If Burrow is causing so many of these sacks...

[*Wyche'sWarrior*]

(02-18-2022, 07:45 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: ...then why did our other QBs take so many over the last 2 years?

In that time frame, Brandon Allen and Ryan Finley combined for:

7 starts
208 pass attempts
20 sacks

If you average those sacks out to 1066 pass attempts (Burrow's attempts in '20-21), it comes out to 102.5 sacks.

How many times was Burrow sacked in those same attempts? 102.

I think Burrow is taking too much blame for a problem that has existed with this team since 2016:

2016 - 41 sacks on 563 attempts
2017 - 40 sacks on 510 attempts
2018 - 37 sacks on 542 attempts
2019 - 48 sacks on 616 attempts
2020 - 48 sacks on 581 attempts
2021 - 74 sacks on 697 attempts

Remember when Dalton got sacked 7 times against the Jets a few years ago? Dalton's game was pre-snap reads and (mostly) quick throws. The type of stuff that should limit sacks...yet even HE was getting sacked at a high rate.

The line is just terrible, as it has been for 6 years now, and it looks even worse when we have a great QB who is aggressive and looking to push the ball downfield, rather than made quick predetermined throws.

Rather than asking Burrow to adjust a mentality that led us to a Super Bowl, maybe the FO should adjust and make this line great for the first time in ages.

The piss poor offensive line is why I was a little less bullish on firing Zac than most. It was that bad. It ranked in the 30s overall for three years. You know it's bad when Dalton was sacked so many times in Pittsburgh, he threw his helmet at the water cooler. While the line isn't that level bad, it's still not adequate.