Brian Billick Picks Andrew Luck Over RG3 As His Rookie Of The Year

During Sundays Redskins @ Eagles game the discussion about who was deserving of the NFL Rookie Of The Year award.  Billick, former Ravens coach, went with Andrew Luck.

"Only if because there were no expectations whatsoever [for the Colts]"

The other announcer said he would vote for RG3, and then defended the Redskins (lol) by saying they were equally as terrible as the Colts.

Billick wasn't buying it...On the Redskins:

"They had a defense in place, they had a pretty decent corps of receivers. I think the expectations were higher for Washington, than they were for Indianapolis.  People were talking about Indianapolis barely winning 4 or 5 games"

Draft Madness With Cam Newton, Andy Luck, & RGIII

Cam Newton

Last year when Cam Newton came out of college, as soon as the season was over, he was projected to go somewhere around the 10th pick, the one which the Washington Redskins held.  Mel Kiper was thinking that he would be the perfect fit for the Skins at that 10th slot.  Todd McShay agreed.

"“I gave them Cam Newton because I think that’s the kind of quarterback that can be molded, and he has all the potential, all the upside you would ever want,” Kiper said." -Mel Kiper on the Redskins picking Cam Newton


Those two had Newton at 10 to the Skins in their mock drafts at the end of January, and the draft didn't happen until the end of April.  By April Cam Newton slid all the way up to the #1 pick.

Newton turned out to be a good first pick (so far)...

Andrew Luck/RGIII

This season, Andrew Luck was projected to be the number 1 pick in the draft.   It was a no-brainer. In fact, if he would have came out of school last season, he would have been projected to go #1.

So how did Robert Griffin III all of a sudden jump up to be in competition with Luck for number 1.  He has made the Cam Newton climb and now the Colts are saying that maybe they haven't decided to take Andrew Luck just yet.

Are the Colts second guessing themselves?  Are they thinking that maybe Luck is such an easy choice that maybe it is too easy.  Maybe the other guy would be better?

While Griffin was still projected to be the 2nd QB (to whoever needed one) I'm not exactly sure what RGIII has done since the end of the season to even bring up the move to be the 1st QB.  It is clearly insane.  Or is it.  Now I'm starting to think that RGIII will be a better player.  AHHHHHHHH!!!!  

I can't be the only one who thinks they want to replace Peyton Manning with another white guy in Indy...can I?  Ok maybe that isn't true.  Maybe.  But clearly If the Colts take RGIII and Luck becomes great the Colts are dead.  If they take Luck and RGIII becomes great they are safe.  So do you take the safe pick just to take the safe pick?  The Colts will.

So this talk is fun and all, but really?...really?  REALLY?  Can the Colts just sign Luck already and get this crap over with...I'm sick of it.

Andrew Luck Pro Day, More Ado About Nothing

Andrew Luck had his pro day today and the Redskins were there to check him out.  There is no link to stories about this event because it is meaningless to the Washington Redskins organization and their fans.  Despite the insane talk about the Colts being impressed with RG3 yesterday, the Colts are 100% going to draft Andrew Luck.  If they didn't it would be the greatest moment in Redskins history and the worst moment in Colts history.

I'm not saying RGIII will be a bust.  I just think Luck will not be Ryan Lief.  The NFL is big enough for two awesome rookie quarterbacks though...

Also, we don't want to change the title of this blog to Luckskins or something pun with Luck or Lucky...