Analyzing Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez under pressure BY Manish Mehta Mark Sanchez’s NFL resume includes these three truths: 1) He is the team leader. 2) He makes plays in the clutch. 3) There’s plenty of room for growth. The Jets quarterback has elevated his play when it matters the most with an NFL-record tying four road playoff wins in his first two seasons. He’s also had a marked statistical jump in the postseason. Consider the breakdown: Sanchez has more interceptions (33) than touchdowns (29) in 31 career regular-season games. However, he has a 3:1 touchdown-to-interception ratio (9 TDs, 3 INTs) in six postseason games. Sanchez’s largest improvement in the playoffs centers on his accuracy. His completion percentage jumps 10 percent – from 54.4% in the regular season to 60.5% in the postseason. Although Sanchez has thrived in big moments, he needs to improve his accuracy amid chaos. ProFootballFocus.com did a statistical analysis of performance under pressure by signal callers across the league in 2010. Thanks to one of the best offensive lines in the league, Sanchez was under pressure on just 27.66% of his 640 drop backs, which ranked 31st out of 34 QBs in the study. (Only Peyton Manning, Matt Hasselbeck and Jon Kitna were under duress fewer times). Sanchez had the lowest completion percentage under pressure in the league at 35.46%. However, he did a solid job not turning the ball over in the face of pressure. Sanchez was intercepted only 2.82% of the time when under pressure, which ranked 18th in the NFL. He was also sacked on only 16.95% of his drop backs under pressure, which was 14th best. BOTTOM LINE: Sanchez has made great strides in his first two seasons, but he’ll be the first to tell you that he needs to improve his accuracy to become an elite NFL quarterback. ProFootballFocus.com (twitter.com/profootballfocus) will have a more detailed analysis on Monday, but here are a few highlights: QBs PRESSURED THE MOST (% of drop backs) 1. Jay Cutler: 41.42% 2. Josh Freeman: 40.99% 3. Michael Vick: 40.78% 4. Donovan McNabb: 40.38% 5. Jason Campbell: 39.69% MOST ACCURATE QBS UNDER PRESSURE (completion %) 1. Kevin Kolb: 59.18% 2. Jon Kitna: 59.02% 3. Drew Brees: 55.74% 4. Peyton Manning 54.49% 5. Tony Romo: 54.39%
Great read. Looking forward to the rest by PFF. And as always a great job by Manish. Cimini is such a douche. Thank God he's not the beat writer anymore. Keep 'em coming Manish! I'll have to tweet him again...
wait Kolb is on there? I can't believe it, how many snaps did he actually get? 1.5 games when Vick was out with the rib issue?
the switch occured when Cimini left the DN for ESPN NY. They brought in Manish to replace him. Great switch fro the DN in my opinion.
He's just regurgitating an analysis doneby PFF. I like Manish, but the article isn't amazing or anything.
"His completion percentage jumps 10 percent – from 54.4% in the regular season to 60.5% in the postseason." Am I missing something or did Manish forget how to count to 10?
He was saying he improves his completion percentage by 10% of his completion percentage during the regular season, as in a 10% of his 54.4 (5.4% improvement).
That's just his 2010 completion percentage, combining his 2009 playoff games it jumps up to 62%, so that's a little closer.
Do you guys know what 10% increase is? not an increase of 10% points, an increase by 10% 54.4% x 1.10 (an increase of 10%) = 59.84% Try not to get hurt understanding simple math everyone
Holy shit, the math is fine. Read the sentence. Its correct in what type of percentage of what number he is talking about.
Wow, Manish was just trying to throw out a nice round number. I guess, technically, he should have said 11.2%. He was just trying to make it seem like Mark improved his accuracy significantly in the playoffs. It's not a big deal. I guess it's the offseason/lockout and we have nothing better to do.
Don't try to act like you were questioning the .7% cause you look like a fool. You told someone their math was weak because you thought a 10% increase meant add 10% points to the number and you were wrong. Now after you realize you were wrong, don't try and make yourself look like you knew all along how to calculate a 10% increase beacuse you obviously didnt. You said Manish meant 6%.
