Dolphins Schedule v. Colts Schedule
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Is it so hard to concede that he is coming out this year? Because he is. There's a POSSIBILITY that he COULD THEORETICALLY become a buddhist monk and move to Tibet. There is a POSSIBILITY that he COULD THEORETICALLY become a professional water poloist instead of playing football. If he didn't want to play for a team, he doesn't have to go through shenanigans of starting a graduate degree in Engineering. He could just force a trade, which works for us as well.
Can you be at least a little realistic please. Devils advocate is fun, I get it, but c'mon.
If he'd be going back for the previous reasons I mentioned, for fun, presumably he probably wouldn't be taking a full schedule. Might take 1 class, Matt Lienart style. He'd be doing it to be big man on campus for another year, not bury himself in books.
Not to mention the fact that graduate work in engineering at Stanford WHILE playing football? Good.****ing.Luck.
You can't make declarative statements like that if you're not Andrew Luck. You may end up being right, and if we have the first pick I hope your right, but if it's possible for him to stay another year, than it is in fact possible for him to stay another year. Facts is facts. He might come back like Matt Leinart when all he was taking his senior year was Ball-room dancing.
Leinart NEEDED that one class to graduate. Luck doesn't need anything once his course work is complete in his final semester...this one.
No way can he complete graduate coursework in one year.
No way can he complete graduate coursework in one year.
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At this point the ONLY reason for him to stay in school is that he loves Stanford so much that he can't bear to leave it. Every other factor that could influence his decision says 'declare for the draft.'
That's why most of us who are looking at this objectively (and btw, I don't even think we're going to finish with a worse record than the Colts, Vikings, Jags or Rams, to be quite honest) think he is coming out. I don't even think we are going to finish bad enough to get him, but if he comes out that means we have a better chance of getting one of the other good QB prospects.
And bear in mind that if he truly hates the "Suck for Luck" stuff (and why would you hate being hyped up? it gives you more leverage in contract negotiations), it's absolutely going to happen again next season if he stays at Stanford. He's just setting himself up for another year of something he hates. You think he doesn't know that?
That's why most of us who are looking at this objectively (and btw, I don't even think we're going to finish with a worse record than the Colts, Vikings, Jags or Rams, to be quite honest) think he is coming out. I don't even think we are going to finish bad enough to get him, but if he comes out that means we have a better chance of getting one of the other good QB prospects.
And bear in mind that if he truly hates the "Suck for Luck" stuff (and why would you hate being hyped up? it gives you more leverage in contract negotiations), it's absolutely going to happen again next season if he stays at Stanford. He's just setting himself up for another year of something he hates. You think he doesn't know that?
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Sure, it's possible. But every piece of information gleaned from Luck's own statements and those close to him indicate it's not very likely.
So either you haven't been following it, or you just want to make sure that what's possible has been mentioned. So fine. Congratulations. It's been mentioned.
I like to scare you guys.
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Conspiracy theorists who haven't done their homework don't scare anybody. They just annoy them.
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It's funny, it's like some of you guys have so bought into Dave/Tony's "run the ball and win it in the 4th quarter" philosophy that you're actually hoping the team can't land a franchise QB so that you can get another ten years of three yards and a cloud of dust mediocrity.
I just did. Because he is. Fact.
Concerning the schedules. As mentioned last night, teams coming off a bye are now 1-5 and Denver is coming off the bye with a new QB. We actually might pull that one off. We don't need the Jets to win, the weaker our strength of schedule is the better chance we have of picking in front of the Colts. Last year we played New England and by the end of the first quarter the game was over, Brady had already thrown 3 TDs or something and then Brent Hoyer killed us as well. New England's backups beat us so even if they rest players we won't win. What we need is for the teams in our division to start losing. The Jets count against us twice, Buffalo twice, New England twice...it would be even better if they lost against teams we don't play...so the Jets losing to Baltimore was a huge benefit to us because we don't play Baltimore...their win doesn't count againt us. Buffalo's loss to Cincinatti helped us too.
Looking at the schedule a Buffalo loss to Tennessee would help us a lot with SOS, the Jets have no remaining teams left on their schedule that we don't already play but a loss to Denver would help keep Denver out of the Luck sweepstakes, New England has Pitt after their bye so a loss there would help us and they also have Indy but that's highly unlikely but that would be a double whammy if Indy won.
The weaker our division the weaker our SOS and the higher we pick.
Looking at the schedule a Buffalo loss to Tennessee would help us a lot with SOS, the Jets have no remaining teams left on their schedule that we don't already play but a loss to Denver would help keep Denver out of the Luck sweepstakes, New England has Pitt after their bye so a loss there would help us and they also have Indy but that's highly unlikely but that would be a double whammy if Indy won.
The weaker our division the weaker our SOS and the higher we pick.
I think it goes deeper than that. I really believe a number of fans hate the suck for luckers and what they stand for so much that the thought of them being right angers them so much it clouds their thinking. They seem to look for any dark cloud that could ruin our chances of getting luck. So instead of being excited at the prospect of getting him, their rhetoric focuses more on how he might be a bust, he might stay in school or he might demand a trade.
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I'm a suck for a franchise QBer. I don't care if it's Luck. I don't care if it's another good prospect. This caretaker nonsense has to stop.