Luck confident about recovery

INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck said all the right things Monday.

He feels good, hopes to be full go when training camp begins and believes he will be a better overall quarterback when he returns.

All he has to do now is prove it.

For the first time in more than three months, Luck fielded questions from local reporters about his surgically repaired right shoulder and explained his longer-than-expected recovery might have been at least partially the result of his desire to come back too quickly.

Luck didn’t go into specifics about what he would, could or should have done differently after initially hurting the shoulder in September 2015.

He missed the next two games then made four consecutive starts before suffering a season-ending liver injury in November.

Luck opted against surgery that offseason and instead wound up signing a five-year, $140 million contract extension.

Still, it’s progress. And it’s a far cry from October when Luck’s throwing regimen suddenly stopped because of continued shoulder soreness.

He spent the next month seeking additional medical opinions before moving his rehab to Europe.

Luck finally returned to the team facility in late December and has spent most of the past three months working out in California with noted quarterback experts Tom House and Adam Dedeaux.

The good news: Luck says he’s feeling much more confident in his recovery.

“If I wasn’t making progress, it would freak me out and we would have to change something. But I am,” he said. “I’m feeling better.”

The bad news: Fans have heard all this before.

Whenever Luck gets back, he will be working with a vastly different supporting cast.

New head Coach Frank Reich will call the plays. Running back Frank Gore and receiver Donte Moncrief left in free agency, and receiver Phillip Dorsett was traded to New England for quarterback Jacoby Brissett, who started the final 15 games for Indy last season.