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I disagree, man.  I see this as a profit-taking similar to the Patriots developing Matt Cassell and trading him for a draft pick.  Realistically, while we were all impressed by Rayford's work against 2nd and 3rd team OL, he's still just a developmental pass-rusher.  And his sacks seemed to be similar: OT is pushing him safely around the QB, but with his length, he reaches out and pulls the QB down with one hand.  If he were a starter that opposing team's starting OL were preparing for, would he be able to do that?  Answer: not until he developed an inside move that linemen had to respect.  Plus, there are the issues that his knees would be exposed as an OLB (there's a reason there aren't many 6'7" OLBs) and that he's a 27 year old rookie.  A lot of water has to pass under the bridge before he can contribute, and Cam Johnson was a more complete player.  Really good move, especially if we got more than a 7th rounder for Rayford.

I disagree, man.  I see this as a profit-taking similar to the Patriots developing Matt Cassell and trading him for a draft pick.  Realistically, while we were all impressed by Rayford's work against 2nd and 3rd team OL, he's still just a developmental pass-rusher.  And his sacks seemed to be similar: OT is pushing him safely around the QB, but with his length, he reaches out and pulls the QB down with one hand.  If he were a starter that opposing team's starting OL were preparing for, would he be able to do that?  Answer: not until he developed an inside move that linemen had to respect.  Plus, there are the issues that his knees would be exposed as an OLB (there's a reason there aren't many 6'7" OLBs) and that he's a 27 year old rookie.  A lot of water has to pass under the bridge before he can contribute, and Cam Johnson was a more complete player.  Really good move, especially if we got more than a 7th rounder for Rayford.

I see what you mean.  I just thought the Colts could develop him into something good.  At least we got something out of it.  I just hope the draft pick turns out to something we really need.  But I think you have a good opinion.  I was hoping he could turn into Ted Hendricks but that was highly unlikely.  Ted Hendricks probably would have trouble today though.  I guess it is pretty great to get a draft pick from an undrafted free agent.  I think I should add that in what I wrote up.

And I see where you're coming from.  It was exciting to see him make it after all these years, and I don't remember ever having a Colt with 5 pre-season sacks.  Easy to fall in love with a guy like that.  Something tells me we'll be enjoying Cam Johnson quite a bit once he hits the field...

The Colts are still young and some of the good players we have now will be great! and some good players fail to have the desire to be great and fail to be great!

It's plain and simple, the Colts blew this one.  I am not going to try to sugar-coat it for Grigson.  Rarely do you find someone like this that has rare combinations.  He would have been an impact player.  You will see in the Cowboys first game.  He will play, he won't play every snap, obviously, but he will play and HE WILL CONTRIBUTE BIG-TIME.  This is what we missed on and it's just very sad to me.

It's plain and simple, the Colts blew this one.  I am not going to try to sugar-coat it for Grigson.  Rarely do you find someone like this that has rare combinations.  He would have been an impact player.  You will see in the Cowboys first game.  He will play, he won't play every snap, obviously, but he will play and HE WILL CONTRIBUTE BIG-TIME.  This is what we missed on and it's just very sad to me.

Lol your overrating him

This trade is in the fact that the team management fills that rebuilding is still ongoing!