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He was completing 70% of his passes and was #1 for a stretch. He ended at 67.6 (#8), still pretty good.When a guy is completing almost 70% of his passes with a solid YPC, you can dismiss many of his incompletions as intentional to avoid a sack or INT. He rarely misses a target if there's a good lane to throw in, whether it's a flare, screen, 10-yd cross, 20-yd out, or 50-yd post. He has fantastic touch on short passes, terrific accuracy on deep throws.
He'll never be one of the top-5 laser throwers like Herbert showed the other night. But how does that matter if he excels at every other type of throw? And there's also a direct correlation with lasers and dropped passes - Mac's passes are very easy to catch.
He was completing 70% of his passes and was #1 for a stretch. He ended at 67.6 (#8), still pretty good.
He's not very accurate on deep passes (+15 yds). This is thru week 17: 35%/32%/46% accuracy to left/middle/right.
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Passes that are easy to catch are also easy to INT. Makes me nervous when I see him throwing those floaters.
He was completing 70% of his passes and was #1 for a stretch. He ended at 67.6 (#8), still pretty good.
He's not very accurate on deep passes (+15 yds). This is thru week 17: 35%/32%/46% accuracy to left/middle/right.
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Passes that are easy to catch are also easy to INT. Makes me nervous when I see him throwing those floaters.
Career Avg’s of those pass catchers before they came to New England.80 mil in offseason for pass catchers, most ever spent in the BB era.
Career Avg’s of those pass catchers before they came to New England.
Henry- 49 rec-5 TD’s-580 YDs
Agholor- 45 rec-4 TD’s-569 YDs
Bourne- 34 rec-3 TD’s-442 YDs
Smith- 29 rec-4 TD’s-325 YDs
Look at that killer group!!
Agholor and Smith have been an absolute waste so far. I was expecting more out of Henry, but he drastically improved our TE grp, and was clutch in the RZ and on some key downs. Bourne has been lights out for the deal he was given.
Mac IS a rookie. His receiving core IS middle of the road, and all in their first year. Let’s not act like $$$ spent=big talent. Mac is gonna need improvement from the current grp, and at least one playmaker added that has a knack for the YAC and stretching the field.
Career Avg’s of those pass catchers before they came to New England.
Henry- 49 rec-5 TD’s-580 YDs
Agholor- 45 rec-4 TD’s-569 YDs
Bourne- 34 rec-3 TD’s-442 YDs
Smith- 29 rec-4 TD’s-325 YDs
Look at that killer group!!
Agholor and Smith have been an absolute waste so far. I was expecting more out of Henry, but he drastically improved our TE grp, and was clutch in the RZ and on some key downs. Bourne has been lights out for the deal he was given.
Mac IS a rookie. His receiving core IS middle of the road, and all in their first year. Let’s not act like $$$ spent=big talent. Mac is gonna need improvement from the current grp, and at least one playmaker added that has a knack for the YAC and stretching the field.
I’m actually more impressed with Bourne and Henry’s results vs what I expected. I was excited by Henry, but expected him to miss some time to injuries. He has stayed healthy, and become a great tragedy for Mac. I thought Bourne would do well in the system, but more as a move the chains kinda guy. I didn’t expect some of the big plays we’ve gotten from him. I agree about Agholor and Smith. Expect much bigger things from both of them next season. Especially Smith, if he really puts in the work this offseason. Agholor has definitely not been worth the price tag though.the difference when agholor is in the lineup vs out of the lineup is noticeable.......he's not a take over the game guy, but he fills a role on this offense
henry and bourne have been as advertised (bourne better, but that's what i expected)
i wonder how much of smith's "struggles" have been to coming to a new system, one that isn't easy to pick up.......and how much of it is due to the pats going run heavy, by design, vs a more wide open 2-TE set......a lot of their 2-TE sets have used Owenhu as the 2nd TE......as they open things up more as Mac matures, and given a full off season in the system, I expect we'll see more out of Jonnu down the road
looking at how things shook out this year, it's really hard to judge pass catchers in this offense
I’m actually more impressed with Bourne and Henry’s results vs what I expected. I was excited by Henry, but expected him to miss some time to injuries. He has stayed healthy, and become a great tragedy for Mac. I thought Bourne would do well in the system, but more as a move the chains kinda guy. I didn’t expect some of the big plays we’ve gotten from him. I agree about Agholor and Smith. Expect much bigger things from both of them next season. Especially Smith, if he really puts in the work this offseason. Agholor has definitely not been worth the price tag though.
I wasn’t trying to judge the receivers. It is there first year after all, and with a rookie qb. The post I was referring to appeared to try and make it sound like Bill went out and surrounded Mac with all this talent. They’ve delivered just about what their career numbers said they would. I’m hopeful that all of them can grow with Mac, but we definitely need a playmaker that teams have to account for to open the field up for him a bit.
We need a slot receiver either a FA or a draft pick maybe both. Renfrow or Berrios would help as FA Covey from Utah in the draft.
Is that air yards? Or just regular yards?Did I say that? I am just saying that they averaged the same amount of yards per pass. You would think that if arm strength meant that much to passing down the field, Herbert would have significantly more yards per pass. I am not talking about quality of the player themselves.
*Pats v LAC*Is that air yards? Or just regular yards?
Either way, this is the issue with stats.
I don't know if Mac can do what Herbert did in that Raiders game.
Brady isn't here, the slot option route WR was for him. Would it make sense to bring it back for a different QB? Charlie Weiss had some good complementary football going on without needing a stud player to bail them out.