Luck’s California-college-guy togs might have contributed to his ability to fly so far beneath the radar that he has been nearly subterranean, but that still doesn’t change the fact that he may be the least-exposed prospective No. 1 draft pick ever.
Luck, well, he can’t get his face on a milk carton. Maybe that’s a good thing, though, given that he’s stepping into shoes vacated by a legend in Indianapolis. Just what has Luck been up to since the combine and his pro day? Tom Moore offered a glimpse. (Hint: it involved study.)
Moore, the Colts’ offensive coordinator when they had Peyton Manning, recently spent time with Luck and, Bob Kravitz of the Indianapolis Star writes, came away impressed.
A couple of months ago, he got a call from Andrew Luck's father, Oliver, himself a former NFL quarterback, asking the self-styled “unemployed” former offensive coordinator to spend some time in the classroom with his son. ... The pair worked together for 3-4 hours a day, five days a week, for three weeks.
Why would the Lucks do this? What did Luck have to gain when he knew he had the No. 1 spot locked up? Nothing, really.
It was just a chance to get better, and to learn from one of the greatest offensive minds the game has known.
“We had old NFL tapes of different teams, and I'd stop the tape and say, ‘Okay, you're at the line of scrimmage, you see the defense doing this, this and this. What are you thinking?’ We'd go over the possibilities, what you should do, what you can't do,” Moore said. “Maybe we would do that on a Monday, then on a Friday, I'd do it again and stop the tape, ‘Okay, what do we want to do here?’ And he'd tell me, ‘We want to look at this and this.’ He had great application and recall from what we'd studied earlier. It's instantaneous.”
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