I guess our definitions of "luck" differ, luck to me is the helmet catch, or the edleman bobbling catch that bounced off a guys leg in Atlanta, those were just lucky, a guy lining up offsides then having to ask his coach "was i?" after the play is not luck... thats stupidity.
Yeah, it's stupidity on Ford's part. And it's lucky for Brady that Ford did something stupid at a key moment.
The two are not mutually exclusive. In this case, one man's stupidity is another man's good fortune.