08-25-2019, 11:45 PM
(08-25-2019, 10:10 PM)samhain Wrote: Mark Sanchez took the Jets to within a game of the Super Bowl. Nobody cares.
Entitlement is a funny word to use here. If expecting a (the) key player on your team not to quit two weeks before opening day is entitled, then I suppose you are right.
As to his garbage protection, I think people ignore one key fact here. Luck never was a quarterback who was good at the things that quarterbacks need to do to prevent themselves from being injured. He was always reluctant to slide or run out of bounds, and he took a lot of unnecessary shots for that very reason. The line takes plenty of blame, but some of it is on him, too.
Mark Sanchez was the caretaker on a team that had an awesome defense. The Jets made that AFC championship game despite him. Andrew Luck, however, carried a team on his back to the AFC championship game while breaking Peyton Manning's franchise passing records along the way.
Do you know who the leading rusher on that 2014 Colts team was? Trent Richardson lol, with just over 500 whopping yards. He had (a very good) TY Hilton and a 36 year old Reggie Wayne as his primary weapons and he still put up 4700 yards passing and 40 TDs. Their defense was middling and his offensive line was bad. That team doesn't sniff the level of success they had without Luck.
And you act like Andrew Luck was just sitting poolside all summer just waiting to throw this out there two weeks before the season started. Maybe he's been busting his ass all summer to try to get his body to cooperate because he knows just how much his team needs him. None of us know and it's all just conjecture. Since the guy's always been a pretty class act I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here.
If he can't play (and there has been talks for *months* that his start of the season was questionable) what difference does it make if he announces it now versus during Week 4 or 5 of the season? You think he should just string the franchise and fanbase along for a few more weeks even if he knows it's not going to happen?
