Steve Beurlein blasts Luck for retiring

[SBiii]

37 minutes ago, Panthro said:

He could have just gone on IR and cost them a few more years. It might be cheaper for the Colts this way.

Exactly....and if he decides to come back everyone will be on good terms. 

[ickmule]

Luck is soft and he gave up on himself and his team.  I always thought the dude was weird and so glad he stayed in school and we didn’t get stuck with him as our QB. With our o-lines over the years we would likely be in the same position.   

[PleaseCutStewart]

17 hours ago, NAS said:

“I am a HUGE Andrew Luck fan. Always have been. But this I cannot defend or justify,” Beuerlein wrote. “NO scenario where retirement is defensible. To do this to his teammates, organization, fans, and the NFL 2 weeks before the season is just not right. I love the guy but this will haunt him. Point is this is a massive decision he SAID he has pondered for 10 DAYS! Colts invested in him for 5-10 more YRS! Go on IR, get away for a few weeks and think about it. Get healthy for 2nd half of season and make a run! Colts are good! If Jacoby goes 4-4 they have a chance! His team needs him to make this run. I know rehab is tough. I had 19 surgeries as a player. 8 over 2 years. It sucks! But he owes it to his team. It is just a lower leg injury and it will heal! Just give it a chance. If it doesn’t walk away after this year.”

And that would be why Luck retired....

Congrats to Beuerlein for playing through all of those surgeries and likely giving himself a terrible quality of life for retirement. The Colts literally had about as shitty of a oline as we gave Cam for about 5 years and that is a big factor as to why Luck is so beat up. 

Luck has enough money, has a good education, and doesn't seem like an idiot that is going to blow all of his money on strippers and cocaine. I think he will be just fine, even if the entire state of Indiana hates him

[Verge]

If you choose football over family and personal health, or chastise others for doing so, you are probably an asshole.

[jtm]

Bad look for Beurlein and he’s going to regret these comments. For Luck this was a quality of life decision and not a football decision. 

[pantherclaw]

It's a damn shame there is zero accountability in today's society.. 

[pantherclaw]

It's a damn shame there is zero accountability in today's society.. 

[RenoCarolina]

2 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

It's a damn shame there is zero accountability in today's society.. 

you can say that again

[The Huddler]

14 hours ago, tiger7_88 said:

PF is my favorite band, though I'm a bigger fan of Gilmour than Waters (I tend to favor music over lyrics... not saying at all that Waters wasn't/isn't a great musician himself though).

Wright and Mason were severely underrated... Wright especially so.

im a huge fan of PF

 

i tend to favor waters, though I have nothing against gilmour and love his musical skill. cant have PF without waters or gilmour imo. Waters gave PF their magic. the underlying concepts are just brilliant imo. the music stands on its own as some of the best. the concepts thrown into pink floyd takes it to a whole new level for me. PF is art and not only hits the soft spot for me musically, but really allows me to introspectively contemplate the human experience and all of the archetypes that go along with it. theres a lot of Jungian psychology in PF and and a jungian junky. so i love waters. and i almost think its art in of itself because he seemed to go off the deep end in fame and arrogance and literally became the dictator in the wall! pointing the finger GET THEM UP AGAINST THE WALLLLLL

gat damn now i gotta listen to the wall lol    

 

but yeah PF musically stands on its own as one of the best (the best imo) but waters took it too the next level incorporating some brilliant archetypes  

 

and PF lost that magic when he left

[mc52beast]

On 8/26/2019 at 8:15 AM, Toomers said:

  SSDD. Always the team first....right?????

 Maybe you should have played long enough to know what the person might be going through? Or are you just guessing and bashing as someone who never played football at any level. Because that much is fairly obvious. 

  Just to be clear, you think the team comes before any players health? Is that the prevailing opinion now. A team with fans that lose their minds every time a player leaves, for any reason, is now chastising another player for doing what HE feels is best for him and his family. 

As always. Team first....Logic last. 

People who say team first more than likely have never played a snap. They expect professional athletes to do the exact opposite of what they would do if in the same position.

[rodeo]

4 hours ago, pantherclaw said:

It's a damn shame there is zero accountability in today's society.. 

same people who say this also hate outrage/sjw/cancel culture for trying to hold people accountable for what they do and say

[PurityControl]

Personal health and quality of life is more important then the team the game the Colts period.

You can argue bad timing and all that BS, but when in life is the timing ever perfect, the guy was trying to make it work and it didn't happen. 

best wishes Luck