08-19-2018, 11:55 PM
(08-18-2018, 05:31 PM)bfine32 Wrote: That's an interest theory but it really doesn't make much sense. "He had his best game because he was targeted less". Also only 1 fewer targets than that 34 yard performance against SD, with pretty much the exact same receiving corps. So targets cannot be it.
It doesn't make sense because you aren't really grasping it.
I am not saying that he would get more yards just by being targeted less. What I was saying was that defenses could not just lock down on AJ. He had a little more freedom to operate because the targets were being spread around to other good receivers like Sanu, Jones, and Eifert.
BTW Greens numbers against the Steelers were even more impressive when you consider he had McCarron at QB instead of Dalton. McCarrone was a good backup, but watching what both of them did with the exact same players it was clear McCarron (97.1 rate, 208 yards per start) was not in Dalton's class (106.2 rating, 266 yards per start).
Over the first 12 games of 2015 with Dalton playing full time Green averaged 86.4 receiving yards per game.
Over the last 4 games McCarron threw to AJ for 60.8 yards per game.
Imagine the numbers Green would have put up if Dalton had been at QB instead of McCarron.
