Sacks per million

[THE PISTONS]

(12-05-2018, 11:01 AM)MentalRage Wrote: I know some people are really down on the d-line but Atkins and Dunlap are right around their career averages for sacks and tackles for losses.

So far Geno has 7 sacks, 9 tfl and 16 QB hits this year. Dunlap has 7 sacks, 7 tfl and 15 qb hits. Bengals still have 4 games to go. But lets look at their last three years just to compare.

Geno:                                                                 Dunlap:
2015 - 11.0 sacks, 17 tfl, 21 qb hits                         13.5 sacks, 16 tfl, 34 qb hits
2016 - 9.0 sacks, 13 tfl, 26 qb hits                           8.0 sacks, 7 tfl, 23 qb hits
2017 - 9.0 sacks, 10 tfl,  20 qb hits                          7.5 sacks, 12 tfl, 24 qb hits

Geno still ranks 3rd at his position in total pressures with 53. He's still very very good. Dunlap has always been consistent and above average but never the super star people make him out to be. He's only had 1 season with double digit sacks. Losing Carl Lawson hurt a lot more than people realize. Teams need at least 3 good pass rushers and the bengals only have two.

Yep. They're having their normal year. When the team is bad...fans look for the stars to produce more.

They don't look for the bad players to be less bad.