Lloyd Comments to the Junks

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Originally Posted by offiss

You site receivers who have all pro QB's, something Lloyd has not come close to, what were Randy Moss's stats last season without a QB? Oakland said he had a chronic knee problem and is not the WR he used to be, I guess they were right he's better than he used to be, the question is why? Could it be the team and the QB? So if there is nothing there in Lloyd why did Gibbs have to have this guy? Sorry but playing in an inept system like San fran, and then coming over to us only to have the likes of Brunell throwing to him doesn't make him a bust, every time I see the guy he's beating his man down field. If you want to say he doesn't fit in, then fine, because that pretty much seems to be whats going on here, but he can't throw the ball to himself.

The stats completely disprove your point about Randy Moss.

In 29 games with Oakland, Moss had 102 catches for 1,558 yards and 11 TDs.

In 45 games with San Francisco, Lloyd had 105 catches for 1,510 yards and 13 TDs.

In other words, with equally poor QBs in Oakland and San Francisco during those years, Moss's worst numbers of his career beat out Lloyd's best production of his career.

Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald having been catching passes from arguably some of the worst QBs in the NFL down in Arizona, and their worst season numbers are better than Lloyd's best. Lloyd simply does not stack up against any good #1 or even #2 WR in this league, even when you compare virtually identical situations with bad teams and bad QBs. I could see an argument for not comparing him to Marvin Harrison, but you can pick plenty of WRs in the NFL who are catching passes from QBs far worse than Brunell and/or Campbell yet still putting up numbers that shame Brandon Lloyd.

There is simply no factual, statistically supported basis for believing Lloyd is a good WR. If you want to sit here and raise vague, baseless questions about why Gibbs did what he did, and maybe it's the system and maybe it's the QB and maybe it's a bad pair of shoes or there's just someone out to get Lloyd, I suppose we could do that all day.

Anyone can sit around and raise questions. If you believe that Lloyd is a good receiver then back it up with something other than pure conjecture.