How many dropped passes

In and , one of the biggest issues for the Philadelphia Eagles' lack of success was the play of the wide receivers, specifically, their penchant for dropping catchable passes. They corrected that issue somewhat in the Super Bowl season in , and then again in , at least during the regular season.

In , drops in extremely inopportune times helped cost the Eagles games against the Falcons, Lions, and Dolphins. In , Eagles receivers and tight ends weren't good, collectively, and they had their share of drops, but there were really only a few egregiously harmful ones. Dropped passes were somewhat of an issue, but they were very far down on the list of reasons the Eagles went Here they are:. For some reason, as heavily as the NFL is covered from a statistical metric standpoint, there are no reliable sources for drops.

While drops are subjective to some degree, the following is a representation of the number of drops by each Eagles player in We'll order them by number of drops, but the column to the far right shows the total drop percentage of what we'll refer to as "reasonably catchable passes," or drops divided by drops plus catches. To be clear, that's not total targets, which I believe are a bad measure of drop percentage, seeing as the receiver often has no chance of catching some of those targets.

Got it? Well whatever, here's what I came up with regular season only :. The following players had no drops in , and at least one catch number of catches in parentheses :. The biggest offender, from a total number of drops standpoint, was Sanders, with seven. Sanders also led the team in in drop percentage among players with at least 20 catches, with a bad drop rate of 20 percent. There were some good plays made that we did catch.

We had drops in the LSU game. Those are things that we have got to continue to keep emphasizing, and we will. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. All rights reserved About Us. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. As mentioned before, the team blew two more fourth down conversions and are now 7-for on the season so far.

The first came on a Nick Chubb run on 4th-and-1, which resulted in a 1-yard loss. The second came when the game was down to the wire and the Browns needed to score, falling back to 4th-and after Higgins' false start. Defensive unison While the defense stepped up and only gave up 15 points, there were also moments that showed the same kinds of mistakes the Browns have been dealing with all season.

Communication and preventing blown coverage has been an area that the Browns have needed to work on. On Sunday, while the effort was improved, those missteps peeked in from time to time. This was the key play on that Steelers drive, immediately following an offensive holding penalty NextGenStats Browns pic. The defense has certainly shown signs of improvement, and they definitely have the individual talent on the roster this season, but the efforts to find cohesion should still be a focus moving forward.

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