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  • Re: Colts-Bears

    Originally posted by Pacergeek View Post
    RGIII brought it today, and took it to the Saints. RGIII 1 Luck 0
    Didn't know Griffin and Luck were competing against each other?
    You know how hippos are made out to be sweet and silly, like big cows, but are actually extremely dangerous and can kill you with stunning brutality? The Pacers are the NBA's hippos....Matt Moore CBS Sports....

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      Lol, Luck will be fine, the sillyheads come out en masse after Sundays like this. The biggest issue with 90% of fans is they don't know how to look past stats and immediacy rather than context and skillsets. Luck has a stronger skillset than RG3... but he has a much worse team, specifically the O-line situation. Luck played a much tougher defense, also. RG3 has an actual running game. Put a rookie behind an awful o-line and make him throw against a top 3 defense, and without any semblance of a running game, on the road... and he's going to struggle. Put a different rookie behind a wall of an o-line, throwing against a very suspect pass defense, and also give him a good running game, and he's going to look like Dan Marino, even on the road.

      That's the context... that's the reality.

      Voila --- Colts blowout, Luck "struggles", and RG3 looks like the next coming after 1 week. Nothing against RG3, he did great, I've never said he wasn't going to be good, but I still don't believe for one second he's a better quarterback than Andrew Luck. Stick Luck on that same 'Skins team and the score would have been even more lop-sided, and you all know that.

      Lemme make a lil prediction for ya this next week --- The Colts and Luck will look much better against the Vikes, but the 'Skins will smash the Rams because the Rams look awful, so the RG3 train will roll on. The 'Skins are 3X the team the Rams are. The Colts and Vikes are... even? I think Indy may be slightly better, but since the Colts faced a much harder opponent in week 1 and the Vikes beat the poopy Jags (who I think are worse than Indy), the Vikes have a win right now and the Colts do not, so therefore they are underdogs.
      Last edited by Kid Minneapolis; 09-10-2012, 10:23 AM.
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        I'd like to reiterate that Luck wasn't half bad in this game. 300 yards against that Bears' D basically from his back all game and with defenders draped all over him and an average of about .5 second to get a pass off with no help except Reggie Wayne is a more impressive offensive feat than RG3 directing traffic with that wall of an o-line, group of receivers and backs against a very suspect Saints' D. He moved the ball very effectively on a number of drives with a bunch of rookies and low-experience players. Four redzone appearances. Vinatieri missed a f'n FG, he threw a TD, he had another intercepted in the end zone. The score easily could have been a little different.

        He made a rookie mistake in the endzone and threw the INT --- that was 1 foot from being a TD. He also had 1 ******** interception that should've been a Bears' offsides. He was a hair away from having a 2-1 TD/Int ratio today, to go with likely nearly 350 yards. Against that Bears' D. It was not a bad effort at all. He just learned a valuable lesson about the speed of the NFL --- he's gotta throw it harder. And he will. But the big issue today was that our overall team talent was exposed. We're a bunch of rookies and 2nd-teamers. What do you expect when we have $40 mill in dead cap space this year and underwent a complete top-to-bottom overhaul?

        Been saying it all along --- it's not a logical comparison to make between Luck and RG3 this year, they have drastically different teams. Next year is when Indy will start to turn heads, that's when we'll have 1 year of experience under our belt, that $40mill in dead cap space comes alive, we'll have 1 more draft and this team will start to shape up. 6 wins tops this year, maybe not even that, that's what we're dealing with. 'Skins are a playoff team.
        Last edited by Kid Minneapolis; 09-10-2012, 10:41 AM.
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          Originally posted by Pacergeek View Post
          RGIII brought it today, and took it to the Saints. RGIII 1 Luck 0
          I think most people knew that RG3 was going to have a pretty good season compared to Luck given the teams that they play on.

          BTW I am still sticking to the prediction that RG3 gets himself hurt by the end of the year.

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          • Re: Colts-Bears

            Originally posted by Gamble1 View Post
            I think most people knew that RG3 was going to have a pretty good season compared to Luck given the teams that they play on.

