Comcast NFL Red Zone stat of the week - Maclin & McCoy

by JasonB on Dec 3, 2009 1:00 PM EST in Philadelphia Eagles News

The Eagles "stat of the week" is brought to you by Comcast and the new NFL Red Zone channel

This week's stat has to do with the Eagles young players. When I say "young" players I don't just mean young in terms of their time in the NFL, they're young in age. Even for rookies there they're young. Jeremy Maclin and LeSean McCoy both declared for the NFL draft as juniors and are both still just 21 years old... and they're shaping up to be some of the best 21 year olds to ever play the game.

This is from Comcast SportsNet.

LeSean McCoy is the 25th player in NFL history to rush for 500 yards in a season before his 22nd birthday, and Jeremy Maclin is the 11th player in NFL history with 500 receiving yards in a season before his 22nd birthday.

The Eagles are the first team in NFL history to have a running back and a wide receiver with 500 yards apiece in the same season before their 22nd birthdays.

The article also mentions that if Maclin keeps on his current pace he'll have the second most yards for a 21 year old ever behind only Randy Moss. That said, Vikings rookie Percy Harvin would be there as well if he keeps up his pace.

Comcast is carrying the new NFL Red Zone channel. NFL Red Zone lets you follow all the red zone action on NFL Sunday as it happens. When a team gets inside the twenty, the network cuts to that game. It's a fantasy player's dream.

They don't ever break for commercials and the action literally never stops. They don't just limit it to red zone trips either... I was watching last weekend and they would show any game live if no team happened to be in the red zone. This is probably the best thing ever invented for an NFL fan that's looking for something to flip to when the Eagles game goes to commercials...

Last week, our pal Chris Haines gave a pretty good endorsement of Red Zone

This RedZone channel was the only reason I got to see Vince Young’s epic drive and silly pass against the Cardinals. It really is awesome.

That was an epic drive.

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wow that is impressive

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by Eaglesgrl5 on Dec 3, 2009 1:10 PM EST reply actions

regarding mccoy, i dont think its that impressive to be the 25th player in NFL history to rush for 500 yards in a season before his 22nd birthday, when you’re the pretty much the starting RB in place of westbrook who has a lot of the offense built around his position. just my two cents.

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by sixrfan on Dec 3, 2009 1:16 PM EST reply actions

how many games are still left to play?

500 yards may not be impressive right now, but 800 by week 17 would get him a lot higher.

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by variablesdont on Dec 3, 2009 2:11 PM EST up reply actions

Nice to See The Rookies Not only Contribute

But Make History!! Next Year our O will be Even Better Go eagles.

by CJ's Eagles on Dec 3, 2009 1:21 PM EST reply actions

TOTALLY FREAKIN GIDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW, those are a couple really cool bits of info, but in regards to those stats i cant help but to be so freakin pumped for years 2 come as an Eagle fan. When these 2 were drafted i knew they were gonna be good and contribute one day but i cant beleive how fast it has happened. Now i know injuries are the main reason these 2 are playin but they still have 2 be given all the credit for steppin up and makin the most out of their opportunites, especially Shady. For Mccoy…..he has sum huge freakin shoes 2 fill while Westy is out and i think hes performing admirably. JUST IMAGINE HOW FUKIN GOOD THESE 2 ARE GONNA BE WHEN THEY REALLY FIGURE OUT THE GAME AT THE NFL LEVEL!!!!!!! Now if only Donavan were 5 years younger id be shittin myself, its ashame it has taken his whole career for the FO to finally surround him with players on his level. Hopefully Donavan will be a Eagle for at least another 3-4 years.

by goldenbird09 on Dec 3, 2009 1:47 PM EST reply actions

I totally agree

by bleedinggreeninDK on Dec 3, 2009 2:30 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah

good post goldenbird, completely agree and I have to say McCoy was my favourite late 1st rd prospect in this draft but I knew little of Maclin (he wasn’t goin to be available.) Maclin could really break out down the stretch IMO.

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by RadioheadbeatlesEagles on Dec 3, 2009 4:19 PM EST up reply actions

Maclin

I think Maclin’s more impressive, not because of this age, but just because you usually don’t see rookies with this kind of production no matter what their age, ability, or situation. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Maclin might end up being the better of our two sensational two WRs by the time everything is said and done.

In his final 5 games, if Maclin catches 5 balls per game (averaging 4.2 right now) for 13 ypcatch (averaging 12.8ypc now), he’ll end up with 67 catches for 865 yards. DJax last year had 62 catches for 912 yards. Throw in more TDs for Mac already than DJax last year (4 to 2), and you can say Maclin might have a better year this year than DJax did last.

Either way, pretty good for 2 kids both barely old enough to drink!

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant

by NJBammer on Dec 3, 2009 2:01 PM EST reply actions

they were both 20 when drafted.

Mac turned 21 in late May and Shady in mid-July. This is almost unreal, I just remember in the 2nd round waiting for use to draft a RB and like we had two cleveland picks before us and I was almost 100 % positive they’d take Shady and I’m absolutely thrilled they didn’t. Lesean is a blessing that only Mormons can apparently conjure up.

by NJEagle on Dec 3, 2009 3:00 PM EST reply actions

Lol

“Lesean is a blessing that only Mormons can apparently conjure up.”

Being mormon this made me laugh my ass off for a good 10 minutes.

It’s amazing to me how well they both carry themselves at such a young age. As the season goes on the two of them together are both maturing before our eyes. It’s amazing to me just how much better they understand the game. Specifically, it seems that Maclin is running his routes alot crisper than he was at the beginning of the season and McCoy is rushing a whole hell of a lot better now that he’s trying to run down hill rather than running East to West all the time. Whatever Westbrook is telling him is working.

All in all, we should consider ourselves lucky. Even Kolb filled in nicely when D-mac went down. The idea of Kolb, Mac, Shady, D-Jax, and Celek even makes me feel a little giddy…

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by ForTheLove on Dec 3, 2009 3:23 PM EST up reply actions