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Steelers lead the league in dropped passes w/ 6.6 per game

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Ben is 3rd in the league in True Completion % (factoring out throwaways and drops) with 81.7%. He's also 3rd under pressure at 56.1%.

Also, for all the talk of Ben's WRs making plays and his yards being all YAC...We're 32nd and 33rd at WR Target Separation and YAC per Target.

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Meh.....MVP for best game-manager maybe. Sure. I agree with that.
 
If you look at our top 5 wrs 40 times it’s enough to make coach gag... claypool is the fastest at 4.4, the rest are all an average 4.5 types... they all play faster, of course, but tgere isn’t a wallace to take the top off the defense anymore... So the coverage is tighter... more contested throws... the fact that ben has been fantastic at not throwing picks is a really good indication that his accuracy is up..... and that he is picking wrs that are open... and his throw time indicates his first two reads He is looking for are often open Enough to make the throws... so im not too worried about the drops... overall production is fine from the wideouts...
 
AggieSteel said:
6.6 drops per game seems really high to me


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6.6 may be high but 10-0 is higher. Of course we all would like to see 0 drops per but realistically that isn't going to happen. If 6.6 is pretty high then I'd imagine completion percentage must be pretty high to compensate for the drops.

These WRs we have are lights out and no defense can defend them all. BEN finds the open man through his reads, to bad t*mmyb&y can't read defenses..... ****, this means BEN is better than the cheater !!!





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Zack_of_Steel said:
4 of them from Johnson, leaving the rest to drop one every other game.
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Took my reply. For every great play he makes, there's a couple of easy drops, thankfully they have mostly come in early in games. Washington is the forgotten man out there. I'm not advocating that we force him targets, but I feel his play on Sundays warrants more snaps.


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Good info. I thought it seemed high, but thinking back to some of these games, it is easy to pick out 4-5 drops. Here's some other good info on Ben. Check out the full thread:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thread: The dumping on Ben Roethlisberger's 2020 is a pretty huge analytics failure. <br><br>How do you talk about the value and boost in the play-action passing game and completely ignore that the Steelers use PA on 8.1% of passes while the rest of the NFL is at 23.1%?</p>— Scott Kacsmar (@ScottKacsmar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottKacsmar/status/1332458424903360514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Those drop numbers are completely false. A drop is a supposed to be a catchable ball that hits the recevier's hands than hits the ground. They must be counting defended plays, PIs, and Balls dove for where it hits a hand. Those are not drops. Drops are always uncontested catches in the catch radius.

Bens Incompletions are 125. If 66 are drops, he has 59 incompletions that didn't hit something. You would notice if over half of Bens incs are drops, and we'd be screaming at the receivers.

This states we have 12 dropped passes, which I think is an accurate drop count team wide: http://hosted.stats.com/fb/tmleaders.asp?type=Receiving&range=NFL&rank=232
 
Just wait till our wide-outs get their **** together
 
Ben's been throwing the ball a ton this year. Our run game went for a **** last so many games. Drops will be higher.
 
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