He has benefitted from a weak AFC South and like Big Cat says padded his stats against them ....But he has a scary weakness. It is that he is careless with the football. He tries to throw for the big play on every single pass he throws. Defenses know this now and they bait him into that. I think NE figured that out first but everyone is starting to defend him that way, Bowles even did it in our masterful MNF win against them last year. Blitz him from the outside, cover the short passes, Luck can't help himself BUT try the dangerous deep sideline pass under pressure. He will complete some of them but its playing with fire all game. Even if you don't create turnovers that way it results in quite a few 3 and outs. While I think playing like that can be fixed in a young QB, I don't think added expectations of a $125 million contract is going to make someone less likely to try and play the "hero"
I'm with you on all of these for sure as he plays with reckless abandon, you have to worry about his future and the # of hits he's taken. I wonder if the Colts have some sort of out-clause in the contract. At one point, they were a game away from the SB, but it appears they are going backwards. Where is the running game for these Colts? Seems like the last running back worth a damn was Edgerrin James. He has to play dangerously because he can't really rely on anyone else to get the job done. Andrew Luck IS the System.
Andrew Luck reminds me of Mark Sanchez. While Luck is better in every single area, he was as good as he was going to get in college. Guys like Manning and Brady have gotten better as their careers continued. I don't think either Sanchez or Luck have gotten any better in all their years outside of college. Why?? I don't know.
There are a lot of overpaid QBs getting say 100 mil based on some talent and a young age eg Tannehill and Ostweiler for example who played a total of 7 games...SMH Meanwhile Fitz gets a hard time asking for 24/27 mill and TGG thinks its "big money" lol Go Figure
I think the Fitz argument is that he's really a journeyman QB and not much better than a backup at this point and the Jets are offering him journeyman/decent backup money and he's thumbing his nose at them. The Jets are not particularly good at budgeting for talent and haven't been for as long as I can remember, going back into the the previous ownership. For Fitz to be creating an issue when they're probably budgeting correctly for his talent level and potential is a real blow to the new administration. It's on par with Mo wanting to shoot the moon because a genuinely great player (J.J. Watt) got a good contract and some really stupid management teams followed up by blowing their wads on some very bad deals for defensive linemen, albeit pretty good ones. It's just very unfortunate for the Jets to have two situations where they are right but the public perception is skewed and so they're paying a price as they stick to their likely correct positions.
+1000 to correct budgeting and for the most part this FO/GM does a good job...however Speaking of blowing their wads how about 70 mil (39 million fully guaranteed) to Mevi$? Plus 13 mil fully guaranteed to Skrine and 8 mil FG to Gilchrist ??? that's 60 million to an improved secondary but with a far from elite performance from Revis and B- seasons for Skrine and Gilchrist vs are often noted weak schedule....NOW THATS STUPID You might say Skrine and Gilchrist are young and can improve but the DR deal was Macs biggest mistake throwing money at a declining CB and draws against the cap till 2017 So the FO doesn't have "correct positions" all the time. Like everyone else they make mistakes. Could have signed Mo when Mac took over for a lot less $. But Mo is screwed because we also have SR and LW The extra money Fitz is asking for is peanuts for what this team has been spending,,he wants 9 million instead of 6 for last 2 years lol a ridiculous sum,,,"creating an issue and a blow to the adm?????" FTR 7 out of 12 highest paid contracts (117 million) on the Jets are all defensive players...is that good budgeting considering your OL is crumbling? So carry on bargain basementing with Fitz a winner with the team and essentially your most important position...he could sit out the year and we all can enjoy GeNo
The question though is do you give somebody that you believe is going to be your backup QB in 2 years a deal that will pay him $9M a year for that year and the following year? I don't know what the answer is but I'm pretty sure that having Fitz count $10M a year towards the cap is not a good budgeting decision. One of the really bad decisions that Bill Parcells made during his tenure here was giving Vinny a big deal off of 1998. The Jets were still living with consequences of that deal in 2003, with Vinny only becoming a feasible cut that season when the prorated money finally went away. The one area that an NFL team has to be good at if they want to compete over time is managing the cap well. The Jets have tended to have a sloshing cap with waves of money constantly passing through it and giving them lots of slack and then almost nothing to work with in a cycle. Tanny's solution was to take the waves and flatten them out by re-working deals to push cap hits down the road. This did flatten out the effect but it left the Jets always bumping up against the cap and getting less value on the field out of those tight quarters than you otherwise ought too. Paying for half of your CB and LT's last two seasons this year and next is like paying for a hamburger on Tuesday when you ate it on Sunday. Your wallet is getting hit and your stomach is still rumbling today, the worst of both worlds. It looks like the Jets made a big splurge last year, when they really wanted to become competitive again instantly, and now they're going to do the hard work of managing the cap. It's unfortunate that we spent in the ways that we spent last year but if they can get things on the right track this year everything will work out in the end as long as they draft well. If they start re-working deals this year to effectively pay for Darrelle Revis and Ryan Fitzpatrick's and maybe Mo Wilkerson's 2015 season, well that might be ok for 2016 or it might not but it's going to really suck in 2017 and maybe 2018. The Jets will have young players coming due in those seasons and not enough cap space and they'll also have those young players determined to get the same kind of deals that Revis, Wilkerson and maybe Fitzpatrick got depending on their play levels.
who gives a shit , this aint jets related, u gonna start a thread how u took a shit and didn't wipe good enough, must really be the offseason
Stop sniffing glue dumbass this is the general section. All contracts should be discussed as they set the market.
Obviously the other people that commented on this thread. I am guessing you want a quick stay on this board cause you bring 0 value to this board.
lol sweet , ur right, I bring zero value when it comes to other teams , quick stay, lol a threat on a message board , so tough, slow ur roll 101, u know ''000'' which translates to zilch, nada, zippo , nothing
A change in offensive philosophy could go a long way in correcting this. They continue to try to surround him with speed demons (Hilton, Dorsett, etc.) that are built for a vertical passing game ala Arizona. The Colts should build an adjacent run game with that offense so that play action can actually work well with the offensive game. Without a running game, the dangerous throws need to basically be forced in there because the defense isn't honest.
lucks issue last year was that his fo acted absurdly and added old stars who werent stars anymore as if they were right there ready to be champions. meanwhile everyone else who knows anything about football realized that they had no presence in the trenches and would be hard pressed to be contenders. if the management keeps treating it like madden then luck will be in big trouble the next number of years. good management is the key in just about every sport.
This is right on. The Colts tried to pad him with a few stopgap near-retirees after their recent drafts went mostly bad.
The Colts are one of the worst run teams in the current NFL. Andrew Luck has the potential to be the best QB in the league but they are doing him zero favors with coaching and roster management. They should be dominating that lousy division. Now they're arguably the third best team after Houston and Jacksonville. Even the Titans look poised to take a leap, but the Colts are regressing.
The question is whether Luck is Elway or Cutler at this point. He's got a tremendous arm and decent mobility but a lot of guys have that. As he gets older his mobility is going to decline some because you can only take so many hits before that happens. You can make an argument that Blake Bortles has better prospects moving forward at this point. The Jaguars have actually drafted well around him and his talent isn't where Luck's is but his supporting cast is much better.
