ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Andrew Luck drew praise from his brand-new coach, his brand-new group user and the commonly set-aside Tony Dungy once his first full-speed workout.
The Indianapolis Colts ' brand new franchise quarterback completed 27 involving 32 attempts Sunday, plus achieved it seeking easy, too.
''I believe that may be just what exactly happy me that most, to check out your decision-making along with the insufficient just about any indecisiveness,'' mentioned Dungy, the former Colts coach. ''He looked like yet another or fourth-year guy in such a first practice. I've seen him engage in twice, Oregon against Stanford, while I observed the item from that viewpoint also , you really feel like, 'Well he's been managing this kind of criminal offense in which he has been happen to be comfortable with'. But to discover the item here, and understanding that they've experienced a new condensed offseason plan too with the school's fixed up there, it was really impressive.''
Nobody anticipated Luck to get excellent on Day 1. He wasn't.
The original Stanford star, drew up first overall, threw not one but two interceptions, one down a tipped ball. He likewise overthrew a open up Donnie Avery, who became behind two defenders and also seemed to be sprinting down that sideline.
Given the actual circumstances, it absolutely was continue to a solid debut. Luck seemed relaxed and correct through the two-plus hour exercise session and also proved no sign of currently being lurking behind once not universally known hence a lot of mini-camp workouts. NFL policies do not allow rookies in order to practice in the company complex, apart from some sort of three-day rookie mini-camp, until the school's semester ends. It kept Luck from the Indy until eventually first June.
But Luck executed like this individual had not not so great a new thing. At times, he zinged balls covering the outstretched tips of the fingers with defenders and drew obnoxious roars from the herd believed in order to become roughly 3,000. At other times, he or she simply understand the particular policy along with connected with open up receivers. In all, exclusively three baseballs in the course of seven-on-seven and also 11-on-11 soccer pratice drills strike the ground plus the wrongdoing seemed sharp.
''That's a new credit rating on the offensive guys, the bothersome coaches,'' first-year coach Chuck Pagano said. ''You is able to see out of today the particular wrongdoing definitely stayed with their own playbook, the maintenance have been superb and so they ended up below and also moved your ball way up along with lower the particular field essentially with will today.''
The beneficial testimonials were your stark set off from Saturday night when veterans told the particular No. a single general draft pick and choose to be able to stand up plus sign some sort of song, a first year tradition around Indy.
Luck consider the particular John Denver make ''Country Roads'' because this individual stated it turned out really the only melody your dog recognized the actual phrases to. Teammates weren't consequently positive this individual understood whatever concerning songs after hearing this rendition, which often through all records seemed to be booed mercilessly. Punter Pat McAfee, which trialled with West Virginia where by Luck's father, Oliver, is the athletic director, actually tried in order to help.
That failed to work, either.
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