Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar:
This is beautiful. You should feel embarrassed to be even be making this comparison.
Thigpen won one NFL game in his career. Teddy went 22-12 with NO and Minnesota. Thiggy’s comp% was 12% lower than Bridgewater’s.
And the ‘08 Chiefs gave a ton of carries to Larry Johnson and Jamaal Charles. Yet the 2-14 Chiefs still had more receiving TDs than the ‘21 Broncos. :-)
Originally Posted by MagicHef:
Why would that matter for yards per target? It’s not like the QBs kept targeting him after he stopped playing for the season. The point is that those numbers trend in a certain direction.
Say all you want about Smith-Schuster, but he had a great start to his career and set records. He was the youngest player in NFL history to reach 200 receptions. Youngest to reach 2,500 receiving yards. 8th-most receiving yards by the age of 23 in NFL history.
The last few years his QBs couldn’t get the ball downfield and he was in the most predictable offense in the league, with injuries. This will be the best situation he’s been in since 2018. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar:
This is beautiful. You should feel embarrassed to be even be making this comparison.
Thigpen won one NFL game in his career. Teddy went 22-12 with NO and Minnesota. Thiggy’s comp% was 12% lower than Bridgewater’s.
And the ‘08 Chiefs gave a ton of carries to Larry Johnson and Jamaal Charles. Yet the 2-14 Chiefs still had more receiving TDs than the ‘21 Broncos. :-)
I didn’t make the comparison, I just was responding to someone else’s. Why would I bring up the 2008 Chiefs? [Reply]
Originally Posted by MagicHef:
Neat. Maybe it was because the third option was Mark Bradley, and those 3 were the only ones with 300+ yards of receiving. By comparison, the 2021 Broncos had 6 players with 300+ yards.
Also, both Bowe and Gonzalez had over 150 targets that year. No Bronco hit 100 targets last year. Every one of Jeudy, Albert O, Sutton, Hamler, and Hinton outperformed both Bowe and Gonzalez in yards per target.
Ok that’s great and all. But you realize you just gave a big bag to the quarterback who’s teams have historically passed the ball the smallest percentage in the league, right? Lockett had 107 targets and DK had 129. [Reply]
Seahawks traded Russell Wilson bc he wasn’t performing when it mattered.
He barely beat Josh McCown. He lost to Teddy Bridgewater until the Vikings FG kicker missed a chip shot. He played terribly against the Rams. Didn’t okay well against GB or Dallas.
There’s a reason the Seahawks were sniffing around Mahomes and Allen. They didn’t think Wilson was good enough to carry the team in January. And since that’s true why pay huge money to him?
He’s a good QB. But he’s far closer to Kirk Cousins than he is Patrick Mahomes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Seahawks traded Russell Wilson bc he wasn’t performing when it mattered.
Then why did they outright refuse to trade him last year? If they thought he wasn't good enough they would've honored his trade request last year.
They traded him because he and Pete didn't agree on offensive philosophy and they knew the relationship was never going to get any better.
Originally Posted by RunKC:
He’s a good QB. But he’s far closer to Kirk Cousins than he is Patrick Mahomes.
Russell Wilson was the only thing keeping that franchise afloat the past three or four years and it will show in 2022. In seasons where Russ played every game, the Seahawks made the playoffs every single season but one. QB's in Cousins' tier don't do that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe:
Then why did they outright refuse to trade him last year? If they thought he wasn't good enough they would've honored his trade request last year.
They traded him because he and Pete didn't agree on offensive philosophy and they knew the relationship was never going to get any better.
Russell Wilson was the only thing keeping that franchise afloat the past three or four years and it will show in 2022. In seasons where Russ played every game, the Seahawks made the playoffs every single season but one. QB's in Cousins' tier don't do that.
The only reason Wilson isn’t 2-6 in the playoffs since the SB fiasco in 2014 is bc the Vikings kicker (great find Paton!) missed a 27 yard chip shot for the win.
He’s proven time and time again that he needs an elite defense to have any chance of winning in the playoffs.
But hey his 2 wins over Detroit and Josh McCown were sure great. Did I mention his defense gave up a combined 15 points in those 2 games? [Reply]