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BlueStreak

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12. Seattle was 26th in passing yardage

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 06:59 PM

Jan 2014

They were 4th in rushing yardage. When you can get a lot of 2nd-and-3 plays, the defense has to play BOTH pass and run, and that make it a whole lot easier to get 10-yard passing plays.

Again, if you put Wilson on a team like the Colts that was 20th in passing yards, rarely having a 2nd-and-3 to work with, and he would look a lot more like most QBs in the league.

I'll certainly give him credit for having a great season, doing what the QB needs to do in that system. But I'm not ready to call him a top 8 QB in the league. I'd have to put all these guys in front of him: Brady, P. Manning, Brees, Rodgers, Newton, Luck and probably a couple of these guys based on their career body of work (E. Manning, Roethlisberger, Flacco, Rivers)

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Anybody who doubts a great QB makes all the difference [View all] BlueStreak Jan 2014 OP

The dynamics pipi_k Jan 2014 #1

I agree. A mediocre coach gets the team nowhere BlueStreak Jan 2014 #2

I'd put Kaepernick and Wilson in the same class as Luck JonLP24 Jan 2014 #3

Not even close. BlueStreak Jan 2014 #4

Do you mean total yardage? JonLP24 Jan 2014 #5

Both Yardage and TDs. BlueStreak Jan 2014 #6

With teams such as San Francisco & Seattle JonLP24 Jan 2014 #7

There is no end to the comparisons. The Colts TRIED to run BlueStreak Jan 2014 #8

The point I was making JonLP24 Jan 2014 #9

The rest of the team really does matter BlueStreak Jan 2014 #10

Flacco never averaged over 8 yards per attempt in a season JonLP24 Jan 2014 #11

Seattle was 26th in passing yardage BlueStreak Jan 2014 #12

It certainly does (BTW Wilson was responsible for 539 of those yards) JonLP24 Jan 2014 #13