Post by butkus3595 on Oct 23, 2016 8:38:00 GMT -6
Next, one can use stats, thats not an issue, but give the full picture...which you do not. You use AJ's reception and yardage stats but never mention the fact his target share is down precipitously. One can't have a lot of catches and yards if they are not targeted. This season he has 44 targets through 6 games...last year in 9 games he had 94 targets. I'll let you do that math. And I don't want to hear about not having Marshall...because he's played and excelled without Marshall before...another convenient omission on your part. The FACT of the matter is we have...excuse me had, a QB unwilling to take any chances with the ball....unwilling to throw the ball up to AJ and let him make the plays he's capable of making...HELL...Hoyer wouldn't even throw it to him WHEN HE WAS WIDE FRIGGEN OPEN!!!!! Now...even with that shitty target share if you extrapolate his stats he's on pace for close to 1200 yards and about 8 TD's with one of the highest YPC in his career. So you see MOTM...WHEN YOU GIVE THE FULL PICTURE stats do benefit me. Of course that hurts your argument...so I wouldn't expect you to do that....either that or you just don't get it. Which one is it?
AJ since being here has 1 Pro Bowl and two 1,000+ seasons with Marshall taking the majority of the heat away. Long never had a Pro Bowl/HoF Oline helping him out. I find it funny how many here blame Hoyer for not targeting Jeffery yet if you look at the stats this year Hoyer has more games in which he targeted Jeffery more than Cutler. You don't want to admit that Jeffery couldn't break free of the depleted Packers DB. That he was shut down by the Texans DBs. The last two games alone he was targeted almost as much as 5 games. A #1 WR isn't supposed to get shut down.
27 targets in the past 2 games vs 31 the other games. In total of 58 targets already. So no his targets ain't shitty. They're pretty good in fact its just that he can't come down with the ball.
We will see his on pace performance. Seeing how we're playing against the Vikings and how they shut down a better WR, I don't have much faith in Jeffery pulling out. He couldn't even beat a 3rd string DB with the Packers.
Next, you clearly don't get the difference in being a wide receiver and being an offensive lineman and what it entails...why would a lineman need another "HOF lineman to take heat off him"? What kind of sense does that make? Further, as I've repeatedly stated, you conveniently ignore how AJ played when Marshall missed games while with the Bears. Your theory just doesn't work. Lastly, argue it however you want, his target share is at it's lowest its been since he was a rookie, and he's been open. And he's going to get paid, whether it's by the Bears...who will have an absurd amount of cap room and by league rules it will need to be spent, or by someone else...unless like everything else I've mentioned you also haven't been paying attention to the market or you don't understand how that works.
