NFL: Andrew Luck retiring

[Blitzkrug]

How is it the Colts fault he doesn't like football?

You don't just lose your love for football over the span of a year or so. Him having the absolute **** beaten out of him for the first 5 years of his career to the point he now has lingering health issues probably killed his love for the game.

The stress was so bad it apparently almost did his marriage in too. The constant beating + injuries probably laid into his mental health.

 

[BKarchitect]

He’s going to take a bunch of crap from armchair Neanderthals whose lives hinge on Sunday afternoons...but good for him. Quality of life cannot be replaced.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

At the rate his career was going with the Colts, he wouldn't live that long.

I'm legitimately convinced that he has PTSD from the damage taken so far.

Oh jesus christ. He's barely been sacked 2 times a game in his career. He was sacked the FEWEST times in the NFL last year. FEWEST.

He just doesn't like the game.

 

[JTToilinginToronto]

I understand this is business and he has every right to, but still have to feel for the Colts here. They invested the number one pick into him and effectively built their team around him. He's still at the age that you'd expect at least a few more years of ROI on him.

 

[Pi]

Yah. Boo a man who decided he's had enough with the injuries.

Colts didn't have an O line for most of his career. He's got 100M in the bank. He can retire and never come back or think about it for a few years, recharge and come back and still be better than 80% of the quarterbacks.

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often to be honest.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

You don't just lose your love for football over the span of a year or so. Him having the absolute **** beaten out of him for the first 5 years of his career to the point he now has lingering health issues probably killed his love for the game.
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Except he wasn't. 2 times a game isn't getting beat up.

Frank Gore gets beat up.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Oh jesus christ. He's barely been sacked 2 times a game in his career. He was sacked the FEWEST times in the NFL last year. FEWEST.

He just doesn't like the game.

Accrued damage is a thing. The new regime has done a lot better, but it doesn't erase the lack of protection and damage he took during the majority of his career prior to that.

 

[BKarchitect]

People feel sorry for the Colts? LMFAO.

ROI? Huh? What are we talking about here, a stock portfolio or a human being?

 

[SI90]

Time For my giants to trade Eli to Indy. What a story


On Luck im on compete shock. He has all time talent. Hope he gets his body and head right and comes back.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

You don't just lose your love for football over the span of a year or so. Him having the absolute **** beaten out of him for the first 5 years of his career to the point he now has lingering health issues probably killed his love for the game.

The stress was so bad it apparently almost did his marriage in too. The constant beating + injuries probably laid into his mental health.

Quick Translation: f*** Ryan Grigson

 

[Static]

How is it the Colts fault he doesn't like football?

 

[Tuggy]

do you know what's weirder than him quitting? This

I remember doing a hockey draft and after we finished and were walking out of the bar the ticker showed "Brett Hull has retired". Guy who drafted him flipped out

 

[Hank Chinaski]

Most shocking retirement since Barry Sanders.

Yup. First thing I thought of.

Just bonkers. Thing is though, Sanders was a surefire HOFer when he called it quits, had a level of respect and cache that I’d say was unrivalled in pro sports in 1999. Basically took over Michael Jordan’s mantle. And IIRC he announced his retirement just as training camp broke. The optics of this don’t look quite as good for Luck.

 

[Voight]

This was pretty shocking.

On one hand he's probably tired of the injuries and has made more than enough money, even with forfeiting the 58 million left on his deal.

Bad news for Indy. Also worthy to note that Brady outlasted both the Manning & Luck eras.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Accrued damage is a thing. The new regime has done a lot better, but it doesn't erase the lack of protection and damage he took during the majority of his career prior to that.

Just curious did you boo Cutty and call out his toughness when he was being obliterated behind bad OL in Chicago?

Cutler and several QB's had it worse then Luck ever did so this "his OL destroyed his love of game" is nonsense honestly

And if Luck has been thinking of this for a while he should have let team know and walked away in offseason

 

[CupofOil]

**** you, Colts. That might be the most criminal waste of a single talent in NFL history. At the very least since Barry Sanders.

Good for him. The guy has a architecture degree and millions of dollars. And most importantly, his health for the most part.

This is only the beginning of retirements like this

How is it the Colts fault? Injuries is what held him back, the team has no control over that.

On the other hand, Barry walked away because being with the Lions for years sucked the love of the game from him. You can blame the team for that one, probably Calvin Johnson too. Stafford will probably be wasted also. The life of a Lions fan.

 

[Voight]

How is it the Colts fault he doesn't like football?

If they gave him a good OL he wouldn't of been abused as much thus injured as much and probably would still have the desire to play.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

God damnit

 

[Static]

How is it the Colts fault? Injuries is what held him back, the team has no control over that.

On the other hand, Barry walked away because being with the Lions for years sucked the love of the game from him. You can blame the team for that one, probably Calvin Johnson too. Stafford will probably be wasted also. The life of a Lions fan.

The colts didn't protect him, thats why these injuries built up.

The sack argument is garbage. Let's look at the total QB hits and have a conversation about that.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

If they gave him a good OL he wouldn't of been abused as much thus injured as much and probably would still have the desire to play.

This reasoning would be a whole lot more believable if they weren't coming off an excellent 2018 season of OL play.

 

[JTToilinginToronto]

He’s going to take a bunch of crap from armchair Neanderthals whose lives hinge on Sunday afternoons...but good for him. Quality of life cannot be replaced.

I'm not a Colts fan or a fan of one of their divisional rivals, so I have no horse in this race. But you can't have difficulty understanding why fans are upset their franchise player retired at an age where it's pretty unconventional to retire at, can you?

The "it's just a hobby" argument doesn't mean you can't show your emotions with regards to things that happen in that hobby.

 

[Avs_19]

This is shocking. At first I thought Schefter might've been hacked because of how crazy this is. Luck's a different dude though and has taken a lot of punishment over the years so all the best to him.

 

[Static]

This reasoning would be a whole lot more believable if they weren't coming off an excellent 2018 season of OL play.

The first and only of his career though. The damage was already done.

I commend luck on putting his quality of life and happiness above loyalty to a billionaire cokehead.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Just curious did you boo Cutty and call out his toughness when he was being obliterated behind bad OL in Chicago?

Nope. I stand by the opinion that Cutler was either the best or second best QB in team history and that the team wasted his best years with us with horrible team management both protecting him and providing him weapons, and lambasted the team plenty of times during the Cutler era. At most I said that it didn't seem like he lived up to his potential from what he could individually bring to the table and that the Bears likely overpaid to get him.

 

[BKarchitect]

It’s insane that Colts fans would boo him, I get that the NFL is important to people but that’s absurd. The Colts didn’t just fold, you still have a team to cheer for.