Thread: Devin Hester frustrated with role

He needs to take his frustration out on ST returns. Since JC isn't making his reads and forcing it somewhat to BM I bet other receivers are frustrated too.

Originally Posted by short faced bear

He needs to take his frustration out on ST returns. Since JC isn't making his reads and forcing it somewhat to BM I bet other receivers are frustrated too.

That's my feeling too. Often Cutler is getting time for only 1 read. That's it. And the sad thing is that 1 read is a HEAVILY blanketed B.Marshall. This results in a forced ball to BM - or a coverage sack or fumble, when Cutler hangs onto the ball.

Once Cutler has decent pass protection, and can go through his progressions, then the other WR's can be more involved in this offense. It will be a high-powered offense with better blocking.

Sadly, it may be next year before we see Cutler able to use all of our receiver weapons effectively. All he really has in protection is Louis & Carimi.

I as a personal fan of him(SURPRICE?!) hopes that he'll see the ball more, as we progress into the season. But on the other hand he had, had a few drops if I remember corretly that he should have caught, so that's not doing him anything good. I see Hester most effectiv when he is used a bit like Forte, throw him a short pass, and make him run it to a TD. I'm sure we havn't seen the last thing to the Hester package.

Cutty to BM, yea seems like he is a bit to fixated on him and we saw that in week 1. Ofcause he has been playing with the guy before, and knows him in and out, so no wonder if he'd go for him in the first weeks, I hoped it'd be week but seems like weeks. If I were the new guy in the class and there was someone I knew I'd go and talk with him first. Hopefully this will not turn into a tradition for Cutty because then we might aswell bring Oline mens on the field insted of WR's.

Isn't it time for a return to a TD Devin? I think so.

Originally Posted by MPBears68

Actually CATCHING THE BALL would probably greatly alleviate what Hester is frustrated about. Dating back to late last season, DH has pretty much been a butterfingered drop machine since.

I know. We have 2 of the top 15 worst WR's in the NFL for drop rate, based on the past 3 seasons - Brandon Marshall and Devin Hester. The good news is that Earl Bennett has been the #1 guy (lowest drop rate in the entire NFL over the past 3 years).

LINK to the article

Three Years of Drop Rate:
Wide Receivers

Khaled Elsayed | 2012/07/02

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It’s a new week but we’re continuing our look back at three years worth of Pro Football Focus Signature Stats, turning attention now to our ‘Drop Rate’ stat. A simple enough premise where you look at how many drops a receiver had as a percentage of balls deemed catchable.

We’re going to start off by looking at the wide receivers whose primary job is to catch the ball and make plays. So let’s see which wideouts have done the best (and worst) job in this regard over the 2009, 2010, and 2011 seasons.
For the purposes of this study, wide receivers need to have seen at least 125 catchable balls come there way during the three-year span. That bar for inclusion left us with 61 receivers to consider.



Opportunity Knocks
Since we’re looking at which players have dropped the most ‘catchable balls’ it’s probably worth looking a little bit at those balls we deemed catchable. Firstly, it’s a simple enough way to determine a catchable ball: it’s a pass that is either caught or dropped. Got it? Good. Let’s move on. It won’t surprise many that the man who was thrown the most catchable balls over the past three years was the Patriots’ Wes Welker. His 363 catchable balls was 33 more than Roddy White in second, and 60 more than Brandon Marshall in third. It says something about the quality of quarterback Larry Fitzgerald has had to deal with over the past two years, with Fitzgerald second in total targets, but way down in fifth when you look at the number of those that were catchable.

Rank	Player	Current Team	Targets	Catchable
1	Wes Welker	NE	439	363
2	Roddy White	ATL	494	330
3	Brandon Marshall	CHI	419	303
4	Reggie Wayne	IND	439	300
5	Larry Fitzgerald	ARZ	461	275
6	Calvin Johnson	DET	413	258
7	Marques Colston	NO	331	253
8	Andre Johnson	HST	332	239
9	Santana Moss	WAS	345	233
10	Percy Harvin	MIN	307	232

Dropping the Ball
It won’t be a surprise that those with more opportunity have tended to drop the most balls. Indeed, if you look at Wes Welker, his 32 drops were second in the league over three years. The only wide receiver with more than him? New Bears receiver Brandon Marshall who led the way with 35 drops over three years. Chicago will be hoping that linking up with Jay Cutler will help calm this number down, but it’s worth noting that if you go back to 2008 Marshall had 16 drops in that year alone. Other numbers that stand out are the 26 for Chiefs franchise player Dwayne Bowe and the 22 picked up by Pierre Garcon, Michael Crabtree, and Donald Driver. All three head into 2012 with various questions (can they step up as a No. 1 receiver?/how much have they got left?) and they’ll be looking to cut back on the drops that have plagued them at times.

