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Originally Posted by NTamm1215
I don't know where Luck did not accept blame. No one excused him from receiving blame, my point was that he is attempting to do more with less.
As far as individual personnel goes, there's no chance anyone would take the receiving corps that Luck had on Saturday night over what Wilson currently has, even without Harvin and Rice. Guys like Golden Tate and Doug Baldwin are proven commodities in the NFL. Zach Miller is a pro bowler who had 192 catches between 2008 and 2010 for 2268 yards catching passes from the likes of JaMarcus Russell, Bruce Gradkowski, Jason Campbell, Kyle Boller, Daunte Culpepper, and Charlie Frye. He led the Seahawks in TD catches this year and missed 2 games. Fleener has incredible talent and is one you'd buy moving forward if given a choice between he and Miller, but Miller is absolutely a solid TE.
Tate and Baldwin combined for 114 receptions and 1676 yards this year, most of which was played without the team's two best receivers. That's depth.
LaVon Brazill's career high in receptions in one game was 3 prior to Saturday night. He didn't even play until Week 6 this year and had a total of 23 catches in his career coming into the playoffs. Whalen had 24 catches on the season coming into the playoffs. They got the typical 0 out of the oft-injured Hayward-Bey down the stretch. Whalen and Brazill had very similar stats to Jermaine Kearse, who is Seattle's 5th option at wide receiver when everyone's healthy.
All of this doesn't include the fact that Seattle has one of the best RBs in the league, while Luck had the god awful Trent Richardson and Donald Brown.
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If you are going to use the Oakland QB argument with Zach Miller (and I understand that argument), you can make the case that Heyward Bey had the same QBs throwing to him. Heyward Bey's 2011 numbers are far superior anything Baldwin has ever done, and actually a little better than Tate's 2013 season. While Luck only had Wayne for half this past season, he is light years better than either Tate or Baldwin, and I'd still take him over Harvin.
I should've rephrased the part about Luck accepting blame. Actually he does. His fanboys are the ones in denial. He may be the best QB in the league in two or three years, but he still has to develop.