Quote:I'd rank Brady, Manning, rivers, Dalton, and probably Alex Smith ahead too.


This is all predicated on careers. If there was a draft with age in mind I'd take luck out of all of those guys based on upside, but that's something that might never come to fruition, which is why those guys who have doing it for a while rank above him right now.

 

 

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They were comparing Andrew Luck's stats with Andy Dalton's today on Dan Patrick.  They did that thing where they listed the stats without listing the player.

 

2013 season: 

Andy Dalton:   4293 yds, 61.9%, 7.33 avg, 88.8 rating, 33 TD, 20 INT

Andrew Luck:  3822 yds, 60.2%,  6.71 avg, 87.0 rating, 23 TD,  9  INT

 

So after they told Dan Pactrick which one was Andrew Luck, he said he'd by far pick Andrew Lucks stats over Andy Dalton's going on about it's all about turnovers.  Without even comparing their play or the teams they play on, I think that's a bunch of garbage.  Though Dalton's 33-20 isn't the greatest ratio, he came in 3rd in TDs thrown for the season.  In fact, go back through history and find what QBs EVER threw > 30 TDs.  All you see are the franchise or elite guys (Brees, Rivers, Romo, Rodgers, P. Manning, Brady, Ryan, Stafford, Favre in past 5 years).  You can say Andy Dalton sucks, but he doesn't statistically. Throwing TDs is hard.

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