04-07-2018, 10:36 AM
(04-07-2018, 04:14 AM)wolverine515151 Wrote: Dalton's long ball stats, being decent for his career, are more a function of AJ bailing him out, than Dalton being a good deep thrower. Nobody in the NFL gets more separation on deep balls than AJ Green. Numerous times during a season, AJ will have 10 yards of separation, and Dalton will overthrow AJ forcing him to have to stretch out for the catch, or he'll under throw him, and hell have to come back and win a jump ball against 3 defensive backs.
To compare Dalton to Brady is clownish and a huge stretch. Look at what Brady did the year he had a talent in his prime comparable to a prime Green, Moss in 07, Brady absolutely dominated that season and tore it up. I could imagine Brady with AJ as a wide out. AJ would have 2000 yards and 20 td's . Brady would have a similar year that he had in 07.
The claim that every other QB hits receivers in stride 40 yards downfield is ridiculous. Just go look at the completion percentages for ALL of them. Dalton doesn't overthrow or underthrow worse than any other QB.
In '07 Brady's offensive line included
LT Matt Light.. All-Pro '07... Pro Bowl '06, '07, '10
LG Logan Mankins... All-Pro '10... Pro Bowl '07, '09-'13, '15
C Dan Koppen... Pro Bowl '07
And in addition to Moss he had All-Pro WR Wes Welker with 112 receptions and TE Ben Watson who had averaged 13.1 yards per catch on 49 receptions the year before and would later have huge years for the Saints (74 rec 825 yds) and Browns (68 rec 763yds).
It is silly to claim that all Brady needs is one good WR to put up numbers like he did in '07. That Patriots offense was like an All Star team.
