Coincidence that a player that’s never missed a game in his career decides at the last moment to have surgery that “ends his season” so that his team is in the best possible position to pick up the best QB to come around since the one they currently have? Also, the fact that they laid all this money on the table knowing that Peyton was going to have an issue with his neck?

Peyton was paid to sit this season so the colts could draft Luck. Peyton being the team player that he is and also realizing that the team isn’t in position to contend agreed knowing that the end for him was already near anyway.

The Colts signed Kerry Collins and stunted Painter on purpose. K Collins hasn’t won a start for a long time. he sucks. They lost to the Chiefs on Purpose. The last 15 mins of the Bucs game they gave up.

This is a crock. NFL needs to institute a lottery system effective immediately.

To the Tim Duncan poster: the Celtics were favored to get Duncan. Atleast the Spurs won the lottery to get him, unlike the Colts going 0-16 on purpose.

Idiot Goodell won’t do a thing about it either.

Hmmm, is this why the team is stinking up every joint it plays in??? I mean come on Manning is the Colts but to look the way the Colts do without him is suspicious…Knowing Manning may be done or almost done and now the team just totally sucks makes one wonder if this isn’t/wasn’t the plan before the season just to get in good position to draft Luck!
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I didn’t see this last Colts game but I saw the others and those players don’t look like they are tanking. Painter is also getting better with every snap. We have some Colts fans who come to our message board (Pats) and some others and I have been trying to convince them to keep their heads up and just enjoy watching Painter develop like we did with Cassel. That was actually a fun season to watch (after the initial horror of TB’s being out for the year) because of Cassel’s growth from game to game.

I see A Dolphins uniform in Andys future.

As long as he wants to take classes and remain a student enrolled at the school?

Just wishful thinking on my part.

Oh btw Andrew Luck should pull a John Elway if drafted by the Colts…for those too young to remember Baltimore(Colts) drafted John Elway who by the way was also out of Stanford and he refused to play for the Colts…how ironic the Colts possibly going after another Stanford QB who seems to be the cream of the crop…
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Why would he not want to play for Irsay? Irsay has a clear history of paying his QB handsomely, and treating him great. If I were 30 years younger, and a great QB, it sounds like a place I wouldn’t mind ending up at.

No place you go as the first round pick is going to be great competitively, at least the first year, but at least Indy has a history of trying to field competitive teams. Also, short of not coming out, you don’t really have much choice were you are drafted.

Does the owner tell the coach his job is safe even if the team ends up with the worst record in the NFL?

Do the coaches pull the players aside and tell them to intentionally stink it up and blow the game, and they’ll get a new contract since no other team is going to want them in free agency anymore?

Not that I have anything against him, or the teams that are in contention to draft him. I’m just sick of hearing for the second straight year about which team could possibly draft him. This kind of hype just breeds schadenfreude, it’s not my fault.

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Except for Calvin Johnson and a ton of other top draft picks, of course.

As a Dolphin fan who watched Marino retire and Peyton Manning come onto the scene at the same time, watching the Colt franchise grab another QB of Luck’s caliber is unacceptable, as they have had their window of opportunity with a steller athlete and QB in Manning.

There are two reasons why this won’t happen.

First of all, the reason Elway told the Colts he wouldn’t play for them is they had a horrible head coach with a very bad reputation for dictatorial behavior, Frank Kush. He basically forced them to trade the pick to the Denver Broncos.

Nothing suggests to me that the same kind of situation exists today in Indy, or anywhere else for that matter. In fact, I could see the team with the #1 overall using Luck to get a guy like Cowher or Fisher to agree to be head coach.

Second, the only reason Elway could do this is he had significant leverage. He was already a part of the Yankees organization, having played some minor league ball for them, and could have told the Colts to get stuffed and gone and played baseball for the Yankees instead. To my knowledge, Luck doesn’t have that kind of fallback option that would allow him to blow a team off like that.

If Luck doesn’t like the team who is #1 overall, he can simply choose not to declare for the draft and spend another year at Stanford.

How about they draft Luck and trade Manning for a bounty of players and picks that could allow them to build a Super Bowl winner around Luck? Assuming Luck pans out, that’d be the best case scenario. I know fans in Indy love Peyton, and he hasn’t made an arse of himself like Favre did in GB–yet. Sometimes you have to roll the dice. If Rodgers hadn’t panned out, Ted Thompson would be roasting on a spit in Oconomowo. Irsay faces a similar dilemma, though Manning’s only real problem is his health at this stage — Favre’s style of play was a greater concern in GB.

I lack that comparison, but there’s one major difference: Manning and Luck will never dominate as a tandem on the field at the same time.