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I was waiting for the bump after seeing that play and replay.
Not that it's any consolation but he lost it in the sun.
CP quit on the play because he got the sun in his eyes.
Bridgewater has been pretty bad that pass wasn't good but it did look like Patterson good have had it but lost it in the sun.
Watching live it looked like Patterson threw his hands up on his head in frustration after the ball sailed over his head. I'll have to check it again.
You will definitely have to watch it again. He was not overthrown, C patt just couldn't make the catch for the gimme TD. I guess the sun is the excuse on that one
I guarantee that the week after you cut him he will explode for 20 points.
I doubt I'll cut him, but only because their's nothing better on the wire. If he has another good game, I'll try to trade him for a six pack of IPA.
There were plenty of good WRs available on the wire last week, and even more 2 weeks ago, and even more 3 weeks ago.
I dropped him 10/15 and the Vikes homer picked him up, has had in the Flex for 3 weeks - 26.70 points, 8.90 PPG (that includes 1 of his 2 'good' weeks).
Gotta hold and hope he "gets it" with some more work in the offseason. I can't imagine he has much trade value right now.
You have to hold. Put him on the trading block, but I doubt somebody will offer more than a third.
He and Bridgewater have missed connections on a couple of long gimme TDs this year. Both are going through growing pains, but I don't see any real reason to be down on either one long-term.
I offered a 2nd 2 weeks ago and the owner was 'insulted'. Kinda glad he didn't sell.
OK.
Coming into this game, PFF charted Patterson with 45 catches on 50 catchable balls last year (5 drops), and 25 catches on 25 catchable balls this year (0 drops). That tells a slightly different story than your numbers.
PFF is simply charting dropped balls with that stat. It simply suggests that CP's problem isn't his hands, based on their subjective call on what he coulda/shoulda/woulda caught. I don't blame anyone for holding out hope based on the physical upside. But don't do it because of that stat.
Give me a break. Patterson ran a go route, nobody picked him up, and Teddy threw it 5 yards over his head. There's no possible way to blame that one on Patterson. This "lost it in the sun nonsense" is ridiculous. As if it wasn't obvious enough from the original angle, they showed it again from the endzone camera later in the game and it was even more obvious, and the announcers even said as much.Steed said:
Yeah that's a ball you CANNOT overthrow. If anything, you underthrow that just to be safe since he was so wide open. Even if he didn't lose that in the sun, he probably would have had to dive to catch that and making a diving catch while at full sprint is not easy. He still wouldn't have scored. That play is on Teddy.
Not sure i agree. For some reason, mid way through, CP decides to jog for about 5 yards and then speeds up again. Had he sprinted all the way through he probably would have ran right underneath it
Im watching it on my phone and it's a little choppy so maybe I'm not seeing it right but it doesn't look like he's jogging, it looks like he's running but looking back at the QB so he will throw the ball since he's wide open. I believe as a WR you are supposed to do this. If a QB sees you that wide open he will probably throw it to you earlier than the route planned for so you should be looking and not running your route with your head down as if a guy is right on you.
Yeah he looks back but he starts looking back right after his break and continues to do so throughout the route. Im not saying he's right or wrong but it may explain the bad overthrow. He slows down markedly for about 10 yards then kicks it into overdrive, all while looking back at Teddy.
Agreed. Don't rely on just that stat. Which is why that blurb you quoted was part of a larger post. And in response to a previous poster saying he was not catching balls thrown his way, it is extremely relevant taken alone.
LOL, I have both Austin and Patterson and the updates I get for them are funny. Usually they produce the same numbers weekly (CP had 2 bigger games ofcourse) and the Austin updates are "the colossal bust continues" while the Patterson updates preach patience. Toss in Keenan Allen as my other WR and the guy w/ my 2015 1st is loving his 1.01 pick next yr.Acrobat7 said:
