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I found the OP quite interesting.
One thing I think the detractors naming all the "failures" here are missing is that a big part of the reason a guy like, say, Salas, didn't get anything, or a couple of the more recent rookies washed out, was because Brady Had Welker, Gronk and Ahern Capone on the field.
And before that, Welker and Moss.
Brady's going to throw the ball "X" number of times this year, no matter who's on the field. If the guy replacing Lloyd gets the same targets as Lloyd, will he be as successful as Lloyd was last year? That's really the only pertinent question.
You can't expect a Brandon Tate to catch 90/1000 if he's only getting 25 targets while Brady throws to his comfort zone receivers.
And that's the second part of this equation we just don't know yet: how many of those washouts were washouts because Brady was able to turn away from them after a few miscommunications, because he had other options? I went to a lot of games a couple of years ago, and spent a couple really watching Ocho. Maybe he was running the wrong routes, but he was getting a lot more separation than, say, Deion Branch, that's for sure.
I saw the same thing with Vereen a few times last year, where he was coming out of the backfield uncovered, but Brady was already locked in on Welker. I don't mean this as a criticism of Brady, at all, but the point stands that he's going to make those "X" throws to somebody, and this year, unlike the last several, there's an opportunity for 2 or 3 new guys to really step up.
One thing I think the detractors naming all the "failures" here are missing is that a big part of the reason a guy like, say, Salas, didn't get anything, or a couple of the more recent rookies washed out, was because Brady Had Welker, Gronk and Ahern Capone on the field.
And before that, Welker and Moss.
Brady's going to throw the ball "X" number of times this year, no matter who's on the field. If the guy replacing Lloyd gets the same targets as Lloyd, will he be as successful as Lloyd was last year? That's really the only pertinent question.
You can't expect a Brandon Tate to catch 90/1000 if he's only getting 25 targets while Brady throws to his comfort zone receivers.
And that's the second part of this equation we just don't know yet: how many of those washouts were washouts because Brady was able to turn away from them after a few miscommunications, because he had other options? I went to a lot of games a couple of years ago, and spent a couple really watching Ocho. Maybe he was running the wrong routes, but he was getting a lot more separation than, say, Deion Branch, that's for sure.
I saw the same thing with Vereen a few times last year, where he was coming out of the backfield uncovered, but Brady was already locked in on Welker. I don't mean this as a criticism of Brady, at all, but the point stands that he's going to make those "X" throws to somebody, and this year, unlike the last several, there's an opportunity for 2 or 3 new guys to really step up.