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dzrams
I think we're all agreed that Stafford can't win on his backside but this narrative that the OL gave up lots of sacks or pressures last year isn't accurate.
Goff was the 9th least pressured QB per PFF.
No one has a narrative where the OL gave up lots of sacks. In fact even in 2019 when the OL was a mess for 9 games and less of a mess for 7 games, they did not give up sacks. But then sacks are never just on the OL. They are on the qb too.
There WERE games where they gave up a lot of pressures though. I can link you to that data. And there were games where the OL got dominated--we saw it.
Remember--and this always has to be remembered--there is not one site that gives info on pressures. So 9th least, according to WHOM? Because whoever it is, it won't be the be-all and end-all.
In PFR stats, counting all 18 games, the Rams gave up 7 or more pressures in 13 games (Though one of those, the wildcard game, the stats split the pressures between Goff and Wolford.) In those 13 games, they gave up 16 pressures in the 1st Arizona game, 11 to the Jets, and 17 in the 2nd Seattle game. The game of 17 and 16 rank 3rd and 4th respectively for most pressures given up in a game from 2018-2020.
In those 13 games they went 7-6.
But they never gave up much in the way of sacks. One of Goff's flaws in fact was not just taking sacks and trying to make plays (ie. pressing).
