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At the moment, FA. Who the Pats manage to re-sign out of their own FAs and who they pick up from other teams before the draft often seems to make many aspects of the subsequent draft process more exciting.

Funny. For the past week, I've been working on a spreadsheet comparing FA WRs on almost exactly those measures. Plus catch rate. I've been measuring "explosive plays" as a percentage of total plays, rather than as a raw number since the proportion seems more informative. I've also been...

Overstated, I think, and primarily based on his 2008 season in which he was attempting to field passes from that elite, HoF QB triumvirate of Derek Anderson, Brady Quinn and Ken Dorsey (all of whom, I firmly believe, were getting hammered in the locker room before the start of every game). He...

Well, the Pats could make sure that Gronk doesn't destroy his ankle two weeks before the SB (2011) and that Chung doesn't fumble a fake punt (Jets, 2010) and that Welker doesn't blow up his knee a week before the playoffs (BAL 2009) and that Brady doesn't hurt his foot and or Neal doesn't get...

Agree 100%. But it's also good to remember that "ego" doesn't exclusively mean diva-like, glory-seeking selfishness. Honest competitiveness is also part of "ego" and it's the thing that every football player needs to have huge helpings of in order to be able to play the game, much less excel...

Seems to me that the leather helmets were like wrapping a thick belt around your fist, whereas modern helmets are like using brass knuckles - except made from high-impact polymer. The way I understand it via discussions with medical professionals I know, concussions are the result of the...

heh. Neither player is Colston. Guess again.

While we're on the subject (a-GAIN!), here are TWO potential "deep threats", neither of whom has worked with a truly elite QB his entire career: Player "A", age 29, 6'3"/211 - 7 yrs exp (7 career games lost to injury): Career stats: 341/5323, 15.6 ypc, 39 TDs, ----- 3 yrs 6+ TDs, 4yr...

M. Colston, 6'4"/225: 2006 - 70/1038, 14.8 ypc (9.6 air, 23% YAC), 8 TD, 21% 20+, 74 ypg, 51 1-dn, 61% CR 2007 - 98/1202, 12.3 ypc (8.3 air, 27% YAC), 11 TD, 14% 20+, 75 ypg, 64 1-dn, 68% CR 2008* - 47/760, 16.2 ypc (11.0 air, 33% YAC), 5 TD, 26% 20+, 69 ypg, 35 1-dn, 53% CR 2009 -...

Really? I wonder if Brandon Tate is still available, since you've pretty much described everything he could do.

Exactly how far is that? In 2010, Wallace's average reception was less than 15 yds downfield. In 2011, it was less than 10 yds downfield. In 2011, 493 yds of Wallace's 1193 were YAC - another benefit of speed, agility and knowing how to get open (not an easy task with a QB who might end up...

Well, of course key injuries/forced player substitutions don't figure into every poor performance, but they still need to be accounted for in any analysis of one game or a stretch of games. Relating to another post - BGE's rushing success comes mainly up the middle and he gained over 1000 yds...

Are you referring to the same BoB who, in 2010, got nearly 2000 rushing yards and 19 rushing TDs out of two younger RBs who each do only ONE thing fairly well and three guys old enough to have played in leather helmets? Did you happen to think that BGE - who really only runs well up the gut -...

(5) Untimely injury to a key offensive player.

Actually, he is much of the time. He DOES get to call for certain personnel packages based on what he's seeing from the defense that he thinks he can exploit. Players, especially RBs, raise their hands to come out of the game all the time. I've seen BGE do this on a number of occasions...

Re: Connolly and Waters Here's where things stand with my preferences for 2012 starters in bold, possible losses in grey [and potential backups in brackets]: LT: Light (6046/305, age 34) - OR - Solder (6082/319, age 24) [Vollmer as backup] LG: Mankins (6041/310, age 30), [Donald Thomas...

Koppen has been the starting "field coordinator" on one of the most consistently fine offensive lines in the NFL for a few years. He's been an above average pass-blocker and a very good run-blocker (his early-season loss held BGE back a bit). His cap hit with the Pats for 2011 (including...

The rest of Lloyd's line for 2010 was 30% 20+ yarders, 16.2 "air yards"/catch and a 50.3% CR. "with even K Orton at QB" - Orton put up some decent numbers in 2009/2010 and his strength is his accuracy on deep throws.

Remember, though, Gaffney didn't really start to sync-up with Brady until the post-season. He was 11/142 in his first regular season with the Pats - about half the yardage that Ocho had in 2011, very little of it deep. Gaffney then went 36/449 in his second Pats season, 2007, behind Welker and...

Looking for more specifics as to what might define a "deep threat", I took the TOP 40 pass-catchers for 2011 in terms of yards/reception (minimum 50 targets), then computed their "Air Yards"/reception by subtracting their YAC from their total receiving yards - and then dividing THAT by their...