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Originally Posted by Mattyk72
Did I miss something? When did Caldwell all of a sudden have all these drops? Seattle had some excellent coverage yesterday and were blanketing our WRs all day.
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Caldwell was cut from his previous team for dropping the ball much like our own Santana Moss has all season (and yesterday). Though Caldwell was one of our more reliable WR's regular season (not saying much) his drop yesterday was inexcusable. The only catch not made yesterday that was excusable was Cooley in the flat defended by their safety. Moss had drops (two that I remember) that killed us, Cooley had one on the 1yard line that probably meant the difference between a win and a loss - certainly it wasn't a perfectly thrown pass but Cooley was able to get his hands all the way around it and pull it into his body, and in the NFL like every single commentator says those kind of passes need to be caught. Partly why I felt like the drops were more important is because our top WR's were healthy, compared to a 3rd and 4th string o-line. Fabini shouldn't even be a backup anywhere and Heyer shouldn't be active yet, so the troubles there were not surprising. We all know that situation. It's different w/ the receivers. They're healthy, it's the playoffs, and had there been 0 dropped passes instead of the 5 or 6 i counted we're probably headed to Dallas.
Onto the bigger picture, drops were huge all year. I strongly suspect all the dropped passes messed w/ JC's confidence. Some games we saw as many as 7,8, or 9 dropped passes, which easily amounts to over 100 yds of offense. Inexcusable. And nobody can tell me the drops didn't mess w/ TC's confidence yesterday either. Obviously getting smacked around every other play was a big worry but when there's finally a shot to get a first down (especially during that first half) and a perfectly thrown ball bounces off Moss' forearm to yield another 3 and out: that's pretty much gone kill any momentum.