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I dont see him as a bust I see him as underutilized - if we let him go and another team actually lets him play behind a real OL he will be a star.

I don't really see him as a bust either, because he should never have been drafted in the first round anyway.  I was more referring to the general Colts fan and their feeling towards Brown. (At least before this season.)  

 

Oh and by the way...GO HAWKEYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i don't consider him a bust, he had some good years.

 

Not to mention the fact that he did literally nothing after he left Indy.  The Patriots signed him but he never played.  I also agree he wasn't really a bust.  Not first round material (note the trend, stop drafting RBs in the first round!) but not a bust.

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He was doing better and better each year.  There was some real improvement in his play with each season.  It was a bummer to see him go.  Two guys we let go that stick out in my mind are Ryan Lilja and Jake Scott.  Scott left and became a starter on a Tennessee OL that helped CJ reach 2000 yards.  Lilja left and became a starter on a Kansas City OL that helped Jamaal Charles reach over 5.0 ypc.

Pollack was never as bad as many posters stated.  I argued for years about Pollack because you could see he had talent. 

 

I don't know if Lilja and Scott belong in the category of not good in Indy but good elsewhere because both were starters in Indy and they wanted to resign Scott and Lilja but did not have the money for both, so Scott went to Tenn, if I remember correctly, for less money than the Colts offered.  Lilja was let go after an injury in which it was unsure if he would fully recover.  Chiefs took a chance on him, moved him from the left side to the right side so he did not have to push off with his bad knee every play and it paid off for them for a couple of years.  But both were good players with the Colts.

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I liked Wheeler when he was here.  Not sure why we didn't keep him.

Agreed!  Wheeler got a lot of flack from people on here, but I thought he was a solid LB

 

Pollack was never as bad as many posters stated.  I argued for years about Pollack because you could see he had talent. 

 

I don't know if Lilja and Scott belong in the category of not good in Indy but good elsewhere because both were starters in Indy and they wanted to resign Scott and Lilja but did not have the money for both, so Scott went to Tenn, if I remember correctly, for less money than the Colts offered.  Lilja was let go after an injury in which it was unsure if he would fully recover.  Chiefs took a chance on him, moved him from the left side to the right side so he did not have to push off with his bad knee every play and it paid off for them for a couple of years.  But both were good players with the Colts.

Thanks for the insight.  I didn't know all that.

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