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Originally Posted by Sam Hall
You think you're right because of what a Web site says. I know this is beyond message board logic, but show me a study published in an academic journal.
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I guess you don't trust NFL.com either.
You know, like these:
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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Then stick to verifiable stats. Roethlisberger got sacked 46 times in 469 pass attempts and Brees got sacked 13 times in 635. That's 1 sack every 10 drop-backs versus 1 sack every 49. That's nearly 3 sacks per game versus less than 1.
(How's that for lopsided...)
I think it would be very difficult to argue that Roethlisberger wasn't getting hit a lot more on a game-by game basis based on that. Project Roethlisberger's numbers out to the same number of attempts as Brees and he'd have been sacked over 62 times. Versus 13.
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