Yes I can. Because that team is 4-12 with Alex. Their best RB had 500 yards, and their defense wasn't close to elite.

Andrew Luck elevates his team. Alex Smith is elevated BY his team.

Luck hasn't arrived by he's a damn sight better than average.

In what world do the Colts have less talent on offense than the Chiefs?

???

Why is it, with that offense, it's ok for Luck to turn the ball over as many times as he did?

The Colts lost to all 4 elite teams they played in lopsided games.

Andrew Luck is not yet elite. And I'm tired of hearing he is and I'm tired of him getting excuses.

HE HAD 24 TURNOVERS THIS YEAR.

24.

He plays in the worst division in the AFC.

His stats are bloated because half of his games came against shit competition (20:2 against the shittiest teams on his schedule), and the other half of his games the games were so lopsided he played catch up and amassed a shit ton of yards and garbage TD's against prevent defense (see Denver, New England, Pitt).

They freaking kept him in against NE for no reason other than so he could extend his streak of 300+ yard passing games. It was a joke.

Stop quoting his stats as why he's elite. His stats are bloated and non-representative of the year he truly had.

He was arguably better as a rookie than he was this year.

Because Reid.

And last year Luck beat Peyton Manning and Russell Wilson in shootouts. His rookie season he did it to Rodgers.

That team is in the playoffs three years straight because of Andrew Luck.

Next year he'll probably be the best QB in the AFC.

That's ridiculous.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Ahmad Bradshaw was a more than competent RB this year for the Colts. They tried to go to a no huddle shotgun offense a quarter of the way through the season which proved to be ineffective since Andrew turns the ball over at a Mark Sanchez clip.

You can't compare the two teams because they run different offenses.

Andrew Luck >>> Alex Smith

Everyone knows that.

Andrew Luck is right smack dab in the Eli / Rivers tier. That's really good, that's not elite.

and people who think he's elite right now are grossly misinformed

Alex has only demonstrated that he can succeed while crutched with a good defense and running game.

I agree they have more passing weapons, but I don't think Alex could operate in those conditions either. When Alex throws 35 + times, KC was 0-5. When Luck threw more than 35 times the Colts were 8-3.

KC wins the less Alex does, and the opposite is true with Luck.

He's rising quickly, but I'm not sure there are 11 guys better.

We actually agree then. I'm not sure what the debate is.

QBR: 65 / 62 / 63
Turnovers: 26 / 14 / 24

That team isn't in the playoffs 3 straight years because of Andrew Luck.

They are in the playoffs because they share a division with Tennessee, Jacksonville and Houston.

Comparatively,

Eli Manning QBR: 69 / 37 (lol) / 71

Eli, who was ok in 2012 and 2014 (not elite), posted better QBR's than Andrew Luck.

Enough is enough.

No more excuses, no more crowning the guy. If he's not elite next year, then it's fair to say that, at this point in Luck's career, he's been really good, but nowhere near the hype.

I won't argue that. I believe he's going to be the premier qb in the league without question. The last month, he's been Chuck Pagano's Cancer...

I already did my 2015 QB 1 year rankings (they don't take young/old or future into account):

1. Wilson
2. Rodgers
GAP
3. Brady
4. P. Manning
5. Roethlisberger
6. Romo
7. Brees
8. Rivers
9. Luck
10. E. Manning

Apparently semantics.

and I can't wait for these playoffs

because the following guys do not have an excuse:

Rodgers
Brady
P. Manning
Luck
Romo

So I look forward to judging their respective postseasons without bias

The Colts are the most one dimensional team in the NFL. They don't even have the whiff of a threat of a running game. That makes things significantly more difficult for Luck. Their defense is also markedly worse than KC's.

Hootie is being duplicitous. For years he said there was no difference between Marvin Harrison and Eddie Kennison. Now, Luck is surrounded by talent because they put up big numbers with him? Which one is it?

Luck's line is worse than KC's (he gets hit more than any QB in football) his running backs are the worst in the NFL (KC has arguably the best), his primary TE is worse.

The only thing he has better than Smith are his receivers. His defense isn't in the same galaxy as KC's.

If you put 2014 Andrew Luck on this Chiefs team it's 14-2. If you put 2014 Alex Smith on the Colts they're 5-11.

omfg

this is ridiculous

Luck has a worse line than KC?

Dwayne Allen and Coby Fleener are really worse than Fasano and Kelce?

Ahmad Bradshaw was really that bad?

Shit, I'll give you Charles >>>>>> than anything Indy had. Bradshaw and Knile Davis were about a wash.

The receivers? Donte Moncrief probably would have made our team exponentially better, but that's on Dorsey. And I won't even mention T.Y. Hilton.

But I'm tired of guys like Luck getting excuses.

Why?

Why does he get an excuse because his offense sucked?

Peyton threw 55 TD's with an undrafted LT last year taking over for Clady. He was sacked his usual less than 20 times and took his usual almost not hits.

Luck takes too many hits because he holds the ball too long. So does Smith. So does Rodgers.

When people start realizing QB's who take sacks are ruining offensive drives where you only get about 10 per game ... they'll start to realize how valuable Peyton Manning really is ... a guy who never puts his team in a 3rd and unmanageable.

I'm so, so, so tired of Andrew Luck, who turns the ball over 20 times per year on average, getting pass after pass after pass because he was an elite prospect.

He doesn't do more with less than Manning or Brady. He's just not NEARLY as good as they are.

Peyton Manning would have still won more games with that Indy team than Andrew Luck.

Wanna know why?

BECAUSE HE'S BETTER THAN LUCK.

Peyton would have won between 11 and 14 games on all 32 NFL teams this year.

Andrew Luck regressed this year. That's not a great sign. He was supposed to be the next HOF once in a generation QB. He hasn't lived up to the hype. Right now, he's simply the next Eli Manning with mobility.

Stop making excuses for these guys. It's ridiculous.

QB's who get every excuse in the book:

1. Tom Brady
2. Aaron Rodgers
3. Andrew Luck

It needs to stop. These three have no reason not to play lights out in this postseason.

I can't wait until Luck loses to Cincy, turns the ball over 2-4 times, and then everyone says, "well he's a 1 man team!"