INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Luck spent three offseasons

fighting his way back from injuries. Now he can reap the reward.After returning to the field Marlon Mack Jersey , making it back to the playoffs, regaining his Pro Bowl form and collecting The Associated Press NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award, a healthy Luck now intends to take a rare and well-deserved break from football.“I’ll be honest, I probably won’t throw for a while,” he said before cleaning out his locker. “There will be tweaks, there will be changes to what I do (this offseason) but all of it is geared to one, make me as happy as possible and two, set me up to improve as a quarterback and improve as a person.”How Luck will spend his downtime is unclear.Peyton Manning broke the monotony with hunting trips. Brett Favre worked on his ranch. Tom Brady won a Super Bowl after changing last year’s offseason routine to spend more time with his family and less on football. They all learned throwing more balls doesn’t necessarily make a better quarterback.Matt Hasselbeck, a three-time Pro Bowler who backed up Favre and Luck during his 17-year career, became a believer. So after hearing a story about Manning meeting a former U.S. president one offseason, Hasselbeck accepted an offer from assistant coach Clyde Christensen to spend time with a Navy admiral.“He talked to us in our quarterback meeting one day about protecting the football because we’d had some issues and he used this analogy of what they tell Top Gun pilots,” Hasselbeck said. “It was basically that you have this great plane you get to fly and it does not belong to you. It belongs to the government, it belongs to the people. Clyde said we should take the admiral up on spending some time with him. So I did that one offseason.“That’s an example of something that’s not necessarily X’s and O’s but it’s a form of leadership training or just working on you and if you’re working on you, you’re improving everything about you.”It was a message Hasselbeck relayed to Luck after joining the Colts in 2013. But it was a hard sell to a young workout warrior with the pressure and expectations of a No. 1 draft pick.While Luck enjoyed vacationing in Europe, where he spent part of his childhood reading books, following soccer and riding bikes, the desire to improve drove him to work out.In time, Hasselbeck’s message sank in.“When we were first teammates, I told him there are going to be some years that are fun and they’re easy and you’re healthy the whole year,” said Hasselbeck, who now works for ESPN. “There’s going to be other years when it’s miserable and you’re dealing with something the whole year and you’re in the training room all the time. You’re there early and you’re there late and you’re in pain and you’re on drugs.“That conversation came up when I was talking about how long I wanted to play. This year we were talking and Andrew said ‘I remember you saying it and it didn’t make sense then.’ He said now it totally makes sense.”Luck’s good year came with 16 starts for the first time since 2014, producing career highs in completions, attempts and completion percentage. He finished second to Patrick Mahomes in touchdown passes, helped the Colts end a three-year playoff drought and found a better balance between life and football.Still, taking a break won’t be easy.“I don’t think he’s really going to get away,” longtime left tackle Anthony Castonzo said. “I think it’s so cool he’s not going to have to recover from an injury or have to get healthy first. He’ll probably try to get away, but he’s like me — after a short time you’ve got to find a gym or somewhere to work out because otherwise you feel like garbage.”The difference is the 20-month gap between regular-season games following surgery on a partially torn labrum and three successive injury-plagued offseasons have changed Luck’s perspective.He never missed a chance to explain how much fun he had last season and acknowledged things felt different after a season-ending loss to Kansas City.“In past seasons, there has been a massive emotional letdown — like now I can try to be a good boyfriend or now I can try to do this and that Quenton Nelson Color Rush Jersey ,” he said. “But it doesn’t seem that way this year. One of my challenges for myself was to maybe not silo everything in my life so much but be able to exist as a happy human throughout a season, not just after the season. So I don’t have this, I guess desire, to run away and hide for a couple weeks.”Instead, he threw for a week leading up to the Pro Bowl and attended the NFL’s honors banquet last week.Luck hasn’t said if he will work out again at Stanford, his alma mater, but acknowledged he’ll continue to work with Tom House, the former Major League Baseball pitcher who has helped him in the past. But the Colts remain convinced the best prescription for Luck is rest.“He’s got to be fired up right now to have a normal offseason,” coach Frank Reich said. “To get away and I know he’s Andrew — he’s still going to do his deal and be disciplined — but just relax. My encouragement to him would be, ‘You better do that, you better take advantage of it.'” The "horseshoes & hand grenades" of fantasy sports." />Skip to main contentclockmenumore-arrownoyesStampede Blue homepageHorizontal - WhiteStampede Bluean Indianapolis Colts communityFollow Stampede Blue online:Follow Stampede Blue on TwitterFollow Stampede Blue on FacebookLog in or sign upLog InSign UpSite searchSearchSearchStampede Blue main menuFanpostsFanshotsColtsShopAboutMastheadCommunity GuidelinesStubHubMoreAll 321 blogs on Horizontal - WhiteFanposts Fanshots Colts StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Colts NewsYahoo Colts Team PageYahoo Colts ReportYahoo Colts Depth ChartYahoo Colts