I like the Pickens trade, but I have one football-related red flag

[Pass2Run]

Consider his QB.

 

[America's Cowboy]

What did last year look like? We are dealing with old and breaking down Dak now

What kind of a team did Dak have last year? Do you take that into account?

 

[StarOfGlory]

Without reading your entire post, it remained easy to ask: who was throwing him the ball?

That has been addressed throughout the thread.

 

[BoyzBlaster]

What kind of a team did Dak have last year? Do you take that into account?

Maybe but regardless stats from 6 years ago don't really tell the story about today.

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

I'll take 53 thugs if it means I get to see my first Super Bowl

 

[dupree89]

I'll take 53 thugs if it means I get to see my first Super Bowl

this is honesty and i like it

 

[America's Cowboy]

Maybe but regardless stats from 6 years ago don't really tell the story about today.

How about stats from 2 seasons ago? Or is that too close?

 

[5Stars]

I'll take 53 thugs if it means I get to see my first Super Bowl

I'm down wit you dog! lol
Cowboys

 

[BoyzBlaster]

How about stats from 2 seasons ago? Or is that too close?

if you have them maybe post them. But regardless I don't remember him throwing many if any what I would call deep balls last year. And he used to be half decent at the deep ball down either sideline. But I don't remember him throwing it much recently. That was the point if my post - does he even throw it deep anymore?

 

[Pass2Run]

The other thing to consider is Pickens was generally covered by CB1. That changes now.

 

[BrassCowboy]

That has been addressed throughout the thread.

Well I did not read past the first paragraph in your post, but I do think, as most others apparently do, that the QB throwing to him apparently matters.
He is a great pickup for us. We asked for WR help, and we got it. The guy is only 24 years old .

 

[conner01]

Bro, do you know how percentages work?

Based on those numbers, Lamb has the higher drop rate.

He does have a higher drop rate. The players who get the most targets generally have the most drops. The point is drops haven’t been a big factor for Pickens. For the number of targets he doesn’t have a lot of drops. More than half his drops was one season with no QB

 

[JW82]

Pickens is already a better wr than Higgens or Smith.

 

[conner01]

The other thing to consider is Pickens was generally covered by CB1. That changes now.

Great point. Being WR2 means generally less targets but getting open is a bit easier. And ideally one is open on every pass play. It also makes it harder to double lamb because he is a deep threat

 

[conner01]

drops definitely not a problem for him. Kind of stupid to claim that.

I think some look at total number of drops rather than targets to drops. If you get a ton of tsrgets your total number of drops could look higher than a guy that literally dropped 20% of his targets