Why is David Patten on this team?

[FirstandTen]

Originally Posted by diehardskin2982

patten is warming the seat for Brandon Lloyd, who is a free agent next season.

Did u see B Lloyd's Alligator arms yesterday.... Also his rapping into the football after he scores is lame.. I hope we don't go for him

[12thMan]

Patten's lack of production makes Taylor Jacobs absence even more worrisome...surely he would see this as an opportune time to crack the lineup or even get significant playing time.

I guess this is it for Taylor Jacobs with this team. Nine/ten games into the season and he's yet to contribute leads me to believe he's not the one.

But I think the combination of Cooley/Sellers...and even Portis more than compensates for Patten's lack of production.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Maybe by putting Jacobs in they'd be "fixing what ain't broke". I'm sure that Patten does things that don't show up on the highlights. Scoring points were NOT the problem yesterday.

[scowan]

Brunell looks for Moss and then Cooley and then dumps it off to Sellers or Portis. I don't see a lot of plays being call for Patten as the first option. Patten is obviously not getting separation from his defender, otherwise he would get more balls thrown his way. I mean the Skins must study film and Patten must not be open much. I felt like he got more looks yesterday than his has in several games. I agree with Malcom however, points were not the problem yesterday. If you would have told me before the games started that the Skins would havce scored 35 points, I would not have worried about them losing,......... but they did.

[That Guy]

loyd is not the answer to david patten, sorry.

[EternalEnigma21]

He has dropped some balls, but I wouldn't count him out just yet. He did look really good in training camp, and I think he'll come out of his shell soon enough. He didn't get alot of looks at first, and so we'll see how all of that goes. I can't say I haven't been dissappointed, but I wouldn't say he doesn't need to be here. I want to give him a chance (a whole season). Who knows, maybe he doesn't do much now, but then makes some clutch plays and takes us into the playoffs at the end of the season?

[SmootSmack]

Maybe part of it is Moss. I don't know for sure, but I think the Skins were probably envisioning Moss and Patten almost as 1 and 1A.

But Moss has far exceeded anyone's expectations as a dominant number one receiver. And this has probably forced them to change their plans for Patten.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Like MalcolmConnection, I don't think that our problems lie with our offense. Wow, did I just say that? Yup, our offense put us in a position to win yesterday. Our defense lost the game.

Even though I have a problem with our defense, I don't think our secondary needs fixing. I'm an old school kind of guy and I believe that a defense starts with the front four. Unfortunately, our front four stinks at rushing the passer (save Griffin). What we need on defense is a edge rusher (see Abraham). I truly feel that we would have a top 3 defense if we had Griffin and Abraham on our line with our current lineup at linebacker and defensive back.

[skinsguy]

I do agree that it starts with our front four. We need a better pass rush from them. The problem with the secondary is, if someone goes out with an injury, we appear to lose alot with our coverage abilities. I think when our secondary is healthy - Taylor, Clark, Springs, Harris....we're okay. However, when one of those guys is injured, it really appears to be magified 100x for us!

[firstdown]

Well the problem started in Dallas on Sept. 20th at about 12:15am when most people had gone to bed and only the diehards (or drunks) were still up watching Monday night football. Brunell in a matter of 4 minutes found his man. Now Patten needs to prove to Brunell why he should start looking his way more often. Patten is having a Gardner season he will make a great play then a bad play. He needs to show that he can be the guy to go to game after game and if you haven't noticed you hear Thrash's name called less and less as the season goes on. We have not had any or enough teams shut down Moss forcing Brunell to find other options and until that happens its Moss/Brunell all day long.