
Originally Posted by
ombada
yes there is plenty to diminish it. the first and foremost problem with your view of things is that a players stats are not impacted by the play of their team. They simply are what they are. This is complete nonsense.
Luck has been hit a league high 97 times. You dont think that factors into INT's and completion percentage? or the fact that he has the worst running game out of the 3 and is forced to pass more often, therefor defenses pull men out of the box to defend said passing game? He has over 900 yards passing more than RG3 and over 1200 yards passing more than Wilson. he has over 200 more attempts than both. He has over 80 completions more than wilson and over 70 more than RG3. None of that has anything to do with completion percentage? or how about the fact that he throws long passes 27.2 percent of the time, which is second in the NFL only to Cutler, compared to wilsons 23.0 % and RG3 18.1%. But that couldnt have anything to do with completion percentage, right?
The fact that his defense isnt good enough to get him the ball on a more consistent basis and has the second worst takeaway count in the NFL has nothing to do with the amount of TD's he has? Its hard to score when your not on the field. Or maybe its the fact that his offensive line has let up the 4th most amount of sacks in the NFL at 40. Maybe that has something to do with drives being killed?
the funny thing is you say stats reflect the player, but are ignoring mass amount of relative stats in the article only to bring up the most basic useless stats as proof of whatever point it is your trying to make. The stats are not lying, and neither are the 7 rookie and 1 all time records he has set in his first year. Or the fact that with an inferior team, proven by the stats you so adore, he has won more games than RG3 and has helped improve his team by 5 games more than Wilson (so far)
Not to mention you know so little about the circumstances of the Colts season last year that YOU fail to bring up that we started 3 different QB's. If Grossman played for us we would still be in the same situation because half of our roster was decimated by injury, including Peyton Manning, Dwight Freeney, Gary Brackett, Dallas Clark, Joseph Addai, Melvin Bulitt, Half of our O-line, including Anthony Costanzo, Donald Brown...etc. Too many to list here.
We cut most of those players and are playing more rookies than the skins or the hawks. We have one of the youngest teams in the league. We had no cap space this season. Go ahead, name any of our defensive starters outside of Freeney, Mathis and Davis without looking it up. Name anyone on our O-line. Luck is literally the reason we have been winning and it would take someone who hasnt watched more than the 3 nationally televised games to think that he is having a bad season. He has had an excellent season.
I put that section in bold to explain to you that the author of the article is trying to show the win differential from last year to this year without any major free agent pick ups and one of the youngest teams in the NFL. How can you call what the author is pointing out as circumstantial when all of the the circumstances are explained with statistics? Luck is carrying a team with almost no experience into the playoffs and for you to sit here and try and discredit that with blatant nonfactual opinion and bias is ridiculous.