Thordaddy
Binding you with ancient logic
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I read a story on Fox sports about this ,funny it was on the page linked for the 12th man thread . They made the claim that he just didn't fit the Browns plans because he didn't fit the offense they were running.
IF we had wanted to do this trade in July and he'd have had the benefit of the last 9 weeks to learn our terminology,maybe....but IMO given where we are now in the season ,there aren't as many practice days from now till the end of the season as we've already had,so TRich NOW can't come close to the value of TRich when he can be integrated into the offense. Further we have't had injuries to our top backs who I think we are fairly satisfied with, Indy on the other hand did have a season ending injury to their starter and were going into the rest of the year with Ahmad Bradshaw as their starter,NOT HARD to see Indy being a far more motivated buyer than we, especially since they made the playoffs last year and see themselves falling backward if they don't again this year.
IF we were interested,I'd expect we weren't going to surrender a first ,I think Cleveland probably got the highest bid and it came from a team that needed him worse than we did.
We gave a 2nd for Marshal Faulk if memory serves and his numbers were exponentially better than TRich's he fit the passing game better,never fumbled, Indy got a fairly good back but they way overpaid and Cleveland has $6 mill in dead money in him next year, ya gotta want rid of somebody pretty bad is all I'm sayin'
Sometimes the best deals ya make are the ones ya don't.
IF we had wanted to do this trade in July and he'd have had the benefit of the last 9 weeks to learn our terminology,maybe....but IMO given where we are now in the season ,there aren't as many practice days from now till the end of the season as we've already had,so TRich NOW can't come close to the value of TRich when he can be integrated into the offense. Further we have't had injuries to our top backs who I think we are fairly satisfied with, Indy on the other hand did have a season ending injury to their starter and were going into the rest of the year with Ahmad Bradshaw as their starter,NOT HARD to see Indy being a far more motivated buyer than we, especially since they made the playoffs last year and see themselves falling backward if they don't again this year.
IF we were interested,I'd expect we weren't going to surrender a first ,I think Cleveland probably got the highest bid and it came from a team that needed him worse than we did.
We gave a 2nd for Marshal Faulk if memory serves and his numbers were exponentially better than TRich's he fit the passing game better,never fumbled, Indy got a fairly good back but they way overpaid and Cleveland has $6 mill in dead money in him next year, ya gotta want rid of somebody pretty bad is all I'm sayin'
Sometimes the best deals ya make are the ones ya don't.
