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There is no real evidence that Fowler had shown much more rush ability. Look at their 2016 - 2018 seasons. I and another posted numbers on this.
There's not a huge difference between their numbers so IMO it's inaccurate to say one guy had 2 decent years as a rush guy. Fowler had 16 sacks in his first 3 seasons; Floyd had 15.5.
2016
Dante Fowler only played on passing downs as rookie 32 tackles, 4 sacks, 5 PDs in 36 snaps a game
Floyd had 7 sacks playing full time in 12 games..but had 33 tackles
year 2
2017
Fowler playing 29 snaps a game, had 8 sacks and was a major part of their team--which was good
Floyd playing 58 snaps a game had 34 tackles and 4.5 sacks
Also, watching Fowler, there was really no comparison who was the better pass rusher those two years.
imn 2018 we all saw what happend with Fowler---and in 2019...11.5 sacks, and 7 run stuffs
Floyd regressed in 2018 amd 2019, playing 75 and 84% of snaps he had 4 sacks and 2 sacks
There is really no comparison. And I am not sad Fowler is gone...just that Floyd is questionable based
on past. as someone said he's decent vs run and pass and as fair in pass rush, and we gave $10 for THAT?
I use PFF because they break down the details of this stuff more than others. In this case, they have the total number of snaps for each player and the breakdown of run defense versus pass rush versus coverage snaps.
Looking at just the pash rush stats for 2016 - 2018, this is what we get:
Fowler2016 - pass rush snaps 397 with 4 sacks
2017 - pass rush snaps 452 with 8 sacks
2018 - pass rush snaps 480 with 4 sacks
Total - 1329 pass rush snaps with 16 sacks
Floyd2016 - pass rush snaps 267 with 7 sacks
2017 - pass rush snaps 276 with 4.5 sacks
2018 - pass rush snaps 467 with 4 sacks
Total - 1010 pass rush snaps with 15.5 sacks
What I see is that Floyd got nearly the same amount of sacks in only 75% of the pass rushing opportunities. Neither one of their numbers were stellar but it definitely can NOT be said that there is no comparison based on stats.
