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发帖数: 3809 | 1 Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Most Perplexing Trash Talker
The Colts Quarterback Drives Defenders Crazy by Offering Compliments; Head
Games or Genuine Kindness?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-luck-the-nfls-most-perplexin
Andrew Luck’s legend is growing.
Sure, there’s buzz about how he has thrown for more yards in his first
three seasons than anyone in NFL history. Or the fact he’s led the
Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in each of his NFL seasons, after
clinching a spot this year with Sunday’s win. But among NFL players, the
gossip around Luck concerns a peculiar brand of on-field chatter so
confusing and brilliant that no one knows quite what to make of it.
“In all the years I’ve played football I have never heard anything like it
,” said Washington Redskins linebacker Ryan Kerrigan. “Nothing even close.”
Luck has become famous for congratulating—sincerely and enthusiastically—
any player to hit him hard. Any sack is met with a hearty congratulations,
such as ”great job” or “what a hit!” He yells it after hard hits that
don’t result in sacks, too. It is, players say, just about the weirdest
thing any quarterback does in the NFL.
When New England pass rusher Rob Ninkovich pulverized Luck last month in a
Patriots’ 42-20 win, he got the customary congratulations. As Ninkovich
tells it, he found himself paralyzed with confusion by the well-wishes, so
he blurted out “Thanks for...uh...accepting that hit?” before running back
to the huddle.
Defensive back Nolan Carroll, who has hit Luck three times and with two
teams, remembers the first time it happened while he was with the Miami
Dolphins last year. Carroll, now with the Philadelphia Eagles, was blitzing
off the edge and got to Luck, knocking him down just after he released the
ball. Carroll was walking back to the huddle when he heard “Great job,
Nolan!” He turned around, searching for the person who said it—maybe it
was a teammate, he thought. “Then I realized it was Luck who said it. I’m
like ‘what’s going on? Aren’t you supposed to be mad?’” Carroll said.
“So then I’m the one who gets ticked off because an upbeat attitude isn’t
something you see.”
This, players say, is Luck’s brilliance, even if it is unintentional.
According to Baltimore Ravens pass rusher Pernell McPhee, who sacked Luck in
October, quarterbacks generally do two things when they are sacked: They
complain to the referee, looking for a roughing the passer penalty, or they
do nothing and absorb their pain in silence. A handful will get angry if the
sack was particularly fierce (don’t get McPhee started on Chargers
quarterback Philip Rivers). But Luck is so dramatically different that those
who knock him down have no clue what to do. “You love it but at the same
time, you really, really hate it,” said Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin.
“You know if you hear a quarterback get mad, you are in his head,” Carroll
said. “With Luck, you thought you hurt the guy, you hear ‘good job’ and
you just say ‘aw, man.’”
The Wall Street Journal contacted 12 NFL players who recorded a sack or
knockdown of Luck, and each player said he received the same message from
Luck. Some were different than others—Kerrigan’s sack resulted in a fumble
, so Luck, who was scrambling to retrieve the ball, could never offer his
congratulations. So he looped around later in the game to tell Kerrigan how
great he was doing.
“You want to say thank you but then you say ‘wait a second--I’m not
supposed to like you!’” Kerrigan said.
Luck did not respond to requests for comment. Those who know him best say
the most likely reason behind his comments is that he’s just a really nice
guy. Former Stanford teammates, for instance, say there’s likely an element
of gamesmanship, but that’s secondary to his sincere respect for a good
play—even one that resulted in him getting knocked off his feet.
“My wife and I raised all four of our kids with appropriate values, with
respect for other people and to be kind and generous and I guess that
carried over to the football field,” said Luck’s father, Oliver, a former
NFL quarterback who is now the athletic director at West Virginia University.
Oliver Luck said he first heard that his son was congratulating those who
sacked him when Andrew was playing high-school football in Texas. Oliver
said Andrew had played so many sports in middle school throughout the
Houston area that he knew most of the opposing players he faced, so saying
“great job’” was natural because he was among friends.
Washington Redskins linebacker Trent Murphy, Luck’s teammate at Stanford,
said Luck would interrupt film sessions to praise an opponent’s hit of him.
The harder the better.
“He’s yelling ‘nice hit, nice hit!’ and we’re like ‘uh, no one else
does this.’”
Murphy said Luck’s “over-the-top positive” demeanor has never included
genuine trash-talk. “His idea of trash talk is complimenting people,” he
said.
Former Stanford tight end Zach Ertz, acknowledged Luck is probably playing
head games to some extent. But Ertz said that’s not Luck’s main concern.
For evidence, he submitted that if Luck himself makes a great play, he
usually says nothing—no matter the situation. Ertz said Luck, who is 6-foot
-4, can dunk a basketball “pretty effortlessly.” And even when dunking on
teammates, he never howled in delight. “He’d just giggle and jog away
chuckling because he knew he got the better of you.” | y*******5
发帖数: 5023 | 2 luck退役后可以去做politician。
【在 z*****a 的大作中提到】
: Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Most Perplexing Trash Talker
: The Colts Quarterback Drives Defenders Crazy by Offering Compliments; Head
: Games or Genuine Kindness?
