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Originally Posted by That Guy
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).
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The best point I guess I can make is this, who was singing Pattons praises before he was hurt, most of the questions were whats wrong with him, he's not performing like he did in New England. Now if Patton was such a big deal to the passing game, why do we have post after post, and thread after thread on our need for a #2 WR? Obviously we have one already on our roster in Patton, maybe the thread should read who's going to be our #3 reciever. Either Patton is the goods, or he is not. I do beleive right before Patton was hurt he made a comment about his lack of use in our offense, for what ever that is worth.
If we dump Jacobs so be it, although I don't really know if his failure so far is all his fault but it could really be, I don't know for sure, obviously judging him by his production he's a big bust, and maybe he is, and probably defiently as far as we are concerned.