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Detroit Lions - Team Notes

The top 5 team pass protection performances of the week through the 4pm games in week 7 based on our new Pass Block Win Rate (PBWR) metric are:
1) Ravens 79% PBWR, 2) Patriots 77%, 3) Colts 73%, 4) Browns 72%, 5) Lions 71%.
You can bank on their opponents being in the bottom 5 in Pass Rush Win Rate. [PBWR uses player tracking from Next Gen Stats.]
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Detroit?s offensive tackles rank... 30th??
ESPN has a new stat and it doesn?t make any sense.

On a day in which Matthew Stafford was barely touched and the Detroit Lions ran the ball with more efficiency than they?ve seen in nearly 30 years, it?s time to give the offensive line the credit they?re due.

And it?s perfect timing, because ESPN just dropped brand-new offensive line rankings based on their brand-new stat, something called ?Pass Block Win Rate.? According to ESPN, Pass Block Win Rate (PBWR) is a measure of an offensive lineman?s ability to sustain their blocks for 2.5 seconds or more.

So Monday, they ranked all 32 offensive tackle pairings based on their collective PBWR score. Let?s check in on the Lions.

Hmm... not in the top 10. That?s odd. Well, surely they?re in the top half of the league... no? Okay, I must have missed them. Let?s scroll back down to No. 1, maybe I missed them there. Nope. Not there. Well, I guess I?ll keep scrolling... and scrolling... and scro?30TH? They?re 30th?!?

Surely this has to be from a previous season. What? No. Okay, what?s going on here?

?Decker ranked among league?s best tackles in PBWR in his eight games last season, while Wagner was above average,? ESPN?s Seth Walder wrote. ?That has not been the case in 2018.?

That?s it. That?s all they give us.

The Lions have allowed a total of just 10 sacks all season (fifth-best), and somehow the tackles are the third worst in the league in pass blocking. While it?s true sack numbers aren?t everything, this statistic just seems bunk.

Looking at Pro Football Focus? grades paints an entirely different picture of the duo. Taylor Decker has a pass blocking grade of 83.0 (eighth best among all tackles) and Rick Wagner?s grade is 77.6 (22nd).

We?ll give ESPN a pass since the stat is still relatively new, but they may want to work out the kinks.

POD
 
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