Rank	Player	Current Team	Drops
1	Brandon Marshall	CHI	35
2	Wes Welker	NE	32
3	Roddy White	ATL	30
4	Dwayne Bowe	KC	26
5	DeSean Jackson	PHI	25
6	Santana Moss	WAS	24
7	Pierre Garcon	WAS	22
7	Michael Crabtree	SF	22
7	Donald Driver	GB	22
10	Nate Burleson	DET	21

Drop Rate – The Bad
Now let’s get to the important number. Players like Marshall and Welker may have more drops than anyone else, but Welker doesn’t figure in the Bottom 15 of the 61 players who had at least 125 catchable balls thrown their way over the past three years, and Marshall was just in the Bottom 10. Instead, the worst offender was Roy Williams who has dropped 14.62% of catchable balls over three years. That was narrowly worse than James Jones of the Packers, with the Buccaneers’ Mike Williams bringing in the third highest mark at 13.42%. 49ers fans (and Alex Smith) may want to look away when he sees the drop percentage of some of his receivers (new and old) as Crabtree, Mario Manningam and Randy Moss all rated poorly.

Rank	Player	Current Team	Drops	Catchable	Drop Rate
1	Roy E. Williams	FA	19	130	14.62%
2	James Jones	GB	20	139	14.39%
3	Mike A. Williams	TB	20	149	13.42%
4	DeSean Jackson	PHI	25	193	12.95%
5	Brandon Gibson	SL	18	141	12.77%
6	Terrell Owens	FA	18	145	12.41%
7	Donald Driver	GB	22	179	12.29%
8	Randy Moss	SF	15	126	11.90%
9	Dwayne Bowe	KC	26	225	11.56%
10	Brandon Marshall	CHI	35	303	11.55%
11	Michael Crabtree	SF	22	195	11.28%
12	Mario Manningham	SF	19	174	10.92%
13	Pierre Garcon	WAS	22	206	10.68%
14	Santana Moss	WAS	24	233	10.30%
15	Devin Hester	CHI	14	136	10.29%

Drop Rate – The Best
To the best, and up at the top there’s a name that won’t surprise many Bears fans but may surprise many others. Earl Bennett, with just four drops from 127 catchable balls, has the lowest drop percentage of just 3.15%. That wasn’t much better than the ever-excellent Larry Fitzgerald who continues to show remarkable consistency with his hands, dropping an average of three balls each season and just 3.27% of catchable balls. Behind him are less-heralded players like Kevin Walter and Lance Moore, while San Diego fans will be happy to see Malcom Floyd with the fifth-lowest drop percentage, and new signing Robert Meachem down in 11th.

Rank	Player	Current Team	Drops	Catchable	Drop Rate
1	Earl Bennett	CHI	4	127	3.15%
2	Larry Fitzgerald	ARZ	9	275	3.27%
3	Kevin Walter	HST	5	148	3.38%
4	Lance Moore	NO	5	136	3.68%
5	Malcom Floyd	SD	6	131	4.58%
6	Reggie Wayne	IND	14	300	4.67%
7	Jabar Gaffney	NE	10	197	5.08%
8	Jason Avant	PHI	8	152	5.26%
9	Austin Collie	IND	10	182	5.49%
10	Sidney Rice	SEA	8	141	5.67%
11	Robert Meachem	SD	8	137	5.84%
12	Michael Jenkins	MIN	8	136	5.88%
13	Anquan Boldin	BLT	13	219	5.94%
14	Mike Thomas	JAX	10	167	5.99%
15	Deion Branch	NE	10	165	6.06%

Catching the ball isn’t the be all and end all when it comes to receiving. You need to be able to get open and make things happen after the catch. But, fundamentally, if you don’t secure the ball then your route running is wasted, and you don’t even get a chance to find your way for extra yardage. So the Drop Rate is an extremely useful tool in terms of determining which players have the best hands (though it should be noted not all drops are created equal).
Stay tuned tomorrow when we run down the tight ends to see which at that position have the best and worst hands.

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Originally Posted by MPBears68

Please catch the ball, Mr. Hester. I can assure you that your "involvement" will greatly increase if you do that first. Start there.

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