Uhh, it’s been bothering him since April and surgery has already been ruled out as “wouldn’t help this particular injury”.

I don’t think it’s nearly as far fetched as it would seem at first. Especially if they’re truly being as careful as they claim.

Either way, time is running short if that’s a hard deadline.

When was that surgery ruled out because it wouldn't help this particular injury? Was that when it was a calf or has that been said after this most recent specialist visit, I think it was Monday? Ballard's statement of "needs to be addressed" has me wondering if we aren't on the verge of the "Andrew Luck had a minor procedure on his ailing ankle" announcement any day now...

In terms of those talking about him being able to throw. I think it was Wells that reported that his first day, looked great, but the two days he threw after that were not good, said he was off the mark and you could tell he wasn't right. Plus as they were talking about this morning, one of his greatest attributes is the quick 5-7 lateral roll that buys an extra tick or so on the clock allowing WR's to separate, from what I heard them saying his lateral movement is when he is in pain, so there goes that aspect if he's hurting...

Mort just reported that the team is optimistic that Luck is on target to start game 1. Man I hope this is the truth and not some bs to try to keep people on the bus like a couple years ago.

Something else that has been pointed out- something I really didn't comprehend until I heard it. There's a bunch of talk about how he won't be that rusty when he comes back because he did pretty much this same thing last year. Not so, I didn't realize that he was part of 13 of 16 practices last year and was part of 3 preseason games. So this downtime is more likely to cause more acclimation issues than many of us think.

ChoppedWood is going to have a stroke. My man, turn off Dakich, Doyle, and pretty much all sports radio for a while. You will do yourself a lot of good. Season tickets are already sold. Nobody knows anything. If he's hurt, he's hurt. Wait until week 1 to see what happens before you damage your health.

Dude, it's on every news channel, it's every single thread of communication in the sports world. Right now, this is the biggest story going in the NFL, well that and a nut job with chaffed feet and a spray painted helmet in Oakland.

This is an item of unique interest across the league, and there's a lot of high level media wondering just how the staff could have F'd this up this bad- and it's a legit question, and in some respect the questions go back to Luck- does he just not know how to work with the training staff, not my question, just a question I've heard a couple people talk about now.

I sure wouldn't be this neurotic about it if all the reports coming out of camp where that JB was torching people, shit there's some talk that we could be looking at Chad Kelly as our week 1 starter. JB better show up big on Sat.

Kelly is suspended first 2 games if he makes squad :cool:

NFL suspended Colts QB Chad Kelly two games for violating the league's personal conduct policy.

This stems from Kelly's arrest last fall, which prompted his release from Denver. The former Mr. Irrelevant impressed in Colts minicamp last month and should compete for third-string quarterback duties behind starter Andrew Luck and backup Jacoby Brissett. He'll be eligible to return against the Falcons in Week 3.

Source: Adam Schefter on Twitter

Man I hope JB shows up tomorrow afternoon! Need some jolt of confidence after a week that has definitely taken some air out of the balloon.

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Kind of like Pete Best trying to avoid reading and/or hearing any news about the Beatles in the mid-to-late 1960's.


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Mort is extremely close to the Manning family and Peyton was at practice the day that Mort tweeted that out, so it seems fairly obvious where Mort got his info.

I don’t think Peyton would feed Mort BS (he gave Mort the exclusive on his retirement announcement) and I don’t think the Colts would give Manning any BS when they seem to be trying to kiss-up to him as much as possible.

Holder tweeted out this today, which seems fairly pertinent:

https://twitter.com/holderstephen/st...231756800?s=21

Watching Luck high step in pre game work out put my mind to rest. He was moving pretty good.