Couple of random thoughts here:
1.) Kellen Davis Numbers:
| SEASON | TEAM | GP | REC | TGTS | YDS | AVG | LNG | TD | FD | FUM | LST |
| 2009 | | 16 | 9 | 13 | 75 | 8.3 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | | 16 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | | 16 | 18 | 35 | 206 | 11.4 | 32 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | | 9 | 11 | 26 | 150 | 13.6 | 25 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
Last year the guy was as solid as any
non-star tight end in the league. If you project his utilization level up to that of a Rob Gronkowski circa 2011, then Davis' numbers for 2011 would have been as follows:
64 receptions for 732 yards, 18 TD's and 46 first downs.
We are basically saying
"what would Kellen Davis's numbers look like if he had the same number of targets as Rob Gronkowski, given his current level of production?" Gronk had 124 targets in 2011, the math works like this:
18 / 35 = 51.4% completion rate, then --> 51.4% x 124 targets = 64 receptions, then --> 64 receptions x 11.4 yrd avg. =732. You do the same with TD's and FD's.
Those are some impressive F-ing numbers guys! Kellen Davis can play if we use him right.
Maybe somebody needs to call Martz and see what the hell he was doing "correctly" to get that production out of Davis? Just a thought.
(Well he's not used like "Gronk" and never will be so all those pretty projections means doodly squat. He won't be thrown to 124 times in 16 games and he needs to catch more than one out of every two passes that come his way. Those are high percentage attempts. What Martz did, although not frequently enough, is exactly what you suggested. He was primarily a red zone target and even more specifically and end zone target which is what he's best at.) 2.) Next random thought is
"This guy has had 1 turnover in his entire professional career!" Just one, and we are killing him over it. I know it was a critical mistake but you have to give some credit to Manning, he looks like he's been working out (muscle hamster) pretty hard and he put a hell of a hit on the ball. Watch this video, its crappy but you can clearly see that Davis turns around and immediately gets BLASTED by Manning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsWJAWsw9Zc (I did cut him some slack for it and I also gave Manning credit just like Urlacher did but I didn't get ripped for it like he did thank God. :lol-032: It was his crappy play the rest of the game I have a problem with. There were many more transgressions than that one fumble)
Don't get me wrong, Davis needs to improve his catching. He's hauling in only 42% of passes thrown his way this year, piss poor IMHO. His blocking is mediocre as hell too, somebody needs to light a fire under his ass because we don't have anyone better than him on the squad this year.
3.) Who the hell said Davis was going to be great this year? It's not like Davis all of the sudden said "Hey I'm going to hype myself up! Over-promise and under-deliver baby!!! That's my motto, you know it."
Hell no, it was the coaches. Particularly it was Tice shooting his fat stupid mouth off again.
(Actually it was Lovie back last spring long before Tice was named OC and it came right after we out bid Dallas for him and gave him a $6mil two year deal. So far he's been no bargain and I think he should return about $2mil of salary and SB because that's about all he's been worth so far.)
4.) Final random thought is that we are loaded at the skill positions right now. When fully healthy, I would not trade our receiving core and RB's for any other team's receivers/Rb's. Marshal/Jeffery/Bennett/Forte/Bush is the best 5 man set up in the league IMO.
What I'm getting at here is, even IF we had the world's best TE, what makes you think we could use him? We are already loaded with talent and we can't get anyone going except B. Marshall. You really think a skilled TE is the linch-pin that's holding us back? I sure don't.
