Why Sacks Are So Vital
August 12th, 2026
Please get sacks.
Joe’s passion, obsession and desire for sacks from an edge rush drive some fans nuts. However, don’t ever expect Joe to shut up about sacks.
Former Cowboys personnel guy Gil Brandt, who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, always said the three most important positions on a team are quarterback, edge rusher/defensive end and left tackle, in that order.
Why edge rusher/defensive end? Because those guys affect the quarterback. And it ain’t about yelling “BOO!” from one yard away for an almost-sack (pressure).
Famed handicapper-turned-statgeek Warren Sharp ran the numbers on what happens when a defense gets a sack. The numbers are striking.
Simply put, offenses rarely score touchdowns on drives in which they suffer a sack.
So less than 10 percent of drives result in a touchdown when the offense eats a sack. But yeah, pressures are so, so, so much better. #SarcasmAlert
This. This is why Joe is obsessed with sacks. Throw all the stats out there you want, but at the end of the day, the team that wins has more points than the loser.
And getting sacks greatly prevents your opponent from scoring points. And the guys who do that are generally known as “pass rushing specialists,” or edge rushers/defensive ends. That’s why they make all that money.
Because they are invaluable.
August 12th, 2026 at 5:01 am
It puts fear into the QBs head. No one fears us. Maybe Bain can change that.
August 12th, 2026 at 5:35 am
For the last 4/5 years we’ve specialized in confidence building. The OTHER TEAMS confidence that is!
We are TOPS in the league in that category and Opposing teams QB sits so calm and focused in the pocket that bowles style and technique ALSO leaves ample room and time to choose to throw to whoever they like, So Accurately…. like Nobodies business!
But we’re Determined to show opponents a new way…. A new style. The barely trying style and the doomed to fail, freaky fandango method that our very own guru has cook up. It does a stand out job of keeping them confused! “Our guys I mean!!!
I Do wonder why that’s So unpopular in a contact sport ? Let’s ask our local guru how it feels to be Numero ONE in area at least “Being the Very Best at being the Very Worst”!
Go Bucs!
August 12th, 2026 at 5:40 am
Let’s finally get over 50 sacks this year.
August 12th, 2026 at 5:41 am
Cut Kancey and pay Vita. Kancey was smoked yesterday by second and throws teamers. Dudes that will be working the local clubs front door in September
August 12th, 2026 at 6:03 am
Is this the same Joe that wrote an article about INTs being a “crutch”?
August 12th, 2026 at 6:15 am
What’s the average points scored on a drive by an offense that commits a turnover? I’m guessing that it is lower than 1.1 and that the TD% is probably less than 8%.
Let me know when you find out those numbers. And when you do you will understand why some people rate turnovers higher than sacks. I want both and I’m hypothesizing that the correlation is strong and positive.
August 12th, 2026 at 6:17 am
Holding calls are big as well.
TD’s may drop from 25 to 8% with a sack, but an O-lineman with grabby hands causes a drop from 25 to 12%.
Sacks are more fun to watch, but a flag throwing ref, who never takes a single hit, can determine a game’s outcome as much or more than a sack master.
Three or four holding flags against a single team? The other team usually wins!
And there’s your conspiracy theory of the day.
Pay a ref.
Bet big.
And bag the win!
August 12th, 2026 at 6:33 am
The bottom line is, we needs sacks because we don’t have any star corners. One corner goes down this year and we are done. I can’t believe we did such a great job of beefing up our defensive line and linebackers but didn’t jack s_h*t getting a #1 star corner in free agency or the draft. I’m looking forward to seeing the pressure our d-line makes this year, but guarantee we’ll be watching receivers run wild on our corners.