08-26-2019, 12:15 AM
(08-25-2019, 11:45 PM)NKURyan Wrote: 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.His rushing game may have been anemic, but he his TE group had Fleener and Allen, who scored 8 TDs each. These were 2 guys drafted specifically to mimic Luck's TE heavy offense at Stanford. His TEs in total scored 18 that year. Let's not sit here and act like a group consisting of Hilton (over 1300 yards that year), Wayne, Fleener, Moncrief, Allen, and a good receiving back in Rhodes was some kind of second rate assembly of weapons. Sanchez sucked, but he had absolutely nothing close to that to work with.
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?
Luck's division also just happened to be a total laughingstock that year. The Jags and Titans combined for a grand total of 5 wins that season. Must be nice to play two non-teams like that in a season.
