the AFC Championship Game that he was "dealing with a very serious family emergency. ... I wouldn't purposely just miss walk-through."

General manager Ryan Grigson declined comment...
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http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...trent-richardson-2014-season-number-incidents
 
He was a tremendous back at 'Bama, but not so much in the NFL for whatever reason(s) ?
 
There's gonna be a big red flag on Alabama RBs for a long time thanks to T Ricj and Mark Ingram, although credit to Ingram he's turned into a decent player the last couple of years. Eddie Lacy is definitely the exception.
 
Ryan said:
There's gonna be a big red flag on Alabama RBs for a long time thanks to T Ricj and Mark Ingram, although credit to Ingram he's turned into a decent player the last couple of years. Eddie Lacy is definitely the exception.
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Ingram is better than Richardson imo. I thought lacy looked better than Richardson coming out.

That big rb they have now looks pretty good too.
 
PapaL said:
Ever say something and way later realize how totally wrong you were? Yeah...:hmmm:
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Eh... don't be so hard on yourself. They needed to do something at that time. At least they weren't sitting on their thumbs & it doesn't appear to have set them back much at all... not yet anyway.
 
Vance87 said:
Even the part about them becoming competitive with us was way off...sadly.
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They were in contention with us... but if they would have won the final weekend, we'd have made the playoffs cuz we beat them earlier
 
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