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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's really my major concern with him. I don't see many of these as concentration drops at this point - they're looking like technique drops.
Now maybe, as happens with a goalie having a bad game, he's "fighting the puck" and his hands are just a little too tight as the ball is coming in. But he's getting his hands up and the ball's just bouncing off them. That's a technique problem in that he's just not absorbing the ball with his hands.
Now in complete fairness - I've never caught a 50 mph football and I'm sure that's ****ing hard. There's probably a lot more to it that 'put the point in the window' as I was always taught. But man, that always seems to fix any issues because when you do that, your hands really don't have a choice but to wrap around the ball.
It's odd.
Then again, I take some comfort in the stat that I believe CD put up around here somewhere - drop rates almost always stabilize for 95% of receivers in the league. Some are truly remarkable, some are truly bad. But 95% of receivers have drop rates within the margin of error of each other. And over large enough sample sizes, pretty much all of them regress/progress to the mean.
I'm fairly confident that Rice will do the same. He's just fighting the ball a bit at the moment.
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So I played Basketball as a kid, not football.
My serious question:
Why do so many NFL players seem to have problems with uncontested drops that stabilize after a couple of years.
Why don't they figure this out in college?
Is the ball being thrown harder? Or are there a lot of drops in college. I don't watch much college. Or even if the catch is uncontested is something else going on? Like it's harder to get open so less attention to tracking the ball?