02-19-2016, 12:58 PM
(02-19-2016, 10:36 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Wow, can you believe that Fredtoast would only pick one point of a person's post and ignore the rest of it? Nothing like that has ever happened before.
The fact is that Marvin Jones still only averaged 12.6 yards per reception in 2015 despite having 4 catches of 40+ yards. Here's the other players he's tied with and their yards per catch.
Malcolm Floyd 18.7
DeSean Jackson 17.6
Rishard Mathews 15.4
Marvin Jones 12.6
Demaryius Thomas 12.4
The only person he beat in average is a 105 / 1,304 receiver who had the lowest average of his career due to noodle armed Manning. The rest crushed him.
Among WR/TE with at least 32 catches (so 2 a game, made it a relatively high bar to try to preemptively prevent at lest a little of your whining, a potential pool of 103 players), Marvin Jones' 12.6 average is 50th. Or right smack dab in the mediocre middle of okay #2 territory.
He's not a bad #2, he's just simply not a great deep threat. Not sure how you can argue a guy who's longest catch of his career is a non-scoring 47 yarder is a great deep threat.
The fact that Marvin Jones in top 30 in both 40+ yard and 20+ yard receptions shows that he can hurt teams deep. So defenses have to respect that. The fact that he also catches a lot of short passes that bring down his average does not change the fact that he is a legit deep threat that defenses have to account for. That helps open up the field for all the other receivers.
If we replace Jones with a guy that had the exact same average (12.6) but never caught a 40+ yard pass it would have an impact on our entire passing game. Opposing defenses could basically ignore any deep help one one side of the field.
So it isn't just the average per catch. It is the fact that Jones has proven that he is a deep threat.
