Andrew Luck gets surgical, shows he's fine without injured Reggie Wayne

Second-year quarterback Andrew Luck played like a veteran on his first drive in Saturday's playoff game. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images) Under first-year offensive

Doug Farrar | Jan 4, 2014

Andrew Luck gets surgical, shows he's fine without injured Reggie Wayne /

Second-year quarterback Andrew Luck played like a veteran on his first drive in Saturday's playoff game. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Under first-year offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton, the Indianapolis Colts have preached balance in their overall offensive approach. But that certainly wasn't the case on their opening drive in the Saturday afternoon wild-card game between the Colts and the Kansas City Chiefs.

After Kansas City quarterback Alex Smith led his team to a touchdown on their opening drive, Indy responded with a drive that was all Andrew Luck -- seven passes, all completions, all out of the shotgun, and five out of no-huddle.

The drive ended with a perfect 10-yard throw throw from Luck to receiver T.Y. Hilton, Luck's primary target since the Colts lost Reggie Wayne to a torn ACL on Oct. 20.

(GIF courtesy Bleacher Report)

Published Jan 4, 2014

DOUG FARRAR

SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009, Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.