5 reasons Andrew Luck extension was a good move

1. It is a quarterback league

In the NFL there is no way around it, you need to have a quarterback. Only a handful of teams have won without a legitimate threat at quarterback, and having a great quarterback is what keeps you in the playoffs every year. Recent Super Bowl winners have been Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Joe Flacco, Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, and Ben Roethlisberger. Peyton aside, if you are conducting a top ten list of current quarterbacks, isn’t Flacco the only one who does not easily make that list? Better question, is the current top five Rodgers, Brees, Roethlisberger, Brady and Wilson, all Super Bowl winners?

With that said, in the NFL quarterbacks have almost all of the leverage. That is why none of the great quarterbacks can make it to free agency. Who wants to be the team that let Andrew Luck walk and win four Super Bowls somewhere else?

Luck has a lot of what it takes to be on that list of the top quarterbacks and is just a few adjustments away from being right there. Therefore, they have a piece to win a Super Bowl that probably two-thirds of the league does not have. You are given that big of a head start.

They now have six years to find a roster that is just good enough to keep Luck healthy. The Colts invested heavily in the offensive line this year. If they can groom the defense into a unit that does not throw Luck back on the field every couple of plays they have all of the ingredients to making a Super Bowl winner.  

Why would you throw out the biggest piece of that pie over a few dollars, or the potential that his career takes a drastic turn? It just would not make sense not to lock Luck up, and due to his value to the team, he is worth setting the bar another notch higher.

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