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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 466735">Drops are subjectively determined. Different sources will quote different numbers by their own subjective standards. That's why a number coming from an independent source, like Pro Football Focus or STATS, won't always be the same number that occasionally leaks out from a team representative. Drops are not an official NFL statistic. At the start of the season, a Packer insider, I can't recall which, stated that if a ball hits a receiver's hands and he does not catch it, it's called a drop. Later in the season, it was stated that they revised their point system charging fewer drops, and rightfully so. As far as I'm concerned, a pass is not a drop if 1) the ball is so high, or so far in front of an laid out receiver, it goes off fingertips, 2) the defender gets a piece of an arm or the ball in the process of catching, 3) the defender makes a hit simultaneous with the ball (those borderline interference calls), 4) the ball is tipped on the way to the receiver within 10 yards or so of the attempted catch, depending on the velocity of the ball. The idea is a drop is a failure to make a catch you would expect an NFL receiver to make routinely. It is not the failure to make a great catch. This is an error-clocking stat. For example, Jones' terrific catch for the last first down of the game is a +1 to be sure. Had he not made that catch, you would not call it a drop.</blockquote>

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