(09-19-2018, 03:09 AM)Predator Wrote:

(09-19-2018, 02:38 AM)Upper Wrote: I care very little about sack totals. Pressures are far more indicative of quality play, they're more consistent, and more predictive. Yannick and Calais were racking up pressures and causing havoc all year. Fowler was getting sacks and very little else.

I don't know what team you were watching but Fowler puts plenty of pressure on QBs when he is out there.

Just man up and admit you jumped the gun on Fowler. It happens. People make mistakes.

This flailing away trying to justify yourself is only making you look ignorant and not competent enough to have an intelligent discussion about football.

He only had 20 total pressures last year, that's a minuscule amount for his sack total. The elite players average about a sack per 7-8 pressures. Remember when Beasley led the league in sacks with 15.5 and people were warning he might not repeat that again since his pressure total was only in the 50s. That was proven to be a correct assessment, and Fowler's 20:8 pressure: sack ratio was significantly less than that.

Maybe, hopefully, he'll start getting more consistent pressure, but one game isn't going to prove it for me. Especially one game against a backup tackle. We might not get a good test this week either if Lewan and/or Conklin are out again. But eventually we will, I'm patient.

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