YaYa Diaby No. 4 In Quarterback Pressure Rate After Week 1
September 12th, 2024
Man of pressure.
This is for the pressures-are-better-than-sacks crowd.
The pressure people have something to celebrate. While Bucs edge rusher YaYa Diaby may not have gotten a sack Sunday, he hounded Commandos rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels.
Per The33rdTeam.com, Diaby had four quarterback pressures and the fourth-best pressure rate in the NFL after Week 1. — 27.8 percent.
The Bucs will need all of that and more from Diaby on Sunday in Detroit as quarterback Jared Goff is dangerous without a defender in his face.
Get Goff off his spot and he’s a far different quarterback than when he stands tall in the pocket.
Goff has been a pain for Todd Bowles for years. Part of that is the Bucs’ edge rush was weak, so Goff could sit back there and wing it.
“He makes plays,” Bowles said of Goff yesterday. “I mean, he’s got a lot of weapons to go to, he understands the offense, he knows when to check it down, when to throw it deep, he’s very comfortable in the system.
“Like I said, he’s talented and he has a lot of talent around him.”
Bowles was then asked to rank Goff. Bowles wouldn’t, but he emphasized Goff is “very tough” and “very good.”
Goff is 3-1 against Bowles and the Bucs. His only loss was in a shootout with America’s quarterback, Jameis Winston, as the Bucs beat the Rams 55-40 at the historic Los Angeles Coliseum.
While Goff may be vulnerable to a pass rush, that doesn’t mean the Bucs will get many chances to belt him, Diaby told Joe yesterday. In short, Detroit is a classic run-to-set-up-the-pass offense.
“They really rely on their run,” Diaby said. “So for us to get any pass rush opportunity, we have to defend the run first.”
While Diaby noted the Lions have a ferocious offensive line, beating them doesn’t make the Bucs better or an instant playoff team.
“I respect them as a team,” Diaby said. “At the end of the day, it’s still just another challenge” in a long season.
September 12th, 2024 at 7:08 am
Was I the only one seeing Yaya held on multiple plays last week?
September 12th, 2024 at 7:41 am
YaYa Diaby … ‘“They really rely on their run. So for us to get any pass rush opportunity, we have to defend the run first.”
Not hard to tell that Todd Bowles has trained him well. Unfortunately, we didn’t play the run all that well on Sunday, allowing Washington to accumulate 138 rushing yards against us on 30 rushes (4.6 YPC) and score 3 rushing TDs.
On the good news side though, Washington RBs not named Daniels on got 50 yards on 14 carries (3.6 YPC) and 1 rushing TD. And since Goff only ran 32 times last year … for 21 yards … he’s no where near the running threat that Daniels is.
September 12th, 2024 at 7:44 am
Jose, you’re gonna have to bring the receipts on the “pressures are better than sacks” people. I don’t know who would think that since a sack is clearly the highest level of pressure. Or lowest I guess since we are putting the QB down.
Now it appears to some observers that you rate sacks higher than turnovers which I find a little curious. Turnovers are an instantaneous “get the ball back to the offense” result more so than are sacks-lead-to-punts.
September 12th, 2024 at 7:45 am
Confused about the 33rd Team’s use of ‘pressure’. They credited YaYa with 5 pressures, but Pro-Football-Reference only gave him credit for 1 pressure (they define pressure as the combination of sacks, QB knockdowns & QB Hurries). Any idea why the difference?
September 12th, 2024 at 7:52 am
I rarely try and give the team excuses for not producing, but I think the fact they got the sacks they did is pretty good. I feel like Daniels is one of those ultimate outlier kind of guys who will be frustrating good pass rushers all year.
In about 3 1/2 days we will know.
September 12th, 2024 at 7:57 am
defence rules…perhaps its the new math?
September 12th, 2024 at 8:01 am
Kancey being out is a huge loss man. Dude needs to get his body right.
September 12th, 2024 at 8:11 am
I saw Yaya credited with 4 pressures right after the game and personally counted 4 when I rewatched the game.
September 12th, 2024 at 8:26 am
If you were playing anybody else, Jaden McDaniels or Lamar Jackson, those would have been 4 sacks
September 12th, 2024 at 8:36 am
That’s right Jersey Buc. I don’t want to hear ish about Kancey.
September 12th, 2024 at 8:43 am
Kancey is soft. He will be universally labeled as a chronic injury prone disappointment if he can’t get on the field any time soon.
September 12th, 2024 at 8:44 am
I don’t have the paid version of pff, so I can’t see pressures, but they gave him a 72.7 for the game so he must have done something right
September 12th, 2024 at 8:58 am
@DR
I’m not sure but 5 pressures lines up way more with my own memory and eye test than 1.
September 12th, 2024 at 9:14 am
D line better come ready to play. Good line, backs and receivers. We could get blown out with injured secondary. How far off do the third stringers play? We better play to score points early and often. This injury bug is already a problem for the season. We are not deep enough to absorb any more absent starters. Goedeke needs to play if he can. We at least have a chance for a scoring battle then.
