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Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning
In Luck's defense he had 5 passes dropped.
That changed the game. That's via PFF, and those were the passes that hit guys right in both hands. They just dropped them because of contact.
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But on at least 2 of those that I can recall, he led his WR right into an absolute monster of a hit.
If he had Cassel on the back of his jersey, nobody would have defended that outing. He got a few guys absolutely destroyed, he was firing erratically all day and seemed to truly be rattled at times.
He made one of the better plays I've seen this year on a simple screen, though. The screen was covered and rather than panic, he made a pump fake to get the DE in the air, then pitched it right over him after he landed. It was a very heady, instinctive play that most QBs don't make. They tend to think of a screen as this rapid-fire, panic play where if it is diagnosed, you're ****ed. Well that one got diagnosed and Luck smartly kept his wits about him and saved the play.
You saw some flashes of what will make him an elite QB, but in the end it really was a bad day for Luck.