1) First off, Jameis Winston's 2019 Time To Throw (TTT) is 2.74 seconds, which puts him squarely in the middle of the league.
2) Sometime during the summer I did a post advising everyone that if they felt Pressure/Offensive Line Pass Protection was an issue in Koetter's offense, they ain't seen nuthin' yet.
Arians' offenses routinely gave up more than DK's (sometimes significantly more) and averaged giving up between 16 and 17 Pressures a game.
Where are they through 6 games?
16.67
Right on schedule for Arians' historic average for this offense. But how bad is this for 2019 and where are the Pressures coming from? Let's start with the latter first.
First off, who is responsible for these Pressures.
OFFENSIVE LINE - 70
* Donovan Smith leads this team with 20 (next closest OL is Cappa w/ 12 then Dot with 11).
RUNNING BACKS - 7
TIGHT ENDS - 8
QUARTERBACK - 15
* This means Jameis has climbed the pocket or escaped right/left and created an artificial Pressure within a stable pocket situation. This is the 2nd most on the team.
Without Jameis' contribution in increasing the Pressure artificially, you're talking about 85 Pressures in 269 Snaps or a Pressure to Snap ratio of around 13:41.
3) So how are other teams faring?
a) How about a notorious clustereff of Houston? Deshuan Watson has been thriving (early on in his career) despite an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE of an OL sigtuation. Lets see how they're doing in 2019.
First off, how many "Artificial Pressures" has Watson created?
16 (right around Jameis), but in 30 more drop-backs, so his ratio is much better.
How is his Pass Protection doing without him?
93 Total, but 77 without Watson's contribution. This is also in Snaps, so SIGNIFICANTLY improved over last year.
b) How about Rookie Kyler Murray. Murray has led this awful Cardinals team to 3 wins (more than us) and has a considerably better QBR than Jameis and a marginally better Passer Rating.
Murray has impressively only created 2 "Artificial Pressures" on the season.
His team (and this is certainly, in part, a function of the offense they're running) has allowed only 78 Pressures in 378 Drop Backs (considerably better than us).
c) Alright, lets go ahead and compare the Falcons Offense (the offense that Jameis was in for the first 4 years of his career).
Ryan is considerably better than Jameis' in both QBR and Passer Rating this year. But their defense is, impressively worse than our own, so they're losing football games like us.
Ryan has created only 9 "Artificial Pressures" in 339 Drop Backs.
They're at 105 with him, and 96 without him. So they're at a ratio of 11.9/41 (or slightly better than us.
