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[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

I don't really care how AD performs. Pundits say that since it worked out for the team, somehow it was a bad trade for the other team. l 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. l 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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If I had to take a wild guess, I would say that the blunders that Adonai Mitchell committed while playing for the Colts (particularly dropping the ball at the 1/2-yardline, and nullifying a Jonathan Taylor touchdown with a holding penalty that was nowhere near the play in the same game against the Rams) weighed on him. And because of that, even though he went from a team that was at the time one of the favorites to win the AFC Championship to one of the worst teams in the NFL, it was a relief for him ...... he has gotten a lot more playing time with his new team, and he is no longer carrying the weight of blowing a crucial game for a team that was (at that time) fighting for the #1 overall seed in the AFC.

Subsequently, I completely agree with you ...... there is no way to accurately presume just how Mitchell would have performed had he stayed with the Colts ...... in fact, there is a good chance that he still would have been sitting on the sidelines for the majority of the games that the Colts have played since he was traded.

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