Pitt Blather: A Savage Beating

Justin at Pitt Blather diagnosed each of the 8 sacks from Saturday's game. It's a rather interesting read. Here are a couple of quotes:

If you look, youll see NFL QBs had anywhere from 4 seconds to 2.3 seconds between snap and sack on average. The longer the better, obviously. Right smack in the middle was about 3.2 seconds from snap to sack. So, if your QB is sacked on average later than 3.2 seconds, your OL is above average. Below that, obviously means below average. The worst in the NFL at that point was the Arizona Cardinals and poor Kevin Kolb only had 2.3 seconds to get rid of the ball before his average sack. You cant control for mobile QBs, but its a good way to judge things overall.

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Overall average time from snap to sack or pressure that screws up the play: 2.28 seconds. On the first watch, I felt Savage couldve gotten 2 or 3 throws off on these plays. The problem was 5 of the 7 actual sacks came on 4 man rushes. A QB should have more than 2.3 to 2.7 seconds on a 4 man rush. Your OL needs to give you that 3+ seconds to get the ball off. If you break down the sacks, its at least easy to see that there were huge mental issues. The only time you should be under 2.8 seconds is if theres a blitz and then its on the QB to read the blitz and find the hot receiver.

here is the full article: http://www.pittblather.com/2013/10/14/a-savage-beating/