10-26-2020, 05:08 PM
(10-26-2020, 11:36 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: On a side-note, Fitzgerald looks horrifically-slow and just a complete shell of his former self; found it preposterous that they were coming him to Rice last night, especially since Rice put up 2 more 1,000 yard seasons, *2 YEARS AFTER FITZGERALD'S CURRENT AGE-37 YEAR,* and played in an era when the run game was much more-important.
I feel like Rice putting up those numbers in an era when most defenses schemed and had players to stop the run actually makes players today look more impressive. It's not like Rice was putting up those numbers with fewer touches. He was getting just as many targets as pretty much any top receiver in today's game except he was going against completely different defenses that weren't specifically designed to stop the pass.
In the 12 years of his career they kept track of targets, in 6 of them Rice had over 150 Targets. AJ Green has seen that many targets twice in his entire career.
