Andrew Luck

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Originally Posted by JJP

I actually LIKE Luck, but if he's going to get all the credit, he has to accept blame when he throws 3 or 4 picks.

Seattle has depth at WR and a solid TE? I'd take the Colts receivers over Seattle's. Baldwin is not a legit starting WR and even Tate is a number 2, at best. We really can't count Harvin because he's played about 3 quarters all season. I'll take Fleener over Zach Miller, who at best is average. And as for NE, they looked like a good running team against a poor run defense. If they somehow manage to beat Denver, and I don't think they will, Seattle or San Fran will completely shut down their running game.

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.