to answer this and BPH's question on fades

by Spesh , Los Angeles, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 16:25 (6303 days ago) @ domer.mq
edited by Spesh, Saturday, February 21, 2009, 16:38

4 hurries and 0 clear throw-aways.

I'm eventually going to break it down by type of pass, too. Here are the numbers for the Fade.

5-15, 38 yards
2 drops by Tate
2 bad calls by refs
5 tds (obviously), 1 int

Interestingly enough, I show Clausen as 2-2 for two scores from Detroit. I have no idea if losing our TEs affected our red zone passing that much, but it's also interesting to note that the first five times we threw the fade in the red zone, there were Regular/Detroit packages on the field. While we were 2 for 2 from Detroit, we were 0 for 3 from Regular.

After that, it was all Half/Jax, all the time. (Jax is 4 WRs, 1 TE)

2-2 Detroit
0-3 Regular
1-1 Jax
2-9 Half

Also-- because I didn't start tracking routes until this year, there's no way to compare this to 2005 or 2006. But I think we would all agree that we never saw as many fades as we did this year.