Goff was tied for the league lead in pass attempts last year with 626 yet he was 29th in the league in sacks. How is that possible, especially with the OL he played behind? Well, one possibility is he threw the ball away a lot, which would impact the first stat in the article: bad throw rate.
Winston was the other guy with 626 attempts and was sacked 47 times, one behind the league leaders Ryan, Wilson, and Murray. Suppose Goff had taken another 25 sacks to match Winston's number and reduced his bad throws by 25 in the process? Well, here's the math.
With a 20.2% bad throw rate they are crediting Goff with 127 bad throws in 626 attempts. Taking those additional 25 sacks would have reduced the number of bad throws to 102 and the number of pass attempts to 601 ... a 17% rate (good for 12th in the league).
Does anyone wish Goff had taken those 25 sacks so he could boost his bad throw rate? Yeah, me neither.
edit: as a bonus Goff would have improved his completion percentage - he would have been 394 for 601, 65.6%
AlbaNY_Ram
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2020 09:26AM by AlbaNY_Ram.
