Are Sacks overrated?

[mdonnelly21]

I feel like a sack is big, but I don't feel like it's that important to determine how good an edge rusher or defensive end is? 

[DutchFalcon]

Are you Mike Smith?*
 

 

 

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[JAF-N72EX]

I strongly disagree. Sacks are not the end all be all but when your main job is to get after the QB, it is very important.

[Jimmy Austin]

That's what I look for in a pass-rusher. 

[Buddyboy]

Strong correlation sacks lead to ints

[AlNFL19]

I think sacks are important and not overrated, but other pass-rushing statistics like pressures and hurries are underrated. People tend to completely overlook these in favor of just sack totals, even though a player might get unlucky and end up with 50 pressures and 5 sacks while a worse player could get some luck and have, say 25 pressures and 7 sacks. Sacks aren't overrated, but they don't always tell the whole story in terms of comparing pass rushers.

[DingoLadd]

4 minutes ago, AlNFL19 said:

I think sacks are important and not overrated, but other pass-rushing statistics like pressures and hurries are underrated. People tend to completely overlook these in favor of just sack totals, even though a player might get unlucky and end up with 50 pressures and 5 sacks while a worse player could get some luck and have, say 25 pressures and 7 sacks. Sacks aren't overrated, but they don't always tell the whole story in terms of comparing pass rushers.

This, you need the full roulette of stats to judge a pass rusher. If a dude has 14 sacks but 25 pressures that's pretty blegh, whereas a dude with 70 pressures and 5 sacks is a much better pass rusher. 

[TheFinisher]

A sack is the goal, so they should be valued more than pressures/hits... but like others have said you need to account for the entire picture.

the better you are as a pass rusher; the faster you get to the QB.  that can be the difference between a hurry or a sack, and all of this happens within 3-4 secs

[43M]

Any statistic without context is overrated.

[DirtyDez]

12 minutes ago, FourThreeMafia said:

Any statistic without context is overrated.

Eh, who needs context

https://forums.footballsfuture.com/topic/12278-is-cam-newton-on-a-hof-pace/?do=findComment&comment=1061394

 

[incognito_man]

Was expecting a feminist thread.

[rob_shadows]

3 hours ago, Buddyboy said:

Strong correlation sacks lead to ints

Well technically pressure leads to ints... You literally can't have both a sack and an int on the same play

[Gannon12]

Pressure on QB contain the edge TFL and sacks

just as the last guy said pressure leads to mistakes. Stop the run constant pressure and the QB is done unless you are Rodgers

[stl4life07]

Yes. It’s all about the qb hits and pressures. Donald only had 11 sacks but had a ridiculous amount of qb hits and pressures and thus won the DPOY. With Suh now, the combo of Suh and Donald would’ve been 3rd in the NFL last season with total pressures. So who needs edge rushers when you have that. But yeah sacks are overrated imo. 

[frenchie]

3 hours ago, DingoLadd said:

This, you need the full roulette of stats to judge a pass rusher. If a dude has 14 sacks but 25 pressures that's pretty blegh, whereas a dude with 70 pressures and 5 sacks is a much better pass rusher. 

So you're more impressed with the guy who almost gets the sack, rather than the guy who actually gets the sack?