The formatting sucks because I’m using my phone to do all this, but I was curious about some areas of our team and wanted to dive into the stats. I used Stroud for refrence because the general consensus is that he was the better pick and is doing much better than Bryce…but here is what I found:
Stroud has been blitzed, hurried, and hit more, yet takes fewer sacks. His on-target % is slightly lower than Bryce and his bad throws are more common than Bryce. His drop rate is virtually the same. His throw aways are much less. While all of this differs, their pocket time is the exact same.
With these stats, it paints a clear picture of what Bryce is dealing with. Teams are blitzing far less vs Bryce and are still racking up tons of sacks because the line isn’t holding up. That also means there are more players in coverage locking up receivers forcing Bryce to throw it away before taking a sack. When he does throw it to receivers, he is more accurate than Stroud.
This means what we see happening on offense is the result of the o-line, the coaching, and/or the wide receivers. Bryce is clearly not the issue here.
I don’t even need stats to know this: our offense is one of the most vanilla, slow predictable dirt-simple schemes I’ve ever seen and we don’t have ANY personnel that scares anybody.
Receivers are either slow or terrible route runners (other than thielen). Oline can’t open holes for the rbs. Hayden Hurst is MIA. Ian Thomas can run block but not run routes or catch.
IMO this is a worse situation than we were in 2010, back then we had pro bowl caliber Olinemen like Gross, Kalil, and actual weapons like deangelo and j stew, not to mention agent 89. We just needed a qb not named clausen to throw them the ball. Now we have OPPOSITE problem, a qb for the future with bad line and skill positions