Chambers 6th Highest Targeted (thrown to) WR in the NFL this Year!

[Disnardo]

Some snippets of CC’s article that made the news after this past Sunday’s game…

"I thought I could have made more plays with a few more opportunities. I thought we were going to make a step (Sunday). It's frustrating."

His mood worsened in the final minutes when the Dolphins, attempting to forge a tie with a two-point conversion, failed. A pass from running back Ronnie Brown, intended for Booker, fell incomplete. Chambers, who was supposed to run to a corner of the end zone, instead ended up near Booker in the general vicinity of the goalpost.

"I don't know if I panicked," Chambers said.

So CC had a “hissy fit†and complained to Coach Bagget, stating that he was not being more involved in the Dolphins game-plan...

Wow… if you can believe that I have some great land property “west of Miami†for sale… but to cut to the chase, CC has been the target of more passes thrown to, than any other player in a Dolphin’s uniform in these past game days…and actually he is the 6th WR targeted most in the league…

So how many more opportunities does Chris needs, 2, 5, 10, 15 more per game, to where he feels comfortable with??? This one question, IMO, is tough to answer, but it may have an answer that has been recorded in his career. IMO, I believe he is being used correctly by what we are supposed to have been and still are supposed to be “a balanced Offense.†It has been his 5 year career with these same Dolphins, and since these stats have started (2003) he has not caught more than 50% of the passes thrown to him at any time in those 3 seasons…Why???

Looking back, we have blamed CC’s lack of success to our past QB play. Jay, AJ and Gus, all back-up QBs. Jay from 2001-2004 averaged 58% completion, AJ averaged 54%, and Gus averaged only 52%. So this has been the logical assumption for his production woes. Chris has always been teetering with success. This year comes one of the NFL’s current completion leader of the past 5 years, and while completing 60% of his passes, not many of them are caught by Chambers, even though he is still the #1 target of this QB…

STATS show CC has been the target of 39 of Daunte’s passes this year; that is an average of about 10 passes per game. These don’t mean they are catch-able. Some of us fans have said that CC should be involved more with our Offense, unlike some of our other receivers, and he is not getting the chances that other WRs are getting in the NFL, or so most thought…so I took this issue to task…

Who are the WR’s that have been targeted more than CC this year? Well I can count them in one hand…Holt leads the league with 52 (targeted 13 per game), Harrison 46 (targeted 11 to per game), Coles 44 (targeted 11 per game), Driver 42 (targeted 10 per game), and Roy Williams 40 (targeted 10 per game)…

Holt, Harrison and Coles, are part of high scoring O’s (#10, #1 and #5), so why does Driver and Williams stand out more than Chambers, when Favre (76 QBR, 57% comp, 6.43 YPA) seems to be struggling more than Daunte (77% QBR, 60% comp, 6.9 YPA) and Detroit is an 0-4 team?

Another fan assumption is that CC is not being included in part of Mularkey’s Offensive game-plan, seems to lack any possibility, he has been involved in running plays...

So this is the current stat of the team and its current receivers, while the lower stat are the stats for the Houston game…

Ronnie is 18 out of 18 for 143 yds...
7 out of 7 for 49 yds for the game...

Randy is 10 out of 17 (59%) for 113 yds...
4 out of 4 for 54 yds for the game...

Chambers is 16 out of 39 (41%) for 181 yds...
3 out of 9 (33%) for 28 yds for the game...

Booker is 11 out of 21 (52%) for 173 yds...
3 out of 8 (38%) for 43 yds for the game...

Welker is 18 out of 26 (69%) for 222 yds...
4 out of 7 (57%) for 55 yds for the game...

We all have different opinions and different points of views and can blame CC’s problems on many things, from QB, OL, OC, game-plan, as well as CC himself…

So, he voiced his more than obvious frustration, he panicked on the 2-point conversion, as he stated, and ran the wrong route? Crunch-time for our “All Pro†playmaker and he lacks focus, attention, and concentration? Seems like I have seen this before from him. Yet he has a screaming match with our WR’s coach and tells him he wants more opportunities in this Offense?? I don’t happen to agree with him?

So in closing, frustration got the best of CC early this year, I guess his expectations because of Daunte was as high or higher than ours, but he should be used to frustrated days. After all he has had 53 frustrated games in his career, where he has less than 55 yards per game…

OK I am ready for the flaming….

 

[#23]

Nice post, very thorough.

 

[Ohio Fanatic]

While your comparison with the other top WR's is relevant (good job) you're severely lacking one component/excuse for CC (especially when comparing his stats to Ronnie, Randy and Marty): CC is covered every game by the other teams #1 CB and therefore decreasing the odds that he will be very open on these passes.

Maybe a more relevant statement: our #1 WR is unable to beat the coverage of their #1 CB, like Holt, Driver.. are able to do.

 

[Al13]

the question is how many of those 39 targets were catchable

 

[so-long-Ricky]

While your comparison with the other top WR's is relevant (good job) you're severely lacking one component/excuse for CC (especially when comparing his stats to Ronnie, Randy and Marty): CC is covered every game by the other teams #1 CB and therefore decreasing the odds that he will be very open on these passes.

Maybe a more relevant statement: our #1 WR is unable to beat the coverage of their #1 CB, like Holt, Driver.. are able to do.

True if you're just comparing the stats to the fins but it's very accurate compared to the other WR's on the other teams.They would be covered by the #1 CB as well.

 

[Duss]

the question is how many of those 39 targets were catchable

I know about at least 15 uncatchable balls and 5 incomplete that would of been an acrobatic catch, 3 of them traveled 3 yards when our QB was hit

I even remember last game when chambers was wide open deep, the ball was overthrown and out of bounds I mean how do you expect your players to make a play when it happens,

Another problem is the fact that our QB are forcing the ball to him, if your completely covered and get a catchable ball, how many times are you supposed to catch the damn thing

 

[Stitches]

the question is how many of those 39 targets were catchable

I would guess 10 of them aren't catchable, but I would like to know the exact number.

 

[adamprez2003]

Yeah I dont know how many catchable passes there are. Even that TD was an amazing catch that not many receivers could make. I'm not even sure you can call that a catchable ball and yet he did and got us six points

 

[tylerdolphin]

Half of those are un-catchable

 

[Gamezover]

This stat is rediculously misconscued. I mean come on lets be realistic. We all know that if Chambers had the opportunity catch half the balls thrown his way then these stats be would be totally different. Anyone recall the ball Duante threw last week about 20 yards down field out of bounds when Chambers had his man beat by 2 or 3 steps. This is just one example of about 12-15 I can think of. Also, lets not forget that Chambers has never had a legit number one QB in his career throwing to him. This year was suppose to be the first, and well after 4 games it shows Culpepper is clearly not healthy. I am not saying Chambers has not droped passes in the past because that would just be ignorant to say. But in all honesty, I can only recall him droping two passes this year: one against Pittsburgh and one in the Buffalo game. The bottom line is we need to commit to the run, give Brown 25 carries a game and stop throwing it 30-35 times. Establish the run and then start picking spots to go down field with the ball when they stack eight in the box or play our receivers one on one.

 

[BennyVW]

He "Panicked" because the play folded.

The pass was intended for randy mcmichael who was running a crossing route in front of the O-line. The problem was he got tripped up and fell down. Chambers saw and tried to get himself into position to possibly make a play...unluckily he dragged his defender with him further clogging up the lane to booker. Ronnie had to wait for something so it gave mario williams enough time to get over and grab a chunk of the pass.

Overall that was mularkey's fault. That play will work from anywhere but inside the 5 because it gets so congested it's hard for the TE to work through traffic.

 

[PhinsRock]

CC needs to start catching the easy balls with more consistency, then he would have much better stats and not be so frustrated. He seems only able to catch the really hard catches, maybe he has a concentration problem. I sure don't blame him for complaining, but he needs to be more consistent too.

Surely not all his fault, DC has not been that accurate in his throws.

 

[rafael]

He "Panicked" because the play folded.

The pass was intended for randy mcmichael who was running a crossing route in front of the O-line. The problem was he got tripped up and fell down. Chambers saw and tried to get himself into position to possibly make a play...unluckily he dragged his defender with him further clogging up the lane to booker. Ronnie had to wait for something so it gave mario williams enough time to get over and grab a chunk of the pass.

Overall that was mularkey's fault. That play will work from anywhere but inside the 5 because it gets so congested it's hard for the TE to work through traffic.

Actually it was Booker coming across the middle and if CC doesn't drag the defender over by running the wrong route then there would be almost no congestion. Arguably, if CC runs the right route then RB would have been able to throw an easy lofted pass to Booker that had no chance of being tipped.

 

[Schleprock]

Actually it was Booker coming across the middle and if CC doesn't drag the defender over by running the wrong route then there would be almost no congestion. Arguably, if CC runs the right route then RB would have been able to throw an easy lofted pass to Booker that had no chance of being tipped.

Bingo. The endzone view of the play will show this as evidence.

 

[HybridPHIN 23]

the question is how many of those 39 targets were catchable

Indeed... just cuz your targeted, it doesnt mean you have the oppurtunity to make the play, it has to be catchable......
So these stats are sort of bogus because its used to judge WRs but alot is still dependent on the QB making a good throw. Right now i'd rather get 20 passes from Peyton than 30 from Cpep.... see what i mean ?? Quality over Quantity.

I'd guess that 22 - 25 were catchable