            BTW I am still sticking to the prediction that RG3 gets himself hurt by the end of the year.
            I'm still sticking to the prediction that RG3 is going to be better than Luck, RG3 just throws the ball way harder than Luck and is more athletic, Luck is still going to be good but RG3 has the potential to be the face of the NFL for a long time.
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            • Re: Colts-Bears

              Luck is the real deal. An impressive debut for having even less protection and fewer options to throw to than Peyton may ever have had in his career here.

              With that said, the need for improvement of the line is so plain and so frustrating to watch that it has to wear on the players themselves. To know that the pocket will collapse more often than not, that passes will constantly be underthrown due to Luck having to throw across his body or off his back foot, or overthrown due to not being given the time to properly gauge the required distance / overcompensating for the anticipated hit, and to know that there is, as usual, no hope of a running game for balance must be devastating.

              As the Colts improve this year, so will everyone else. If the Colts win more than a couple of games due to being overlooked on the schedule I will be shocked. Luck will need to go to a hurryup offense and make multiple big quick strike plays in a given game due to the relentless pressure that every team in the league will focus directly on him for the Colts to have any hope of winning any games, period IMO.

              Go Peyton!

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                Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
                I'm still sticking to the prediction that RG3 is going to be better than Luck, RG3 just throws the ball way harder than Luck and is more athletic, Luck is still going to be good but RG3 has the potential to be the face of the NFL for a long time.
                Your judge of talent has never been top-notch, lol. Let's see... who's more flashy, charismatic, stat-based, and had the better game yesterday -- that's the guy vnzla is probly gonna go with. Just sayin'. Monta Ellis. Hoppin' on the RG3 wagon after yesterday is kinda lame, where were you before that when Luck outplayed him thoroughly all preseason?

                Throwing the ball harder is for Jay Cutler, you know, that perennial SuperBowl winn--- Oh wait, he's Jay Cutler, he doesn't do **** with his rocket arm.
                Last edited by Kid Minneapolis; 09-10-2012, 11:16 AM.
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                  Originally posted by Kid Minneapolis View Post
                  I'd like to reiterate that Luck wasn't half bad in this game. 300 yards against that Bears' D basically from his back all game and with defenders draped all over him and an average of about .5 second to get a pass off with no help except Reggie Wayne is a more impressive offensive feat than RG3 directing traffic with that wall of an o-line, group of receivers and backs against a very suspect Saints' D. He moved the ball very effectively on a number of drives with a bunch of rookies and low-experience players. Four redzone appearances. Vinatieri missed a f'n FG, he threw a TD, he had another intercepted in the end zone. The score easily could have been a little different.

                  He made a rookie mistake in the endzone and threw the INT --- that was 1 foot from being a TD. He also had 1 ******** interception that should've been a Bears' offsides. He was a hair away from having a 2-1 TD/Int ratio today, to go with likely nearly 350 yards. Against that Bears' D. It was not a bad effort at all. He just learned a valuable lesson about the speed of the NFL --- he's gotta throw it harder. And he will. But the big issue today was that our overall team talent was exposed. We're a bunch of rookies and 2nd-teamers. What do you expect when we have $40 mill in dead cap space this year and underwent a complete top-to-bottom overhaul?

                  Been saying it all along --- it's not a logical comparison to make between Luck and RG3 this year, they have drastically different teams. Next year is when Indy will start to turn heads, that's when we'll have 1 year of experience under our belt, that $40mill in dead cap space comes alive, we'll have 1 more draft and this team will start to shape up. 6 wins tops this year, maybe not even that, that's what we're dealing with. 'Skins are a playoff team.
                  I think that's the thing that people aren't considering. RGIII had a running game that ran the ball 44 TIMES-- for 153 yards. The Colts ran the ball just 15 times for - 63 yards. Also, the Skins forced 3 turnovers, which gave the Skins a shorter field. This isn't to take away from Griffin, he played GREAT! He connected deep with Garcon, he didn't turn the ball over, and he was able to move the chains on 3rd and 5 and 6.

                  Meanwhile, Luck didn't look very good. A few of his passes sailed, he threw costly INT's, and he showed that we may need to stay away from throwing the deep out until he perfects the timing of the play because right now, everytime he throws it, it looks like it could be a pick-six.

