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Defend Greece

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  1. Omg does anybody know football around here? They signed poz to replace him!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  2. He isn't our own, poz and whitner are/were
  3. Dude right on, people are like he was just good or just average, well can't say that about 7-8 other defenders
  4. Tulloch is not better than poz just because you saw a list
  5. Man you guys are going to be sorry, then next year you guys will call him a traitor although you called for his head
  6. Wow let's get older, slower, and more injury prone
  7. Well they drafted a dlineman in the first round three years in a row ant their dtackles look good and they are young, plus they run the ball likeofos
  8. And nick Barnett isn't injury prone? They replaced him with a flathead screwdriver and still won the superbowl
  9. Boldin didn't/doesn't make big plays? Moulds didn't make big plays? Come on dude
  10. Dude tried to read this but it was like a novel
  11. Yet another good answer, you have swayed my vote let's get rid of our second best defensive player
  12. Yeah great players hold NFL post season records, club records, and catch 100 balls, dude read the post didn't say he should be in hall of fame but if you watched him play you would have seen his talent.The point of the post was resigning him for 5 yards
  13. No pun intended : )
  14. Fans of other teams on twitter and other forums really want poz, to bad this forum doesn't feel the same way
  15. Come on posluszny is the best linebacker name since butkus
  16. Okay I'm done arguing about him with you for now, I will be back when he is in Hawaii next year
  17. I don't know how to add links but basically this is saying that even at the end of his career e. Moulds had some of the best hands in the nfl > NFL Football Best and Worst Hands in the NFL Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Thread Tools 06-05-2006, 09:45 PM #1 CantStop85 Living Legend Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Lexington, Kentucky Posts: 3,126 Gender: Male Member Number: 486 Best and Worst Hands in the NFL Pretty interesting article from ESPN insider: One of the things I most enjoy in researching football scientifically is debunking traditional football wisdom. How many times have you seen a sure-handed receiver drop a pass, only to have the announcer say something like, "That almost never happens. He'll catch that pass 99 times out of 100." I always wondered if that was true. Do the best receivers catch 99 percent of the passes thrown their way? As a result, I tracked the number of drops every qualifying receiver had during the 2005 season (minimum of 40 catches to qualify). I also divided the number of drops by the number of catchable passes to come up with a dropped pass percentage. Here are the top 20 receivers in dropped pass percentage from the 2005 season: Dropped Passes Player Team Dropped passes Dropped pass % Houshmandzadeh Cincinnati 3 2.6% Marvin Harrison Indianapolis 4 3.2% Bobby Engram Seattle 4 4.3% Jason Witten Dallas 4 4.5% Steve Smith Carolina 7 4.7% Scottie Vines Detroit 3 4.8% Tony Gonzalez Kanas City 6 4.9% Eric Parker San Diego 4 4.9% K. Johnson Dallas 6 5.1% Joe Jurevicius Seattle 4 5.1% Eric Moulds Buffalo 7 5.5% Keenan McCardell San Diego 6 5.6% Reggie Wayne Indianapolis 7 5.7% Lee Evans Buffalo 5 5.9% Jabar Gaffney Houston 5 6.3% Larry Fitzgerald Arizona 10 6.4% Chris Cooley Washington 6 6.5% Marcus Pollard Detroit 5 6.7% Deion Branch New England 8 6.7% Jermaine Wiggins Minnesota 6 6.7% If last season is any indication, the best receivers don't drop only one pass for every 99 they catch. The best ratio is more like one drop for every 40 catches. It was no surprise to see Marvin Harrison near the top of this list, but I was somewhat surprised to see T.J. Houshmandzadeh rank No. 1 in this category. Houshmandzadeh is known as a very good possession receiver, but this chart shows he may be one of the best. Steve Smith's reputation as a home run threat is well earned, but having dropped only seven passes in 150 catchable attempts shows his hands are certainly underrated. I also found it interesting to see two Seattle receivers -- Joe Jurevicius and Bobby Engram -- in the top 20. Having two of the most sure-handed receivers in the NFL certainly was a big reason Seattle was finally able to become a championship contender in 2005. Let's also examine