http://footballoutsiders.com/under-pressure/2012/under-pressure-violence-rams
obviously by the tittle you can tell rams had the worst o line but since this is a niner forum lets look at the niners numbers
the precentage i will (and the site) is posting is the % of dropbacks that result in sacks during that time frame
note: When i tried to pick nfl worst and best in specific category i tried to pick the guy who had the most snaps (like around 10 games or so) not the minumum 70 pass attempts the site put
nfl best means that that qb has suffered the least amount of sacks under the given time frame
nfl worst means that qb suffered the most sacks under that time frame
nfl average is the average of all qbs under given time frame
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2.5 seconds or less before sack
nfl best : joe flacco: 0 .4%
nfl worst : alex smith : 3.3%
nfl average: 1.8%
49ers: alex smith 3.3%
note: Caleb Hanie, TJ Yates, AJ Feeley, Kellen Clemens, Chad Hennie, and John Skeleton have higher sack rate under this time however none have more than 5 starts
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Rate of sacks: 2.5 seconds to 2.9 seconds:
nfl best: matthew stafford 1.0 %
nfl worst: alex smith: 3.7%
nfl average: 2.2%
49ers: alex smith: 3.7%
note: Again 6 Qbs finished worse ( Caleb Hanie, John Beck, Kevin Kolb, AJ Feeley, Kellen Clemens, Sam Bradford) however none have over 5 starts
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sack rate for 3 + seconds:
nfl best: matt Ryan: 1,2%
nfl worst: Tim Tebow: 6.6%
nfl average: 2.7 %
49ers: Alex Smith: 2.6 %
alex does need to get the ball out quicker but the preconception that he holds on to the ball for too long is apparently false some of the top gunslinger qbs like brees and eli rarely got sacked above 3 seconds but it should be noted other qbs like rodgers and schaub had a .1% sack rate above 3 seconds as well
what we should take from this is that most of the sacks allowed came from under 3 seconds i am guessing that a lot of this came from the 2 games chilo started against the cowboys and the ravens game but this is something that has to be fixed heading into the 2012 season
[ Edited by 49ersalldaway126 on May 4, 2012 at 11:57 AM ]