Trent Richardson traded to the Colts

Catfish said:

Ooh, I got this one! Because Shanahan and Snyder are both idiots. You're welcome.

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*wipes my eyes* These doggone raindrops keep falling from my eyes. Let's not talk about Dan Snyder....

Trent traded up.

Padreruf said:

Years ago I was a die hard Colts fan -- days of Unitas, Berry, and Big Daddy Lipscomb. Couldn't do it when Peyton was there...but now I can!

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Don't forget Barry Krauss

I'm not sure that Trent's carries will be significantly higher, but his production will be. Moreover, he won't be such a workhorse - which means he'll last much, much longer.

That's great news, glad he is out of that dump called Cleveland.

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but don't play fantasy football. Does a trade like this affect anything in FF? I assume you own the player and nothing with your team or the player's status on it changes.

CrimsonProf said:

I'm not sure that Trent's carries will be significantly higher, but his production will be. Moreover, he won't be such a workhorse - which means he'll last much, much longer.

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Maybe in Indy he will actually have holes to run through.

JLeodhas said:

That's great news, glad he is out of that dump called Cleveland.

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Their team would need improvement to become a dump.

bamacon said:

I'll translate.
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Moral of the story... Never a trust a team that wears orange.

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Never!

The Browns realize that, by the time they get ready to contend for anything, TR will be used up. They want a QB in a bad way. This draft, they'll take a QB in the 1st round, and they'll have two picks to do it with. They know they drafted TR way too high


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This just shows how incredibly inept the Browns were. They did 0 besides drafting Trent to improve a horrible offense. They basically just treated it like ok Trent, we'll give you the ball and you'll magically make this offense not suck. Surprisingly, he actually did that. They had something like four rushing touchdowns the year before they got Trent. He massively improved on that, and furthermore their TDs didn't come at the expense of passing TDs. He increased their TD totals for the year dramatically.

But, they added no one to their offense in the off season! Not in the draft, not via free agency. They're just an inept cesspool that according to some people unloaded Trent because they didn't want to pay him. He'll be much, much better off with the Colts, where he has a real QB, and well, a real team.

Cleveland .v. Jax in December, do I dare say scoreless tie possibility?

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257WBY said:

I can only guess the Browns are trying to draft a franchise QB. Hard to imagine otherwise. Great for the Colts.

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What I was thinking. Dumb trade by the Browns and an excellent deal for the Colts and Trent.

rolltideallday said:

Anybody know why this happened? I'm extremely happy for Trent and the fact that he will have much more personal and team success. But were the Browns unhappy with Trent or did they think he wasn't performing well enough to be worth the 1st round pick? Very strange situation.

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read this on Yahoo Fantasy Football

Per FOX Sports' Jay Glazer, the Browns felt Richardson "didn't fit Chud's (coach Rob Chudzinski's) offense," which doesn't make a lick of sense.

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bamanut_aj said:

The Browns realize that, by the time they get ready to contend for anything, TR will be used up. They want a QB in a bad way. This draft, they'll take a QB in the 1st round, and they'll have two picks to do it with. They know they drafted TR way too high


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I hope Johnny Football likes playing in Cleveland.

Lassr4Bama said:

read this on Yahoo Fantasy Football

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That's ok because I don't think the browns franchise fits in the NFL.

Love this for Trent but hate it for the cross division rival Texans.


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Per FOX Sports' Jay Glazer, the Browns felt Richardson "didn't fit Chud's (coach Rob Chudzinski's) offense," which doesn't make a lick of sense.

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I agree with the last part. Trent is a very good runner, receiver and blocker. Exactly what could Chudzinski's offense need a back to do that isn't included in that skill set?

bamacon said:

I hope Johnny Football likes playing in Cleveland.

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It might be Bridgewater they're looking at.


The new regime in Cleveland have essentially thrown away this season to start rebuilding again next year. They'll get one of the top couple of QB's coming out next year and now have the picks stock piled to go to the top spot if necessary/possible to get the QB they want. If I were a Brown's season ticket holder I'd be pretty PO'd right now but Trent's better off heading to Indy.