how the worst receivers in the league did (also a minimum of 40 catches to qualify). Dropped Passes-2 Player Team Dropped passes Dropped pass % Ernest Wilford Jacksonville 13 19.1% Justin McCareins NY Jets 16 16.7% Reggie Brown Philadelphia 13 16.3% Roy Williams Detroit 13 14.6% Brian Finneran Atlanta 11 14.3% Erron Kinney Tennessee 10 14.1% Antonio Bryant Cleveland 16 13.9% M. Muhammad Chicago 18 13.6% Greg Lewis Philadelphia 13 12.9% Eddie Kennison Kansas City 14 12.8% Randy McMichael Miami 12 12.0% L.J. Smith Philadelphia 12 11.8% Alge Crumpler Atlanta 13 11.5% Mark Clayton Baltimore 9 11.3% Donte' Stallworth New Orleans 14 11.2% Chris Chambers Miami 17 11.0% Todd Heap Baltimore 11 10.4% Terrell Owens Philadelphia 9 10.2% Plaxico Burress NY Giants 17 10.2% Ben Troupe Tennessee 8 10.1% This chart shows that Ernest Wilford dropped nearly one out of every five passes thrown to him last year. Despite this abysmal drop percentage, Wilford still ranked fourth in the league in total yards per catch attempt. Most of Wilford's drops came on accurate passes, so he has a ton of upside for the upcoming season. Two highly touted rookie receivers -- Reggie Brown and Mark Clayton -- also found their way on this list. While their drop percentages were fairly close, Clayton was actually much more sure-handed when considering the accuracy of the passes each receiver dropped. The accuracy of a pass is a subjective measurement, but I use a set of rules to hopefully limit its subjective nature. The rule of thumb I use to grade the accuracy of a pass is whether the receiver is forced to reach behind or dive to make the catch. I segment dropped passes into three categories. The first is an accurate dropped pass. The blame for dropping an accurate pass falls completely on the wide receiver. The second is an inaccurate dropped pass. These are passes that are thrown outside of the receiver's catching frame, but are still catchable. A receiver may not catch all of these passes but the best ones still catch most of them. The third type of dropped pass is what I call stripped/drop passes. These are passes a receiver gets his hands on, but has the ball stripped away by the defender for an incompletion. Most scoring systems list these as passes defensed. However, since the receiver got his hands on the ball and had it stripped away, I figure it should be segmented away from the standard pass defensed (i.e., when a DB knocks the pass down before it gets to the receiver). So how did Clayton and Brown fare in these categories? Four of Clayton's nine total drops came on accurate passes, while only three came on inaccurate passes and two on stripped passes. Meanwhile, nine of Brown's 13 drops came on accurate passes, while only four were due to inaccurate passes and none were due to stripped passes. The nine accurate pass drops tied Brown for fifth-worst in the league in that category last year. Having a pair of good pass-catching hands is a natural talent, but as Raymond Berry proved years ago, it is also something that can be improved upon with practice. If these numbers are any indication, Reggie Brown has the most room for improvement of any second-year wide receiver. KC Joyner, aka The Football Scientist, is a regular contributor to ESPN Insider. His latest book, Scientific Football 2006, is now available for preorder at his Web site, http://thefootballscientist.com.
  18. Matt Williamson -espn this morning 2. Keep Paul Posluszny: Although inside linebackers generally are not difficult to find, Posluszny is the type of guy Buffalo needs to keep within the organization. He is productive, tough and able to lead the defense on every down. Last season wasn't his best, but Posluszny was fantastic in 2009, and I fully expect him to get back to that form, especially playing behind what should be a vastly improved young interior defensive line.
  19. Matt Williamson -espn this morning 2. Keep Paul Posluszny: Although inside linebackers generally are not difficult to find, Posluszny is the type of guy Buffalo needs to keep within the organization. He is productive, tough and able to lead the defense on every down. Last season wasn't his best, but Posluszny was fantastic in 2009, and I fully expect him to get back to that form, especially playing behind what should be a vastly improved young interior defensive line.
  20. Wow most of those guys couldn't even hold their starting job and Ernie sims???????
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