Sports fans sounding stupid...hard to believe.Colts fans sounding stupid on Mad Dog radio.
Sports fans sounding stupid...hard to believe.Colts fans sounding stupid on Mad Dog radio.
Wow.. Some fans are taking this as hard as Lebron leaving the Cavs. The dude RETIRED!Sports fans sounding stupid...hard to believe.
That is really strange. What was he/whomever decided to break the news thinking doing it at that point? In the middle of a game?
Something weird happened here.
Here is Luck's entire press conference:
Correct. GoMy god. Luck is one of the tougher QBs I have ever watched.
Wow.. Some fans are taking this as hard as Lebron leaving the Cavs. The dude RETIRED!
Wow.. Some fans are taking this as hard as Lebron leaving the Cavs. The dude RETIRED!
maybe not
In the short term Brissett is the starter. He's on the last year of his rookie deal and he's playing with a pretty good supporting cast, so it's a huge season for him. The good news is that nobody is running away with the AFC South. The Colts aren't Super Bowl contenders now but I don't think the bottom will fall out either. If it does and Brissett flops then the 2020 QB class looks promising.
I’m a colts fan and my initial reaction was that he was quitting on the team. After a few hours to think about it, I now feel bad for Luck. He took a lot of beatings early in his career. Now it appears that his body doesn’t heal in a timely manner. Colts had a top 5 team with him in my opinion, without him we will be lucky to be .500. Elite QBs don’t grow on trees.
Really Golic? You're one of the biggest mouth breathers out there on this subject. Hardly a day goes by on your show where you're not talking about how football players that love the game will play through anything and you can't drag them off the field because of how tough they are and they never want to let their teammates down.
He'll talk about how they don't care about how their bodies or brain will be in 10 years because they just love the game too much. He only helps to create this whole image that if you quit, or "retire", you're just not that "tough" or don't love the game.
Anyway, the only reason I feel bad for the fans is if it turns out the Colts and Luck waited to announce this until after they had all renewed their season tickets. That would be total BS.
**** Jim Irsay for not surrounding him with ANY OL in his first years...
They won't have access to top-of-the-line QB talent in the draft if the bottom doesn't fall out. Going 8-8 in the NFL can put you in a situation somewhat vaguely similar to the middle-of-the-road teams in the NBA -- not good enough to compete for a championship, but too good to accrue enough draft capital and lacking in the cap space to meaningfully improve their team. I know this circumstance is not as pronounced in the NFL as in the NBA, but the logic of you should either be competing for championships or tanking is there for football, too.
The Colts with Luck are Super Bowl contenders. Without him, they are probably average, good enough to win a weak division, but that is probably the end of the line.
Irsay had a GM that didn’t have a clue and it almost got Luck killed and definitely cut his career short. Grigson was an idiot.
Like usual people aren’t mad that he is retiring. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The problem is how it went down. The problem is that he is doing it 3/4 of the way through the preseason without some real injury that changes things. Even then it would have been a lot better if this didn’t come out during the middle of their game.
I agree. I think that as of this morning their ceiling is 9-7 and the floor is something like 5-11. I haven't seen if Vegas has adjusted their o/u win total yet.
There's not much they can do now except hope for the best with Brissett and see if he ends up being a legitimate long term option. If he doesn't pan out then I think we'll see Chad Kelly start a game or two just to see what they have there. As far as drafting a QB they'll be looking hard at next year's group. And while I'm sure there are stats that prove that a QB drafted in the first round is more likely to succeed than a QB drafted in the mid-to-late rounds, franchise guys can be found outside of the first few picks. Little known fact: Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round!
As far as Luck goes, shame on anyone who criticized him or had some ****** take on twitter(looking at you, Gottlieb). Nobody but Luck could possibly know how he felt, and if it had all become a grind and he wasn't having fun anymore then it was time to move on. I give him credit for listening to his body and understanding that the right long term move was to walk away. He was never the most consistent player but when he was on he was as good as anyone else in the league and better than most. He's under contract through 2021 and if he changes his mind down the road I'll welcome him back but I think he's done for good.
You just admitted to listening to his show.
I would be a little more aggressive than you. I would be in "win now" mode. Going 9-7 and losing in the first-round when you had Super Bowl ambitions is rather lame.
That is especially the case when 9-7 is expensive, locking you up cap-wise, and gives you no great path towards acquiring a blue-chip QB prospect to replace Luck long-term.
I would call around the league to see if any of the higher-level backups (or starters on teams trying to tank/that have good young options behind them) are available for something like a second-round pick. That is at least worth the phone call to try for it.
Teddy Bridgewater has been really good for New Orleans in the preseason. They obviously have Brees to start, and Taysom Hill has looked good, too. Try for Teddy?
I would try Eli, too -- the Giants are going to move on from him soon enough as it is, and he might have enough gas in the tank to manage you through one more season.