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I don't care how good your QB is, if the team as a whole sucks, the QB can only do so much. Look at the Packers. As good as Rodgers is, they haven't been back to the SB since they won it. And Seattle isn't winning shit without that D. |
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Yes, their OL is weak. Yes, their defense is weak.. which only serves to inflate Luck's stats. A big problem is that they lead the league in turnovers... with 10.. nearly all thanks to Luck. This is not to say that Luck isn't generally a good QB. Just that he's not that good, and is typically overrated. |
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I don't buy that bullshit. The Colts were 3-1 in December last year and there QB played absolute garbage football.
Luck doesn't have to do "everything." Luck has a GM who constantly drafts him weapons and brings in guys like Andre Johnson and Frank Gore who were supposed to be awesome sleeper picks since they finally had an awesome QB to put them in places to excel. I know, I know, I know ... his line sucks. Pretty convenient excuse. I think it's just another way of saying, "meh. Luck hasn't lived up to his hype." and that's not an insult. I would probably put Luck as the 7th or 8th best QB in the NFL right now. That's awesome. But he hasn't lived up to his unreal hype and I see nothing out of him that suggests to me he's some sure fire HOF'er. He's a fast Eli Manning. I love Eli. Eli is great. But has Eli ever been a top 5 QB in any given year? No. And neither has Luck. And Luck has regressed every single year IMO. I think it's as safe to say that Luck will always be this guy, nothing more ... and that's ok. It's just not John Elway. |
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I agree with most of what you say about Luck, but I don't agree with that last paragraph. As someone in another thread mentioned, a QB can be taught to limit turnovers. You can't teach a lot of what makes Luck so good, though. I expect both him and Wilson to get better over the next 10-12 years as Peyton Manning and Tom Brady did. |
Luck is almost like Flacco to me. Some weeks he'll look like the best QB in the game, but then, more often than not, he'll look like one of the worst.
I realize I'm not always right. Derek Carr has been good this year (I'm not crowning him yet). Tom Brady is playing the best football I've ever seen in my life from any QB so far this year. Kaepernick is awful. I'm not afraid to admit my misses. I just don't see why Luck gets excuses for playing BAD football. Andrew Luck has PLENTY of weapons. Aaron Rodgers has a pretty spotty record in big games since his Super Bowl. Joe Flacco is awful. When Andrew Luck develops into an elite QB, I'll gladly say, "wow, Luck sure is good!" At this point he's not there, and he's not really close. I see nothing that suggests to me he can be the next Aaron Rodgers. He's simply too careless with the football. How many seasons does he get before the excuses run out? |
People like a QB that throws down the field, no matter how many times he costs his team wins. A turnover prone QB is more frustrating to watch
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Tom Brady has perfected the dink and dunk to a level I have never before seen ... he is literally playing the QB position as close to perfect as it can be played. Throwing the ball down the field is nice and all but you don't have to play that way to win. Brady showed it in the Super Bowl.
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People saying Luck throws too many interceptions crack me up. There is absolutely no context to counting the number of interceptions.
A better way to look at it is interception percentage. Lets look at some historical QBs (and a couple current ones) to put this inperspective.... Joe Montana 2.6 Steve Young 2.6 Peyton Manning 2.6 Drew Brees 2.6 Tony Romo 2.6 Ben Rothlisberger 2.6 Troy Aikman 3.0 Dan Marino 3.0 John Elway 3.1 Kurt Warner 3.1 Brett Favre 3.3 Warren Moon 3.4 Jim Kelly 3.7 Roger Staubach 3.7 Dan Fouts 4.3 Andrew Luck 2.5 Advanced stats = context. Stat totals = no context whatsoever. Andrew Luck has more INT’s than Jay Cutler since last year!!!!! Yes. 21-20. Andrew Luck has also throw 702 passes in that time. Cutler, 606. 96 passes is roughly 3 full games worth of passes, with just 1 more INT. Cutler’s ratio? 3.4 50 career games. 48 INT’s. 1 per game. Throwing the ball 1,900 times in that span. With absolutely zero running game. No Lynch, or Lacy, or Le’Veon Bell, or Emmitt Smith, or Roger Craig, or Terrell Davis etc to hand off to, or occupy defenses. Yet, all those QB’s throw INT’s more often than Luck does on a per pass basis. But hey, let’s not use context with our facts, let’s use the same stats that were invented in 1937 and apply them in 2015. |
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Neither Colts' QB, Andrew Luck and Matthew Hasselbeck, threw passes in practice this week. Not ideal situation for Thursday, or any, night.</p>— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/652130751404634116">October 8, 2015</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Josh Johnson come on down :) |
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