The OL Thread

[Shake n Blake]

(09-27-2023, 05:18 PM)Whacked Wrote: 10/22

Great Profile pic - ditto here man.

Thanks and thanks! God Bless you.

(09-27-2023, 05:24 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I went ahead and looked for you - it is close. Through the first three weeks this year, Joe Burrow has dropped back 127 times and has been sacked five times, or every 25 dropbacks. Through the first three weeks of last season, Burrow dropped back 149 times and was sacked 15 times, or every 10 dropbacks. 

There is some extra context, like Burrow having a time to throw of 2.6 seconds and average depth of target of 7.6 compared to 2.3 and 7.1 this year, but that is not enough to explain that big of a discrepancy. 

Appreciate you looking up the stats. The attempts are closer than I thought, but I agree that I wouldn't attribute ALL of that improvement to the neutered passing game. 

I have to be honest here, it definitely makes it harder to give the line props or to make a concrete stance, but a bad line would give up more than 5 sacks even with a quicker and shorter pass game.

After all, it's not like every throw is snap, toss.

(09-27-2023, 05:58 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I was just about to go get all this data and post, so thank you for doing it already :)

Burrow would be getting sacked more if he they were calling plays with deeper, longer-developing routes and he had to hold onto the ball longer.

At the end of the day, the sacks might be down, but the offensive production is also (way) down.

Selfishly, I'd take more sacks if it meant a more high-powered offense lol.

I agree, but let's hope the sacks go up by the amount they reasonably should. Not a throwback to 2021. 

Just because we will open up the offense more later doesn't mean we should assume regular 7 sack games are on the horizon. 

Not necessarily saying that's what you were saying.