The 2014 season marked a new era of passing efficiency. And since the 2014 season, the passing game has remained extremely efficient. However, there were a lot of quarterback injuries in 2019: we spent most or all of the season without Andrew Luck, Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton, and Alex Smith; as a result, pass effic
The article is from 2020 which is why it’s about the 2019 season. But it’s true- a sack is almost always as bad or worse than a pick. And if your HC is so turnover conscious that he scares the QB out of pulling the trigger, he’s contributing to more losses than wins and should be fired.
Fumbles- If you look up the players that fumble the most it is almost exclusively QBs at the top of the list. And those are primarily strip sacks.
While not every fumble is a fumble lost, a fumble lost is almost always worse than a pick because it’s behind the line of scrimmage.
Sacks are obviously worse than incompletions because they are behind the line of scrimmage.
Injuries- Want to lose a lot of games, start your back up QB for most of the season or play your dinged up starter. How do QBs get injured, usually on sacks.
Also goes without saying, but negative plays are how punters get more playing time.
I’m a supporter of Fields, but the rate he takes sacks at softens the support A LOT. He needs to be more decisive and that is an area that HAS to improve. I do suspect that since the “T” in HITS used to be for “turnovers/ takeaways” before it became “the ball” that Eberflus emphasizes not throwing the ball if there is an iota of a chance it can be intercepted which probably doesn’t help.
I’ve been pounding the table about throwing the ball 35+ times per game in order to get a concrete evaluation on our QB situation. Every sack is a pass attempt that could have happened.
A sack is not as bad as a pick (duh). Teams get sacked more than they throw picks. The article is claiming that in 2019, all the sacks in total hurt teams more than all the picks.
However, I do think a fair bit of fans don’t realize how bad sacks are. Since they very often lead to increased punter playing time
We can quibble a bit on this, but let’s just say a sack is worse than a risky throw.
I’m not sure if this is a collected stat, but the ratios of fumbles per sack or fumbles lost per sack would likely underscore this. And a fumble behind the line of scrimmage is almost always worse than a pick.
Honestly, whatever. Risky pass thing is an interesting and generally more correct way to look at it. And I can’t agree more that the Bears should let young QBs sink or swim with a ton of passes a game