These are their career stats in the NFL –
Amendola – 376 targets resulting in 250 catches for a 66.48% catch ratio, 2359 yards, 9.4 yards per catch average, 9 touchdowns
Edelman – 259 targets resulting in 174 catches for a 67.18% catch ratio, 1770 yards, 10.2 yards per catch average, 10 touchdowns
Edelman catches a higher percent of his targets for more yards per receptions,
Edelman has also been playing with the GOAT, which means that a higher percentage of his passes have hit him between the numbers while Amendola's have mostly just been in his vicinity.
and gets in the end zone more often.
You must know this is weaksauce. To the tune of 1 more TD.
Coming into last season Edelman had been targeted 108 times in his 4-year career, Amendola was targeted 101 times in 2012 alone. If you look at their workout numbers, Edelman is the bigger, stronger, faster, explosive, and agile player in every metric.
Your over-reliance on how players perform or have performed during the underwear olympics, in this case one that took place a half decade ago, is a logical flaw. From what I've picked up on, you lean on it when you appear to have trouble convincing yourself of the point you're attempting to make.
I admit I do not like Amendola
This is the gist of the issue, and why a conversation on the topic is not a productive one.
that much but him being a better player than Edelman when because of what posters think he “could” in his 7th season is silly.
It's not that he could be a better player. It's that he is, when both are healthy. Again, this has been proven over their careers. You're tossing out the "opportunity" argument in Edelman's favor yet, if Edelman was the super star you're making him out to be, he should have had no problem getting reps even with Welker was here. It's not as if the Pats have had '07 caliber receivers every year since 2009. Further, if he was the super star you're making him out to be, why did he generate zero interest on the open market prior to 2013 and very little interest on it afterward?
Edelman had plenty of opportunity to crack the lineup? He played the same position as the best slot receiver to ever play in the NFL.
And yet many have, correctly, made the argument numerous times that Edelman is not a slot receiver. So why would that be a roadblock for him?
He was on teams that had Randy Moss,
I can accept this for 2009. Moss was not Moss in 2010 and was gone after the Dolphins game, so Edelman still had opportunity there.
Shadow of his former self and barely able to get separation after 2010. You're doing more damage to your argument than good pointing him out.
LOL.
Lloyd was a flanker. Edelman still had the opportunity to beat out Branch for reps.
Rob Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez
Edelman doesn't play tight end.
and the Patriots invested 2 early draft picks in Price
This is almost as harmful to your argument as tossing out Chad Johnson was.
in Tate so they received an opportunity as well.
I can accept this, though Tate was nothing special.
Edelman played in place of Welker after his 2009 knee injury, he had 16 receptions, on 23 targets, for 147 yards, and 2 touchdowns in those 2 games.
By Belichick's own admission, that team only had Moss and Welker and Revis was shutting Moss' ass down in that game. Where else was Brady going to throw the ball to?
