Ben Solak
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so EPA lets us,
adjust yards for context.
We know that an eight yard gain on third and five is a lot more valuable than eight yard gain on third and 10.
That's basically what it's telling us.
The other thing that it catches is it catches scramble production, which is really important, right?
In the modern NFL, which is any, you know, passing specific stat that you look at, you're going to be getting passing yardage, but we know that some of these guys are breaking the pocket, 10%, 12%, 15% of the time for Jane Daniels and your ability to scramble.
And when we go and we look back at historical numbers is incredible.
massively has been underrated for years.
And the league is finally getting to the point where it's encouraging its quarterbacks to cross the line of scrimmage.
Cause it's not just that you're creating positive yardage.
You're in your, you're, you're gaining, you know, ground or getting close to a first down.
It's the negative plays you eliminate when you scramble.
Most plays that involve a scramble drill, if they're not ending in an actual scramble with the quarterback crosses the line, they're ending in a late down high effort throw, right?
So we're talking about like, you know, off schedule, throwing 40 yards down the field, the Caleb Williams stuff, or they're just ending in a sack or a throw away, right?
distinctly negative plays and so we're taking sacks and low percentage throws off the board and replacing them not even with just like incompletions with actual gains and so epa is also catching scrambles which is very valuable so if you do epa per drop back which is just again contacts adjusted yards and then if you do success rate which is what percentage of your plays are positive you're getting a pretty good look at how consistent is this guy success rate and then how explosive is this guy in terms of epa that's going to give you a nice round look at generally how well quarterbacks are performing simon what's your take on that
I agree with it.
I would say the big debate this offseason chat, a lot of the conversation is, what did the Seahawks defense do so differently and made them so special?
And it's all about the safety, right?
Coming down and the safety either taking the tight end or going with the running back.
It sounds simple.
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