SRARE - Panthers 19th Best Offensive Line In NFL; Green Bay 31st

[Saca312]

For those of you wondering what SRARE means, the official term is the metric used to determine Sack Rate Allowed over Release Expectation.

To put that into English, Ethan Young - NFL NextGen Researcher & Scouting/Personnel Strategy Head - defines it as:

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[Looking] at the percentage of dropbacks that a protection unit gives up a sack, minus the percentage of dropbacks they should be allowing sacks based on their QBs Time to Throw.

So basically, it determines how good an offensive line that accounts for how much sacks are given up and how long a quarterback holds the ball.

Seeing that, it comes to think naturally the Panthers o-line would be top notch, especially considering how Cam Newton always holds on to the ball so long. However, that is not the case. Just take a look for yourself.

These are the results through week three. The Panthers sit at 19th in SRARE, which means they're below the league average in SRARE efficiency. Considering the amount of help we've given the offensive line lately (notice CMC not as productive against the Vikes? He's had to sit back and help protect/chip), we should probably be a bit lower.

As far as who's above, to nobody's surprise the Saints are #1 overall by a large margin. Surprisingly, the Falcons have the #5 o-line overall even despite the fact they're stuttered on offense plenty of times. The Vikings drop to 6, but that undoubtedly was contributed thanks to our performance this past Sunday.

IIRC they were in the top 3 prior to last week, so that's a feat for our defense to get 6 sacks on that unit.

Well, for green lighting in terms of the upcoming match-up, the Packers are 31st in the NFL overall. The only team with a worse offensive line are the Colts. Considering this also accounts for QB play and how much that affects the sack rate, this is probably the most concrete thing out there telling you the Packers offensive line is trash.

So, Aaron Rodgers might literally die against Peppers, Addison, and KK. 

So there's that.

[The Huddler]

I bet their Oline stats go up with rodgers in

 

that rookie has 0 pocket presense . 

[Saca312]

45 minutes ago, The Huddler said:

I bet their Oline stats go up with rodgers in

 

that rookie has 0 pocket presense . 

This accounts for what the QB does, so it's not just how bad Brissett is.

[mikeholiday]

1 hour ago, Saca312 said:

This accounts for what the QB does, so it's not just how bad Brissett is.

Not necessarily, right. A qb is still responsible for setting protections and the snap count not to mention how he moves in the pocket (not exactly the oline's fault if there are more rushers they can block or if the qb keeps moving into pressure). Time to throw is a useful metric but not all-encompassing. 

P.S. you would expect a higher time to throw based on the design of the offense. If there are only two receivers our running routes and everybody stays in to block, you would have a higher time to throw but you would still expect the pressure rate to remain lower because they have more help. 

[TylerDurden]

Front seven this Sunday=

 

[Pantha-kun]

That might explain why the saints have been running roughshod over literally everyone .

I'm surprised they don't rub the ball 90 percent of the time, they could probably just keep running all 4 downs and win most games