Some friendly competition among the WRs this year?

[FredFromDartmouth]

It is a slow time on the board so I thought I should point out this little fact from Mike Reiss:

Top active pass receivers: Randy Moss is third (926 receptions) and Torry Holt fourth (920 receptions).

 

[stinkypete]

Something unthinkable would have to happen for that gap to not widen.

IIFC, Moss passed Holt on this list last season.

 

[Ron Sellers]

Something unthinkable would have to happen for that gap to not widen.

IIFC, Moss passed Holt on this list last season.

With the difference between the two being six receptions, my guess is that you are correct.

 

[patsfan-1982]

moss, should have 80 to 90 rec and holt could have 60 rec with welker, missing a few games

 

[sbpatfan]

moss, should have 80 to 90 rec and holt could have 60 rec with welker, missing a few games

I'd rather see Moss and Welker end up with about 50-60 receptions each. It's time to break in the new wave.

 

[resdubwhite]

I'd rather see Moss and Welker end up with about 50-60 receptions each. It's time to break in the new wave.

Whatever it takes to win. Dropping Moss to 50-60 is potentially suicidal. Ok, seek out WR1 -WR2 less and spread the love. but by 50%? Especially with there being no obvious 1000 yd RB and to me thats a recipe for disaster.

 

[mgteich]

I agree.

We have had a fine offense, and one of the very best passing offenses in the league. We should not reduce the contributions of two of the league's best players. There are several challenges in the passing game. They do not include purposely reducing the production of Moss.

PASSING NEEDS
1) We need improvement in the red zone. The answer is likely to come from the tight ends.
2) We need improved production from the tight ends.
3) We need a better red zone running offense. I suspect that the issue in 2009 was the health of the OL more than anything. After all the Committee (Maroney, Morris and Taylor) did reasonably OK for the season with over 1300 yards and 4.1 yards per carry.

Whatever it takes to win. Dropping Moss to 50-60 is potentially suicidal. Ok, seek out WR1 -WR2 less and spread the love. but by 50%? Especially with there being no obvious 1000 yd RB and to me thats a recipe for disaster.

 

[JoeShmoe]

I sincerely hope we see a better distribution in the passing game this year. When teams like the saints, ravens etc took out Moss and Wes together we had nothing

Holt, Tate, Edelman plus the TE's plus the RB's all need to get more involved. Dont know the stats but woudnt be surrpised if we threw 80% of the time to 2 recievers last year

 

[sbpatfan]

You don't need two receivers with 90 and 100 receptions to win. Our offense was stat bloated anyways with all the red zone problems. It's like this, when Randy and Welker have high numbers - it means the rest of our receivers suck. And it's very easy to tell that - just look how much Brady forced crap to Welker / Moss last year. Moss is getting old now anyway, his body was run down last season and Welker is coming off a serious injury. It's time to take some of the workload off them, they'll still be effective and probably even moreso with less targets.

 

[mgteich]

Perhaps some facts might change your view. Moss and Welker accounted for a whopping 53% of patriot receptions last year, and 58% of the yards. 9 players caught at least 14 passes in 2009.

I agree that we need more production from our tight ends and a better deep threat than we had last year opposite Moss. HOWEVER, you greatly overstate the case. We had a fine passing game in 2009, and it will improve simply because Brady will be healthy to start the season. Brady has been a great quarterback with much less talent than he has supporting him in 2010.

I do indeed believe that Hernadez, Watson and Crumpler will be an improvement over Watson, Baker and Green-Ellis whose roster spots they take. I also believe that Tate, Holt and Price will be serious improvement over Aiken, Galloway and Steinback. Finally, Edelman should be better in 2010 than he was in 2009. Of course, the loss is that Welker is that is not as healthy as he was in 2009.

2009 SUMMARY
Welker 123
Moss 83
Running backs 74
Other receivers 67
tight ends 43

BOTTOM LINE
I would like to see an improvement in the production from the tight end position. We need to get back to what we had just a few years ago. And yes, some folks do need to step into the gap and make up for any loss of production from Welker. Edelman is likely to do that as he did in the last couple of games of 2009. And finally, yes I would like to see a better receiver than Aiken as the wideout opposite Moss. We have lots of possibilities. Certainly Tate and Holt have the inside track, and Edelman when Welker is helath and playing in the slot.





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.Dont know the stats but woudnt be surrpised if we threw 80% of the time to 2 recievers last year