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Kyler Murray is the 29th Most Pressured QB in the League

  • October 15, 2024


For all the discourse I’ve seen about how terrible our offensive line is, I decided to check out how often Kyler is being pressured.

Turns out, Kyler is the 29th most pressured QB in the league at 26.3%. Of the qualified passers, only Andy Dalton and Joe Burrow are pressured less.

Source:

https://pro.nfl.com/stats/passing/season?sortKey=qbpR&sortValue=DESC&season=2024&qualifiedPasser=true&seasonType=REG&tab=overview

6 comments

  1. Incoming: Receivers arent getting open. Scheme is bad. We played good defenses. Cherry picked stat. Game script forced us to pass so the defense knew it was coming.

    Its everything except the guy with the ball.

    Downvote this so I know im right

  2. Any chance of a screenshot and some context other than a link to a restricted site? Also what do they consider as “pressure”? Murray bails out a lot before the pressure reaches him.

  3. The pro vs anti Murray battle here is pretty funny lol. I’m on team Kyler but enjoy the arguments.

  4. Last I checked he had an average of 2.2 seconds per throw to find someone. Not sure I buy this “stat”…

  5. I think 2 things play into the “bad OL”. One is most people watch Cardinals games and see Murray pressure compared to our opponents. Our DL is worst in the league at pressuring. The time our DL gives our opponents is not the norm so if you don’t watch other games, try doing that and see how long most QBs have.

    Secondly, Murray is not good in the pocket. He is extremely mobile but he bails quickly. Again, watch other QBs that are nowhere near as athletic and how a simple step forward or to the side buys them another second or 2 in the pocket. It is much easier for an OL to block when the QB is in the pocket than scrambling.

  6. Our base OL before injuries was pretty good. Now, that right side is a mess because of injuries. The issue is our depth is poor so now our OL sucks.

    Murray is fine. Not many QB’s in this league have played with so little. MHJ, I believe will get better with time but as of now he is not a reliable target and not ready to be WR1.

    The offense is overall a mess and Kyler will take the blame for that. But the culprit is more of a team issue: terrible playcalling, poor blocking, receivers running the wrong routes and dropping passes.

    We had a lot of expectations with this offensive group but much of that was dependent on MHJ being a legit WR1 and a healthy OL.

    Until the talent and/or depth improves this team will be no better than average.

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