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maverick4 10-18-2008 09:18 AM
Remember when we led the league in fewest drops?
 
From 01-04 I remember one or two years we lead the league in fewest dropped passes. No doubt this was an emphasis from the offensive staff at the time, and allowed us to make important plays when needed in high pressure situations.

Fast forward a few years, after spending lots of high draft picks or trades for offensive weapons, and overall the attention to drops has fallen off quite a bit.

MrBigglesWorth 10-18-2008 09:21 AM
Re: Remember When We Lead the League in Fewest Drops?
 
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Originally Posted by maverick4 (Post 1114623)
From 01-04 I remember one or two years we lead the league in fewest dropped passes. No doubt this was an emphasis from the offensive staff at the time, and allowed us to make important plays when needed in high pressure situations.

Fast forward a few years, after spending lots of high draft picks or trades for offensive weapons, and overall the attention to drops has fallen off quite a bit.
what do you expect? it's a brand new qb

Patjew 10-18-2008 09:25 AM
Re: Remember When We Lead the League in Fewest Drops?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by maverick4 (Post 1114623)
From 01-04 I remember one or two years we lead the league in fewest dropped passes. No doubt this was an emphasis from the offensive staff at the time, and allowed us to make important plays when needed in high pressure situations.

Fast forward a few years, after spending lots of high draft picks or trades for offensive weapons, and overall the attention to drops has fallen off quite a bit.
Troy, Givens, and Branch were all clutch. Patten too.

MoLewisrocks 10-18-2008 09:30 AM
Re: Remember When We Lead the League in Fewest Drops?
 
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Originally Posted by MrBigglesWorth (Post 1114630)
what do you expect? it's a brand new qb
He doesn't drop them, any more than the HOF'er did in his brief attempts to connect with them in the first quarter of the first game in 2008.

Belichick has always stressed how focus and preparation and effort and execution can mitigate so called measurables talent. Talent provides the capacity to do more, but unless it simultaneously does the little things equally well it often doesn't matter...

PatsWickedPissah 10-18-2008 09:33 AM
Re: Remember When We Lead the League in Fewest Drops?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Patjew (Post 1114634)
Troy, Givens, and Branch were all clutch. Patten too.
Excellent point. Once again, we really need to reflect on and appreciate the entire Patriot teams that won those SBs. The work ethic, the clutch gameday performances, great gameday coaching and overcoming injuries.

maverick4 10-18-2008 09:37 AM
Re: Remember When We Lead the League in Fewest Drops?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBigglesWorth (Post 1114630)
what do you expect? it's a brand new qb
Has nothing to do with the QB. We had few drops under a relatively new QB from Michigan too, one who primarily played a horizontal passing game and threw a wobbly ball on long out routes.

Even under Brady after he began to reach his peak, we have had way more % of dropped passes since 05.

Pats726 10-18-2008 10:24 AM
Re: Remember When We Lead the League in Fewest Drops?
 
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Originally Posted by maverick4 (Post 1114652)
Even under Brady after he began to reach his peak, we have had way more % of dropped passes since 05.
Stats anyone?? Or just what people seem to remember??

maverick4 10-18-2008 10:33 AM
Re: Remember when we led the league in fewest drops?
 
I'll try to find the article now, I know it exists.

I believe it was on cold hard football facts, from 04 or 03.

Pats726 10-18-2008 11:05 AM
Re: Remember when we led the league in fewest drops?
 
I just wondered about 'real" stats other than anecdotal...I do remember Givens in his early days dropping a lot and an offseason on the Juggs machine...and such

MrBigglesWorth 10-18-2008 11:17 AM
Re: Remember When We Lead the League in Fewest Drops?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MoLewisrocks (Post 1114643)
He doesn't drop them, any more than the HOF'er did in his brief attempts to connect with them in the first quarter of the first game in 2008.

Belichick has always stressed how focus and preparation and effort and execution can mitigate so called measurables talent. Talent provides the capacity to do more, but unless it simultaneously does the little things equally well it often doesn't matter...
Quote:
Originally Posted by maverick4 (Post 1114652)
Has nothing to do with the QB. We had few drops under a relatively new QB from Michigan too, one who primarily played a horizontal passing game and threw a wobbly ball on long out routes.

Even under Brady after he began to reach his peak, we have had way more % of dropped passes since 05.

whatever you guys want to believe. this is a game of inches so it's ball placement. throwing the ball in front and behind. the speed of the throw. the rotation of the ball.

no matter how you like it... the change of qb has something to do with it. not all, but something


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