(01-20-2018, 02:34 PM)Darth Hoodie Wrote: Hi guys,

Best of luck to all of you Jags fans. It is definitely fun to have your team in it this late in the season. We up here in New England have been spoiled. I for one am quite nervous about this game. I think you guys match up very well with us. I think a lot of people get caught up in average statistics and other stuff, but ultimately it's about specific match ups.

As someone who hasn't watched a ton of Jaguars games this year, I have a question regarding your pass rush. You obviously have talented guys at all levels, and I believe I'm right in saying that you tend not to blitz too much, which makes you dangerous if you get pressure with just 4. I was looking through the impressive sack stats on you guys and was struck by the fact that 28 of your 55 regular season sacks came against 2 teams, the Texans and the Colts. I'm really not trying to cherry pick, but that is quite incredible. The remaining 12 games you guys had 27 sacks, or 2.25 per game. That rate is actually slightly below average for the league. So real question, as you guys have watched throughout the year, do feel the pass rush is consistent? I get that it's good, I'm not challenge that. I'm just wondering if you guys feel like it shows up every game.

Good luck to all of you tomorrow. Nothing like these games!

Much like NE, they approach each opponent with a different gameplan.  QBs who are mobile or who tend to improvise well when flushed from the pocket will typically see more "containment" than pressure. That accounts for a handful of those games with fewer sacks. 

More importantly - what you are ignoring is the number of pressures and forced errors made by opposing quarterbacks even if they were only sacked 3 times instead of 10. 

Is the pass rush as consistent against better O-Lines?  Of course not. Does it still negatively affect most QBs behind the better O-Lines it's faced?  Absolutely. 

Where do you rank your O-Line on a league wide spectrum?

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