Drew Brees is 11 of 14 on passes longer than 30 yards in the air. This does not include yards after catch. These are passes that are caught in the air 30 yards or longer down field. He has missed the target only 3 times all year. Digest that for a while. How could this be so you ask? Because Sean Payton knows the exact perfect time to call for the throw over the top. Brees dinks and dunks. Bush runs an end around. Bush and/or Mcallister runs on a delayed handoff out of a passing formation. Screen pass here, dump pass there. Quick three step drop more times than not. Then comes the big one. And where the hell is the safety? Nowhere to be found. Devery has been on the receiving end of many of them. A couple have gone to Horn and Colston and even one to Stecker and of course the one to Copper against Atlanta. While most NFL QBs are struggling at about a 25 percent success rate, Brees is off the chart at nearly 80 percent. It's a beautiful thing. Sean Payton's mind that is.
I didnt know where to put this. On the HotList on one of ESPN's channels a NFL expert made his own rankings of WR that included pass attempts thrown to a player. This means a the ball still could be uncatchable or a QB throws the ball away in their direction, with other stats I cant remember. Devery Henderson was the #1 WR with fewer than 50 pass attempts thrown his way. That is very unexpected from the talks we had about him dropping so many balls in the preseason. He might be coming around.:thumb:
On the touchdwon catch he had against Dallas, Devery "looked like" a WR. He went up and stretched out and got the ball in traffic. That was big time ! I hope he is on his way up, I like to see all our Tigers succeed.
Yes, that was the catch of the year for him. Dude basically said I'm gettin this ball no matter what. Devery has definitely arrived. Thru his first 7 games: 8 catches, 110 yards, 1 TD Last 6 games: 20 catches, 544 yards, 4 TDs That's an average of 27.25 yards per catch in that 6 game stretch. He's our deep threat, a deep threat we didn't have the first half of the season. He helps make the short to medium routes much more successful, not to mention the running game. Safeties always have to be leary of him taking off. The 6 game stretch would project to 54 catches, 1449 yards, 11 TDs for a season. Thems pro bowl numbers, fellas. The first half of the year he looked pretty bad. A few dropped balls, wasn't running his patterns correctly, wasn't blocking downfield. Something musta clicked. And thank goodness it did, cuz it was right at the time Horn and then Colston started getting injured.
