Bill Belichick will sign him next week and he'll be a three-time All-Pro for New England

They try to jerk off on the flag. But they miss. 

Why would we want to punish him further by making him live in Indiana?

If only there was an unemployed QB that previously took his team to the Super Bowl available...

This is a good point. Football for Luck isn’t the end-all be-all for him as it may have been for others from less than ideal economic means. Having said that, Luck played for the love and competition of the sport. That was prematurely taken away from him due to the absurd amount of punishment he took. As the GM who…

Awesome, good for you. Did you also make $97 million? That’s all that’s stopping me. Probably get there in a few hundred years.

So last year NFL revenues were about 16 billion dollars, of which players get a little less than half, call it 8 billion. 53 NFL players x 32 teams x $60k each = $102 million, for all the players combined. A reduction in pay of 99%. 

Luck’s choice didn’t happen in a vacuum.  How the Colts handled/mishandled his injuries are relevant to his health and this choice.

I’m not typically one to cast aspersions on people I don’t know, but if Dan Dakich’s family member is dealing with chronic work-related injuries, has earned $100 million in the last seven years, and has a degree in architectural design from Stanford, then he’s an idiot for continuing to show up every day at the steel…

Oddly enough I suspect Grigson did his part to keep his local Applebees in business.

The Major sport that’s hardest on your body, is far and away the worst for your brain (and long term risks), but pays far and away the least and guarantees nothing in contracts (and has a history of fucking over it’s retirees) is having a problem with players walking away from the game.

I’ve seen people defending the fans because “we all are mentally drained and we still have to go to work”.

Ryan Grigson should have been running an Evansville Applebee’s into the ground rather than a generational quarterback talent.

The dude’s gonna go watch all the European soccer he can handle this fall. 

If there was a young man in literally any other profession who made $100 million before he was 30 and decided to retire, he would be lauded. The Wall Street Journal would write thousands of words of wankery praising his acumen and smarts and god bless America.

What it really tells you is that when you come to football purely for love of the game (i.e., especially if you come from an upbringing of privilege) and make a relatively huge amount of money in your early career, it doesn’t matter how good you might have been or how much more money you probably stood to earn, it’s…

I hope that NFL players take note of the lack of empathy people have shown Andrew Luck during this entire process. Don’t feel guilty about hold-outs for more money. Get as much money as you can and get the hell out before it becomes a detriment to your health. 

“Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit quaaludes.”

Luck retired before Brady. Thats just crazy

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