Tavon Austin - First 2 games and 4 receiving yards

[Angry Ram]

Coradarelle Patterson

That dude has 1 receiving yard.

TBH Tavon probably would have a bit more if he didn't dance around the goal line week 1.

 

[Dxmissile]

Sorry, you can't assume Austin would have caught that pass against SEA even if Sherman hadn't interfered. That still would have been a tough catch and Austin hasn't shown he can make those yet. I'll give him credit for drawing the penalty from Sherman, though.

It was only a tough catch cause the ball was underthrown

 

[HometownBoy]

That dude has 1 receiving yard.

TBH Tavon probably would have a bit more if he didn't dance around the goal line week 1.

1 yard on 1 reception and he hasn't even taken any back to the house on returns yet. Far cry from the guy everybody was jerking off and saying Austin should be when they beat us last year.

Full stop, Austin is on a short list of the few consistent offense weapons we've had thus far.

 

[Athos]

1 yard on 1 reception and he hasn't even taken any back to the house on returns yet. Far cry from the guy everybody was jerking off and saying Austin should be when they beat us last year.

Full stop, Austin is on a short list of the few consistent offense weapons we've had thus far.

Patterson does look godawful. Dude may be too dumb to learn routes. Was wrong on that. But he return game is dropping too. Maybe the guy has no drive?

I'd still try him as a change of pace back. 6'3 or not. Just stick it in his gut. If he can't even do that.......ouch for the Viqueens.

 

[V3]

It was only a tough catch cause the ball was underthrown

I agree the ball was underthrown but you can't assume he would have made the catch if Sherman hadn't interfered. You can't even assume he would have caught the ball if it had been the perfect pass and on time. You can't say a(any) WR would have a ton of yards if things had gone differently or had been perfect. You have to go with what's happened.

 

[HometownBoy]

Patterson does look godawful. Dude may be too dumb to learn routes. Was wrong on that. But he return game is dropping too. Maybe the guy has no drive?

I'd still try him as a change of pace back. 6'3 or not. Just stick it in his gut. If he can't even do that.......ouch for the Viqueens.

To be fair, he's in a situation like Tavon was for a while. The Viqueens are in a state of disarray and aren't that good of a team right now. They probably don't have a single win right now if they play anybody better than Detoilet.

 

[ram007]

Based on fellow members here it appears I am off base here.

My hope was Austin would be Antonio Brown 2.0 by now. Looks like he is Dexter McCluster 2.0. I will tame my expectations. Oh well!

 

[V3]

1 yard on 1 reception and he hasn't even taken any back to the house on returns yet. Far cry from the guy everybody was jerking off and saying Austin should be when they beat us last year.

Full stop, Austin is on a short list of the few consistent offense weapons we've had thus far.

The difference there is that had the Rams gone with Patterson, they would have still had their 2nd round pick and most likely would have taken Lacy or Warford.

 

[HometownBoy]

The difference there is that had the Rams gone with Patterson, they would have still had their 2nd round pick and most likely would have taken Lacy or Warford.

The guy's playing lights out and is responsible for almost half of our offense. I don't think complaining about a draft pick we have no way of knowing if we'd have taken a player that would help or not is pertinent at all. Those picks were used on a player who's been our only offense, I imagine most would consider that win.

 

[LACHAMP46]

I love the Rams...but if we have a guy playing 75-85% of the snaps at wr and he only has 4 yards receiving after 2 games , dudes, there is a problem....
Still waiting on this guy:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/photos/the-most-underrated-players-on-every-nfl-team/26

 

[HometownBoy]

I love the Rams...but if we have a guy playing 75-85% of the snaps at wr and he only has 4 yards receiving after 2 games , dudes, there is a problem....
Still waiting on this guy:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/photos/the-most-underrated-players-on-every-nfl-team/26

And most think, hey the guy has 2 of our 5 TDs, scored 12 of our points, only behind our kicker and has 142 of our all purpose yards... So why are we trying to focus on the few negative again?

He's only been targeted 8 times, and more than one of those was underthrown, and lets not add how many times he's been open and just was never seen.

It's much ado about nothing, complaining just to complain. There's so many more pressing things about our team that we could complain about than our only offense weapon not being spectacular on one side of the ball without any actual look into why.

 

[jrry32]

If it was a perfect throw at the right time and Austin made the catch, sure, you could say a lot of our receivers would have a lot more receiving yards. I'll give him credit for beating Sherman on that, though.

That is the QB's job. Throwing the ball at the right time accurately so a wide open WR can catch it for a TD.

 

[RAGRam]

Is it just me or are TDs a vastly overrated individual stat?

 

[jrry32]

Is it just me or are TDs a vastly overrated individual stat?

Well, they tend to win football games.

