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2 hours ago, Everyone said:

Hopefully Luck and Hilton careers last as long as Manning and Waynes.

Don't know about Hilton, but some QBs these days are playing til 40 or over 40. Could happen with Luck. Hes an even better athlete than Brady and Peyton are.

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On 5/28/2017 at 7:52 PM, RockThatBlue said:

Don't know about Hilton, but some QBs these days are playing til 40 or over 40. Could happen with Luck. Hes an even better athlete than Brady and Peyton are.

He will be lucky to play to 30 if he keeps getting abused every season.

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TY @RockThatBlue good read. After putting up the #'s he did this past season, I thought he graded out better than where he was slotted. It's one of the many instances of undo bias against the Shoe that many on this forum talk about on a regular basis. Small market=very little national love. But I say "Nuts" to the outside noise. We here know more about what's going on with our team than the " Pundits" ever will. I try to tune it out as much as possible, my hope is always that the product on the field does the talking. On an footnote, Marv's 47 td's at that point in his career was insane!

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2 hours ago, Blueblood23 said:

He will be lucky to play to 30 if he keeps getting abused every season.

Totally agree with what you said here, but I would like to add that the last 6 games of the season were pretty solid performances Oline-wise imo(which bodes well for a healthy Luck). With another offseason of conditioning/classroom work, the O line could be an emerging unit in the NFL. In Philbin we trust! I think/hope our "Trenches" (both sides) are gonna be much better rated this upcoming season. 

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On 5/28/2017 at 8:52 PM, RockThatBlue said:

Don't know about Hilton, but some QBs these days are playing til 40 or over 40. Could happen with Luck. Hes an even better athlete than Brady and Peyton are.

 

Hilton it's unlikely because he's a speed guy and that top end speed tends to be the first thing to go away.  

 

I don't think he will sign another contract with the Colts and I think there is a pretty good chance that he won't finish out his current contract.  His last year has no dead money on it, has the highest cap hit on it and he'll be 30 years old. 

 

In fact I would say the length of his career is probably going to be the biggest thing between him and the HOF.  

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The main knock on TY to this point in his career is TD's. Unless that changes, he won't even sniff the Hall.

 

For comparison, AJ Green, in only 8 more games (one more season) with worse QB play, has 481 receptions; 7,135 yards; 83 yards/game; and 49 TDs. In today's NFL, that is a HOF pace.

 

That all said, I love me some TY and he's a great player in his own right. 

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3 hours ago, thatonefan said:

I have a feeling they won't put TY in the Hall. The media isnt cogniscent of what he's done, so the regular football fan doesn't know how good he is either. Maybe that changes in the future.

 

Going into year 6, and he has yet to have a 10TD season, that's not really HOF worthy if you ask me. It's not a knock on TY either, it's just reflecting how the HOF voters perceive players that are HOF worthy. Colts Ring of Honor... absolutely. But if Randy Moss and Terrell Owens have yet to get in (this is Moss's first year of eligibility), TY's going to struggle unless he starts putting together some 10TD/1000yd seasons.

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