WR's and dropped passes - New England Patriots Forums

***Leave No Doubt*** · 04-13-2009, 02:13 PM

Reiss sites Graham in his blog: Patriots receivers & dropped passes - Reiss' Pieces - Boston.com

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Writes Graham:

Dropped passes aren't an official stat, but Elias Sports Bureau tracks them. Elias uses a common-sense analysis of "should the receiver have caught the ball." If there's any doubt among Elias analysts, the player isn't charged with a drop.

Randy Moss led the Patriots with the most drops (7) last season.

PatsChamp88 · 04-13-2009, 02:32 PM

Here's a link if anyone's interested for WR drops from last year NFL Leaders: Pass Dropped (Thru Dec. 28, 2008)

Interesting that this site is the only one I know of that lists drops has Moss @6 were Reiss lists 7

Top WRs drops:

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1 Braylon Edwards Cle 16
2 Dwayne Bowe KC 13
3 Brandon Marshall Den 12
4 Terrell Owens Dal 10
5t Calvin Johnson Det 9
5t Roddy White Atl 9

***MoLewisrocks*** · 04-13-2009, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Leave No Doubt

Reiss sites Graham in his blog: Patriots receivers & dropped passes - Reiss' Pieces - Boston.com

It's the percentage that tells the story. Welker and Faulk played like men among boys, regardless of who the QB was...

satz · 04-13-2009, 02:59 PM

When we will rename this to Anti Watson thread.

***Leave No Doubt*** · 04-13-2009, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by satz

When we will rename this to Anti Watson thread.

Ben didn't exactly shine did he

4 out of 22 with Gaff close at 6/38.

Disco Volante · 04-13-2009, 06:50 PM

Excluding turnovers, nothing pisses me off more than dropped passes...

***Leave No Doubt*** · 04-13-2009, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MoLewisrocks

It's the percentage that tells the story. Welker and Faulk played like men among boys, regardless of who the QB was...

Wes had 111 opportunities-Amazing! And of those 111 he dropped only FIVE. Given the timing of TFB's injury I'd guess 98% of that 111 were thrown by Matt. Wes is such an extraordinary player-heart and soul. Kevin 2 out of 58,again doing it sans TFB.

Nice catch Mo. Very telling stats indeed.

CampPen33 · 04-13-2009, 07:01 PM

Riche Caldwell

spacecrime · 04-13-2009, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Disco Volante

Excluding turnovers, nothing pisses me off more than dropped passes...

I'm not too fond of missed tackles resulting in the other team scoring a TD, blown coverages resulting in quick TDs, other teams returning kicks for TDs, our going 3-and-out series after series while our D gets winded, shanked punts on our part, long Patriots gains negated by penalties, when we have a third and goal on the one that becomes third and goal on the 16 due to penalites, cheap PI calls that give the other team the ball first and goal on the one, and stuff like that.

And dropped passes.

spacecrime · 04-13-2009, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Leave No Doubt

Wes had 111 opportunities-Amazing! And of those 111 he dropped only FIVE. Given the timing of TFB's injury I'd guess 98% of that 111 were thrown by Matt. Wes is such an extraordinary player-heart and soul. Kevin 2 out of 58,again doing it sans TFB.

Nice catch Mo. Very telling stats indeed.

No, he had 111 Receptions and 5 drops.

No way to tell how many opportunities because Graham only listed passes caught and passes dropped. There could be any number of passes thrown Welker's way that were not caught but were not considered drops.

So the percentage of drops vs opportunities is actually even lower for Welker (and every other receiver).