{"id":515,"date":"2012-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/colts-luck-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:48:26","slug":"colts-luck-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/colts-luck-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Luck, the Indianapolis Colts moved to 5-3 on the season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Indianapolis Colts\u00a0sure are making a habit of winning the close ones.<\/p>\n

Behind a sterling performance from rookie quarterback Andrew Luck, the Indianapolis Colts moved to 5-3 on the season with a 23-20 victory Sunday over the Miami Dolphins \u2013 their third win in a row by a score or less.<\/h2>\n

\u201cObviously it was a very joyous locker room,\u201d Colts<\/strong> interim coach Bruce Arians said. \u201cThat was a big win for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luck<\/strong> had a stat line was his most impressive to date: 30-for-48 for 433 yards and two touchdowns for the Colts<\/u>. It was the most yards ever thrown by a rookie quarterback in a single game, breaking the mark set by Carolina\u2019s Cam Newton last season.<\/p>\n

Sunday also marked the fourth time this season Luck<\/em> has eclipsed 300 yards passing for a game,with the Colts<\/em>, tying him with Peyton Manning for the NFL rookie record.<\/p>\n

Test of Luck:<\/strong>\u00a0Compare Andrew Luck with other notable quarterbacks through 8 career games.<\/p>\n

Luck, and the Colts team, which went 13-for-18 on third down, got their biggest play of the game late in the third quarter. Rookie wideout T.Y. Hilton, double-covered by a pair of Dolphins\u2019 defensive backs, simply went up and grabbed a 36-yard bomb from Luck in the Miami endzone. It gave the Colts a 20-17 lead heading into the final period.<\/h2>\n

Miami\u2019s Ryan Tannehill, another first-year signal-caller, was nearly as impressive as Colts QB, Luck<\/u>. He finished 22-for-38 for 290 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n

The rookie quarterbacks put on quite a duel in the first half, Luck and Tannehill combined to go 29-for-42 for 431 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

The byproduct was 30 total points in the first 30 minutes The Luck, and the Colts supplanted three Vinatieri field goals with the nine-yard touchdown from Luck<\/span> to Reggie Wayne, \u00a0the Colts all-pro\u00a0wideout, late in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Miami scored twice in the second quarter, getting touchdowns off an 18-yard catch-and-run from Charles Clay and an 18-yard burst from Reggie Bush.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Indianapolis Colts<\/span> travels to Jacksonville on Thursday for a AFC South clash where Luck<\/span> will lead the Colts in battle with the Jaguars.<\/p>\n

That, to go along with a 9-yard touchdown from Luck to Wayne in the first quarter and three Adam Vinatieri field goals for the Colts, was enough to deliver Indianapolis its third win in four games since head coach Chuck Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia in early October. The Colts are now 3-2 this season when trailing at halftime, behind Luck.<\/h3>\n

Pagano, still undergoing treatment, attended the game Sunday and spoke to the Colts<\/span> both prior and after the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got circumstances,\u201d Pagano told the team after the win. \u201cYou guys understand that. I understand that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s already beat. My vision that I\u2019m living is to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and hoist that Lombardi (Trophy) several times. Congratulations. I love all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Indianapolis Colts\u00a0sure are making a habit of winning the close ones. Behind a sterling performance from rookie quarterback Andrew Luck, the Indianapolis Colts moved to 5-3 on the season with a 23-20 victory Sunday over the Miami Dolphins \u2013 their third win in a row by a score or less. \u201cObviously it was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,179,228],"tags":[340,15,37,342],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empower-network","category-entertainment","category-sports","tag-andrew-luck","tag-empower-network","tag-fight-the-forces-of-evil","tag-indianapolis-colts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/duyaacopp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}