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Re: Let's take the Ray Ray Challenge
You don't understand pass rushing. It is a group effort, not just about an individual's stats. Most sacks made by the outside rushers happen because the interior DL collapsed the pocket in front of the QB taking away sliding lanes. The complementary nature of the pass rush is fundamental.
I cant speak on game to game stats, though I guess that could be collected if someone had the time to do it. What I have are aggregate stats for the guys who played a majority of snaps for all the teams last season. The formula I have basically looks at completions under pressure vs regular completions which can give an idea of just how many times a player giving up a pressure causes a failure (the average QB split is something like 64% completions per dropback with no pressure vs 43% when pressurized). I find it a far better estimation than the sites that simply say a pressure is about the same as a sack since a sack has no chance of being complete while QBs still complete passes under pressure.
The average numbers last year were as follows:
Tackles: Pressures on 5.87% and sacks on 1.17 % of dropbacks
Guards: Pressures on 3.7% and sacks on 0.45% of dropbacks
Centers: Pressures on 2.2% and sacks on 0.37% of dropbacks
Those outside pressures are far more effective. There are monsters like Suh and Ngata that play on the inside now, but its still coming from the outside. Guys on the inside help each other out alot while the outside guys are often on an island. I think the big difference now is that RT has slowly become as important as LT because teams are so often moving players around on the line and its no longer a guarantee that the best pass rusher is lining up against the LT. Hunter last year got brutalized by Ware and Miller on a few plays. Years ago that never would have happened.
You don't understand pass rushing. It is a group effort, not just about an individual's stats. Most sacks made by the outside rushers happen because the interior DL collapsed the pocket in front of the QB taking away sliding lanes. The complementary nature of the pass rush is fundamental.
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