Quote:Take however long you want to decide on Fowler, I've said that many times. 11 games is SSS no doubt. But he should be showing more flashes than unblocked stunt pressures and whatever that rope a dope backwards pass rush last week was. Beasley was flashing all over the place (hence how he led all rookies in pressures and was solidly a DE1 among all pass rushers), to the point that he completely took over the game last year in the upset win over the undefeated Panthers.

 

Just taking 10 seconds and looking at a box score to try to prove a point in either direction is foolhardy, especially when it comes to the sack stat that has more noise in it than any other stat in the sport. I believe it was LeCharles Bentley that broke down how bad of a stat it was in a very good article but I can't find it off hand. I'll post it if I can find it later.

Since you like to use that same "led all rookies in pressures" line so much, how many other rookies was he actually going up against for that same stat? How many other rookies, who played a good amount of snaps (I don't want to see guys who only played like 5-10 snaps a game being thrown into that stat either).

 

You like to only use numbers, when numbers only tell half a story anyways. So break it down and show us some numbers. It better be a long and impressive list of rookies getting pressures for you to grasp onto that stat so much.

 

Also, again on numbers telling the story. What about Noah Spence? His numbers were awful at the combine and I'm guessing his spider chart is also (don't personally care what spider chart numbers say anyways). He currently has 6 sacks right now.

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