[NFL] vBook: Falcons vs Lions

[Ndaccountant]

Gruden is an idiot. The way he kept saying Megatron had a bunch of receiving yards in garbage time. Said Rice had no garbage time receiving yards. What a d***.

Is he right tho? I get that you are a Lions fan and all, but he had a point. If you go back and look at Rice's record, you will see that the 49ers that year threw the ball 644 times. After tonight, the Lions have thrown 698 times. That is 8% more attempts and they still have one more game! That cannot be ignored. Additionally, in 1995 the 49ers were first in point differential, of 12.4 points per game. The Lions came into this weekend 23rd.

I will agree that Gruden harped on this a bit too much, but he was right.

 

[scUM Hater]

Is he right tho? I get that you are a Lions fan and all, but he had a point. If you go back and look at Rice's record, you will see that the 49ers that year threw the ball 644 times. After tonight, the Lions have thrown 698 times. That is 8% more attempts and they still have one more game! That cannot be ignored. Additionally, in 1995 the 49ers were first in point differential, of 12.4 points per game. The Lions came into this weekend 23rd.

I will agree that Gruden harped on this a bit too much, but he was right.

You are the numbers guy obviously, but do you know the percentage of passes intended for each individual? I am just curious. It sounded like Chuckie didn't want to give Johnson much credit. It is impressive the amount of catches he has with no threat of a running game while being doubled alll the time. I am in no way trying to create a argument.

 

[Ndaccountant]

You are the numbers guy obviously, but do you know the percentage of passes intended for each individual? I am just curious. It sounded like Chuckie didn't want to give Johnson much credit. It is impressive the amount of catches he has with no threat of a running game while being doubled alll the time. I am in no way trying to create a argument.

I can't find how many targets Rice had that year, but I do find it interesting that after Rice, the next highest receiving threat was a RB (Loville) with 662 yards then Brent Jones with 595 yards. Pettigrew this year has 556 yards and when you combine Bell and Leshoure, they approach ~650 yards after tonight.

If you go by pure receptions, Rice had 28.2% of all receptions that year and CJ has 27.8%. So, I would surmise that aside from the whole playing from behind thing, their situations appear to be pretty similar.

 

[JadeBrecks]

31-18 Falcons

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[phork]

I can see Grudens point, however, I am not sure if being double and triple covered every snap is in Rice's favour. The fact that Johnson is triple covered sometimes and still catches almost everything thrown his way is outstanding.

It's like NDs record this year. We thought some of the teams on our schedule would be tougher, clearly not. It doesn't diminish the fact that ND is 12-0 and the #1 defense in the land.