September 12th, 2024 at 9:16 am
I’m not the football tech expert a lot of folks are (DR, for example), but I love the game and know it generally. That said, I’m putting a word in for JTS. I know he was in the DC backfield disrupting cos he helped with a sack. That’s what he does, he gets in the opposing team’s backfield and disrupts. He catches a lot of grief on here, but whatever. JTS, we will need multiple sacks this Sunday, so you and SVD get set. Go Bucs!!
September 12th, 2024 at 10:05 am
Playoff-level QB’s can tear apart a team that relies on the blitz for pressuring the quarterback. Have to get production from the front four if they’re going to stop Detroit.
September 12th, 2024 at 10:29 am
When a rusher is generating a pressure, if the QB gets rid of the ball quickly and there is any kind of positive yardage, the pressure didn’t disrupt the offense.
If the pressure turns into a bad throw or QB throws it away, its worth something.
I’ve seen so many quarterbacks get pressured and smacked after the ball is releases but still complete the pass so I would consider whether the pressure blew up the play or not. If its a pressure and a mobile QB escapes for a 20 yard scramble, it’s not really important.
Its the result of the action of the pressure to effect the outcome of the play, just getting pressure doesn’t mean enough with all of these athletic QB’S.
They need to apply a physical hit and effect the QB’s accuracy or create really bad throws with pressures.
September 12th, 2024 at 10:33 am
They had pressure on Daniels all day. The problem was the holes left as he was escaping the pressure and ran right out of it. Can Goff do the same or will the pressure get to him?
September 12th, 2024 at 11:00 am
What hyperbole looks like: “The ‘pressures are better than sacks’ crowd.”
This crowd does NOT exist, period.
That said, I am in the “If you don’t get a sack, at least get pressure and make the QB think about you and move off his spot” crowd.
I suspect MOST non-casual football fans are in that crowd.
No one ever said “pressures are better than sacks.” No. One.
September 12th, 2024 at 11:02 am
Red Skeleton: Goff isn’t a running quarterback. Once and a while he will take off but for the most part he is a pocket passer. The Bucs will prepare for him that way. I just hope some of the backup defensive lineman can step up and play the run. Gaines and Brewer aren’t passrushers as far as I know so this is a game that Vita Vea needs to step up and be disruptive. He has to have a dominant game to help the depleted defensive line stop Detroit’s rushing game.
If the Lions are successful running the ball they will do it all game long. Their last drive to win in overtime vs the Rams didn’t have one Goff pass. They just blocked and ran their way down the field for the OT wind. Their offensive line blew up the Rams d-line.
September 12th, 2024 at 11:02 am
@DD: I don’t think the run D was that bad. Daniels is just another run-around because that’s all the Redskins O had.
And Daniels run-arounds are what bloated that stat.
September 12th, 2024 at 11:23 am
It’ll be easy to know if the Bucs win or lose Sunday just by checking how often Goff was under pressure in the game. If the Bucs are going to win Sunday, the stats will show they did it a lot. He’s been a different QB under pressure through his career, last year posting a 62.9 passer rating (QBR of 0.6 after the bye in 2023) when under duress.
However, against a blitz that fails to get him his passer rating against the Bucs was almost perfect last year. They’ll have to live on the edge of a razor to beat the Lions. Let’s see if the 3rd time is the charm.
September 12th, 2024 at 11:30 am
I may have been hallucinating, but I believe I saw JTS actually bull rush and get a sack?
September 12th, 2024 at 12:31 pm
@orlbucfan & Bucsfan
I think that may have been the best game of JTS’ career. Seemed like he was being way more physical.
Dennis also looked like a beast. Those 2 were the biggest eye-test wtf surprises to me lol
September 12th, 2024 at 3:24 pm
Watching the ALL-22, YaYa looked fantastic. He had a play that reminded me of the one that Vita made in the preseason, where he ran over the center – it wasn’t that dramatic, but YaYa just destroyed a guard and pushed him back probably 4-5 yards. On the play where Winfield got the BS hit to the helmet, I rewatched that, and YaYa was literally held on that play probably 5 times, I mean big hands full of jersey, that was happening a lot. Had those been called, or if he wasn’t held, it would be even more obvious what a day he was having.
Plus I was listening to some Redskins podcast with an ex-player who was doing the all-22 as well, and when talking about their offense, brought up how he wasn’t familiar with YaYa and how he looked like stud, the best player on the field. Very high praise coming out of the blue.
Overall, if he plays like that and they get Kancey back – and Vita keeps the pounds off and stays quick – that is going to be quite the front.
September 12th, 2024 at 8:01 pm
Joe you really do yourself a disservice when you write nonsense like this.
No one thinks pressures are BETTER than sacks.
People simply understand that pressures are still important in moving a QB off his mark, disrupting timing, forcing errant throws, etc.
You know this.
September 12th, 2024 at 9:37 pm
Ask Tom Brady if pressure bothers him… or just watch the Bucs 2022 offense…