stbugs said:
paytonsdaman said:
stbugs said:
pizzatyme said:
I can't answer how TR will respond, but he will have every opportunity to succeed.
A big piece of it will be the revamped interior line. Gone is Satele who was just bad. Costa and the new guards should help.
I still don't get this. On more carries than TRich had, the other Colts running backs averaged 5 ypc to his 2.9ypc. So, you can either say it was luck, but that was close to 200 carries and only the Eagles did better as a team at 5.1 ypc.
If the Colts OL was so bad, how come everyone else did well? And by well, I mean in 172 carries, they were the 2nd best running team in the NFL in ypc.
We are going in circles here. How many of the Eagles were aquired in the middle of the season or any YPC leader? I'm sure any player aquired would have a negative impact to their YPC. Let's gve TRIch another few games to prove himself. If he can't do it with Nicks (new addition), TY. Hilton (increased role), Wayne (coming back) and Allen (coming back) then I'd say he's given up if a fringe 1st rounder can rush like D. Brown did last season.
Circles? How about we stop with the mid-season thing. Once again, TRich played 16 total games with the Colts last year, including 14 in the regular season. 14 regular season games and 16 total <> mid-season. 16 games isn't enough? Seems like he proved himself so much that in the most important games of the year, they ignored TRich.
How about Bradshaw? He, unlike TRich, didn't even get to play in the pre-season. He played 3 games, starting the last two games.
7-26 3.7 ypc
14-65 1TD 4.3 ypc
19-95 1TD 5.0 ypc
So, in conclusion, Bradshaw, who like TRich had never played with the Colts before and had no pre-season/practice warm ups, got 2 starts and in those 2 starts had better games than TRich did in 2 games with Cleveland and 16 games with the Colts. Or are you trying to say that the mid-season trade is why TRich never once in 18 total games was able to get to Bradshaw's 4.3 ypc or 65 yards in a single game?
TRich will have his opportunity this year because he is under contract, but the whole problems with the OL and "mid-season" talk is a bunch of BS. The other RBs and TRich showed that without a shadow of a doubt in 2013.
So...playbook and chemistry don't matter? Gotcha.
Did you read my post? TRich had way more opportunity to learn the playbook and develop chemistry. He played in the pre-season, Bradshaw did not. He played 16 games with the Colts and Bradshaw played 3. Yet, all that said, Bradshaw in those 3 games put up 2 games that were better than all 16 games that TRich played with the Colts and the only game that wasn't better than every game TRich played was Bradshaw's first action of the year and he had only 3 carries.
Stop blaming "mid-season", the OL and lack of chemistry/playbooks. He played 16 games with the Colts. The rest of the RBs averaged 5 ypc on close to 200 carries. RB is the easiest position to play and the reason why guys like Bobby Rainey can explode the first time they get an opportunity. A transplant like Bradshaw had less "chemistry" time and still played way better when he was healthy. TRich flat out stunk in every way shape or form.
I agree with Couer de Lion, he will get an opportunity, but I don't have any faith that he will seize it anymore than he did last year. It is almost like people forget that he was given the opportunity last year and was so bad, they basically ignored him in the playoffs. He had 157 carries. While that doesn't seem like a lot, the next highest was Brown with 102. In FF, I would have no faith in TRich providing anything more than bench time on a FF team.
While I whole-heartedly agree with your point about how it is ridiculous he could not pick up the offense, and the lack of chemistry, you are flat-out wrong about when he joined the team. Richardson was traded midseason to the Colts...
he did not have a preseason with them, or play 16 game with them.
I still think he should have done more (he is not a QB coming to a team midseason), but he was dropped in there a few games in.
He's including the two playoff games. Richardson was traded after Week 2, so he had 14 regular season games and 2 playoff games with Indy.
Exactly. Mid-season is week 9, i.e. half a season. Mid-season <> starting with a team in week 3. Slice it however you want, the Colts saw him play 16 games.
Also, throw in the fact that he went through a pre-season regimen with the Browns, so it wasn't like he wasn't physically ready. He was more prepared to play for the Colts than say Bradshaw who had no pre-season reps at all, so he was physically behind as well as being part of a new team and again, in the 2 games he got more than 7 carries, he outperformed all 16 games of TRich.
I am very interested in him because I think his value is probably as low as it can go, although I could easily see Ballard, Bradshaw and/or a rookie shine brighter. Via injuries, I had to start Brown quite a few times as a RB2 and he performed very well a few games, enough to make the RB1 in Indy FF viable. That said, let's close the book on 2013 and stop blaming chemistry, mid-season, OL, etc., when the facts clearly show that none of those should have resulted in what he did.