[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

I don't really care how AD performs. l Pundits say that since it worked out for the team, somehow it was a bad trade for the other team. There is no way to know how the player would have performed on his previous team if he was not traded. Sometimes a player only improves by having a new situation, either because the situation is better for him, or because he only learned to improve by the first team giving up on him. In the case of Mitchell, he was a luxury as a WR4, and we needed a CB a lot worse, so it was a good trade, at the time. Hindsight is always 50/50, but GMs do not have crustal balls to know how it will work out, but they swing for the fences anyway. Ballard haters will always play the hindsight game. But they only play it when it turns out bad, and not when he gets a player like DeForest Buckner.

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Actually, I do care how Mitchell does with the Jets ...... I'm rooting very much for the young man to play well for them, and to resurrect a career that was marred by a very embarrassing game against the Rams.

Even if Mitchell goes on to be a 3-time All-Pro with the Jets, that portion of the trade was incidental ...... the Colts needed a cornerback, they didn't need a 2nd-string wide receiver who was getting almost no playing time. I don't think that there is a Colts fan on the planet that believes that Micthell was going to be a big part of the Colts' future plans just before he was traded, and so his leaving the team for the Jets was essentially incidental ...... I believe that the draft picks that the Colts gave up for Sauce Gardner is a much more appropriate gauge of the trade than Mitchell being packaged with them is. Lamenting Micthell playing well for the Jets and subsequently groaning that he was part of the Sauce Gardner trade is just adding gasoline to the proverbial "Ballard sucks" fire.

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