2011 NFL Thread

[Lemers]

Phill Simms hasnt completely bought into Luck yet.

"I think the hype is a little too much," Simms said.* "I feel bad for him in that respect.*I mean, [how's] he going to do to match what they say he can do? There's a lot to him. I think his best quality, by far, is that he's big and strong and he's going to be able to move and run in the NFL. There's no question. I mean, this guy is strong.*The throwing? He manages a game.*I see all that.
"But the one thing I don't see, I just don't see big-time NFL throws.*I don't care what anybody says. I've watched a lot of him. He never takes it and rips it in there.*And you can say what you want but, man, you've got to be able to crease that ball every once in a while. We see it every week in these games. Hey, he can develop it but even in the USC game, you know, he's very careful with it, guides it a lot. That's what I see.*
"There's not a lot of rotation on the ball and there's not a tremendous amount of power. Not that you need to have that power arm.*I'm not saying you've got to have that exclusively but, man, it sure helps when you can do that because there's four or five plays a game it is about arm strength. And sometimes quarterbacks who don't have it, they pass those plays up. Why? Well, they go, 'I don't know if I can make that throw,' so they throw it short. That's why I'm a little more reserved in my judgment than everybody else."