TransactionsYahoo Colts PhotosShop About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub ✕Breaking NewsAndrew Luck Retires×Daily Fantasy Football 101The “horseshoes & hand grenades” of fantasy sports.EDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:Daily Fantasy Football 101TwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailPhoto by Justin Casterline/Getty ImagesI can’t possibly tell how you much more frustrating, time-consuming and absolutely exactly like betting horse racing I find Daily Fantasy Football. However, because of its relatively low possible cost of entry (there are tons of free DFS games and options under $1 if you’re just getting started or prefer to slowly bleed out instead), potential for payout and low learning curve (seriously, buy lottery tickets. The odds are better.), Daily Fantasy is rising in popularity much like the cast of Jersey Shore did back in the day. Some say DFS is the next UFC. I was sent this insanely detailed infographic on DFS/Fantasy Sports. The data alone is intriguing enough to pique my interest and if there’s money to be made doing something I’m basically already doing anyway, why not check it out?DFS is a weekly version of fantasy football. The scoring is basically the same, except you don’t have to deal with the absolute heartbreak of an injury-riddle league roster and try to salvage your way to some entertaining wins. No more! DFS lets you tinker with a one-week roster all the way up to game time. You get a budget (think auction league fantasy football) and have to allocate your “funds” to put a player on your roster. In general, the goal is to have a complete roster as opposed to a top-heavy roster. If everyone scores 20 points, you win, basically. You’ll need some 3rd-4th string WR to go off or an outstanding night out of your DEF to win any kind of money. You can’t just win a DFS contest with household names. You’re going to have to dig deeper. Seasoned fantasy football players that can just about tell you every skill player on every team ought to find their lane in DFS. The more you know, right?I’m not going to lie to you all and say “I’ve made a ton of money playing DFS”. I haven’t. I also haven’t staked much money in it either. I play the free or up to $5/entry DFS games and most of the DFS I’ve played has been with colleagues. I might have turned a profit, but we’re talking I’ve staked less than $200 and have basically drawn even (check that, I’ve made less than $500 profit after looking back on cashing out and that’s after taxes paid). It’s interesting enough to keep me coming back, but without hitting that big payout, here we are chatting about it on Stampede Blue instead.Again, I would not sit around and research this all day. I’m going to try to make this really easy for you. The trick is to know the scoring rules for the event you’re playing in and to place your bet about 10 minutes before the entries are frozen due to games starting and it prevents you from getting cold feet (I can’t tell you how much worse my lineups are if I sit and tinker with them for hours on end). I have talked to colleagues that spend 10 hours or more a week researching their lineup. There is no advantage to doing so, you’re just driving yourself crazy. The reality is that if you play giant fantasy football leagues (think 16 or more people) https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Andrew-Luck-Jersey , then you are set up for DFS. People who play in giant FF leagues and have success should be able to transition smoothly to DFS purely because you will see more players during your draft and your waiver wire should be a bare cupboard.There are only a handful of “sure things” in the NFL. This year, Saquon Barkley is going to get fed, Patrick Mahomes going nuclear is the only chance Kansas City has and if you take Davante Adams over DeAndre Hopkins at any point, I’m afraid I can’t help you anymore.All that said, you basically get one of these players a week. If you try to put too many big names on your team, your team is going to be weak or you won’t have the money to fill out your roster. DFS is a top-to-bottom, perfect roster building game meant to test not just your depth of knowledge, but also your breadth. You may know everything about which Colts 5th WR is going to go off this week, but unless you can duplicate that for a different team 3-4 more times per entry, you’re not winning. The key is to spread it around like Cool Whip in terms of the money spent per player. I’d take a sure thing and then use the rest of the money to build around said sure thing.Again, setting your roster too early in the week just means you’re susceptible to game time decisions, practice injuries, last minute personnel changes and even trades. The advantage to DFS is that you don’t have to spend money until right before you need to submit your entry.There are 3 major sites to play DFS. There’s FanDuel, DraftKings and Fantasy Draft. FanDuel and DraftKings are the kings of DFS, but the Fantasy Draft app has a free $4 entry. Most of the time, you can find $1 for $1 million DFS games, but both FanDuel and DraftKings require a minimum deposit. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty positive Fantasy Draft is offering a $4 entry with registration prior to purchase. There are also lots of reviews of Fantasy Draft that say its referral program is out-of-this-world good. Additionally, in 2014, Colts fan-favorite WR T.Y. Hilton was announced as a partner with Fantasy Draft. So there’s that.In my next article, we’ll dive deeper into DFS strategy. For now, you’ve got the idea of what we’re doing here. I show you what it is, where to do it, you decide where to do it, and we’ll work on putting together a weekly DFS article for our audience here to talk week-to-week observations. Savvy?