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-luck-the-nfls-most-perplexin
: Andrew Luck’s legend is growing.
: Sure, there’s buzz about how he has thrown for more yards in his first
: three seasons than anyone in NFL history. Or the fact he’s led the
: Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in each of his NFL seasons, after
: clinching a spot this year with Sunday’s win. But among NFL players, the
: gossip around Luck concerns a peculiar brand of on-field chatter so
| b*****n
发帖数: 2333 | 3 Any sack is met with a hearty congratulations,
such as ”great job” or “what a hit!” He yells it after hard hits that
don’t result in sacks, too
有一种病，叫斯德哥尔摩症状，得治。 | m*****o
发帖数: 924 | 4 Very interesting, and unbelievable too!
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【在 z*****a 的大作中提到】
: Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Most Perplexing Trash Talker
: The Colts Quarterback Drives Defenders Crazy by Offering Compliments; Head
: Games or Genuine Kindness?
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-luck-the-nfls-most-perplexin
: Andrew Luck’s legend is growing.
: Sure, there’s buzz about how he has thrown for more yards in his first
: three seasons than anyone in NFL history. Or the fact he’s led the
: Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in each of his NFL seasons, after
: clinching a spot this year with Sunday’s win. But among NFL players, the
: gossip around Luck concerns a peculiar brand of on-field chatter so
| A**d
发帖数: 13310 | 5 非常狡猾，搞得对手不好意思恶意废他，至少是潜意识里能帮助发力的那股仇恨被减少了
【在 m*****o 的大作中提到】
: Very interesting, and unbelievable too!
:
: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 8.6
| g*******s
发帖数: 2828 | 6 我记得Luck说过他被hit几次以后才能找到感觉发飙。
【在 z*****a 的大作中提到】
: Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Most Perplexing Trash Talker
: The Colts Quarterback Drives Defenders Crazy by Offering Compliments; Head
: Games or Genuine Kindness?
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-luck-the-nfls-most-perplexin
: Andrew Luck’s legend is growing.
: Sure, there’s buzz about how he has thrown for more yards in his first
: three seasons than anyone in NFL history. Or the fact he’s led the
: Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in each of his NFL seasons, after
: clinching a spot this year with Sunday’s win. But among NFL players, the
: gossip around Luck concerns a peculiar brand of on-field chatter so
| t***e
发帖数: 3601 | 7 Same as big ben. That guy need some stimuli.
【在 g*******s 的大作中提到】
: 我记得Luck说过他被hit几次以后才能找到感觉发飙。
| m**********2
发帖数: 2646 | 8 两种极端啊，或者他是超级老好人（看着有点像），或者就是很阴险地攒自己人品，败
败对方人品同时让人不好意思HIT他太狠
【在 z*****a 的大作中提到】
: Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Most Perplexing Trash Talker
: The Colts Quarterback Drives Defenders Crazy by Offering Compliments; Head
: Games or Genuine Kindness?
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-luck-the-nfls-most-perplexin
: Andrew Luck’s legend is growing.
: Sure, there’s buzz about how he has thrown for more yards in his first
: three seasons than anyone in NFL history. Or the fact he’s led the
: Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in each of his NFL seasons, after
: clinching a spot this year with Sunday’s win. But among NFL players, the
: gossip around Luck concerns a peculiar brand of on-field chatter so
| d*f
发帖数: 500 | 9 Luck is one of a kind, like him a lot!
【在 z*****a 的大作中提到】
: Andrew Luck: The NFL’s Most Perplexing Trash Talker
: The Colts Quarterback Drives Defenders Crazy by Offering Compliments; Head
: Games or Genuine Kindness?
: http://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-luck-the-nfls-most-perplexin
: Andrew Luck’s legend is growing.
: Sure, there’s buzz about how he has thrown for more yards in his first
: three seasons than anyone in NFL history. Or the fact he’s led the
: Indianapolis Colts to the playoffs in each of his NFL seasons, after
: clinching a spot this year with Sunday’s win. But among NFL players, the
: gossip around Luck concerns a peculiar brand of on-field chatter so
| B*****e
发帖数: 9375 | 10 黑兄弟就不会因为他"too white" -- 整天吐一些没人听过的高雅稀有词 -- 特别下手
狠一些？ | l*****8
发帖数: 16949 | 11 被他congratulate几次以后大概也不好意思下手太狠了吧？
【在 B*****e 的大作中提到】
: 黑兄弟就不会因为他"too white" -- 整天吐一些没人听过的高雅稀有词 -- 特别下手
: 狠一些？
| y*******5
发帖数: 5023 | 12 这难道是他总是上半场挖坑，下半场发飙的原因？
【在 l*****8 的大作中提到】
: 被他congratulate几次以后大概也不好意思下手太狠了吧？
| p**********g
发帖数: 9385 | 13 有道理
【在 y*******5 的大作中提到】
: 这难道是他总是上半场挖坑，下半场发飙的原因？
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