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Rewatching some games from last year.one of the things that kept rearing it's ugly head again and again was the unacceptable amount of dropped passes. Not talking about the tough and or challenged misses.Im talking about the "right in the bread basket"kind of drops.As any of you know who watched a majority of our games last year,it was a problem.
Watching several games back to back(offensive snaps)just magnified it.
While a small part of this may be attributed to a couple of our guys not having natural hands(Harkey,Richardson -good luck buddy) .I think it's safe to say that as a group the receiving corp in general have pretty good hands....When Focused. The majority of drops that i saw were caused by things as simple as looking to run before the ball is secured or just a shear lack of focus.Is this just our youth talking? Not sure i buy into that.
Whatever the reason might be,I think we've got to get a handle on it before we can take the next step.Here's hoping our guys are wearing out that jugs machine like Torry used to do.
rec drp trgt trgt% drp%
Tavon AustinWR
40 7 69 58.0% 10.1%
Jared CookTE
51 6 86 59.3% 7.0%
Austin PettisWR
38 4 63 60.3% 6.4%
Daryl RichardsonRB
14 3 18 77.8% 16.7%
Cory HarkeyTE
13 2 18 72.2% 11.1%
Chris GivensWR
34 2 83 41.0% 2.4%
Lance KendricksTE
32 2 46 69.6% 4.4%
Brian QuickWR
18 2 34 52.9% 5.9%
Zac StacyRB
26 2 35 74.3% 5.7%
Isaiah PeadRB
11 0 15 73.3% 0.0%
Stedman BaileyWR
17 0 25 68.0% 0.0%
Benny CunninghamRB
6 0 10 60.0% 0.0%
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/drops/2013/
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/team-receiver-drops-percentage/2013/
Watching several games back to back(offensive snaps)just magnified it.
While a small part of this may be attributed to a couple of our guys not having natural hands(Harkey,Richardson -good luck buddy) .I think it's safe to say that as a group the receiving corp in general have pretty good hands....When Focused. The majority of drops that i saw were caused by things as simple as looking to run before the ball is secured or just a shear lack of focus.Is this just our youth talking? Not sure i buy into that.
Whatever the reason might be,I think we've got to get a handle on it before we can take the next step.Here's hoping our guys are wearing out that jugs machine like Torry used to do.
rec drp trgt trgt% drp%
Tavon AustinWR
40 7 69 58.0% 10.1%
Jared CookTE
51 6 86 59.3% 7.0%
Austin PettisWR
38 4 63 60.3% 6.4%
Daryl RichardsonRB
14 3 18 77.8% 16.7%
Cory HarkeyTE
13 2 18 72.2% 11.1%
Chris GivensWR
34 2 83 41.0% 2.4%
Lance KendricksTE
32 2 46 69.6% 4.4%
Brian QuickWR
18 2 34 52.9% 5.9%
Zac StacyRB
26 2 35 74.3% 5.7%
Isaiah PeadRB
11 0 15 73.3% 0.0%
Stedman BaileyWR
17 0 25 68.0% 0.0%
Benny CunninghamRB
6 0 10 60.0% 0.0%
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/drops/2013/
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nfl/stats/team-receiver-drops-percentage/2013/