on why Luck is the better qb: one word – intelligence. no other qb in college football last season called his own plays, nor memorized a playbook the size of Stanford’s on a weekly basis. essentially, Luck was an offensive coordinator on the field.

on Tom Moore’s credibility: whether you like it or not, Moore is really only echoing what a great majority of others have already said; he simply waited until after working with Luck for three weeks to say it.

if they picked up his option they would still take a huge cap hit for this season even if they traded him

If he loses BAD and doesn’t show any promise the fans will never let it go.

Look at Miami, they still cry for Dan Marino.

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RG III won’t “fail miserably” but I do agree with Tom Moore that the Colts should take Luck and not look back. Luck was showing Peyton Manning like acumen way back in high school. He has “it” and always will have “it”.

I beg to differ. If you ask almost anyone in football circles they will tell you that the QB is in the action, he can see things from his vantage point that the OC can’t. Especially when the QBs headset goes off at 15 secs on the playclock and the Defense shifts its sets. If you’re OC insists on running what he calls with no audibles, he’s either A) an egotist or B) an Idiot

This is a guy who struggled to win bowl games. Now they are asking him to become a Peyton Manning.

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Just like Peyton struggled to win bowl games and big games, Goobs?

You’re an idiot.

Watch the Colts totally ignore what their former OC says and pick RG3 over Luck… just because Irsay has turned into a huge idiot since Manning’s injury.

Huh? Hitting the bottle there early dog?

All this debate is second guessing. It’s Luck. It’s always been Luck.

Why, oh why did we have the number one pick that year.

Yes, seeing QBs go number one still hurts us Raider fans.

Arians is a bad offensive coordinator? Why did Ben throw a fit when they “made him retire”???? Why did Peyton manning give the colts a full endorsement on arians? Sounds to me like arians may have made best with the mediocre talent that is Pittsburghs offense. Ben couldn’t stay away from defenders, an sounds like a new offensive line, and coach would be best suited for these comments. But that’s right, tje steelers were out of it the first round by Tim Tebow…. Ike Taylor got burnt like toast, by again a Tim Tebow pass….. Yep, Arians sounds horrible…”

Oh my dear Colts fan… Keep on drinking that Kool-Aid until you realize that the dude just ran the same play six times in three series, just to different players. Or when he consistently insists on going deep when the defense is obviously playing deep.

Roethlisberger “threw a fit” for two reasons. No. 1 he and Arians were good friends off of the field. No. 2 Arians trusted Ben and Ben does not want to have to earn an O-coordinators trust again. That is it, nothing else.

Mediocre talent on Pittsburgh’s offense?? Ummm, what team were you watching the last two seasons? That offense has awesome weapons, but the play calling kept it from doing what it could. When you have predictable play calling, the O-line starts to suffer near the end of the game, as the defense knows what you are going to do next. Once the D knows that , the offensive line has no chance in hell.

Come talk to me after two seasons, you’ll be calling for Arian’s head too. Us Steelers fans rarely call for a coaches head, but Arians head was on the fans’ chopping blocks every single year due to his questionable play calling.

Wow, Ike Taylor got beat on one pass in likely one of the top-20 seasons EVER by a defensive back. Yeah, that blown coverage was pretty much at the worst time, but he was still one of the best last year and it was one of the lowest completion percentages thrown toward a corner EVER in the NFL. Look it up….