Free Agent WRs

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by offiss

All of a sudden the Patton injury was a big blow to the offense? Makes me laugh as if he was doing anything before the injury, especially considering he had one of the best WR's in the NFL opposite him, normal rational would say that Patton should have been feasting on defenses who are out to shut down Moss, not the other way around.

Moss had a hard time getting the ball after Patton went down? No your right it didn't cross my mind because that didn't really happen.

Jacobs is worthless? Well so was Patton, I guess Moss didn't catch a ball after Patton went down? Who are you kidding? Moss continued his torid pace with jacobs in there as well, so this fantasy that some how Patton was providing this mysterious double coverage so Moss could rome the secondary with no, or single coverage is just pure fantasy.

on TJ, the coaches pointed out that he didn't play well in games and they didn't bench him because there simply wasn't anyone else to put in.

on patten, obviously you haven't done the math:
---BEFORE INJURY---
patten before: 2.4 for 24.1yards
jacobs before: 0.2 for 3.7yards
thrash before: 1.4 for 17yards
farris before: 0.1 for 2yards
Total before: 4.1 catches for 46.8 yards
---AFTER INJURY---
jacobs after: 1.3 for 9.5yards
thrash after: 0.2 for 5.1yards
Total after: 1.5 catches for 14.6 yards

moss averaged 104yards per game before patten went down,
and 73 yards afterwards.

that means that patten added 31(moss) + 32.3(others) yards and 2.5catches of WR offense per game.

and if you think the TEs and RBs made up some of that ground you'd also be dead wrong, cooleys numbers went down, portis's receiving stats went way down and sellers production died too.
---TEs---
Cooley before: 4.6catches for 52.1yards
cooley after: 4catches for 44.7yards

royal before: 1 for 5.2
royal after: 1.3 for 9.7

sellers before: 1.2 for 7.2 and 6 TDs
sellers after: 0.2 for 0.8 and 2 TDs

other TEs before: 0.2 for 2
other TEs after: 0.1 for 1.6

---RBs---
portis before: 2.3 for 18.1
portis after: 1.3 for 6.6

betts before: 0.9 for 8.2
betts after: 0.7 for 4

rock before: 0 for 0
rock after: 0.2 for 2.6

That means that passing production for WRs fell off by 63 yards per game, TEs by 10 yards (and a LOT of TDs), and RBs by 13 yards... that's a difference of 86 yards every game.

of course brunell's clutch play down the stretch :P also hurt, but patten's impact is the primary factor in a reduced passing game (moss's numbers immediately fell and were consistantly low until an outburst in the 2nd giants game).