Quote:Actually, I recall several posters comparing the duos.

 

Quite frankly, it's pretty common on here for people to be on Bortles, and it's deserved because he has made some bone-headed plays, but Robinson just looks bad this season.  If I recall correctly, he dropped 2+ passes that hit him in the hands in the last game alone.

 

Hurns has always been the "dependable" receiver catching passes over the middle at times.

 

Getting back to Robinson though, there was a time when Jimmy Smith had a case of the "dropsies".

"Hitting him in the hands" isn't the definition for a drop. Neither of the two plays you are talking about were classified as drops. One he was having to make a sideline dive and the other he was fighting through an elite CB to try to catch the pass on the other side of the CBs body. Yes they both hit his hands and he has the capability of making great catches on both, but they aren't drops.

 

It's like the distinction between a passed ball and a wild pitch. Plenty of wild pitches are avoided because catchers make great digs out of the dirt, but if they don't make that dig it's a wild pitch credited to the pitcher not the catcher. A passed ball is when it is a routine throw that the catcher misses. 

 

Hurns is the one that is making the routine attempt drops (credited with 6 drops, 2nd worst in the league), Arob is the one on the receiving end of the wild pitches (2 drops, 113th worst). You're trying to say yeah well that pitch was two feet short and three feet wide, but the catcher got a piece of glove on it as he was diving across the zone so it should have been caught. 

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