What do the stats say about our OL regarding pass blocking?
best measure is opponent adjusted sack rate - An opponent-adjusted version of a team's sack rate -- sacks divided by (sacks plus passes), presented on a scale in which 100 is perfectly average, above 100 is good, below 100 is bad.
2016 - Ranked 95th - 85.2
2015 - Ranked 56th - 104.7
2014 - Ranked 30th - 130.7
Not a great trend here and highlights the difficulties we saw this year.
Then there is the raw sacks.
Passing Downs Sack Rate: Unadjusted sack rate for passing downs pass attempts.
Standard Downs Sack Rate: Unadjusted sack rate for standard downs pass attempts.
(Standard downs are first down, second-and-7 or fewer, third-and-4 or fewer, fourth-and-4 or fewer.)
Passing:
2016 - Ranked 27th - 5.4%
2015 - Ranked 64th - 7.4%
2014 - Ranked 94th - 9.2%
Standard:
2016 - Ranked 122nd - 9.0%
2015 - Ranked 88th - 6.2%
2014 - Ranked 5th - 1.5%
