Defense “Havoc” rates this season: % of plays where the defense got a pressure, TFL, INT, FF, or PBU:
The data was supplied by this guy, who apparently is a Golden Tate fan:
Cool stat - feels about right!
Also, Tate was awesome. He was like the ‘mold’ for ARSB. Maybe Hines Ward/Steve Smith before that? I just love that sticky hands, YAC master, tough dude receiver. Plus, Tate could always get open, even though he never had the ‘elite’ numbers…
I like this stat but I’m in the crowd that says pressures don’t always mean success. All of the other factors in this basically mean a win on the play, pressures don’t
I’d rather have pressures than none tho. I mean at least with a pressure there’s a greater chance of a screw up by the offense. A pressure against a good running QB isn’t great when you force them into what they love to do.
I’m surprised that stroud didn’t run more when he had some pretty clear running lanes. Kudos for wanting to be a passing qb but I think he hurt the team a bit.
I want to see what it looks like post Hutch, as I suspect his play in the first part of the season is a significant part of the ranking.
Pressure leads directly to a lot of those other factors many, many times though.
goes in tandem with all these PBI penalties. breath down their necks and suffocate them with sticky coverage.
Pressures are definitely good and they do tell us something about the predicted success rate of an offense but I think that “pressured incompletions” would be much more telling.
It’s tricky, because whether a QB completes a pass or throws a pick while Paschal is hitting him in the midsection isn’t on Paschal. He did his part of the job. Sometimes a QB just makes a great play. But it REQUIRED a great play, because Paschal was pressuring him.
This is a great and interesting stat.
But as with all statistical data, it tends to only cause me to ask follow up questions. Like does this give more of an insight into what style of defense a team plays? Minny is a team that focuses on pressure and they are 4th…where I might expect NE to be much lower as they seem to prefer a bend don’t break defense (and they are 29th) and they tend to be considered to have a good defense and rank in top half of points per game.
But I do like the idea of creating chaos as a good way to look at how you want a defense to play. Getting teams of schedule and making them be creative should work to the defenses advantage. I would also add that this is likely scrambling QBs have caused so much pain leading into this season. It will be interesting to me how these games against Chi play out.
Another thing it does for us is keeps the opposing offense from slowing the game down. That’s one of the best ways to attack our offense - keep the ball away. But our high pressure, chaos-creating defense makes that very difficult. Also how good we are against the run.
#1 on 3rd down defense is the stat I’m most impressed with.
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