LOTS of good opinions in this thread and Mike from SD had a good suggestion that I should actually do to get a real true answer. 

I did break off the ends of a few ears of the dropped ears vs upright ears and the mst line was about 50% ahead but not further then 2/3 of way down which surprised me for being drooped for well over a wk. Noticed that within 1 day after being broken off the mst line was all the way down , which shows me that the dry down of the still connected dropped ear was way slower then a disconnected ear so I think I have to conclude that their very likely a drooped ear with rain did save some yield!

Had a total of 5.6" actually! Wow, if could just have had that about 4 wks earlier it would've prob. yielded 50 bpa more! The "If Just" of farming!