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.
There are 3 QBs who are perfectly covered more than Bryce. 2 that are the same. The rest are less. I wonder how much of that comes back to scheme. Bryce’s create rate is clearly low. I wonder how much of that is influenced by WRs who don’t go deep which clogs up the field. We could probably look at other QBs who have shitty create rates and see if their WRs are doing the same.