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“We got beat by a better team,” safety Ryan Clark said. “We got beat by, as far as I’m concerned this weekend, the best player in the NFL. Russell Wilson made every play he had to make for his team to win, and we didn’t.”
Smellyman":bw9tqqhz said:Chris Harris said same after Bronco game.
going to become a theme.
Laloosh":3it6jv7v said:Smellyman":3it6jv7v said:Chris Harris said same after Bronco game.
going to become a theme.
Chris Harris said that Luck wasn't better than Russell. There is a difference.
Smellyman":28gimetv said:Everybody knows Andrew Luck is the greatest football player since Jim Brown.
SomersetHawk":1chrj1od said:Smellyman":1chrj1od said:Everybody knows Andrew Luck is the greatest football player since Jim Brown.
Andrew Luck will never win a Super Bowl and still go to the Hall of Fame, it's part of the self fulfilling prophecy.
Shadowhawk":25ws7y29 said:There's an interesting dichotomy here. The talking heads, who for the most part are starting to come around (except for Pete Prisco, but who cares?) have spent the last 2+ years downplaying Russell Wilson's success. They've used terms like "game manager," given the credit to the rest of the team around him, you know the drill. As I said they are mostly coming around, finally, but not without making as many excuses as they could.
The players, meanwhile, have made no such excuses. They voted him the 20th best player and 5th beat QB in the league on "NFL Top 100." Chris Harris says that Wilson is better than Luck. Now Clark is calling him the best player in the NFL. There is just a lot more respect from the people who play the game with and against Wilson than the people who are paid to talk about the game, and that respect was given a lot less grudgingly.
No. He didn't.Laloosh":tk41jvdw said:Chris Harris said that Luck wasn't better than Russell. There is a difference.
Chris Harris":tk41jvdw said:Russell Wilson is better than (Luck). No question,
Smellyman":21zls88i said:SomersetHawk":21zls88i said:Smellyman":21zls88i said:Everybody knows Andrew Luck is the greatest football player since Jim Brown.
Andrew Luck will never win a Super Bowl and still go to the Hall of Fame, it's part of the self fulfilling prophecy.
he could retire today and 100's of years from now, they will still sing songs about the football conquests of Andrew Luck.
MidwestHawker":311g2woo said:Certainly the respectable way to a respond to a loss, tipping your cap instead of making excuses.
"Best player in the NFL" is overstating the matter, but I'm glad to see him get this kind of love.
SmokinHawk":3ohlpi4i said:I realize this is a totally homerish thing to say, but honestly, who is a more significant individual contributor in this league? Put Andrew Luck behind our O-Line and watch the guy get killed. Put Peyton Manning behind that O-Line, and it's the same deal. On the play where Russ turned a broken 3rd down pass in to a sideline scramble and toss to Beast for a large chunk of yards plus a potentially game saving first down, it is safe to say that Russell is the only QB in the NFL who could make that play happen. The only one. His scrambling ability is not a quirk to his game because he can't throw from the pocket (he can throw quite well from it). His scrambling ability gives us the freedom to let our O-Line sell out on run blocking, and there is not another team in the NFL who can do it like we do.
Russell is a dynamic, generational talent. His closest comparison in the modern era is Brett Favre, and that comparison is based solely on his fearlessness and ability to magically transform a busted play in to a huge gain.
God, I love watching this kid play football. It truly is a joy to witness. I knew from the moment I watched his college film, post-draft, that he would be a superstar.
Hawks46":269h3a5n said:SmokinHawk":269h3a5n said:I realize this is a totally homerish thing to say, but honestly, who is a more significant individual contributor in this league? Put Andrew Luck behind our O-Line and watch the guy get killed. Put Peyton Manning behind that O-Line, and it's the same deal. On the play where Russ turned a broken 3rd down pass in to a sideline scramble and toss to Beast for a large chunk of yards plus a potentially game saving first down, it is safe to say that Russell is the only QB in the NFL who could make that play happen. The only one. His scrambling ability is not a quirk to his game because he can't throw from the pocket (he can throw quite well from it). His scrambling ability gives us the freedom to let our O-Line sell out on run blocking, and there is not another team in the NFL who can do it like we do.
Russell is a dynamic, generational talent. His closest comparison in the modern era is Brett Favre, and that comparison is based solely on his fearlessness and ability to magically transform a busted play in to a huge gain.
God, I love watching this kid play football. It truly is a joy to witness. I knew from the moment I watched his college film, post-draft, that he would be a superstar.
I'd actually disagree. Luck is bigger and stronger than Russ, is an underrated athlete (had the same combine numbers as Cam Newton), and has a better pocket prescence than Wilson does. Wilson still tends to bail from the pocket too soon, but I don't knock him because I think it's a field vision issue. I think Luck would thrive behind our OL, and be able to run the read option almost as well. I still think Wilson is a better QB because he's more accurate and throws less INT's, but that's about it.