MontanaHawk05":1ea0vbvj said:
Fade":1ea0vbvj said:
...I find it pretty amazing he is the NFL's highest rated passer despite the collection of turnstiles in front of him.
ApnaHawk":1ea0vbvj said:
I remember the year the Stealers beat the Cards in the SuperBowl. Big Ben had one of the worst o-lines in all of football. Maybe this year the same will happen in the Conf Champ game...
...and Hasselbeck looked better when he had real targets...
...and Manning's OL immediately looked worse once he left Indy...
...and Carr's OL immediately looked better once he left Houston...
...and Aaron Rodgers is amongst the most-sacked - and best - QBs in the NFL...
I wonder when people are going to get it.
Totally agreed with what I'm taking the implication of what you're saying to be.
While I think there's obviously SOME relationship between pass blocking ability and sacks, I think the really big story as far as this goes -- and we see it every year -- is the correlation between seconds-to-throw and sacks.
I think ability to manipulate the pocket probably even matters more than pass blocking ability also. Those, in order, are really the two things IMO and both more important than overall pass blocking ability.
It's why we see teams with veteran QBs that are throwing more than anyone still being in the bottom half of the league for giving up sacks, even though they don't have great (or even good) pass blocking O-lines (e.g. Saints, Pats, Chargers Ravens, NYG).
TBF I don't think the takeaway here is that O-line doesn't matter, as I think the truer statement is that "pass blocking doesn't matter as much as people think in the right scheme and with the right QB." For a lot of schemes and for QBs who aren't the cagey veteran type I think it really matters, just as I think it really matters for run blocking (for everyone except for the top three or four RBs in the league).