[Colts v. Denver - predictions]

Colts start slow, turning the ball over while digging themselves into a hole. The Colts go in at halftime, make adjustments, then retake the field with renewed resolve. The defense stiffens, the offense begins to click, and the Broncos begin feeling besieged by a trademark Colts rally.

As the game clock winds down, the Colts

move down the field confidently for the games final points, assuming the lead that assures their victory.

Colts 34

Donkeys 31

[Colts v. Denver - predictions]

Welcome to the forum. Where you from?

don't really know hem, but think he's from Omaha!!

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[Everything Trent Richardson [Merge]]

Grigson says giving the Browns a 1st round draft pick for Trent "I'm Doing My Job" Richardson "was a no-brainer" -- was his choice of words a Freudian slip? Talk amongst yourselves...

[How important is this game for Luck's career?]

I think the referenced post is poorly written, somewhat incoherent, and the core point -- that it is unfair to saddle Luck with claims of "must-win" situations, hence, high projections about his long-term career make this one game a must-win, for otherwise his career is probably doomed -- is ludicrous.

I'll stop with that critique of the central premise, but there are many other statements and conclusions I find disagreement with in it.

[How important is this game for Luck's career?]

NFL star quarterback Andrew Luck, a genuine student-athlete at Stanford University, will lecture at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, on Friday, April 24, 2015. Luck will discuss "Creating Your Personal Game Plan for Success" in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture at 7 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.

The program will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Like all Ubben Lectures, the event is presented free of admission charge and is open to everyone.

Born September 12, 1989, Andrew Austen Luck was co-valedictorian of his class at Stratford High School in Houston. He went on to study at Stanford University, where he was an architectural design major and won the Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award as college football's player of the year. An all-American and runner-up for the Heisman Trophy in both 2010 and 2011, Luck also excelled in the classroom, earning a 3.48 GPA and deciding to complete his college degree before entering the NFL draft, despite being projected as the #1 pick for 2011.

John Barton, director of the architectural design program at Stanford, noted, "Other instructors come up to me and say, 'You know, I've had some football players in class before, but Andrew isn't like any of them. He is really, really smart'."

Luck was the first player selected in the 2012 NFL draft. In his first three seasons as a pro, #12 has led the Colts to three playoff appearances and division titles in 2013 and 2014, and has been a Pro Bowl selection in each season.

This season, Luck led the NFL in touchdown passes with 40 and threw for 4,761 yards, setting the single season franchise record.

"Luck has had the best first and second seasons of any player I've ever studied on film," Andy Benoit wrote for Sports Illustrated before the 2014 campaign began. "He plays like a 10-year veteran."

NFL Media's Charley Casserly has stated that Luck "is the best young quarterback I have ever seen. Hall of Fame."

ESPN analyst and former NFL quarterback Ron Jaworski noted, "Luck has the most diverse skill-set of any NFL quarterback."

Pat Kirwan of CBS declared, "Luck represents the league's future and his next contract likely will be the largest in history. He is already in the discussion of elite QBs."

Immediately after being drafted by the Colts, Luck said, "I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am. It is still a game. You're not saving lives or curing cancer. You are providing entertainment. Maybe you can make someone's week."

Established in 1986 through the generous support of 1958 DePauw graduates Timothy H. and Sharon Williams Ubben, the Ubben Lecture Series was designed to "bring the world to Greencastle.

The 2014-15 academic year has already included Ubben Lectures by television's Jimmy Kimmel and New York Times columnist David Brooks.

Previous Ubben Lecturers have included Bill Clinton, Benazir Bhutto, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Spike Lee, Elie Wiesel, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Jane Goodall, Willy Brandt, General Colin Powell, John Major, Shimon Peres, Brian Mulroney, Mike Krzyzewski, Oscar Arias, F.W. de Klerk, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, General Wesley Clark, Bob Woodward, Naomi Wolf, Ross Perot, Paul Volcker, Karl Rove, Howard Dean, Eric Schlosser, Harry Belafonte, Sam Donaldson, Martin Luther King III, Carl Bernstein, Jane Pauley, David Gergen, Julian Bond, Lee Hamilton, David S. Broder, Jim Lovell, ice cream entrepreneurs Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, Bill Bradley, Allen Neuharth, Todd Rundgren, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Will, Ken Burns, Carl Rowan and many others.