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"Ocho" wasn't poor this season at all. IMHO, he was brought in to work outside the numbers along with Branch, primarily because, in 2010, Branch was the only guy who could work the sideline routes consistently well (short and intermediate, as well as - occasionally - deep). Welker worked...

Your math doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Welker, Gronk and Ahern all finished with catch rates over 70%. I'd guess that it's extremely rare for the three top pass-catchers on one team to all finish over 70%. In contrast, the average catch rate for top WRs who work outside the numbers and deep...

I had it at 3-5 years at $25M-$40M (about $8M/year).

So, in an effort to get a handle on where Welker has fit statistically among top WRs since he's been with the Pats, I listed the Top 40 pass-catchers (by total yards) for every season from 2007 through 2011. Then I filtered out the guys who'd appeared in the Top 40 fewer than four seasons (and...

Right. It's not as if Gronk and Ahern wouldn't have been just as successful if the Ravens defense hadn't been so focused on shutting down Welker.

Re: The Talent Gap Looms Large Between Welker and Branch On the Receiving Depth Chart So, Brady threw 67% of his 612 passes this season to Welker, Gronk and Ahern - who were catching them at a combined rate of about 72% and who scored 33 of 39 receiving TDs - only because there wasn't a viable...

A couple things for further consideration WRT the Pats offense "running more." First, it seems to me that the ultimate, final run-pass decision on a given play in most situations is made by Brady alone - most likely at the LoS after he's seen what the defense is doing. I'm nearly certain...

I'm not really disputing your premise, I just think that the picture might be clearer if the info was organized a bit differently. I prefer to think in terms of a player's actual role, like "pass-catcher", regardless of official positional designations. Signed: Gronk (TE) - 124 tgts, 73%...

At the time that Gaffney was pirated away (along with Lonie Paxton) by McDaniels in Denver, the Pats were still on the hook for Matt Cassell's Franchise Tag cap hit (about $15M) and actually over the projected cap. Thus, they couldn't make any substantial firm offers to their own FAs...

Yeah. Good luck with this. The folks who are critical of BB's drafts will often decry his strategy of trading down because lower picks are likely to have lesser impact since they're lesser players - and then turn around and total up all the Pats picks over a certain period to show that his...

DE Mark Anderson – Was an effective TBC replacement. Certainly got more consistent pressure than TBC (though Ninko's contributions to that shouldn't be overlooked), but was still somewhat marginal in run defense. I'd guess 2 years at $2-3M should be enough to keep him around. WR Wes...

I think the D already has guys who COULD be game-changers, if the D didn't also have weak points elsewhere that opposing offenses are able to exploit. Specifically, the front seven needs more solid youth among the wide-bodies up front (guys who can fills gaps and hold strong at the PoA and...

On offense, I thought that Brady executed well enough. But the critical drops, IMO, obscured an underlying flaw. I believe that Brady goes into the huddle or up to the line with a selection of plays that are drawn up during game-planning. Brady chooses which one he's going to run based on...

Defense got three strips. On two, the ball bounced the Giants' way. On the other, the 12th man negated the one FF that the Pats recovered. The Manningham catch at the 50 on the Giants' final drive was the result of spectacular effort on his part, not poor coverage. His footwork and body...

Well, the question being asked there is "Who do you think will win?", not "Who do you like (or hate)?" I mean, AFAIK, it's entirely possible for someone to hate a team and still not bet against them.

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Re: OMG Finally, Someone uses Logic to look at this game Just a feeling, but ... To me, the difference between the two teams is that, if the Pats are playing their "A" game and things don't go well for the Giants early, the Pats could blow them out. But I don't think the reverse is...

That's hilarious. The reader gets the "choice" of the Pats being sh**s or, OTOH, being a**holes.

The Pats not providing a player's agent with an explanation is not equal to the Pats not providing the player himself with an explanation. Personally, I figure that it was a sort of last minute decision on something BB had been considering, possibly since Gronk was first injured, that...