G1: How the Colts Got Lucky

Jim Irsay must be one of the luckiest men in football considering when he started as general manager he had the first overall pick and drafted Peyton Manning; 14 years later he gets to draft Andrew Luck. The Indianapolis Colts were a powerhouse with Manning, considering they made the playoffs from 2002-2010, a total of 9 years in a row. Manning for a long time since 2006 has had issues with his neck and that was attributed to a vicious hit he took in 2006. Since then he has had 4 neck surgeries to repair some of the nerves in his neck. He had muscle atrophy, or basically the nerves in his neck had begun to deteriorate. Manning also had a bone fusion in his neck too. That combined with a 2-14 season Manning and the Andrew Luck era had begun.

Experts say that Andrew Luck is the greatest quarterback prospect since John Elway is ’83; I have to agree with that. Andrew Luck has helped reshape an organization that looked like at the end of the season last year that would not be successful for another 2-3 years. Luck must have had a time machine because the Colts right now are 7-4 and have 3 times as many wins as last year. Luck is very good mechanically because on the field Luck as the appearance of a 5 year veteran out there because he looks so calm and fluid out there. He is a lot more mobile than people think he ran the same 40 yard dash time as Cam Newton. Luck is a physical specimen weighing in at 234 pounds and he is 6 foot 3. In 2010 when Luck was at Stanford he ran over California defender that he probably can still see in his dreams. Andrew Luck that same season destroyed a USC defender who had picked the ball up and began to run with it. Luck is probably better than a good handful of the quarterbacks in the NFL. He has really helped the Colts become relevant after a year of not being relevant. The Colts are in the playoff race this year and can make the playoffs this year after no one gave them a chance. Their season really got a jump start when Andrew Luck led the Colts to a comeback when they were down 21-3 to at the half. They won the game in honor of their head coach Chuck Pagano who was in treatment for leukemia. The Colts have done very well after that and another huge win for the Colts came on Sunday in a last second touchdown against the Detroit Lions to move them to 8-4. Andrew Luck has the most wins in one season for a first overall pick; he also has the chance to get the Colts in the playoffs, which would be one of the most improbable things to happen in the NFL I have ever seen. Andrew Luck is really making his case for rookie of the year; he remains in a close race with Washington’s electric play maker Robert Griffin III (RGIII). Andre Luck has lived up to the hype and should be a force to reckon with years to come.