AdamJT13;2620193 said:
Anderson played nine games against Deion. It's doubtful that all of Anderson's catches came while Deion was guarding him, but let's look at how he did in those games anyway. Anderson averaged 60.9 yards per game and never had a 100-yard game against Deion's teams. He averaged 2.6 catches and never had more than five catches (once). In five of those games, he had two catches or less. And he scored a total of three touchdowns against Deion's teams, with one touchdown three times and no touchdowns the other six.
Apparently, your definition of "absolutely owned" is different from everyone else's.
Anderson wasn't exactly a guy who averaged 1500 yards per season, so 60.9 yards/game was a pretty good average for him. 60.9 yards on 2.6 catches...23.4 yards/catch average. Actually a pretty accurate representation--deep balls down the sidelines, against Deion. Big plays like those are important in the outcome of a football game.
Tell me, do you think Terrence Newman had an excellent game against Pittsburgh against Santonio Holmes?
And Deion's shutdown numbers during his prime years were absolutely incredible. STATS LLC has been tracking what cornerbacks allow (targets, catches, yards, touchdowns) since 1995, and Deion's numbers were FAR superior to anyone else's. Woodson blew out his knee in 1995 and moved to safety for the rest of his career, and he still allowed far more completions, yards and touchdowns than Deion did, and Deion was a 1-on-1 cornerback often matched up with the opponent's top receiver.
Funny, I don't see pass interference penalties in there. What a great stat that must be.
Deion lined up almost exclusively on the split end (he was a right corner). Teams rarely have a corner actually follow a particularly name receiver around...they generally play on one side of the field. By virtue of this, he almost always had deep help, with the free safety over the top.
Woodson didn't move to safety until 1998 when he signed with Baltimore.
And enumerate on this safety thing. Do most safeties, from wherever you're getting these stats, "allow" more catches, yards, and touchdowns than corners?
In 1996 alone, Woodson allowed more catches (58), yards (607) AND touchdowns (four) than Deion did in the entire 1996, 1997 and 1998 seasons COMBINED (54 catches, 582 yards and zero touchdowns). And in 1998, Woodson was among the leaders in yards allowed (907) to go with the 62 catches and five touchdowns he allowed.
You just pulled those numbers out of your rear end...or they did. One or the other.
In 1998, the Cowboys defense gave up 3767 passing yards. You're telling me Deion gave up merely 582 yards in THREE YEARS COMBINED? Where are all these other yards coming from? Were the other corners sooooo bad that even with Deion giving up a ridiculously low total, they still ranked near the bottom in pass defense? Or were all 'them zones responsible for everything?
Woodson was well past his prime by that point, anyway.
Too many holes in your attempt to prove football things with statistics. How exactly are they measuring this statistic? Are they putting a slant pass that ended up going 80 yards, run against Rod Woodson when he was giving a 10 yard cushion, as a completion against him?
I don't think you even know yourself, but hey, if it suits your little fantasy world where you can quantify everything in football, it's wonderful, right?
This would be a good time for you to say those stats don't matter, because they just destroyed your argument.
The fact that you rely so heavily on statistics when it comes to football, a sport that statistics simply do not work for, is proof that you really don't understand the game. You should try following baseball instead. Baseball is the perfect sport for stats.
In football, you can throw a 2 yard screen pass and have it go 80 yards.
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