Quote:What makes Luck one of the best today? Potential? Because the numbers go both ways. Luck is either good or God-awful in situations.The Colts defense was a hell of a lot more consistent than ours. I mean how many third and longs did we give up? We let some of the slowest QB's in football run for first downs. Luck had an arsenal of weapons coming into the league like Reggie Wayne. Blake did what he accomplished this year under Olsen for the first time as a young QB with a young offense learning it with him.

 

If I'm scared of a QB it's Mariota.

 

I'm not particularly frightened of either of those guys, but definitely see Luck as the bigger threat than Mariota. Mariota looks like a flash in the pan kind of guy. His only good game in the second half of last season was against the God awful Jaguars defense that couldn't even stop Hoyer. In the second half of 2015 besides his fortunate matchup against the Jaguars he was 3 TDs 3 INTs. Not an inspiring stat line, and if you actually watched him play, even against the Jaguars, it was easy to see he isn't a guy that played his team up, and instead was a guy that rode the waves well if his team was able to overpower the competition.

 

Luck, on the other hand, is a guy that actually has thrown 40 TDs in a season. Yeah he seems to still have some stupidity in him at moments, but there's no doubt in my mind that Mariota is Alex Smith while Luck is more like Eli Manning. One puts up good stats and doesn't throw many INTs, but will never win in the post season unless its against radically inferior competition, the other isn't elite, but can have runs of excellence good enough that it is conceivable that with good play around them they could manage to win in the playoffs.

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