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Yep I pretty much agree with all of this.

To be honest, the OLB situation is very close to what I think a lot of us expected so for me, I don't really use the word disappointing. I never had high expectations for that group this year.

My consistent position has been that we didn't have good OLBs last year either, it was a weakness then too, yet we were fine. 12th in points allowed. This year, the DL and secondary got much stronger with the same OLB weakness.

So far the result is good. I'm not experiencing much angst at all...that said, I'm fairly certain they address the position in the offseason. I'd be surprised to see them address it during the season but Snead and Co. are ever opportunistic so if a good trade presented itself, who knows.

Well...they were better last year.

Again, 21 sacks just from OLBs in 2017. That's appx. 1.3 a game. And that was without Suh. So far this year it's 0.33 a game. And that includes playing a couple of beat-up OLs.

They do have talent at DL and in the secondary so I don't know how much of an issue it will be.

But logic alone says it will be some kind of issue.

Sacks directly relate to scoring since stats show that a team that gets sacked on a drive has a significantly lower chance to convert 3rd down. That means a sack has a fairly high percentage chance of subtracting a series and therefore a scoring opportunity.

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At first glance with stats, yeah they were better. But stats aren't everything. Or more specifically, one stat doesn't tell the whole story. As I posted yesterday, we can't make an apples to apples comparison because Wade is calling things completely different this year.

Blitzing #'s: 2017 40%; 2018 18%.

That's a huge difference. That alone can account for the difference in sacks.

Everything is not personnel so unless someone can show a way to decipher between what's personnel and what's scheme, I'm gonna assume that the huge disparity in sack percentage is due to the blatantly obvious stat that jumps out.

IOW, I think it's an issue of Wade's choosing.

Part of the reason Wade is going this route could be because, while I agree that sacks are important, Wade (and former DC GW for that matter) are on record as stating that QB pressure is more important. As long as he's getting sufficient pressure with only rushing 3 or 4, he can shut down the run game and smother the passing attack.

Look at the results.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/24/2018 11:54AM by dzrams.