Not yet, you damn fools. I said not ... yet.
Don't you dare cue up the Music of Foreboding. Don't. You. Dare.
Yes, I know this is all starting to feel very familiar, this sense of unease and, let's be honest, straight up uncertainty coming from the mouths of various Indianapolis Colts' honchos. First Andrew Luck was just dealing with an ouchie left calf, even though he'd been dealing with it for three months, and this little voice in the back of your head was whispering that maybe that wasn't, you know, a normal healing arc for an otherwise robust 20-something.
But now?
Well. Now there's this.
And from the GM himself, no less.
And suddenly, you bet, this feels like the summer of '17 all over again, even if it probably (hopefully?) isn't. But suddenly the strained left calf has morphed into a high ankle ... something, and Chris Ballard is saying he can't say for sure if Luck will be ready for the season opener against the Chargers three weeks from now, and, wait a second, how did we get to a place where we're talking about Luck missing the regular season opener?
The preseason opener, sure, that was fine. And then this week arrived and it was, well, Andrew's not going to be practicing so he'll miss preseason game two. And now ...
And now, a high ankle ... something.
To be sure, this isn't surgery on Luck's throwing arm we're talking about. It's a calf, I mean, ankle. It will heal with rest, presumably, although high ankle Somethings are notoriously slow in healing. And Luck seems to be a notoriously slow healer. And, well, this really is starting to sound familiar.
I'm sorry. What was that?
No, dammit. No. I'll tell you when.
Although God help us, it feels more and more like there's going to be a "when."
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