Simms Isn't Buying Into Luck
(WSCR) Some have called Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck the best NFL prospect to ever play college football.
Don't count Phil Simms in that mix. In a SiriusXM Radio interview, Simms criticized Luck, saying he's never seen him make a professional throw.
"I think the hype is a little too much," Simms told Adam Schein and Rich Gannon of SiriusXM NFL Radio on Tuesday. "I feel bad for him in that respect. I mean, what'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 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, Rich. 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."
