Colts give Jonathan Taylor permission to be Traded

[Avigatorx]

No one on plant earth is giving Indy a 1sr rounder for Taylor.

Along with 15 mill per year to the player.

This trade isnt happening.

Irsay and JT are both unrealistic.

 

[GatorFin73]

Yup, this is the conundrum we have.

Our running back unit is very good at this point.

Can’t say very good, not if accounting for durability. Wilson already dinged, our light rookie slammed to the ground and out with a shoulder and depending on almost always hurt Mostert before going retro 2020/2021 and rolling out Gaskin and Ahmed. Maybe ok for first quarter or half of season but not built to last.

Not ideal when already dealing with fragility at QB, LT, CB’s.

 

[MARINO1384]

I'd rather not trade a 1+ and give Taylor a huge contract. We have a decent RB room, let it ride this year.

Doubt a 1 is on the table. He doesn’t want to play for them, colts don’t want to give him 15 million and he’s a free agent next year and he’s coming off an injury. On top of that this is for a runningback which is unanimously the least important position in the league. While he won’t be cheap, I see no way a 1 is on the table unless we are getting back say a 2 and a 5.

 

[The Ghost]

Possibly Bears? They have to be salivating now that Rodgers is out of that div

I said that yesterday, Chicago should be 100% all over this.

I don't believe anyone will have to surrender a first round pick to get him but if anyone can part with a 2nd, its the Bears. They have Carolina's first and their own, so they will have a lot of ammo even if they move a 2nd.

 

[The Goat]

What’s the point?

Grier is responsible to aquire all players, he will have to be accountable for all players, it’s he who we’ll blame if the player doesn’t work out.

This is how it has to be in the hierarchy to be able to allocate accountability.

It pretty clearly doesn’t.

Grier is still with Miami. Flores is not.

 

[greasyObnoxious]

 

[ThePeopleShow13]

22- Taylor 192 attempts 861 yards 4 td 4.5 yards per carry

22- Moestert 181 attempts 891 yards 3 td 4.9 yards per carry

Wilson 4.7 ypc and 3 tds.

Taylor was worse than BOTH our running backs last season.

I have respect for our backs but you have to be real and accept most of their runs came when teams expected a pass. We were arguably the worst team in the NFL at running the ball in short yardage situations or trying to run down the clock in the second half. Taylor was the feature back for a terrible, 1 dimensional, team. You put him in Miami last year and there is no chance his numbers were worse than Mostert or Wilson.

 

[John813]

A team on the cusp of a superbowl run, a la the perfect storm of the 49ers of last year, may be tempted to trade a first during the season but I can't see any team paying that price now.

 

[Ray R]

Don't see appeal to be honest a Mostert/Wilson combo could net more yards than taylor.

Nice point.

Not a player vs player analysis, but a player vs pair analysis.
It is great if a pair of good players can cost less than then one elite player while performing better and offering functionality if one goes down. With one elite player, when he goes down, he leaves a hole where his functionality was.

 

[The Ghost]

I have respect for our backs but you have to be real and except most of their runs came when teams expected a pass. We were arguably the worst team in the NFL at running the ball in short yardage situations or trying to run down the clock in the second half. Taylor was the feature back for a terrible, 1 dimensional, team. You put him in Miami last year and there is no chance his numbers were worse than Mostert or Wilson.

Yup.

 

[Danny]

I get what you're saying, but that scenario happens on every NFL team every season. Players get cut. It's the business end of the game. Whether we bring in Taylor or not, more than one of our current RB's won't be on the roster when the season starts.

right but do we want to upset the whole team by giving the new guy what he wants before we even take care of the guys that have been here......not to mention that adding yet another big contract will mean losing another player at another position

 

[vagrantprodigy]

Doubt a 1 is on the table. He doesn’t want to play for them, colts don’t want to give him 15 million and he’s a free agent next year and he’s coming off an injury. On top of that this is for a runningback which is unanimously the least important position in the league. While he won’t be cheap, I see no way a 1 is on the table unless we are getting back say a 2 and a 5.

Supposedly they want a 1 and more in order to let him go. No reason to let him go for much less than that when you can tag him next year and then trade him.

 

[Rick Cartman]

For the record i would be in favor of acquiring Taylor, but i do think we would be breaking a sacred rule by paying him.

 

[The Ghost]

A team on the cusp of a superbowl run, a la the perfect storm of the 49ers of last year, may be tempted to trade a first during the season but I can't see any team paying that price now.

Additionally, the Colts can't just trade him to the highest bidder like Carolina did with CMC.

Taylor has some sway in the decision as no one will trade for him if they haven't talked through the finances.

The Colts don't have a lot of leverage here.

 

[E30M3]

Supposedly they want a 1 and more in order to let him go. No reason to let him go for much less than that when you can tag him next year and then trade him.

The word is a first or picks that add up to a 1st. And highly unlikely they would tag and trade burning that tag on a player who doesn't want to be there. They have to take what they can get this year. Never know though I guess.