This week's article at the Post looks at which of the league's QBs are outperforming their offensive lines the most. Surprise! RGIII tops the list.
Despite his line’s performance, Griffin has been able to produce consistently, ranking third overall with 120 EPA this season. That’s 10 net points per game. Only Tom Brady and Matt Ryan currently have more total production. The distinction of ‘net’ points versus absolute points is important. It means that however many points a typical opponent is able to generate in a game, Griffin is responsible for 10 more points than that.
The difference between Griffin’s personal rank (3) and the Redskins offensive line’s rank (28) is 25 spots. No other quarterback has a bigger rank difference between his own and his line’s performance. Matt Ryan is a distant second at 21 spots of rank difference.
Divvying up credit for various events between different members of the offense this way is a very tricky business. I'd like to see data on which stats remain consistent when teams change QBs, or when QBs change teams.
In this case, it seems believable that RG3 has a tendency to hold the ball longer than many other QBs, and get hit or sacked as a result. Obviously he's been great overall, and I don't mean to knock him, but this particular way of allocating credit and blame for plays doesn't really capture which QBs are better at avoiding hits and sacks.
Divvying up credit for various events between different members of the offense this way is a very tricky business. I'd like to see data on which stats remain consistent when teams change QBs, or when QBs change teams.
In this case, it seems believable that RG3 has a tendency to hold the ball longer than many other QBs, and get hit or sacked as a result. Obviously he's been great overall, and I don't mean to knock him, but this particular way of allocating credit and blame for plays doesn't really capture which QBs are better at avoiding hits and sacks.
I agree with Tarr, a Offensive Line's stats are going to be dependent on the play of the QB. Last year with Tebow Den OL -EPA was -75.9 worst in the league this year with Manning OL -EPA 4.3 so far 13th in the league. 2010 Colts with Manning OL -EPA 51.5 2nd in the league, 2011 without Manning OL -EPA -2.8 or 19th in the league.
Is it more likely that Manning influenced these numbers directly, or the OL performance varied year to year?
Find it hard to believe that RG3 would cause more sacks, think from watching its the opposite. Play calling also has a lot to do with it- Skins depend more then many teams on run and short passing game- The "other" Manning does a great job avoiding sacks and hits doesnt get enough credit for