Colts general manager Ryan Grigson made headlines earlier this season when he said the team has been limited in improving the defense due to Andrew Luck's contract, but on Tuesday, Grigson said that his comments were taken in the press differently than intended.

During a discussion with FOX Sports Radio in October, Grigson said the growth of the defense was slowed due to the six-year, $140 million contract extension the team gave Luck over the summer. "We have a defense that is work in progress," Grigson said. "When you pay Andrew what we did, it's going to take some time to build on the other side of the ball."

Grigson's comment was taken in some circles almost as if he was blaming Luck for the lack of improvements made on defense. During an interview with Dan Dakich on 1070 AM Indianapolis on Tuesday, Grigson said his comments weren't meant to be negative towards Luck and just reflected the reality of the financial situation the team is in.

"You know, I’ll say this: it’s just the same kind of, like, fire-aim-ready media world that we live in. I mean, it’s ridiculous," Grigson said, per Colts.com. "And it’s like, it was, to me, I was just stating the obvious, and then they take a snippet, and they turn it into something ridiculous. Andrew knows I will never say anything negative about him."

Grigson continued on to say that he didn't have a conversation with Luck after making the quote and Luck's contract isn't the only reason for the team's financial limitations.

"That’s Days Of Our Lives-type stuff," Grigson said. "But the thing about it is, I was just stating the obvious. Like any other program that — and I didn’t choose my words politically correct enough, I guess. If I didn’t say his name, no one would say anything, but they would have to intimate that I mean him. But it’s not just him. It’s (Anthony) Castonzo, T.Y. (Hilton), Dwayne (Allen) — I mean, we re-signed a bunch of guys to big deals, and it puts you in a different financial environment than you were before. It’s no different than when other elite quarterbacks have been re-signed. Their whole kind of structure and how they are able to do things in free agency and so forth, and how they spend, is going to be changed. I was just stating the obvious, and I don’t back off that.”

Click here to see the transcript of Grigson's comments during the interview at Colts.com.