Poeticlaw Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 Drfishfinder and I are having a little debate back and forth on whether or not the OL improved in its passblocking. Drfishfinder believes because we had 8 less sacks in the second half that the OL His quote"Buffalo's OL did a better job of picking up the pass rush in the 2nd half of the season. Opposing teams knew that Buffalo had virtually no offensive answer for strong pass rushing and especially blitzes. Everyone could see the OL was struggling early in the season and teams just pinned their ears back and came for blood. Sack tally was 23 at mid season. First 4 games of the season: 11 sacks. First 4 games of 2nd half of season: 5 sacks. Edwards threw a bunch of interceptions that had nothing to do with pressure. Pressure wasn't even at the stadium." I stated that sacks were not a clear indicator of an improved OL but the run did imporve in the second half My qoute:"Sacks are not black and white on pressure. Ints come into play as well as the difference in yards. I alwasy have time for stats. P-att p-yds sacks int r- atts r-yards Games 1-8 244 1845 23 6 207 750 Games 9-16 235 1224 15 9 230 1092 We had 9 less pass atempts in the second half for 621 less yards 8 less sacks 3 more ints- so thats 7.56 yds per attempt in first half to 5.21 yards per attempt in the second half thats the pressure we did not do better at while Rushing had 23 more attempts for 342 more yards or 3.62 yds per carry in first half and 4.75 yards per carry in the second half the IMPROVED running I was talking about. So again I think you are mistaken we took a 2.35 yard per attempt loss compared to the first half while rushing gained 1.13 yds per attempt compared to the first half. Would you agree with me now? He doesnt seem to be disagreeing about the OL improving in the runblocking. So the question is do you think the OL improved in protecting the QB in the second half of the season?
Tcali Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 Drfishfinder and I are having a little debate back and forth on whether or not the OL improved in its passblocking. Drfishfinder believes because we had 8 less sacks in the second half that the OL His quote"Buffalo's OL did a better job of picking up the pass rush in the 2nd half of the season. Opposing teams knew that Buffalo had virtually no offensive answer for strong pass rushing and especially blitzes. Everyone could see the OL was struggling early in the season and teams just pinned their ears back and came for blood. Sack tally was 23 at mid season. First 4 games of the season: 11 sacks. First 4 games of 2nd half of season: 5 sacks. Edwards threw a bunch of interceptions that had nothing to do with pressure. Pressure wasn't even at the stadium." I stated that sacks were not a clear indicator of an improved OL but the run did imporve in the second half My qoute:"Sacks are not black and white on pressure. Ints come into play as well as the difference in yards. I alwasy have time for stats. P-att p-yds sacks int r- atts r-yards Games 1-8 244 1845 23 6 207 750 Games 9-16 235 1224 15 9 230 1092 We had 9 less pass atempts in the second half for 621 less yards 8 less sacks 3 more ints- so thats 7.56 yds per attempt in first half to 5.21 yards per attempt in the second half thats the pressure we did not do better at while Rushing had 23 more attempts for 342 more yards or 3.62 yds per carry in first half and 4.75 yards per carry in the second half the IMPROVED running I was talking about. So again I think you are mistaken we took a 2.35 yard per attempt loss compared to the first half while rushing gained 1.13 yds per attempt compared to the first half. Would you agree with me now? He doesnt seem to be disagreeing about the OL improving in the runblocking. So the question is do you think the OL improved in protecting the QB in the second half of the season? Of course the o line improved--especially in passblocking. Forget the stats......TE had tons of time.
stuckincincy Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 Would you agree with me now? Dunno - didn't they have one of the softest schedules of opponents last season? And their AFC East competition certainly fixed their wagon.
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