ESPN Insider ranks Bengals #2 receiving corps in the NFL

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(08-28-2015, 08:37 AM)djs7685 Wrote: They've been putting talent around Luck, and he's been doing just fine. I don't know why he would need excuses. He just threw for 500 more yards and accounted for 8 more TDs and 4 less INT (though more fumbles) than Andy's "great year" in 2013. He did so with comparable weapons.

Why would Luck supporters feel bad about their QB taking full advantage of the talent he's been given to work with?

FWIW, Andy's 2013 and Luck's 2014 is what you want to see from young quarterbacks, but both of them need to work on the turnovers and Luck had a bit better of a year statistically. Luck looked much better than Andy if you watch the games, but that's not a slight on Andy as Andrew is probably your next best QB in the league in the very, very near future. I'll be ecstatic with Andy if he turns out to be 3/4 of the QB that Andrew is.

Luck has more numbers than Dalton, but he has WAAAAAAY more turnovers than him. He's had 28 fumbles in his career, and 43 INTs (in the regular season). Not to mention that he has a boatloads of dropped INTs from defenders. In Daltons first 3 years he has had 12 fumbles, and 49 INTs just to compare (and the most dropped INTs in Daltons career is 5).

Luck has:
8 dropped INTs in 2014 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2015/2014-adjusted-interceptions
5 dropped INTs in 2013 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2014/adjusted-interceptions-2013
14 dropped INTs in 2012 http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2013/adjusted-interceptions-2012

Here's an article from ESPN about it too. http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/13464939/why-indianapolis-colts-qb-andrew-luck-lucky-not-throw-more-interceptions.

Now Luck is a really really good QB, and I think he's better than Dalton (I had to say the obvious otherwise you would assume that I think Dalton is better). You just have to remember that he turns the ball over WAAY too much, and if he was in a division where people could actually catch his INTs then he would have over 20 INTs every year.