Hans Moleman
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Glennon didn't look ready for this yet from what I saw of him in preseason, it may be a mistake not to have Orlovsky start a few games before turning to him if they were intent on benching Freeman.
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Having fewer drives isn't always a bad thing...we would have more drives if we had given away more than one turnover on the season.
We'd also be closer to the league average if we'd been able to do a better job getting the Raiders' and Dolphins' offenses off the field. Fortunately, our D is making progress in that area.
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Also telling: we're dead last in number of drives, which is why we don't score more points per game despite being very efficient offensively.
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You gotta love a guy who gives you the finger.......and then lets you keep it!
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For the record, I do sincerely hope Aldon gets his issues under control. The majority of my scorn in this is towards the 49ers organization for not manning up and handling this properly. I would hope that if a Colt did the same thing, with the same history, that we wouldn't let him play 2 days after the fact. And if we did let him, I'd be calling them out just as bad. Sending him to rehab after the fact is almost like insult to injury even if it is for his good.
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They played with so much chemistry that I'd have called you crazy for telling me this combo never started a game together before.
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The beauty is, this offense travels well. It's much easier to win on the road and in the playoffs if you can power run and play ball control like we did today. I hated facing that formula when the Pats ran it early on against Manning because of how frustrating it was to see our offense stuck on the sidelines, but it's mighty fine to be on the other side of that equation. Especially when you can still pass to win if necessary.
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Lioks like the best RB on the team and it didnt cost a 1 to get him
There's no way we give Bradshaw that many carries if Richardson's not there. Now, Ahmad's not the only power back on the roster, so we can use him without being completely screwed if he gets nicked up like he used to. That's a win/win.
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Punk move to wait until directly after the game to suspend him. He shouldn't have played in the first place.
Props to Castonzo for owning the drunk.
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We sucked for Luck.
Now, it's time for Cleveland to get slaughtered for Bridgewater.
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I disagree. While they don't have to fund the minor leagues(aka college football), they also don't get a piece of the pie.....And thats a big pie.I also realize it's a pipe dream, as universities aren't going to release that teet without a fight.
It is true that the NFL doesn't directly get a piece of the college football pie from a revenue standpoint, but there are indirect benefits- namely, the NCAA subsidizes some marketing costs for the NFL by giving the best NCAA players plenty of exposure before they turn pro and by giving those college's fans a vested interest in the professional team they didn't have before. There's a value there, and I don't think a minor league system funded by the NFL could have that kind of reach or effectiveness.
It looks like a case where the two sides realize if they don't fight each other, there's no chance either of them loses. As long as they continue their pseudo-partnership/cartel, they've got a duopoly on a multi-billion dollar industry.
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if you think this doesn't happen in every major program, you're delusional. The school can't keep boosters from getting to these kids.
They can't if they wanted to. Thing is, they really don't want to, either lol. The schools don't mind as long as they don't get caught. They'll tell boosters to stay away if things start getting way too obvious, but other than that, the boosters can pretty much do as they please.
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How you describe the players sounds like a description of the coaches they play for.
People need to stop acting like college football is anything but big business. My god, it's the #2 sport in the US behind the NFL. If these players had another choice, like baseball's minor league system, I think players would leave in droves. Get on it NFL.
The NFL has it too good- with the NCAA, they already get a farm system they can control like a puppet without having to fund it themselves. One has to question how distinct the lines are when a player can get suspended in the NFL for actions he did before he joined it while in the NCAA, like Terrelle Pryor (something that would fall clearly under "collusion", if anyone wanted to fight it. Pryor didn't want to get blackballed and ruin his career before it started, so he rolled with it), but as long as the NCAA and taxpayers are footing the bill, the NFL's not going to upset the apple cart.
Because of how cushy and chummy that relationship is, we'll never see the NFL start a minor league system for college-aged prospects.
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Eh, let 'em get paid. Many are anyways- Foster's certainly not unique in that regard. Half these players won't graduate, and a healthy chunk of the ones that do are going to get bogus, cakewalk degrees that the school spoonfeeds them. True student athletes aren't the rule in big time college football, but the exception. The saying should be athlete-student, because football comes first. I know because I've seen it firsthand where guys are guided out of the "tough" majors where they'd have to work and devote some time for the sake of the program. While it's easy for fans to envy the attention these players get at the time, the schools are shortchanging the heck out of many of these guys' futures, which they couldn't really care less about so long as it's not so bad that it damages the school's image and brand equity.
Only 1.7% of these players will ever go pro (and many less ever make it to a second contract). I'm all for these guys getting what they can, while they can.
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Man, what's with these people?
Always drinking and driving? Come on man, you making hundreds of thousands per game and you can't afford a taxi cab?
I can't believe these people get away with so much stuff...
Honestly a DUI or possession of weed should cause you to get banned from football for a year without pay, I am sure that will fix the problem.
Multiple offenders should be banned from the NFL for life, that should teach these in-greats a lesson.
Eh, hand out yearlong suspensions for weed automatically and the guys will just increase the amount of the other painkillers they take to play every week. DUI's, on the other hand, they really need to drop the hammer on. I read where Smith's foot was still on the gas pedal when they found him- fortunately the tree stopped the car. For whatever reason, driving drunk isn't viewed as a big deal in the NFL. It should be, but it's not. A guy blazing up at home isn't going to put my family in jeopardy; driving drunk, whole different ballgame.
