Dalton PFF vs. Blitz / Pressure

[CrashDavisSports]

Dalton book-ended his two biggest third-down passes of the day under huge duress. He hit wide receiver Greg Little for 21 yards on third-and-14 with a blitz right in his face to highlight the first series, and he juiced up the last series with his now famous 53-yard lob out of a purple maze in the pocket.

According to profotballfocus.com, Dalton was five of seven for 91 yards and a 113.7 passer rating against pressure on Sunday and when he was blitzed he was five of eight for 147 yards and a 106 rating. - per a Hobson article on Bengals.com

Dalton has sure not thrown many TD passes like last year, but seems more in control of the offense, making less mistakes (in general) and moving the ball down the field even with a limited number of weapons to work with, considering Green, Eifert and Jones have missed most of the season.

That Indy game was a dang disaster from every aspect of football. There is not one player or coach I do not blame for that loss. That as a team effort stinker. They had better get a home playoff game if they are going to get to the playoffs, because it is the only way I even see them having a chance.

Bengals 4-2-1
Ravens 5-3
Steelers 5-3
Browns 4-3

Best division in football.

 

[Cincyfan78]

•Quarterback Andy Dalton wasn't pressured much Sunday -- taking heat on 10 of his 31 dropbacks -- but when he did feel the pressure, he handled it mostly well. He was 5-for-7 for 91 yards passing on the 10 pressures. He also took two sacks and scrambled once. This was the second time in as many weeks that he was sacked two or more times.

Would like him to throw the ball away instead of those sacks, but I know one one instance he had no shot of doing anything...

 

[cincygrad]

He had two bad plays in my opinion. The pass he missed to Little and the fumble.

He's done a nice job getting drives going when we needed them late. He did it in Carolina and he did it again here against Baltimore. He's definitely improving.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

•Quarterback Andy Dalton wasn't pressured much Sunday -- taking heat on 10 of his 31 dropbacks -- but when he did feel the pressure, he handled it mostly well. He was 5-for-7 for 91 yards passing on the 10 pressures. He also took two sacks and scrambled once. This was the second time in as many weeks that he was sacked two or more times.

Would like him to throw the ball away instead of those sacks, but I know one one instance he had no shot of doing anything...

I didn't really notice until his post game press conference, but that sack, fumble he had that Ngata caused, he mentioned he couldn't really throw the ball away properly because he was holding the ball in his left hand.

I wonder why he shifted the ball to his left hand to begin with if he was not going to tuck it away immediately.

That was a game changer right there. If he goes down early for the sack (which that was 1st down), he has a couple more plays to move the ball back into FG position with 6 minutes to play. We kick a FG, go up by 11 points. They now have to score twice after that, including the 2 point conversion, while having to kick the ball back to us whether it be onside or whatever. If Dalton just takes the sack there, and spends a couple plays to try and move another 8 to 10 yards back into FG position, we are in cruise control depending on Nugent's leg.

Plus, I do not get how they call the 1 INT and INT. Dalton threw it, Sanu caught it was moving about a yard before the defender just stripped the ball out of his hands, how does that go down as a INT and not a fumble? It was not dual position. Sanu clearly had the ball first, the defender grabbed the ball once it was caught, and then pulled it out. Not sure who they can call that simultaneous possession, because it clearly was not. Oh well. Either way, it was a turnover now matter how you slice it.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

He had two bad plays in my opinion. The pass he missed to Little and the fumble.

He's done a nice job getting drives going when we needed them late. He did it in Carolina and he did it again here against Baltimore. He's definitely improving.

What I liked, after he missed Little, he showed some emotion. He was physically distressed over missing that pass and knew it was his fault. He took responsibility, showed favorable emotion for the situation, and then came back and led the team on a game winning drive later in the quarter.

 

[bengaldoug]

Considering how much time Dalton has missed his security blanket (AJ) I think he's done quite well. His overall PFF rating for the season is +4.0.......he has shown the ability this year to lead scoring drives with the game on the line, even without his three top weapons.....he is definitely improving. He also has bounced back well from his mistakes, and has cut down on them significantly. The reduction in TD passes is somewhat disconcerting, though. Hopefully that can increase as AJ comes back without an increase in picks.

 

[kramer1]

Considering how much time Dalton has missed his security blanket (AJ) I think he's done quite well. His overall PFF rating for the season is +4.0.......he has shown the ability this year to lead scoring drives with the game on the line, even without his three top weapons.....he is definitely improving. He also has bounced back well from his mistakes, and has cut down on them significantly. The reduction in TD passes is somewhat disconcerting, though. Hopefully that can increase as AJ comes back without an increase in picks.

Can you copy and paste all the starting QB's and their rating for us? I wanna see where Dalton ranks in comparison.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Can you copy and paste all the starting QB's and their rating for us? I wanna see where Dalton ranks in comparison.

Yeah. That would be interesting to see. I bet he ranks between 15-20.

 

[bengaldoug]

I tried to copy and paste, but the result was unreadable.....Dalton is tied for 12th in PFF rating out of 35 quarterbacks who have taken at least 25% of their team's snaps on the season.....he's also improved his accuracy percentage under pressure from 38.5% completions to 48.8% this year....he was ranked 32nd of 41 qualifiers under pressure last year and has improved to 19th of 35 this year....he also has had three positive green graded games to only one negatively red graded game, vs Indy when the whole team sucked......

 

[bengaldoug]

He also has shown some serious cajones this year, highlighted by audibling to the sneak from nearly two yards out on 4th down for the winning td. He's finally showing some serious leadership. Don't get me wrong. He's never going to be an elite quarterback imo, but he has a chance to be above average, and is showing improvement. The two games v the Ravens this year are his best two, and both winning performances he had much to do with.

 

[alf8478]

He also has shown some serious cajones this year, highlighted by audibling to the sneak from nearly two yards out on 4th down for the winning td. He's finally showing some serious leadership. Don't get me wrong. He's never going to be an elite quarterback imo, but he has a chance to be above average, and is showing improvement. The two games v the Ravens this year are his best two, and both winning performances he had much to do with.

That was a pretty gutty call. I didn't see the game live, but i heard that it was a 4th and goal sneak, so I assumed it was from the 1 or inside. After seeing the play, the way the LB's sold out for the run and crashing the line, it was even ballsier considering if he doesnt get it, its game over.

 

[cincygrad]

I think it's fair to say a lot of fans would have been bitching about calling a qb sneak from the 1.5 yard line, when you wouldn't run one from the .5 yard line the play before. For the record, I was hoping for the sneak. When I saw us come out three wide with only one running back I started to panic -- I figured we were looking at an incomplete pass (fade anyone?) or Hill getting drilled three yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Dalton does a good job on the qb sneak - He keeps the legs moving and keeps himself up before the other can arrive and push him.