{"id":9024,"date":"2014-02-05T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2014-02-05T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:12:05","slug":"trent-richardson-planning-to-learn-colts-offense-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/05\/trent-richardson-planning-to-learn-colts-offense-this-offseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Richardson planning to learn Colts offense this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6612\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6612\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/trentrichardsoncolts.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/trentrichardsoncolts.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/trentrichardsoncolts-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/trentrichardsoncolts-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Indianapolis Colts added running back Trent Richardson via an early season trade with the Cleveland Browns but the running back did not contribute heavily to the success of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson lost snaps to Donald Brown and eventually became relegated to the bench during his first season with the Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Now the former No. 3 overall pick is hoping to learn the Colts offense during the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearn the system, not just memorizing it,\u201d Richardson said via <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/afcsouth\/post\/_\/id\/56585\/richardson-will-go-back-to-school-this-offseason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>. \u201cLearning the whole concept of the system. There&#8217;s a difference between having it memorized and feeling comfortable with the system. I\u2019m going talk to a lot of veteran players, talk to Adrian (Peterson), talk to (LaDainian Tomlinson) , talk to\u00a0Emmitt Smith\u00a0to make sure I\u2019m the best I need to be next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Colts gave up their first round pick for Richardson who finished the season with just a 2.9 average. Both the Colts front office and coaching staff have defended the trade for Richardson saying it was not just about the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a big motivation for next season,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cMy big thing, I want to contribute to the team. As far as putting on a big show every weekend for the team, the city, the fans, I\u2019m going to do whatever it takes. That\u2019s a lot of motivation for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Brown and Ahmad Bradshaw becoming free agents the Colts need Richardson to step up in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indianapolis Colts added running back Trent Richardson via an early season trade with the Cleveland Browns but the running back did not contribute heavily to the success of the team. Richardson lost snaps to Donald Brown and eventually became relegated to the bench during his first season with the Colts. Now the former No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,81,216,236],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-nfl","tag-trent-richardson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}