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Fantasy Football Articles - October 2003
Enclosed in this archive is every bit of the action and updates that occurred in October 2003 within the world of fantasy football. You may want to read these articles for research on players in the coming year, or just check to see if we were way off base with our reporting. Whatever the reason, it's all here for your enjoyment.
Fantasy Football Challenge - October 2003 Fantasy Football Articles
Fantasy Football Challenge - October 2003 Articles Archives
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the Packers would have 12 dropped passes and Brett Favre''s completion mark would be a pedestrian 59.6 percent.
Instead, the Packers have dropped only two passes in the first five games and Favre is completing 66 percent, third in the National Football League behind Indianapolis'' Peyton Manning (68.6 percent) and St. Louis'' Marc Bulger (66.1 percent) and well above his career mark of 60.9 percent.
This is a passing game that ranks just 23rd in yards, by far the club''s worst showing since the West Coast offense was installed in Green Bay in 1992. But that mostly reflects the Packers'' inability to throw downfield, not their eye-catching ability to catch everything that''s thrown.
"It''s huge," head coach Mike Sherman said Friday. "If you get open, and they put the ball on you, you''ve got to catch it."
So far, Favre has passed 156 times. The only drops were by Ahman Green on a screen pass against Detroit in Week 2 and by Donald Driver on a short inside route against Arizona in Week 3.
Otherwise, the 51 incompletions either were knocked down, thrown inaccurately, intercepted, thrown away or batted down at the line.
Journal-Sentinel research dating to 1986 shows that the Packers have averaged 12.4 drops in the first five games of the last 17 seasons.
STATS Inc. has three employees watching TV tapes of each NFL game and recording data. In their judgment, the Packers have dropped four passes.
Denver''s Jake Plummer has the lowest rate of drops to pass attempts of any starting quarterback at 1.53 percent (2-of-131). Dallas'' Quincy Carter is next at 2.38 percent (3-of-126), followed by Favre at 2.56 percent (4-of-156). Quarterbacks with the highest drop rates are Detroit''s Joey Harrington at 9.23 percent (18-of-195), Washington''s Patrick Ramsey at 8.94 percent (16-of-179) and Oakland''s Rich Gannon at 8.14 percent (14-of-172).
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