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To be fair on Weeden, he's going to get hosed this year just like we hosed Orlovsky when we kept him on the bench for Painter. Playing him makes it too risky that Cleveland finishes without the worst record in the league and doesn't wind up with Bridgewater.
I actually feel bad for Weeden in all of this- I've seen rookie QB's look far more out of their depth than he did and still get more than 1 year to show their stuff. Rookie struggles were there, but he still threw for more TD's than INT's with one of the worst WR corps in the league. Now, even if they do play him again, dude's going to get slaughtered anyways. Tough break.
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LOL that's fantastic. Reid just went up a notch in my book
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I'll also throw this in: Frankly, I don't care if Martin's better than Richardson or not. It doesn't matter. Doug wasn't available, and we certainly weren't going to get him for only a first rounder if he was. I was hoping Martin fell to round two for us last year, but Tampa had other ideas. Props to them for it.
What I do care about is that, even with everything Richardson was up against last year, he produced a season better than any Colts RB has in the last 5 years.
I'm not exaggerating. The last time we had a back put up production like Richardson's rookie year, mediocre as it's being painted, it was Joseph Addai's 2007 campaign. Isn't about time we actually made a move to have a "plus" running game instead of settling for the goal of being just adequate? It's like people want it, but they don't want to spend the picks necessary to make it happen (and I'm not just talking about Trent- we had plenty of people mad about the Thornton and Holmes picks, too). Yeah, we had to ignore other areas to build this one. That's how the NFL works. There's more positions than picks, so you have to decide where to focus your investments. It's clear we want a power running game, and I'm glad we're building it with talent (that I still believe we're getting fair value on) as opposed to piecing together scraps and hoping for the best.
We weren't getting the caliber of RB Richardson is in the first round in 2014 because that back's not there even if we wanted him. We just drafted the best RB of the 2014 draft, but we get him now, and he'll only cost $8 mil over the next 3 seasons.
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Devil's Advocate: If we're looking at this with hindsight, could you argue that we should have taken it, and drafted Russell Wilson in the second round?
(I'm a Luck fan, I'm just throwing this out there for a conversational piece)
Apparently we were eyeing him in the 3rd- I'd have to think with an extra early 3rd rounder, we'd have snagged him.
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I'm not regretting the way things are turning out for us by any stretch, but I'm not gonna lie, having that kind of haul with another few years of Peyton would've been flat out nasty.
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Trading one first round pick isn't mortgaging the future any more than actually using it on a player, who may or may not bust, is.
This was a value buy for us. Cleveland paid the 4th overall pick, 3 midrounders, and over $13 million in money to Trent for one year.
We spend (hopefully) a late first and get him for 3 years, 8 million. That's a huge bargain for a player who wasn't going to fall out of the top 10 last year even if one thinks he was overdrafted at 3rd overall. He was better than any RB in the 2013 draft, and frankly, I don't see anyone in the 2014 draft better, either.
I didn't think I'd see people punishing a back who was able to get over 1200 total yards and 12 TD's his rookie year in Cleveland where there's absolutely no threat of a passing attack, but here we are.
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I don't buy in to RB being an overrated position- I think at one point it was, but the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.
The reason great RB's don't win more is that they're usually saddled with bad QB play- guys like Chris Johnson, MJD, Charles, and Peterson come to mind. Put a great RB with a QB that's worth his salt, and it's a whole different ball game. You rarely see tandems line up like that because most teams with one great piece aren't bad enough to get the other, or they can't draft well enough to hit on both of the picks. Quality, prime RB's and QB's rarely change teams.
All I know is power running and defense helped Tom Brady, Big Ben, Flacco, Dilfer, and Eli win Superbowls they wouldn't have gotten to otherwise, usually early on in their career. That's clearly the template we're following, and I have no doubt we'll continue to work on and invest in the defense to get it where it needs to be. This is a big step in the right direction for us.
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We still have our 2nd, 3rd round picks and 35 mil in cap space next year. With players like Alex Mack, Jeremy Macklin, Orakpo,Nicks,Decker, available in free agency. We just got a franchise RB with top 5 potential for a pick that will be in the late teens or 20's, this is a steal.
I'm out of likes for the day, but this, I like. The value for us is great, because even if one doesn't like the concept of burning 1st round picks on RB's, getting a young, talented 3 down back on his rookie contract is a steal financially. To sign a veteran of Richardson's ability to a long term deal would've cost us much more in cap space.
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There's a lot we don't know in trades like this. Concerns over Richardson's health high among them.
So it's Trent Richardson. Makes sense. Browns didn't see downfield explosion and he has injuries concerns. Colts looking for a pounder
he might not have missed much last year, but he was constantly battling injuries...and his rookie year he did miss some games
There's a key difference- we can afford to let him get healthy if he's nicked up; Cleveland couldn't and kept running him, regardless of whether the box was stacked or not.
He'll get fronts that are easier to run against here and won't be the only weapon, so we can manage his workload and any nagging injuries he might have from being overworked.
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I do think he's got long term potential as well, but it wouldn't be the first time we saw a guy get wrecked by getting thrown in too soon. However, he does have some decent offensive weapons, a running game (although it's been hurt since Nicks has been out) and a D. We'll see how it turns out...