                  Luck was also running for his life, and was trailing a lot of the game. Our kicker missed a short FG that would've given us momentum going into the half (would have been just a 7 point game) I don't believe in the whole "he's a gamer" because he got up following a few hits. Every player does that lol. But he definitely continued to play confidently and didn't look rattled, though he did look frustrated and a bit confused.

                  With that said, you can't compare the two players because their teams are so drastically different. The skins look like a potential 7-9 win team (depending on their ability to win close games) while the Colts look like a 4-6 win team--depending on the way we manage the easier part of our schedule.

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                  • Re: Colts-Bears

                    Ya, Griffin had time to setup, survey the field and step into his throws... I can't name a single time Luck could do that.

                    I'm still hoping that our line makes big strides as the year goes on. Logic says that they will.... it's the one unit that takes the longest to gel, it's very complicated in the schemes. We have a lot of new guys and they aren't even caught up in the schemes yet or familiar with each other, so as they go they should start to smooth things out. They may never be a pro-bowl level line, but I'm hoping by the end of the season taht Luck at least has a chance to actually setup and survey and step into a proper throw 50% of the time, and maybe even open some running lanes, which further opens up our passing game. Seriously, yesterday, Luck had nothing to work with, they could just throw everyone back in coverage because they had no respect for our running game at all. Just compounded the situation. I'm still amazed that Luck had 300 yards and actually got into the red zone four times... that's actually astounding the more I think about it.

                    It's pretty obvious now though that this next off-season, our focus will be almost entirely on the lines in the draft and free agency. We were man-handled pretty good on both sides, less so on the defensive side, but it still needs addressing.
                    Last edited by Kid Minneapolis; 09-10-2012, 11:22 AM.
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                    • Re: Colts-Bears

                      Consider this

                      Last year the Redskins defeated the NY Giant's in their first game of the season last year 28-14.

                      Rex Grossman threw for 305 while Eli Manning threw for 268 yards 0TD and 1 INT.

                      All I'm saying is it's early.....

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                      • Re: Colts-Bears

                        I'm actually sort of glad that Luck has had to face some really stiff defenses to start his career off... it should raise his level of play, gives him an idea how tough it can actually be. I'd rather that, than he face 5-6 weak Ds to start off with and set his bar lower and then when we face a real D he is completely dumbfounded. He's getting a baptism of fire for sure, but so did Manning. I think it works out better in the long run.
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                        • Re: Colts-Bears

                          They just showed on ESPN two of Lucks interceptions and he had more than enough time to throw the ball, he made a mistake in one and wasn't able to throw it that far on the other pick.
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                          • Re: Colts-Bears

                            Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
                            I'm still sticking to the prediction that RG3 is going to be better than Luck, RG3 just throws the ball way harder than Luck and is more athletic, Luck is still going to be good but RG3 has the potential to be the face of the NFL for a long time.
                            Its alright to think RG3 is going to be good or even better than Luck but at this point one game or even one season won't tell the whole story. I think RG3 has a good chance to get hurt especially if Washington is going to allow him to run.

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                            • Re: Colts-Bears

                              Originally posted by Gamble1 View Post
                              Its alright to think RG3 is going to be good or even better than Luck but at this point one game or even one season won't tell the whole story. I think RG3 has a good chance to get hurt especially if Washington is going to allow him to run.
                              To me Luck has a bigger chance in getting hurt with that crappy OL he has to protect him, and also people think that RG3's game is equal to Vicks but is not, RG3 is a better thrower and he is a better pocket QB than people think, his game is throw first and run last.
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                              • Re: Colts-Bears

                                Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
                                To me Luck has a bigger chance in getting hurt with that crappy OL he has to protect him, and also people think that RG3's game is equal to Vicks but is not, RG3 is a better thrower and he is a better pocket QB than people think, his game is throw first and run last.
                                If they do design run plays for RG3 then he will be both a running back and a pocket passer. Thats just the way they want to play it right now which is fine but given that meh defense of the Saints I don't think to make any predictions of his greatness right now. IF he does well against the Atlanta or the Steelers then i will be impressed but until then I won't know how he does with pressure in his face.

                                I still think he is going to be good though.

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