Jim Irsay stirs up crap talking Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck

Colts whatever Jim Irsay talked about drafting Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck in the same draft in 2012 at the NFL combine. Silly man.

Hindsight is 2020, right? When one looks back at the 2012 NFL draft and sees Andrew Luck and then looks at Russell Wilson, the decision is easy. Take Luck. He is the tall and white and strong-armed quarterback that NFL loved. That isn’t the case anymore.

It doesn’t matter what color you are (Patrick Mahomes won a Super Bowl this year) and it makes no difference how tall a person is (Kyler Murray was the first pick in 2019 and he is pretty good). A lot of that can be credited to Wilson. Russell Wilson was a better quarterback than Andrew Luck.

Luck, of course, was taken first overall in 2012 and Wilson was taken in the third round. On Sunday, Colts owner Jim Irsay said that if Wilson had still been around in the fourth round in 2012, the Colts may have selected him. Or according to Irsay, “I know we were going to take Russell Wilson the year we took (Luck) in the fourth round, but (Wilson) was gone in the third. We would have taken (Wilson), but that’s a long story.”

It is a longer story for the Colts than the Seahawks. Since Russell Wilson was drafted by Seattle in 2012, the Seahawks have won a Super Bowl and gone to another. Russell Wilson has never missed a game. Luck retired prior to the 2019 season, but Wilson? He is still on his Hall of Fame trajectory.

Luck played 86 games in his career and went 53-33 as a starter with 4 playoff victories and had a quarterback rating of 89.5 with 171 touchdown passes and 83 interceptions in 6 seasons. Luck missed all of 2017 with an injury.

Wilson has played 128 games in his eight-year career, has a record of 86-41-1 with 9 playoff wins (and a Super Bowl win), thrown for 227 touchdowns and just 68 interceptions. His quarterback rating is 101.2. That is second-best in NFL history.

My point is that while Irsay in his rambling speeches can throw out potential facts, he was wrong about reality. If he had taken Wilson number one overall in 2012, his franchise probably would have won a Super Bowl by now. By taking Luck, his franchise is mediocre.

Sure, the Seahawks could have taken Russell Wilson earlier than the third round, but they knew he would still be available to them that far in the draft. Seattle was smart. Jim Irsay was not. And that is why the Seahawks have the better franchise.