Notes From Training Camp 2025

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(Yesterday, 06:12 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I beg to differ.

In order of importance, a sack is better than a hit, a hit is better than a pressure, a pressure is better than no pressure.

Yup, if you believe the math nerds and football statisticians...
A hurry with no hit is still barely a positive offensive play at +0.019 expected points added.
A hurry AND hit is -0.323 expected points added.
A sack is -1.856 exepcted points added.

You need nearly 6 (5.75) instances of hurrying AND hitting a QB to equal/surpass the value of just 1 sack. This was the same problem when people tried to hype up Carl Lawson as an elite pass rusher after 2020 despite 5.5 sacks because of his pressures. You need 57.5 instances of both hurrying AND hitting a QB on a passing play in order to equal the value of just 10 sacks and nobody hurries and hits the QB that much.