Hawg73
Mediocre with flashes of brilliance
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There's no point dumping on Parker and letting Bourne off the hook.
I'm not one to allow my hope that Bourne improves dramatically to influence what I know from the cold, hard football facts last year.
In the Parker vs Bourne competition, Parker was far and away the high producer and he did it in 3 fewer games (which speaks to Hawg's point).
Just to be clear, for me, Parker was the better player in '22 despite his misuse early in the season on those poorly conceived GO routes.
Statistics Parker
SEASON TEAM GA GP GS SNAPS SNAPS% TGT REC REC YDS YDS/REC YDS/GM REC TD FUM DROPS PROD PTS 2022 NE 13 13 10 489 49.7 47 31 539 17.4 41.46 3 0 0 71.9
Statistics Bourne
SEASON TEAM GA GP GS SNAPS SNAPS% TGT REC REC YDS YDS/REC YDS/GM REC TD FUM DROPS PROD PTS 2022 NE 16 16 2 405 41.2 48 35 434 12.4 27.13 1 2 3 53.3
I need to see both of these WRs perform better or I'm looking for replacements, first for Bourne then for Parker.
Drafting at least 1 WR is a given.
There you go, using stats to wreck a perfectly good seat-of-the-pants opinion.
Maybe I'm soft on Bourne because he can at least break a few tackles or I still see the guy from 2021.
I'm mildly surprised to see Parker with as many as 31 catches, but it's a sobering sight to see two of our "top guys" at about one third the production
of league top guys. God, that was a brutal year to watch our Offense attempt to pass the ball.
I certainly hope we'll take a WR and I'd like to see a fair investment. I'm not entirely sold on Q. Johnson, but I wouldn't hate seeing him
come to Foxboro and we can start to polish him up. One quote stuck with me about him "has special natural separation ability" but
there is no telling what our guys will think about any of the other potential day 1 or 2 WRs.