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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
Why minus the throw to Cooley? Did that not count or something? How about adding the potential yardage he lost when Cooley dropped that ball?
I don't understand why people always want to subtract plays out, I read an article this morning about how Portis ran 22 times for 46 yards (minus the 38 yard TD run). Why is it ok to analyze a performance by subtracting out big plays?? Why do they count any less?
Rant over.
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While i agree with your point...can't subract or add for point purposes..I think his (repeat HIS-not mine) point was, it was a dink toss to cooley with no chance of actually scoring- and was, for all intents and purposes, a stat padding play. Kinda like A-rod hitting 3 homers and batting in 8 runs, and the yanks (i hate them) win 12-0 and then striking out with the game on the line. The point is, there is such a thing as stat padding, and is
does matter the circumstances of the play. That said, i wouldnt' take anything away from brunell on sunday...my point remains, he looked good in the first half, and ok in the second. I would argue that this is also
as good as it gets for Mark, and therefore, I'm not sure how many more
miracles we have in us to win...bc alone, it wasn't enough to pull out the W.