03-03-2021, 12:23 AM
(03-03-2021, 12:02 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Last season Clowney got 1yr/$13m after only having 3 sacks (but being rated as elite by PFF with a 87.3 grade) in 2019 and he has historically been more productive (and a full time player) compared to Lawson. Seeing a guy with even less results than Clowney and paying him even more based off "almost sacks" is a terrible idea.
The Seahawks ignored the advanced metrics rating in favor of reality, let him walk in FA, the Titans gave him $13m and he ended up with 0 sacks (but still somehow was rated PFF's 19th rated edge rusher).
You're right to be hesitant.
Because sacks are a fan friendly stat but one that doesn’t actually mean much. It doesn’t mean they even really won their matchup just that they were the last guy to touch the QB before he went down, or even ran out of bounds behind the LoS.
Some of the advanced stuff that looks at how guys get sacks is really interesting. There are some guys, take Maxx Crosby a couple years ago, who actually rarely ever won the match up but instead QBs ran into him at an insanely high rate or he actually would get blocked into the QB. That’s why people tend to like “win rate” as the fact the QB may run away from the pass rusher to the weaker rusher side doesn’t mean the player didn’t do their job.
