dutar76
7th year itch
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Another thing to note is that our hobbled OLs the past two years and a revolving door at QB only gave up 37 and 38 sacks.Some raw numbers that caught my attention when I went exploring. Ive seen QBs getting beat up in every game I've watched this season. I domt think its just a Saints problem. Sacks are definitely WAY up across the league.
16 teams are on pace to have given up >50 sacks.. 9 teams are on pace for >60 sacks. 7 teams on pace for >70 sacks.
In 9 years as a starting QB, Carr has only been sacked 50 times in a season once (2018). And 40 sacks once (2021). And 30 sacks once (2015). The rest of his career has been in the teens twenties. A scouting report on Carr wont ding him as being a QB that takes a lot of sacks.
Is it play-calling and coaching like most seem to think? Is it blown assignments? Is our OL just bad all of a sudden? New offense taking time to gel? Carr still figuring it out? Receivers not getting open? A mixture of all of the above?
Or is something happening league wide thats giving defenses an advantage early in the season? Somethings up for sure. Im not gonna bash anyone, because I don't know where to point the finger.
Also, Carr has only averaged 2.2 seconds pocket time. The year he had 51 sacks, his pocket time was 2.3 seconds. To me, this is the smoking gun. Yes, we've given up some coverage sacks and pressures like most every other team, but with only 2.2 seconds, there's not even enough time to throw the ball away. And since he's only scrambled out of the pocket once in 3 games, any throw-aways would likely be called intentional grounding.
Maybe prime Drew Brees could operate with 2.2 seconds, but he's one of the all time elites. And we have to admit that pressure did effect his stats as well.
Where I disagree somewhat with people saying its on Carmichael's play calling is from my eyes, not a statsheet. This pressue isnt coming from one spot or one side of the line. If it was, theres things you can do to help a player or say the left side of the line. But no, its coming from both sides and the middle. So what do we do? Add two tight ends, two RBs to stay in and block and just give the secondary one WR to cover? IDK... doesnt seem like there's one easy answer.