I'm not saying the Colts will come in scared, exactly. But I have observed the Seahawks get into the heads of many different players. Kam Chancellor is one of the best in the league at hitting receivers in legal fashion. Earl Thomas can play chess with the best QB's and frees up our CB's to mix it up underneath. Richard Sherman's had a couple off games but is a danger to jump routes at any time and has baited many a QB into dumb throws. Tom Brady stayed disciplined in last year's tete-a-tete and only made two poor throws that I remember, but our secondary made him pay for both; neither got away. Luck will need to stay similarly sharp and avoid prayer throws, and so will his receivers. Our secondary's physical nature had Dallas' receivers hearing footsteps and pulling up short on routes by the second half.
Also, it's a tribute to Luck that he's done so well while enduring the 2nd most allowed QB hits in the NFL. Jacksonville hit him 10 times. Seattle won't be content with that. Just quoting numbers here. Luck's completion rate of 43.5% under pressure is just screaming for him to throw a Schaub or two, perhaps in DHB's direction. He'd be wiser to scramble, but then he'll run into Bobby Wagner playing spy. Luck runs smart, but few LB's contain running QB's more effectively than Wagner. It's a great matchup for both, and I'm looking forward to watching.
Andrew Luck is a respectable QB, but he's never faced a defense like this. He'll make mistakes. He'll probably look great in the first half, but once Pete hits the gas in the fourth quarter after the Colts are a little tired, the secondary will be in a position to capitalize on anything that goes wrong. Regardless of the outcome, Luck should walk away from this one with a respectable stat line but a renewed mortality in many people's eyes. If pattern holds, he'll have at least one pick of the unfortunate tip-drill variety that can't exactly be blamed on him but doesn't give him the ball back either.
