OL hits and sacks - Joe Goodberry

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(04-13-2021, 05:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't think this is true.

When you look up how often a DB is used to blitz it includes plays when only four are rushing the passer.

A blitz is by definition 5 or more players rushing the QB.  If a blitz happened whenever someone who isn't a DL rushes the QB, then 3-4 teams would blitz nearly every play.  Burrow's blitz rate was a little over 1/3 of his dropbacks.  If that was the case, it would be a lot higher.  There are starters down under 23%.  

It's a BS argument on his part, anyways.  Even if the statistics included whenever a non-DL rushes, that criteria is the same across the board for every QB in the league.  Is he going through and breaking down All 22 on every team to determine if Burrow saw an inordinate of 4 man "blitzes" compared to other QB's?  We know he's not.  He doesn't even know or even cared to ask the source of those statistics.