Colts' win throws Luck sweepstakes up in air
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â€" All that good fitness a Indianapolis Colts have perceived on a margin these final dual weeks could leave them with no Luck during all when a NFL breeze rolls around.
The Colts have won dual true games to tumble into a tie with a Vikings and Rams for a league's misfortune record and a possibility to take Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck with a No. 1 pick.
With Peyton Manning out for a year with a neck injury, a Colts mislaid their initial 13 games of a season, and many figured Luck could start looking for an Indy-based realtor.
Then a humorous thing happened â€" a Colts started winning.
The Colts kick Tennessee dual weeks ago for their initial win of a season. No large deal, right? They still had a persion on two-win teams in Minnesota and St. Louis and didn't have to understanding with a indignity of going winless for an whole season.
Vikings fans were already forgetful of USC descent tackle Matt Kalil entrance in to strengthen Christian Ponder and transparent a trail for Adrian Peterson. With Sam Bradford underneath center, Rams fans were drooling over a prospects of bringing in Oklahoma State's Justin Blackmon as a timber receiver he's been blank early in his career.
Then a Colts went out and won on Thursday night opposite a playoff-bound Texans.
What were they thinking?!?
That was some of a cheer listened from fans and pundits after a victory, that many perspective as jeopardizing a franchise's long-term health by risking losing out on another All-Pro size quarterback in Luck to eventually reinstate a face of a franchise, despite one who will spin 36 in Mar and has had mixed neck surgeries over a past dual seasons.
All of a remarkable some Colts fans â€" quite those who were display adult to Lucas Oil Stadium with blue No. 12 jerseys that had "Luck" created on a behind â€" have an wholly opposite pain in their necks.
"That's not for a players to worry about," Colts using behind Joseph Addai said. "I don't worry about that. we only go out and keep personification ball."
Now all 3 teams are tied for a fewest wins in a league, with a Vikings and Rams still to play this weekend.
Minnesota has mislaid 6 in a quarrel and plays during Washington on Saturday before hosting Chicago in a deteriorate culmination on Jan. 1. The Rams figure to have a tough time in Pittsburgh on Saturday and with San Francisco during home to finish a season.
The Colts reason a strength-of-schedule tiebreaker over Minnesota and St. Louis. So a detriment during Jacksonville subsequent week would bind a No. 1 collect for Indianapolis.
But a Jaguars haven't accurately been attack their walk as a deteriorate wears on. Rookie quarterback Blaine Gabbert has been haphazard and conduct manager Jack Del Rio has already been fired.
"For one thing, not meaningful what my future's going to be, only wanting to get a win," Colts receiver Reggie Wayne pronounced after creation a game-winning touchdown locate with 19 seconds to play Thursday night. "Couldn't get anything improved than this."
Sorry Reggie, yet some fans would contend that a 6-foot-4, 235-pound college star with a rocket right arm and a execution commission of 70 percent trumps one some-more feat in a deteriorate that has been mislaid given a impulse Manning went underneath a knife.
And even yet a Vikings and Rams both have already spent high first-round breeze choices on immature signal-callers in a final integrate of years, they would have to during slightest cruise Luck with a tip pick.
Scouts intemperate regard on a awaiting they call a best quarterback to come out of college given John Elway. Luck's touchdown-to-interception ratio is roughly 4 to 1, he calls his possess plays for a Cardinal and takes puppies to revisit comparison adults in hospice care.
Well, that partial about a puppies has not been confirmed, yet we get a point.
Should possibly a Vikings or Rams fitness out and hide into a tip spot, they also could confirm to hang with their immature guns, trade down with another group fervent to take Luck and save picks to fill a countless holes on any roster.
Just demeanour what a Chargers did in 2004 when a New York Giants so badly wanted Eli Manning. The Giants sent a Chargers breeze picks that amounted to Philip Rivers, Shawne Merriman and Nate Kaeding to get their hands on a quarterback who would eventually lead them to a Super Bowl victory.
Up until dual weeks ago, a suspicion of carrying to make that preference seemed absurd.
Then again, so did a Colts winning streak.
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AP Sports Writer Michael Marot in Indianapolis contributed to this report.
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