QB Sacks

[Roy CO HSKR]

This is from rojo on another message board:

 

Sacking the QB: How bad were we in '04? And a goal.

Colorado’s Defensive Coordinator, Mike Hankwitz, aired some interesting thoughts on Sacks:

 

1) Goal: To get sacks on 15% of an opponent’s attempted passes is “excellent.”

 

2) Sacking the QB is more difficult now than in the past…

 

--QB’s increasingly use 3-step drops and 5-step drops.

 

--The rise of the mobile, athletic QB's.

 

3) Getting sacks reflects how effective your Defensive Backs are in covering receivers.

 

 

2004 Big 12 Sack Percentages: Sacks / Opponent Pass Attempts

 

(Note: These stats are for games against Big 12 opponents only.)

 

1. Oklahoma: 11.3% (31/275)

 

2. Missouri: 8.5% (17/201)

 

3. Kansas State: 7.5% (16/213)

 

4. Texas: 6.9% (20/288)

 

5. Colorado: 6.1% (17/280)

 

6. Oklahoma State: 5.8% (15/257)

 

7. Kansas: 5.7% (16/283)

 

8-9 Texas Tech: 5.1% (12/237)

 

8-9 Iowa State: 5.1% (12/236)

 

10. Baylor: 4.9% (11/225)

 

11. Texas A&M: 4.5% (14/310)

 

12. Nebraska: 4.2% (14/333)

 

 

Worth noting: Our Big 12 opponents threw on us more than anyone else (333 pass attempts)…

 

PS I believe the key to pass defense has more to do with the pass rush than the DBs. Roy

[Eric the Red]

christ we sucked.

[DaveH]

Yes, we did.

 

I also think a pass rush is more important. The faster you can get in the QB's face, the less time he has to find an open reciever, the less time the reciever has to get open.

[cubhusker23]

Yes, we did.

 

I also think a pass rush is more important. The faster you can get in the QB's face, the less time he has to find an open reciever, the less time the reciever has to get open.

Couldn't agree with you more, remember last year's Tech game, for some inane reason Cosgrove kept sending 3 lineman @ the QB which gave him all the time he needed to find his receivers. We HAVE to get more pressure on QBs this year or it's going to be a long season again.

[formerfan]

Yes, we did.

 

I also think a pass rush is more important. The faster you can get in the QB's face, the less time he has to find an open reciever, the less time the reciever has to get open.

Couldn't agree with you more, remember last year's Tech game, for some inane reason Cosgrove kept sending 3 lineman @ the QB which gave him all the time he needed to find his receivers. We HAVE to get more pressure on QBs this year or it's going to be a long season again.

Youve got it all wrong. The Tech fiasco had to do more with 3 cancerous players not playing hard, a former defensive coordinator calling current DBs and poisoning against the current staff, and the fact that Solich left NU with no good players at all (even though he had some of the top DL recruits in the country for quite a few years--ie Helming, Seppo, L Smith, T Adams, etc).

 

It had nothing to do with bad systems or play calling on both the offense and defense.

 

[NamelessHusker]

That stat isn't suprising considering our defense was on the field 70% of the time compared to our offense which was on the field 30% of the time against the Big12 teams. Our defense played more then our offense against Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Iowa St

[NU fan in Denver]

Those are some great stats. Not surprising though. The defense as a whole sucked and the offense contributed to that. Did we fare anybetter against the nonconference opponents? We did have a winning record against nonconference foes (2-1) should have been 3-0 but one of the wins was against 1-AA competiton.

[StuckinChicago]

I bet that if you removed Demorrio Williams from the 03 stat colomn, our percentage was about the same. Thank god for super Demorrio. Carriker going down and having 0 depth didnt help either. Hopefully this year will be much better.

[gamecocks]

Sacks are great, but a few quarterback hurries are just as good, as they cause incomplete passes and or interceptions.