David Newton: When Cam Newton takes fewer sacks, Carolina wins

[ForJimmy]

What the offense wants to do right now is move the ball down the field and score. #JohnMaddenWisdom 

[beastson]

11 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

He’s John Madden with words.

Sacks are bad.  You don’t want sacks.  If your QB is getting sacked he’s not getting yards.  It gets the offense off schedule and usually impacts scoring.

None of this is revolutionary, new, or even informative.

Its lazy and uninspired.  Did anyone learn something they didn’t already know?

If you like numbers great, but tell me how KBs absence seemingly unlocked the door?  How has the Oline magically turned into a solid unit?  Why are we suddenly at the line with 15 or more seconds on the playclock?

Tons of angles for a story this week and this putz goes with- “When Cam isn’t sacked, he plays good”

Wut. tha. fug. 

[panthers1234]

Pretty sure this applies to the other 31 QBs in the league too. 

[Marguide]

There is and has been for many years a strong correlation between sacking the QB on a given drive, and holding the opposing team scoreless on the drive. That's why pass rushers are so well paid.

So yeah, the article was doing nothing more than stating the obvious.

[Bartin]

I know this is some major captain obvious shìt but I appreciate seeing the stats and the breakdown

[csx]

There seems to be a goat brick wa'll that prevents most every sports journalist from attemting to learn about football....especially in this city. 

Use your access and ask questions of people who know things.

[Chairman Wow]

Well, perhaps Newton was simply suggesting that Cam should become more adept at getting rid of the football.

Cam ranks 21st out of 28 players in Sack Percentage among active qualifiers. He takes sacks on 6.98% of his passing attempts, one of the worst career rates in football. 

Interestingly, nearly the entire Top 10 of least sacked QB's is composed of strictly pocket-passers, guys that can barely run. 

One of the exceptions is the least sacked active Quarterback by percentage: Drew Brees at 3.88%

[rayzor]

 

 

[Camp Fodder]

I somewhat understand this article. Whenever Cam gets sacked say 5 times or more the chances of us winning are slim. It deflated us as a team. Look at the bears game. When they went up 14-0 we had nothing left. Some teams are better at coming back and shaking off their QB taking early hits than we are