Panther fans concerned about Amendola and Dobson

[Rob0729]

Wes Welker has caught 61 of 87 targets (70%)
Aaron Dobson has caught 31 of 60 targets (52%)

There's a reason for complaining about Dobson's drops and not Welker's. You'd have to be blind not to see it. And Dobson's dropped plenty in the past month, but many of them haven't been classified as drops.

Dobson didn't drop 29 passes or 48% of the passes in his direction. Also, Welker doesn't run deep sideline routes very often. Also, Welker isn't a rookie.

Right now, is probably one of the top rookie WRs in the league. His drop rate has dropped exponentially since his first few games. In fact, Gronk may have dropped more passes since he has been back than Dobson over the same timeframe.

Dobson's drop rate over the past month is probably better than Gronk, Amendola, Thompkins, and Edelman who all have dropped their share of passes. You and others are overblowing it. Especially since Dobson is the guy who runs the routes that typically have the lowest success rate.

People are unbelievable that they want to dump on a guy who so far has been a very good pick for the Pats and starting to emerge as a legitimate threat for Brady. Why? I still think it is because he ain't Welker and no WR can get any credit on this team because without Wes the offense sucks and will never be any good.

 

[dannydyn]

Most of them are confident which is shocking.. as long as we stay healthy, we should be just fine on the vertical game tonight.

Have you ever met a fanbase that was not confident? I remember the Jags fans last year talking trash before our game down there....

 

[Deus Irae]

Dobson didn't drop 29 passes or 48% of the passes in his direction. Also, Welker doesn't run deep sideline routes very often. Also, Welker isn't a rookie.

I didn't claim that Dobson had dropped that many. I noted his catch% for a reason, though. If that was up higher, people wouldn't have the same problem with the drops.

Right now, is probably one of the top rookie WRs in the league. His drop rate has dropped exponentially since his first few games. In fact, Gronk may have dropped more passes since he has been back than Dobson over the same timeframe.

You've been watching the games, Rob. You know that Dobson's had a lot of drops that haven't shown up in the stat.

Dobson's drop rate over the past month is probably better than Gronk, Amendola, Thompkins, and Edelman who all have dropped their share of passes. You and others are overblowing it. Especially since Dobson is the guy who runs the routes that typically have the lowest success rate.

I doubt his actual drop rate is better than anyone besides Thompkins.

People are unbelievable that they want to dump on a guy who so far has been a very good pick for the Pats and starting to emerge as a legitimate threat for Brady. Why? I still think it is because he ain't Welker and no WR can get any credit on this team because without Wes the offense sucks and will never be any good.

Ehh.... you're defending a player who's been having an obvious problem by

A.) pretending the problem's not there when it is

B.) comparing him to a much better receiver who's drops have probably been more accurately recorded

C.) complaining that people are pointing out the obvious truth.

If there's an issue here, it's with your position and your method of defense. There's no shame in acknowledging that a rookie has issues to work on. Acknowledging Dobson's dropping too many passes is not calling the kid a bust, for goodness' sakes.

 

[Froob]

Interested to see if Thompkins plays and how much. Hopefully he got some good work in during the bye.

 

[IllegalContact]

they should be concerned about gronk, also

but who will catch them off guard is vereen....the panthers are without blackburn who is no great loss, but they are going to wind up spending alot of time in the nickel

the risk is going to come down to how to defend gronk and the RB's....easier with the other RB's on the field, but they basically don't have anyone to put on vereen unless they use a safety on gronk....

one way or the other, there is lots to expose on the panthers defense.

mis-direction out of the shotgun will have the panthers prone to tons of over-pursuit


use their aggressiveness against them, and if they decide to sit back and wait, take what they give