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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.shmessy said:Thanks for the Valedictory Touchdown Pass Reception, Heath.
Best of luck.
QB12 said:I'm listening to Bill's press conference right now, live, and I caught him saying some complimentary things about Pass, and distinctly heard him say Pass is an 'everydown' back. My impression was that Pass could/would add a dimension that is currently missing from the offense.
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shmessy said:This offseason, he had surgery on his foot to correct a condition he's had since his last year at Georgia. From the article in the offseason I read, it evidently affected his acceleration and only now the medical technology has improved enough to do a surgery that is seen as probably doing more good than harm for his speed.
I'm very interested to see how this all plays out.
That's what I was thinking when I read that. Sounds like Belichick is trying to increase his trade value just a little.RayClay said:If he's going to be an every down back it won't be here. TRADE?
Brownfan80 said:It's nice that Bill's being so kind about Pass, and it's nice that he's healed from his Hammy injury and apparently has his foot fixed up, but unless his v*gina has closed up I'm still not sold on him.
But hey, he was looking pretty good a while back before his injury. Who knows.
shmessy said:BTW, folks, there's something rarely spoken about Pass that I posted a few weeks back. This offseason, he had surgery on his foot to correct a condition he's had since his last year at Georgia. From the article in the offseason I read, it evidently affected his acceleration and only now the medical technology has improved enough to do a surgery that is seen as probably doing more good than harm for his speed.
I'm very interested to see how this all plays out.
shmessy said:Methinks we have alot of superficialism on this board when it comes to Patrick Pass and that one egregious play last year.
Some facts are very inconvenient. That's probably why you choose NOT to look at total number of touches. Brown has five times as many fumbles but carried the ball hundreds of times more often.shmessy said:Facts are pretty inconvenient, ain't they Brownfan80?
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Per NFL.com player pages:
Patrick Pass: 6 years, 3 fumbles, 1 lost
Troy Brown: 14 years, 17 fumbles, 6 lost.
brady2brown said:Some facts are very inconvenient. That's probably why you choose NOT to look at total number of touches. Brown has five times as many fumbles but carried the ball hundreds of times more often.
You also leave out that most of the time all Pass had to do is hold a ball when handed to him. He didn't get hammered by defensive players out-weighing him by 75 pounds while he was trying to catch the ball. Brown made his living out in the flats, getting whacked.
This isn't an indictment of Pass. He's under-rated for sure. But he fumbles more often than Brown and at least one of those times for no apparent reason.
shmessy said:Wrong. In the first 6 years of each career, the number of touches (including ST's) between Brown and Pass are actually very close.
Furthermore, the average number of receptions per year in Brown's first 6 years was 16.83. As he begins his 6th season, Patrick Pass just had corrective surgery on a foot that has hampered him since college. I wish I could find the article I read this summer where his doctors said that the procedure could well improve his speed and acceleration. It's incredible how so many here are willing to send him packing in favor of "1.9 yards and a cloud of dust" Evans.
My point is not to compare Patrick Pass to Troy Brown who is probably one of the 10 greatest career Patriots of all time (along with Nance, Capelletti, Hannah, Morgan, Tippett, Bledsoe, Armstrong, Brady and Nelson). My point is to show that the harping and whining on this board about that one play by some superficial observers is bogus to the nth degree.