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Guess who leads the league in INT's (1 Viewer)
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bonesman
Footballguy
Guess who's played the easiest schedule and have beat one team with a winning record.
spider321
Footballguy
I think both are great. I just wanted to mock warrior's dbag post.
Want your mind blown? He also leads the league in dropped interceptions, too.
ConnSKINS26
Footballguy
Woah.
mad sweeney
Footballguy
That doesn't really narrow it down much.
He got taken to overtime against the Titans, then beat them by 4 at home. The Titans are 4-9, and the results on the field suggest Indy is just barely any better. He beat the Browns by 4 at home. The Browns are 5-8, and the results suggest Indy isn't much better. He split the season series against Jacksonville. The Jags are 2-11, and the results on the field suggest that Indy is of comparable quality. He went 2-1 against the Jets/Bills/Dolphins trio, with a -16 point scoring differential. The Jets are 6-7, the Dolphins are 5-7, and the Bills are 5-8, and the results on the field suggest that Indy is very similar in quality to that trio. He won by 2 in Detroit. The Lions are 4-8, and the results on the field suggest that the Colts are just barely better. As of right now, only four teams Luck has faced have a winning record. He beat the 7-6 Vikings by 2 and the 8-4 Packers by 3. Meanwhile, he lost by 20 to the 8-5 Bears and 35 to the 9-3 Patriots. That -50 scoring differential suggests Indy doesn't belong in the class of the winning teams he's faced. If you look at what Indy has actually done on the field, there is no way anyone could reasonably conclude this is a good team. They barely eek out wins over atrocious teams, play mediocre against mediocre teams, and get run off the field against good teams. Any rational analysis would conclude that Indy is a mediocre-at-best team that has had the good fortune of a cream puff schedule. Any irrational analysis would conclude omg 9-5 zOmG!!!1!1!! MVP.Edit: none of this is to say that Luck isn't playing exceptionally well for a rookie. He is. It's just to suggest there's a massive chasm between "exceptionally well for a rookie" and "MVP caliber". He's essentially playing as well as Peyton did as a rookie (to name another guy who led the league in INTs). Compare the quality of Peyton as a rookie vs. Peyton in any of his 4 MVP campaigns, and that's how far Luck is playing from an MVP level.
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ConnSKINS26
Footballguy
They don't have a good team. They have a good schedule.
Why does that matter? You act like they brought back everyone from the last 2 years and just dropped in a quarterback, and even if they did a rookie doing that would be amazing. Here are the starters on offense that have been there since 2010. Reggie Wayne, Donald Brown. That is it, so how did you know this would be a solid team and just needed a good quarterback?'Skip22 said:
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EBF
Footballguy
He's also near the league leaders in pass attempts, which has something to do with it.
Going into today's game, Tom Brady was the only QB in the top 10 in pass attempts who didn't also have at least 10 INTs. Ryan had 13, Romo had 15, Brees had 16, Peyton had 10, and Stafford had 11. So Luck's numbers aren't really that obscene, especially when you consider the rookie factor.
Luck is throwing the ball WAY more often than Griffin and Wilson, which has a lot to do with why his efficiency stats are worse. Give him a running game and limit his attempts to 27 per game and he'd probably have a much higher YPA and fewer picks.
Going into today's game, Tom Brady was the only QB in the top 10 in pass attempts who didn't also have at least 10 INTs. Ryan had 13, Romo had 15, Brees had 16, Peyton had 10, and Stafford had 11. So Luck's numbers aren't really that obscene, especially when you consider the rookie factor.
Luck is throwing the ball WAY more often than Griffin and Wilson, which has a lot to do with why his efficiency stats are worse. Give him a running game and limit his attempts to 27 per game and he'd probably have a much higher YPA and fewer picks.
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