Here's some cool steve smith numbers to munch on while we wait for tampa bay.

[PhillyB]

I did some research on NFL.com and Pro-Football-Reference.com and dug up the following numbers:

Steve Smith's current career receiving yardage total is 9,944.

Fifty-six yards against the Bucs on Sunday will put him at 10,000 yards receiving in his ten-year career. This will move him to number 35 on the all-time receiving list, past Eric Moulds. Another sixty and he'll pass the legendary Shannon Sharpe. If he manages roughly a hundred yards receiving per game for the rest of the year he'll leapfrog a cluster of guys and move into 30th all time, booting former Panther - Keyshawn Johnson - out of that spot.

Steve Smith currently has beat five of his previous receiving seasons - with the yards he's accrued so far this is his fifth best season. Previous postings of 1110 (2003) 1166 (2006) 1421 (2008) and 1563 (2005) still stand in his way.

His 18.0 avg/catch stands for second best in his career. In 2008 it was 18.2, and extra 2.4 inches per catch. GOD STEVE COME ON MAN PICK IT UP

The longest TD of his career is 80 yards. He got one for 77 this year.

22 receptions for 20+ yards this year. He posted the same number in 2005. Only 2008 was better, with 23.

In receptions over 40 yards he has 4 grabs. Last year he had zero... the Jimmy Clausen era seems so long ago, returning only in the darkest depths of our nightmares.

In rushing he has 2.9 yards per game, which is probably better than Chris Johnson and ties his record set in 2008.

In 2004 Steve Smith had his only career passing yard, posting a 39.6 passer rating.

... thats all I got. Thank you sweet jesus for cam newton! I'll be counting those 56 yards one by one Sunday and probably spilling my beer when he reaches it. :cheers2:

[frash.exe]

is he going up against geriatric ronde barber this week or is talib their no.1 corner

[PhillyB]

thanks for the long post about stuff everyone has known for years

[Carolina Fan]

still 1,500 yards away from moose, and probably 2,000 away from even being considered for the HOF :(

[err456]

still 1,500 yards away from moose, and probably 2,000 away from even being considered for the HOF :(

It's coming!

[Hotsauce]

How many years does he have left on his contract?

How many years can he still play?

[TylerDurden]

I hope he breaks 10k this week, but Talib has seemed to give him problems recently.

[Mvp2014]

ken lucas?

[Mvp2014]

Nobody gave him millions of dollars for beating up on amateurs.

Ken Lucas?

[panthers55]

Now this is actually a good thread that makes a lot of sense. But it still talks more about less meaningless accomplishments than the ones that really matter. I can do a lot a better than that.

Steve Smith is also one of the only 7-8 guys who have won a triple crown in receiving in the history of the NFL and his personal wikipedia page always comes up first in Google when you type in receiving triple crown. It's almost like if you typed in quarterback triple crown and the first result was some quarterback's personal wikipedia page or say 3 time Super Bowl champion. Except it's not. The first is a list. Second is Joe Montana.

Obviously Google thinks Smith's accomplishment is more amazing in his job than Joe Montana was for a quarterback or most of the other receivers that did it. He's so fuging bad-ass even Google agrees. And so does Bing. And they rank pages not just by popularity, unlike ESPN's rankings, but by both popularity AND authoritative meaningful accomplishments(kind of like YPP) ;) This and Steve Smith truly is a real life example of the old cliche saying "next to the definition of elite receiver in the dictionary or encyclopedia you'll find a picture of Steve Smith." This is actually that saying being true for once. And even Raging Bull can understand that. That's who is currently listed in the dictionary next to one of the most valuable stats for a receiver. If not the most valuable for a single season. I can't really think of anything more valuable than a receiver's individual value based on his own merit at his position to his team's offense. Sure there's others, but he's one of that group, by merit and currently he's the one that's done it most recently(before him being 1992).

And if that's not enough, Smith also coaches soccer, is an investor and even had an Autralian soccer player named his son after him. He's that fuging bad ass. It just doesn't get more bad ass than Steve Smith....

Yeah...I'm gushing. But unlike Cam homers this guy actually earned this type of praise. Nobody gave him millions of dollars for beating up on amateurs.

If you are a stat guy like you propose you know your explanation is total bull. Google does not rank a page based on authoritative meaningful accomplishments but relevancy to the topic, number of quality links to that page, quality of that link based on page hits,etc. But google doesn't rank pages by whether they believe the page is more meaningful to them than another based on content. They take the attitude that the more links to a page and the more hits it receives, the more relevant it is based on consumer use.

http://www.free-seo-news.com/newsletter194.htm#facts

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Now I suspect you know that but stated things as you did desiring an argument and you can have it with whoever wants to argue on and on but it won't be me. Hard to believe that anyone would think that Google would read pages and establish relevancy based on meaningful accomplishments versus relavency based on keywords, established links, number of hits etc. After all, there are likely a million pages of new information added to the web every day. It is unrealistic to assume that any search engine would be able to keep up with everything and rank them based on anything but a very complicated statistical model.

[j2sgam]

Woh are the 7 or 8 that have won the receiving triple crown? IIRC, there are 3... Jerry Rice, Sterling Sharpe and Steve Smith...

The other 4 were pre-1960, pre-AFL, with the merger of the 2 leagues being in 1970. Call it what you want, there are 3 in the modern era. Not discounting what them other guys did before my time, but the game was considerably different then...

[Lumps]

Smitty has a couple great years left, a few or more good years. As long as we can find another 'young smitty' (great potential WR) to take his place we'll be fine but Hurney really struggles with WRs so that will be the challenge.

[redbuddha]

Rae Carruth?

[caatfan]

Now this is actually a good thread that makes a lot of sense. But it still talks more about less meaningless accomplishments than the ones that really matter. I can do a lot a better than that.

You can certainly do better than "less meaningless". :rolleyes: