O-Line Cost Us a Championship

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(02-20-2022, 12:35 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: When Reiff was healthy...while not a good line, it was ok. When he got injured, it went to terrible.

It really really REALLY wasn't. In games Reiff started, Burrow was sacked at a 8.6% rate on dropbacks. That's basically 4 sacks for every 42 pass attempts.

Burrow led the NFL most of the year in sacks even with Reiff starting. He had FOUR different games of being sacked 5 times while Reiff was starting. The Bengals were 1-3 in those games.


EDIT:
Other playoff QB Sack%..
Tannehill: 8.1%
Jimmy G: 6.2%
Murray: 6.1%
Carr: 6.0%
Rapist: 5.9%
Hurts: 5.7%
Rodgers: 5.3%
M Jones: 5.1%
Prescott: 4.8%
Stafford: 4.8%
Mahomes: 4.1%
Allen: 3.9%
Brady: 3.0%

You have Tannehill (who was awful in 2021) .5% behind and then after him there's nobody within even 2% of Burrow WITH Reiff. The next closest is Jimmy G at 2.4% lower, which is a huge amount, and that's when you claim the OL was "ok".

Interesting of note among those 13 QBs...
The 5 with a Sack% below 5.0% went 7-4 in the playoffs.
The 8 with a Sack% above 5.0% went 2-8 in the playoffs. (Both wins by Jimmy G.)