EP 346: Draft Day Trades, Best Player Snubs

Colts Blue Zone Podcast

Mike Chappell, Dave Griffiths and Matt Adams kick off this week's Blue Zone Podcast with a discussion about the start of NFL training camp as the league announces dates for teams to report. The Colts are one of the last clubs to start camp (1:14).

A new documentary on the Roku Channel revealed a couple tantalizing bits: the Colts rejected a first-round trade offer from the Rams and had their own trade offer rejected while trying to move up in the second. We'll explore some of the possibilities (5:13 for the first-round trade, 18:11 for the second-round trade).

A list of top NFL players failed to include a single Colts player--no DeForest Buckner, no Jonathan Taylor, no Quenton Nelson. Is that emblematic of how media outside of Indy view the roster? (13:20)

Plus: a study claims the Colts have the NFL's most negative fanbase (25:23), HBO's "Hard Knocks" shakes things up for the in-season edition (30:43), Matt Ryan readies for his place in (Atlanta's) Ring of Honor (38:17) and Trevor Lawrence gets a big contract (48:30).