INDIANAPOLIS — All of a sudden my foolishness radar is on 10 because these cats with the Indianapolis Colts are on one again as it relates to Andrew Luck. We’ve been told since March that he’s been dealing with a calf injury. He’s only practiced 3 times during the entire training camp after missing all of the team’s OTA and minicamp practice in the spring.
Calf Injury? No problem. But four months with a calf injury? Sounds fishy. Then on Monday, Jim Irsay jumps off of the deep end and tries to swim in an area of the pool that he isn’t qualified to swim in.
He literally took the life jacket off, tied his feet together and says, “I know everyone’s had their questions about Andrew and that sort of thing, but I really feel very confident that he’s going to find his way through this thing. I think after the Kevin Durant thing that everyone’s erring on the side of caution, but quite frankly this is not even in the Achilles tendon. It’s in another area. It’s a bone. You know I’m not good at these things. … It’s a small little bone.”
Did that dun say little bone? We’re not dealing with a toe or a finger here. We’re dealing with a calf, so they say. There’s only two bones in the lower leg. The Tibia and the Fibula and neither one of them are considered little bones. So what is that dude talking about?
He’s trying to be Trapper John MD without understanding basic human anatomy. There is no little bone associated with the calf. So let’s start over playa.
Then on Tuesday night Chris Ballard tries to fix the foolishness that Irsay threw on the table the day before while speaking with ESPN’s Mike Wells. According to updated foolishness on Monday night tests have revealed that Luck has gone from having a calf strain that was diagnosed in March to now having “high anklish” pain in his left leg.
Ballard goes on to say, “From the start we’ve been dealing with a calf injury. In March through camp, dealing with a calf and then little area below his calf, which Andrew kind of referred to as a lower leg where he was dealing with some pain, almost in the ankle area. The injury wasn’t getting better and hadn’t been practicing, so in the course of dealing with the calf injury, it appears that now we have an ankle issue.”
Okay, let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! What’s really going on? Ballard says nothing about the little bone Irsay threw on the table because there’s no such thing as a little bone in the lower leg. So let’s keep the microphone out of Irsay’s face from now on. Secondly, either there was high ankle pain or not all of this time because he hasn’t done anything to further aggrevate the leg because he hasn’t been practicing.
Stop with the foolishness and just say what it is. This sounds more like the game they were running a couple of years ago when I told boyz on Fox Sports Radio, Stuck and Gunner, that he wasn’t going to play after the team kept screaming he’s week to week. Everybody kept falling for that Oakey Doke but me.
Like I tell you all of the time. I can spot a hustle getting out of the car down the street at midnight with a hoodie on.
Andrew Luck is the money maker for the Colts and the very reason people buy season tickets around here. If he’s not playing folks ain’t coming. I get it, but if he’s hurt and can’t play just say it. But please don’t tell me that there’s a little bone in the lower leg just because it sounds good. Don’t tell me that all of a sudden a calf injury has turned into high ankle pain when he’s done nothing all training camp. Either he was dealing with that foolishness all along or not but stop running game and stop me when I start lyin’!