 

[LACHAMP46]

It's much ado about nothing, complaining just to complain. There's so many more pressing things about our team that we could complain about than our only offense weapon not being spectacular on one side of the ball without any actual look into why

I feel ya, and I'm not complaining...Just stating...facts. And unless you have All-22, you really don't know how often he's been open and not targeted....I just can't understand how a guy catches 4 balls, only 4 balls, and is supposed to be some breakout type player...Yes, he has speed. But is he open all the time? I personally am resigned to the fact that he'll always avg. around 8-9 yards per catch, similar to Edelman & Welker...Oh, and like a guy named Danny Amendola. I'd just like his catch numbers, especially on 3rd downs, increase. Be a factor, consistently. Be someone that Foles can rely on. Instead of dumping it off to Benny.

 

[HometownBoy]

I feel ya, and I'm not complaining...Just stating...facts. And unless you have All-22, you really don't know how often he's been open and not targeted....I just can't understand how a guy catches 4 balls, only 4 balls, and is supposed to be some breakout type player...Yes, he has speed. But is he open all the time? I personally am resigned to the fact that he'll always avg. around 8-9 yards per catch, similar to Edelman & Welker...Oh, and like a guy named Danny Amendola. I'd just like his catch numbers, especially on 3rd downs, increase. Be a factor, consistently. Be someone that Foles can rely on. Instead of dumping it off to Benny.

Well you can see it often, and announcers like to point it out and you can see it often in replays and targets are an easy metric to follow, even Pro Football Reference has them, not particularly hard to count how many times a guy is thrown to in a game.

And that's really not what Austin is about, and we have other players for stuff like that. Why does he also need to be doing Cook's and Britt's job when they do it about as well as you can ask for? Cook and Britt have already shown themselves to be the guys Foles relies on to get tough yardage when he needs it. I can't really think of it as a fault for not doing something that's already being taken care of. It's like chastising a running back for not being your 3rd down back when you've got Kevin Faulk on your roster, if there's guys that are doing it better than he ever could then of course he's not going to get those looks, you got go with the best before you go with the rest.

Austin can continue to rack up big yards in all facets of the game, the receiving yards will come, but that was never what his primary focus was going to be. The sooner people accept that, the sooner we can move on from it.

 

[DaveFan'51]

I know... The guy could only muster 2 TDs in the opener. We need four per game from him - MINIMUM! And they should all be receiving or they don't count. The guy's freaking useless.

Yah! Trade his useless a-- to Seattle for a 7th round draft pick!

 

[LACHAMP46]

targets are an easy metric to follow, even Pro Football Reference has them, not particularly hard to count how many times a guy is thrown to in a game.

Yes even ESPN shows targets, I get that...I wanna know, when he's NOT Targeted, is it because he's not open, or the QB doesn't SEE him....
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/15786/tavon-austin
and 3 receptions out of 7 targets for 4 yards is terrible......

And that's really not what Austin is about, and we have other players for stuff like that. Why does he also need to be doing Cook's and Britt's job when they do it about as well as you can ask for? Cook and Britt have already shown themselves to be the guys Foles relies on to get tough yardage when he needs it. I can't really think of it as a fault for not doing something that's already being taken care of. It's like chastising a running back for not being your 3rd down back when you've got Kevin Faulk on your roster, if there's guys that are doing it better than he ever could then of course he's not going to get those looks, you got go with the best before you go with the rest.

Getting 3rd down completions, as a slot wr, on a team with one of worst 3rd down conversion rates is NOT WHAT HE'S ABOUT?!? Then what the hell is he on the field for on 3rd downs? Why is he even a starting wr? What exactly WAS he drafted for? Why are they TRYING to get a guy that CAN'T move the sticks more involved? You can't be serious....

Austin can continue to rack up big yards in all facets of the game

Check the stats...2 games, I get that, but RACK UP BIG YARDS?!? When does 85 punt return yards, 57 rushing yards, and 4 passing yards...in 2 games = big yards? And if all he really wants to do is return a few punts, lets get a RECEIVER in the game that can try to move the chains.....I bet if you add up the yards lost from letting punts drop and roll are somewhere near......let me stop....
When will Quick be on the field, so I can give you a visual of what I'm trying to explain...

 

[fastcat]

At the end of the year I wouldn't care if he had a total of 300 yds recieving... idc about yards... I care about TDs. If he has double digit tds that means he helped us win games. Sj39 would touch the ball 200-250 times a year and have 1000+ yds but only get 4-6 tds. And look how many games we won with all the yards he piled up... 15 in about 4yrs. Think about it

 

[WvuIN02]

Some of you guys crack me up.

Fisher has had like 3 1000 yard season receivers ever in his 20 years coaching. His philosophy of a non passing game trickles down to his teams, he simply does not have that in his DNA and teams reflect their head coach as the saying goes.

To put it in perspective for this week: LeVeon Bell had more receiving yards last year (an effing running back) than ANYONE on this Rams roster. Foles hasnt changed anything. Its like putting a wagon on a racehorse. Thats Fishers MO, and fans continue to ignore it. Fisher is like the guy who still sends handwritten letters because thats how things were done back in his day.

We will see a perfect example of it this week when Todd Haley rolls into town, its the opposite. Big Ben was always a good QB, Haley has made him great.