I think the lack of pressure up front is a little blown out of proportion honestly, in hythloday's film study this week he had 41% of pass plays resulting in a sack, throwaway, or scramble. There was a good article in the Athletic recently about sacks being a misleading/less important stat - prompted mostly by the fact that UGA was tied for last in sacks at the time (they're now tied for 115th - with the same number of sacks as UMass).
I do want to see more sacks because they're awesome but you just know half of them will result in personal fouls, so maybe throwaways are better in aggregate.
Mike, you’re so right, and you did the homework while I went off feel. I try to avoid reading hythloday’s film review until after I write my piece just so I don’t become totally unoriginal and just repeat him, but you hit the nail on the head there. I tried to have some formal explanation for why we needed pressure when the answer was way more simple: sacks are just dope.
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I think the lack of pressure up front is a little blown out of proportion honestly, in hythloday's film study this week he had 41% of pass plays resulting in a sack, throwaway, or scramble. There was a good article in the Athletic recently about sacks being a misleading/less important stat - prompted mostly by the fact that UGA was tied for last in sacks at the time (they're now tied for 115th - with the same number of sacks as UMass).
I do want to see more sacks because they're awesome but you just know half of them will result in personal fouls, so maybe throwaways are better in aggregate.
Mike, you’re so right, and you did the homework while I went off feel. I try to avoid reading hythloday’s film review until after I write my piece just so I don’t become totally unoriginal and just repeat him, but you hit the nail on the head there. I tried to have some formal explanation for why we needed pressure when the answer was way more simple: sacks are just dope.
Thanks for reading & Go Ducks!