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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Wow.
Thanks for sharing. This kind of reinforced my thoughts about the Eagles' pass rush perhaps not being as dominant as stats alone would suggest.
Awful lot of bad, overmatched OLs (ie, not as good as the Chiefs). Awful lot of below average QBs being indecisive with the ball.
The Chiefs have a good OL, a QB with excellent pocket presence and awareness, and willl schematically work to get the ball out quick.
You don't see a LOT of quick wins in their season sack sequence. You see ends winning with power (even Reddick does not have a lot of quick-twitch wins). You see a group doing their job.
It's a good group, but the weak Os and QBs have inflated the sack numbers.
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The advanced stats on Pro Football Reference back this up. They’re middle of the pack in both Hurry % and Knockdown %.
They’re second in pressure percentage, but they’re right in line with the other top pass rushes in the league.
The chasm that exists between them and everybody else in sacks doesn’t seem to exist in the other pass rush metrics. That leads me to believe that the bad QBs they played all year weren’t good enough or didn’t have the presence to get rid of the ball. They either weren’t finding receivers or they didn’t know when to throw it away and live to fight another down.
I know these stats can be a little weird with how they’re calculated and all, but you would think a team that leads the league in sacks by 15 would also have a pretty wide margin over everyone else in the other metrics.
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...s/2022/opp.htm