Quick thoughts on Colts-Raiders

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by rm1369

Let’s make sure we are showing the whole picture:

2014 - 11.8 ypc - rank 3rd
2013 - 11.2 ypc - rank 10th
2012 - 12.0 ypc - rank 3rd

The only two years out of the top 10 were the year Luck missed and the year he missed over half the season. The difference with a healthy and playing Luck is stark.

Just so you know, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong - I said I thought you made a fair point. I only listed the last four years because that's all I had on my computer screen at the time, and those were the only years I had been discussing in my prior posts on the subject (though you did make me realize I had mixed up the timing of Luck's injury in 2015/2016)

That said, I looked at 2012-2014 after seeing your post, and found that the sack rates in those years (where we had a high YPC) were actually lower than the later years. Here's the sack rates along with the YPC average:

2014 - Sack rate 4.39% (4th best) / YPC 11.94 (3rd best)
2013 - Sack rate 5.50% (5th best) / YPC 10.64 (10th best)
2012 - Sack rate 6.53% (15th best) / YPC 12.18 (3rd best)

So I'm not seeing a great correlation, at least in these years, between higher YPC / higher sack rate.