Mothman wrote: But as a measure of o-line performance, the ypc is highly relevant.
Then what's the point of a comment like "Bradford will easily survive a season taking 30 sacks" when hits can be just as damaging?
Whats the point in talking about "hits" when getting shoved and taking a step back counts the same as being Pile driven after the play is over and becoming paralyzed via the measurement tool
which is where the hurries come in, last two games, hurried on roughly 1/5 drop backs. Hurries lead to Hits. so he is potentially only getting hit on 1/5 attempts, but actually far less because not every hurry leads to hit.
The rest of my post is trying to make the point that 1 hit can end a career and 500 might not. Norv's game plan has him getting hit and sack at an "acceptable" rate if you accept that fact that the best teams in the history of the league will give up sacks and hits. We are 18th in QB hits and tied for 6th in sacks given up. And if you take away one hit per game we are in the top 12 teams in the league. My main point is that improvement is desired, needed, and would be great. But our Oline is playing right at or even slightly above league average in defending our QB.
2.6 is better than 1.6 and 96 is better than 36. The trend is up and if it keeps going at that rate we are a couple of weeks away from having a decent rushing attack to go with our passing attack. The Oline is not regressing on a macro level they are improving which, with the injuries they have had, is rather shocking imo.