Brandon Lafell = best hands in the NFC South

[jasonluckydog]

He blocked me from Twitter still have no idea why he did that! I'm a fan!! I might of used Oh Wee Mayne a few times but who hasnt?

[panthers90]

he dat deal

[Gazi]

He blocked me after a made a thread here about his twitter. He's a lurker. But I was stupid for having my twitter account in my signature.

[Jase]

All that talk of his tiny hands last year... Gone

[Herbert The Love Bug]

resign Naanee

[Herbert The Love Bug]

Lafellsus will be a pro bowler next year

[LiQuiD]

Lafell was fuging clutch this year. Nobody expected him to catch passes but they did cover him and he came through big when it counted.

[bleys]

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcsouth/post/_/id/30312/best-hands-in-the-nfc-south-4

He finished 3rd behind Colston and Preston Parker of TB with a catch percentage of 97.3. While that sounds awesome, I don't really know how to take this stat considering it has Legadu with a better catching percentage (95.7) than Smitty (95.2).

Anyway, great to put a number with the visual proof of improvement.

Naanee 95.7<--------Hard to believe:eek:

what's hard to believe is how people come up with the idea that a few dropped balls early in the season defines a guy throughout the rest of the season..

that and everyone crying about LaFell having bricks for hands is why the huddle is a joke to the few rational people who stick around...

people rather attach their opinion to a stigma rather than the games themselves.. but hey, that's all gravy in the name of being fanatics right!? who cares about having a reasonable opinion, the huddle would be boring!

[DaCityKats]

Naane should still be upgraded in my opinion.

[bleys]

yeah lafell only had 1 or 2 drops this year. smitty probably had less than 5. naanee had to be nearing 10 so i'm gonna call bs on this.

do you want to stick with that assumption or try harder?

[ed bell]

what's hard to believe is how people come up with the idea that a few dropped balls early in the season defines a guy throughout the rest of the season..

I think Naanee was targeted twice in the four downs at the end of the Arizona game, both were incomplete. One of those looked like it could have been snagged for a touchdown if he would have been a bit more outside. Off target throw or bad route? Couldn't say either way, but that was the beginning of the critical posts pegging Nannee as a poor receiver. I always had trouble seeing why folks thought he was terrible. Lafell and Naanee turned out to be good for each other competition-wise IMO.

[Razeyfingers]

You would have to take into account where on the field each receiver usually is in order for this stat to make any sense. Since 89 is often doubled this typically puts him in places where you have to be creative to get him the ball. The stat, to me, only says LaFell caught better than Leg and has nothing to do with any of the other nfc south receivers' stats on that list since they werent in our offense.

[bleys]

Smitty had a 61% catch percentage.. LaFell 64%... Naanee 58%...

all pretty good in the grand scheme of things.... (minimum of 50 passes)

Smitty had 7 dropped passes, which tied him with 11 receivers, and put him in the top 10 of passes dropped in the league..

LaFell and Naanee had less drops.. but on considerably less targets..

[Razeyfingers]

Something to note is that Legs knew the offense a lot better too when we started this year. Gotta give it to LaFell for coming through in a lot of games this year, Legs improved too. Im very satisfied with where we're at on that. dont know if Tutu needs to be around but we'll see what happens next year.

Nah, we need linemen and db's