Welker Juice comparisons are actually pretty interesting to me.
Juice’s 1st year and Welker’s 3rd were very close in receiving production.
Welker not given much in passing game first 2 seasons but still managed (3) 2000 all purpose yard seasons. Something few have done. Landry record setting in quantity of catches thru 4 years.
Nobody valued Welker much before he left Miami because he didn’t actually score the TD’s. But he was a huge part of our scoring by moving the ball between the 20’s. He was a critical part of a 1/3 of our points whether it be a return to setup a short field or a key 3rd down conversion on scoring drive. The fact that we didn’t have a decisive enough QB at the time to take advantage of the option route at the goal line wasn’t Welker’s fault. Bellicheck saw this and knew Brady could use him as a scoring weapon along with moving the chains. Landry was seen in this similar light until this year when he scored 9 TD’s. Welker also had 9 TD’s when he bacame the primary target of Brady.
Welker actually changed the game. The option route to the slot became an easy way to move the chains in a league with rules favoring the pass. The Patriots became the highest scoring team in the league while Welker was controlling the game. When he left to go to Denver the Patriots scoring dropped back down under the 30’s. Manning used him in Denver to have the highest scoring offense ever. We never had the QB to take advantage of him. Shame. He improved both Patriots and Denver in scoring. Our scoring didn’t change much when he left but our record went downhill to 1-15.
Now onto running offense thru the slot and success. Welker was targeted by Brady pretty much like Landry has been here in Miami. The Patriots have been successful targeting a receiver 160 times. They never won the Super Bowl with this combo but it was very successful. It can be done. It surely isn’t a reason to get rid of Landry.
Final statistical comparison is actually very close
Welker 11 seasons receiving
115 targets per season
82 receptions per season
57 yards per game
11 yards per reception
1 TD every 25 targets
Landry 4 seasons receiving
142 targets per season
100 receptions per season
63 yards per game
10.1 yards per reception
1 TD every 26 targets
Juice’s 1st year and Welker’s 3rd were very close in receiving production.
Welker not given much in passing game first 2 seasons but still managed (3) 2000 all purpose yard seasons. Something few have done. Landry record setting in quantity of catches thru 4 years.
Nobody valued Welker much before he left Miami because he didn’t actually score the TD’s. But he was a huge part of our scoring by moving the ball between the 20’s. He was a critical part of a 1/3 of our points whether it be a return to setup a short field or a key 3rd down conversion on scoring drive. The fact that we didn’t have a decisive enough QB at the time to take advantage of the option route at the goal line wasn’t Welker’s fault. Bellicheck saw this and knew Brady could use him as a scoring weapon along with moving the chains. Landry was seen in this similar light until this year when he scored 9 TD’s. Welker also had 9 TD’s when he bacame the primary target of Brady.
Welker actually changed the game. The option route to the slot became an easy way to move the chains in a league with rules favoring the pass. The Patriots became the highest scoring team in the league while Welker was controlling the game. When he left to go to Denver the Patriots scoring dropped back down under the 30’s. Manning used him in Denver to have the highest scoring offense ever. We never had the QB to take advantage of him. Shame. He improved both Patriots and Denver in scoring. Our scoring didn’t change much when he left but our record went downhill to 1-15.
Now onto running offense thru the slot and success. Welker was targeted by Brady pretty much like Landry has been here in Miami. The Patriots have been successful targeting a receiver 160 times. They never won the Super Bowl with this combo but it was very successful. It can be done. It surely isn’t a reason to get rid of Landry.
Final statistical comparison is actually very close
Welker 11 seasons receiving
115 targets per season
82 receptions per season
57 yards per game
11 yards per reception
1 TD every 25 targets
Landry 4 seasons receiving
142 targets per season
100 receptions per season
63 yards per game
10.1 yards per reception
1 TD every 26 targets
