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Quinn did have impact the last five weeks of the season. But despite that, Longacre got more sacks relative to his snaps than Quinn did for the year
I agree that Quinn improved. That strongly suggests he picked up his game at the end, possibly because he was finally over an injury or done with recovering from one (which is slightly different).
That means, to me, that you have to divide his season in 2. There's a Before and an After. Meaning, his sack percentage improved in those last games.
RQ missed a game and then did not really play in the SF game (8 snaps). He played in the Atlanta playoff game. His last 4 regular season starts plus the playoff game is 5 starts obviously. In the previous 11 regular season games he had 10 starts.
If you take the last 5, it's 271 defensive snaps total, with 6 sacks. In the first 10 starts, it's 422 snaps and 3.5 sacks.
Sack percentage
First 10 starts: 0.83%
Last 5 starts: 2.2%
If he were at 2.2% all year, counting the playoff game and subtracting both the missed regular season game and the SF game, that would be calculated out of 693 snaps. 2.2% of that would be 15 sacks for the season.
In contrast, Longacre had 5.5 sacks out of 377 snaps, and that's a sack percentage of 1.45%
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I agree that Quinn's season should be broken up into two sets. Prior to the trade I expressed misgivings about the Rams cutting or trading him because of his late season explosion.
If we had that Quinn for a full season those 15 sacks would represent a big improvement on what we had this year.
But once they traded him, I started taking a look at how much they would miss him by looking at sack percentage week to week. I wanted to look at what we actually had last year - no projection - vs. what we have now.
To do that, I looked at sack percentage in the first 12 weeks (corresponds with RQ's first 10 starts) when he didn't have crazy production and contrasted that with the last five weeks when he went off for those 6 sacks.
What I found was, the Rams sack percentage started off in the 3rd through 5th range and continued in that range until week 10. It fell off to 9th and then 8th for the next two weeks.
Then Quinn began his burst and helped bring it back into 3rd and 4th territory which is where they stayed with the exception of week 15 where they bumped up to 2nd.
For the year, they spent 13 of 17 weeks between 3rd and 5th in sack percentage. And that seemed to be the case with or without Quinn's great production.
NOTE: What I don't know from these numbers is how often Wade blitzed from week to week. Did it stay the same? Did he blitz less when Quinn was bringing the pressure? We don't know that...
