2011 Panini Plates & Patches Football NFL Trading Cards Box Break Recap and Review

[Baseball Nut]

What happened to Plates & Patches? Last year it was such a solid product,nicely packaged in a wooden box with a slabbed hit. 2011 Panini Plates & Patches has done away with theupscale packaging and encased hit which would be OK if what ever those costsaving entail were thrown back into the cards to make them even better thisyear, but unfortunately that is not the case here.


Plates & Patches falls under our premium cardscategory. Each hobby box contains10 cards with a promise of three autographs and two memorabilia, but our boxwas shorted one card, which happens to be one of the autograph hits.


Here are the cards we pulled from our box.

Roddy White Base #/299, front and back


Sidney Rice #/299, Stanley Havili #/100


Kenny Britt #/50, Peyton Manning City Limits #/249


Mason Foster Autograph #/199, Knowshon Moreno Dual Jersey #/50


MarK Sanchez Jersey #/299, Jonathan Baldwin RPS Rookie Signautres Redemption #/499


Calvin Johnson Prime Jersey Logo #/5


Overall Look

There is a lot of foil here and all of the lettering isembedded in it. The white marblebackground is a nice choice but the City Limits cards were better lastyear.

Quality and Variety of Players

Rookie prospecting is all the rage in Football, but as apost-season product this checklist is overloaded with these first yearplayers. This checklist could andshould have been pared down. Thereare even names within the 36 Rookie Premiere group that could be dropped atthis point, but most likely Panini is contractually obligated to keep them, butthen why add an additional 100 rookies, most of whom had little impact, to themix, especially when the majority of the autographs are coming from thatpool. No question, there are somebig name pulls within the other cards, but those tend to be extremely lownumbered case hits.

Do the Hits satisfy?

Unfortunately the emphasis on the non Premiere Rookies heredetracts from the overall impression of the other hits. Yes there are some big pulls to find,but the majority here seem to be rookie autographs.

Will you keep coming back for more?

This is one of those momentum builder products, hit a goodbox off the bat and you probably will be dipping in for seconds.

Rating

2 1/2 out of 5

2011 Panini Plates & Patches Football might work betterearly in the season when expectations are high, but as a post season productwhen player values have been determined, it feels out of touch.



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