The late Buddy Ryan had what is now an infamous quote tucked away in one of his playbooks. It reflects on a different time, vastly different from now, when players like Andrew Luck rule all of American sports.
Part of what Ryan wrote read: "QBs are overpaid, overrated, pompous bastards and must be punished."
Quarterbacks are overpaid.
Quarterbacks are pompous bastards.
No, quarterbacks can no longer be punished. They are more protected than ever before and paid much more than they were in Ryan's day.
If there is anything we have learned from the monstrous, ridiculous, massive, Godzilla-like, holy-crap, goodness-gracious contract extension that was just signed by Luck, it is that quarterbacks are no longer to be punished.