Bernard Berrian Wants You To Know It's Someone Else's Fault

I’m not insinuating that there’s a hidden message here, but I found this statement interesting (emphasis added):

“In order for our offense to reach its maximum potential, we need to be able to stretch the field,” Frazier said. “And we feel like Bernard is one of those guys who can do it. This would be a great week for that to happen. Between the three – Bernard, Michael and Devin (Aromashodu) – we think we have the guys on the outside that should be able to make a play for us.”

I thought

"We’ve got Bernard Berrian here for a reason," Frazier said. "He’s going to step up and help in that area."

Not

“I’ve been doing the SAME things I’ve always been doing,” Berrian said.

What, we have here, is a FAILURE, to, communicate.

Berrian has been targeted 10 times this season. Part of that is getting open. Part of that is McNabb not trusting the timing between the two of them. Part of that is McNabb not trusting Berrian to catch the ball. Of the 10 or so targets, McNabb has probably over or under thrown it 4 or 5 times by my estimate. 3 of those were drops. Could Berrian have fought for more of the bad passes? Probably. That would only reasonably increase the catch total there by 2 or 3 at best.

Several times, especially during the Lions game, Berrian had his eecwiver beat. One during a Go route and the other on a post, I think. McNabb had time and did not throw.

And of course, not enough time in the pocket hurts.

Pain all around in our deep routes.

"We’ll continue to try to work on getting him the football," Frazier said. "It’s just about getting that separation and getting in situations where we feel like we have a chance to get him the football. It’s something that we’re going to need between Donovan and Bernard, especially down field making some plays."

I did a fanshot on this a couple days ago. Thought I’d share it here.

The line and the qb are also reasons for him not seeing many targets as a few have said before me.

I think the reason there is so much hate for him is there seemed to be better options in training camp, or at least younger with more potential. Guys like johnson or the guy from the cfl would have been better options imo to give a roster spot.

With the qb and line spots we didnt have much available for upgrades to them positions. So while we all know they suck there isnt that much that could be done. I have ideas for them spots too but that can be saved for a different post aka I hate typing on this damn phone

If you are a GM of another team would you sign him next year?

McNabb has been off on quite a few throws but nothing out of his normal. Deep passes are harder to complete anyway. That is no excuse for McNabb but the truth.

So why cannot BB catch some shorter throws? Can he only run one pattern? If that is what they want then there is a HOF player unsigned right now who can do that very very well.

BB needs to do more than catch some long passes. He needs to catch all kinds of passes. And as Chris said, the other WRs are managing to do that even with McNabb.

As for BBs injury that is unfortunate but this is a production based business.

WHYDFML! What have you done for me lately.

And BB is not getting it done no matter what.

The other problem with continuing to play him is that he is not the future. I am praying that they do NOT resign him after this season. Camarillo is another player in his last year. Aromashodu only signed a one year deal.

So this upcoming off season they will need to find 3 WRs unless they plan on bringing up Arceneaux and Burton from the practice squad.

As much as fans want McNabb to be replaced by Ponder so Ponder can get some experience, then they should also want BB replaced too. Why even have Ponder throw to him at all if he will not be here in 2012?

This is the problem I had with BB before the season began and still do. He is not going to help the team in 2012 and he certainly is not helping them now. Although some want to point to a myriad of reasons for his lack of production it does not excuse it away. He needs to find a way to do something else.

They need to play Aromashodu more and BB less. At least DA can get off the line of scrimmage and will fight for the ball. Plus he is bigger and faster. I only can wonder if he is having trouble with the playbook.

I think that BB has a couple of more weeks of lousy production before they should bench him and play Aromashodu.

Players typically have just a few short years to make their money in the NFL before their bodies are broken down and they just can’t do it anymore. We’re finding out that Donovan McNabb is washed up at 34. Part of that is his playing style, which requires a lot of movement in and around the pocket, including an occasional run down field.

Bernard Berrian was a marginal deep threat WR at his peak. Now, he’s past his peak, and he’s no real threat at all. Teams never double covered him even at his best. Now they put their third best CB on him, and he can’t get separation. No separation, average hands, doesn’t fight for the ball. Why would any competent QB throw a football in his direction?

Some people want to blame Berrian’s lack of production on Donovan McNabb. Fair enough, McNabb can’t throw deep balls with much accuracy anymore. However, we just saw two years of Brett Favre, and he didn’t throw balls to Berrian either. Two HOF QB’s that didn’t throw the ball to your “deep threat” WR. Granted, both QB’s were nearing the end of their careers, and neither could throw it deep as well as in years past. But then you look at all the other Vikings receivers. They’re catching balls, but Berrian isn’t. Starts to look pretty dubious for Berrian.

NFC Rank …………………. Rec / Targets
121 Bernard Berrian, WR MIN 1 / 10
41 Percy Harvin, WR MIN 12 / 18
32 Michael Jenkins, WR MIN 15 / 17

I’d say he’s getting plenty of looks considering he’s our deep threat receiver. But only catching 10% of the balls thrown his way is unacceptable. The same guy is throwing to Harvin and Jenkins and they seem to be pulling most of them in just fine.

We don’t need guys like Arceneux and Jaymar…we got the one and only BB!

/sarcasm

He sweet talked his way into playing time by blaming his problems on “Favre didn’t like me…” and apparently neither did TJack, Joe Webb, Donovan….

Don’t fear Bernard Berrian. At all. They can play soft on him and load up against the run and short pass plays all day long.

Harvin has incredible speed and excellent hands and moves. Switch him to the deep WR rather than more of a tight end/slant route threat and give the opposing teams something to worry about, since we really don’t need endless short tight end plays to him and Shiancoe and Kleinsasser and Gerhardt and Jenkins and Camarillo and even Peterson.

Even quarterbacks like Brees, who are great at short routes, like to spread the field by stretching the limits of the short game. Berrian has nothing to contribute to either the short or long passing game.

A weak useless turd. He has weighed in at 175lbs for a guy that is 6’1 it means your a weak bitch. A weak useless turd out the back of a squatting BITCH!

…it can’t be your fault if you are a minor role player. He’s not even someone the other factor to stop so how can you blame him. He’s doing exactly what most people assumed he would do!